The Radavist

The rider-owned and operated mountain bike footwear company pledges a donation to rebuild and restore Lake Tahoe wildfire-impacted trails and calls on the mtb community to join them. Read on below for how you can help out and win a $300 gift card to Rideconcepts.com.

For the Love of Trails is a video project by Pearl Izumi, featuring three trails picked by Skye Schillhammer that represent three different ecotones Skye enjoys riding. Enjoy!

Trails don’t just build and maintain themselves. It takes time, personnel, and money! The Oregon Timber Trail is in the middle of a fundraiser, where you can donate money and get some of their limited edition swag. Head on over to the Oregon Timber Trail to see more!

The story of three best friends, roommates, and riding partners with a taste for the finer things. And plenty of dirt on their Ripton jorts…

Robin Sansom, Brian Vernor, Jeremy Dunn, and Barry Wicks worked on a project for Bike Mag, covering the aftermath of the fires California endured and what those blazes did to many NorCal trails.

Head to Bike Mag to read the full piece, Burned Lines, to gain a better insight into how these communities are bouncing back after a summer of blazes.

It’s nice when a brand looks to its home trails and makes an effort to raise both money and awareness towards proper stewardship. Read on below for how Esker Cycles is raising money to support Montana trails and how you can win an Elkat S.

We’ve been beating this drum for a long time. We’re all representatives of the cycling community, so how we behave on the trails, especially to other users, affects the community. Stopping when you come across equestrians, hikers, trail runners and saying hello will positively impact the stereotypes facing mountain bikers. Be Nice Say Hi provides a fun, simple reminder. They also make stickers, decals, and patches. Head on over and see what they have to offer.

Trails don’t just magically appear and maintain themselves. It takes people putting in hours upon hours of work and money! Which is why the Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz are running another Ante Up for Trails fundraiser, where you can win an Ibis! Head to MBOSC for more information!

RSVP at Ride PDW!

It’s that time of year again! After last year’s Ante Up For Trails campaign, put on by the Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz, it returns, this time with an Ibis being the grand prize. Enter at MBOSC and read the full press-release below!

This one’s well worth your eyes and ears this morning:

“Nearly thirty years ago, the small town of Oakridge, Oregon lost its last sawmill. And almost overnight, what was once a booming logging town lost the brunt of its economic affluence to the newly listed as endangered northern spotted owl – a cryptic species which requires large swaths of intact old-growth forest to persist. With its need for dense, contiguous stands of forest, the northern spotted owl had thrown a rather large stick in the spokes of a thriving logging industry – one that likely would have logged every square inch of old-growth forest left in the Willamette Valley if it had been left unchecked. As protections for the struggling species continued to ramp up, Oakridge and the surrounding towns continued to decline. People fled as jobs vanished, and local businesses shut down. For decades poverty and unemployment ran rampant, and became an issue many thought would leave Oakridge down and out for good.”

Check out more at Tillak!

Photo by Kyle Kelley

It’s been a busy week over here and it’ll be even busier next week… While I prepare everything, make sure you get out on the bike. Thanks for the photo, Kyle!

The season of gift-giving never ends when it comes to sweet Sierra singletrack. Santa Cruz bicycles is teaming up with the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship to help fund new trail projects by giving away a bike. For every foot of trail you fund, you’ll receive one entry into a drawing for a Santa Cruz Bike of your choice. Head over to the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship for more information.