Sure, it’s “just” a weekly mountain bike ride. Like many groups formed around a common interest and shared challenges, this weekly gathering of women mountain bikers has morphed into a unique community. For years now, every Monday evening, a group of women abscond to the woods on bicycles. On inky dark winter nights, when you […]
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Photos from Mad River Enduro
On Saturday, Sept. 7, mountain bikers came from all over the West Coast for Mad River Enduro. The race is a rare chance for mountain bikers to ride a trail system normally closed to the public as the trails are on Green Diamond land and are maintained by the Redwood Mountain Biking Association. This year’s race […]
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Blazing Trails
The bed of the black pick-up truck is loaded with mountain bikes. Front wheels draped over the tailgate, back wheels buried in helmets, shoes and riding gear. The riders load into the cab and head up Fickle Hill to start their day. The group is eager to push their limits and enjoy a fun day […]
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The Humboldt Four Head to Nationals
Four Humboldt State University mountain bikers boxed up each of their bikes and then paid more than $400 apiece to have them sent to Snowshoe, West Virginia, and back. The reason? The 2015 USA Cycling Gravity Mountain Bike Nationals. This weekend, HSU’s four riders are competing in the two highest levels of racing, professional and […]
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Cycling Champs!
It must be our steep, steep hills whose harshest training trails were shaped by the original quick skidders, those ax-felled sylvan behemoths. The twists and turns were enhanced later by maniacal cyclists, we presume. And now our latest generation of bicyclists up at Humboldt State University has made cycling history, according to news from HSU […]