Trail Access
The urban freeride boom, the bike park boom, rogue trails, gray trails, authorized and unauthorized trails
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 23, 2010
Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park will serve as a model for public-lands partnering to open access for mountain biking everywhere.
Posted in Trail Access | Tagged Duthie Hill mountain bike park, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, glenn glover, justin vander pol, king county parks, mike westra, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 23, 2010
If you’re headed out to Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park, here’s some great vid action to get your mojo going…
Posted in Trail Access | Tagged duthie hill mountain bike park video, walter yi
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 15, 2010
A sobering surprise awaits riders of the Northwest Timber Trail this season …
Posted in Trail Access | Tagged mountain biking seattle, tiger mountain opening day
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on March 17, 2010
Nobody builds mountain biking trails like Canadians. And few Canadians build trails like Digger
Posted in Trail Access | Tagged dangerous dan, digger british columbia, fromme mountain, grouse mountain
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 25, 2010
A rogue trail in Portland’s Forest Park raises the point (as in all these situations): Instead of pointing fingers and criticizing, why not work to build new singletrack in America’s Cycling Mecca?
Posted in Trail Access | Tagged BikePortland.org, portland mountain biking, rogue mountain bike trails
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 17, 2010
From an alert issued by the California State Parks System… I was riding in Arastradero today and the rangers were all over, battening down the hatches. “Don’t expect much in the way of riding weather through the end of the month,” one told me. We at Bike Intelligencer ride when sane mortals rest. But this [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Trail Access | Tagged cycling storm, cycling weather, mountain biking storm
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 15, 2010
You have to love this: Newly elected Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn riding his bike to a press conference. Thanks to BikeHugger for the pix. When we wondered last August whether Seattle could get a mayor “who actually rides,” we were expressing more hope than expectation. Now it’s breakthrough reality. Images like this do wonders to [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Obama Bikes, Trail Access | Tagged bikehugger, bikingbis, fanatik bikes, galbraith mountain, Momentum magazine, seattle mayor bike commuter, seattle mayor mike mcginn, whimps
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 10, 2010
Indianapolis has a set of new bike laws, including 3-feet-please. Florida law says bikes get the whole friggin’ lane, thank you very much! Now if we could just get that “vulnerable user” legislation passed in the Washington State legislature. Have you checked out the Ghost Bikes Film project’s blog? Cool stuff… Guy turns 70, decides [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, News Cycle, Trail Access | Tagged bicycle legislation, Duthie Hill mountain bike park, ghost bike film project, ghost bikes, sea otter classic
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 8, 2010
It’s funny how these things happen. The small southeastern King County town of Black Diamond was originally named after the nickname for coal. Coal mining brought big bucks and lots of people to Black Diamond in its heyday a century ago, a phenomenon commemorated by a coal car on rails at the town limits. The [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Trail Access | Tagged black diamond freeride park, Lake Sawyer, southeast king county mountain biking, summit ridge freeride park
