Road Trips
Extended mountain bike rides, multi-day mountain bike trips, mountain bike destinations
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 3, 2010
In which our intrepid duo climbs the world’s longest, most boring fire road, traverses the Talus Field From Hell, and finishes in complete darkness, riding by Braille. Was this fun or what?! This btw concludes our holiday “classics” series. Happy 2010, ride safe out there! Still basking in Sun Valley’s halo, Jim Lyon and I [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged BBTC, devils backbone, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, pot peak
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 31, 2009
[Note: Continuing our holiday series of Bike Intelligencer's past Classic Epics, we hearken back to a memorable triptych in 2003 covering Mt. St. Helens' Juniper Ridge, Oregon's McKenzie River Trail and, further south, Oregon's North Umpqua River Trail.] Finally the big day was imminent. After getting back to the Smith River reservoir on the McKenzie [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Anthony Cree, Mire Levy, North Umpqua River Trail, oregon mountain biking, Peter Partel the Gonzz
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 30, 2009
[Note: Continuing our holiday series of Bike Intelligencer's past Classic Epics, we hearken back to a memorable triptych in 2003 covering Mt. St. Helens, Oregon's McKenzie River Trail and the North Umpqua River Trail.] Anthony, Mire, Gonzz and I had talked about doing Oregon’s legendary McKenzie River Trail after — not before — Umpqua. But [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Anthony Cree, McKenzie River Trail, Mire Levy, Peter Partel, Three Sisters
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 29, 2009
[Note: Continuing our holiday series of Bike Intelligencer's past Classic Epics, we hearken back to a memorable triptych in 2003 covering Mt. St. Helens, Oregon's McKenzie River Trail and the North Umpqua River Trail.] After a rest day in Seattle it was time to hit the road for Mount St. Helens. I hadn’t explored this [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged Armando Malo, Ellsworth Dare, Juniper Ridge, Mt. St. Helens, Preston Peterson
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 28, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] Planning our trip to Moab, Jim and I had talked about [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, white rim mountain bike
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 27, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] You might think that after riding 32-plus miles and climbing 4,000-plus [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged jacob's ladder, moab mountain biking, moab race loop
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 26, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] Porcupine Rim ranks second, behind the Tahoe Rim Trail, as my [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, porcupine rim
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 24, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] The Sovereign Trail When we picked up our bikes at Poison [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, sovereign trail
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 23, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] Moab Rim What happens in Moab, in case it’s not blindingly [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips, Tales from the Trail | Tagged moab mountain biking, porcupine rim
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 21, 2009
[Note: When the holidays slow news down, we reach into Santa's bag of tricks for a hearkening back to our favorite rides. This week we're featuring a 2004 expedition to Moab, Utah, America's mountain biking mecca and an international magnet for mountain bikers everywhere.] What Happens in Moab: Getting Oriented When Jim Lyon first broached [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Road Trips | Tagged moab mountain biking, slickrock trail, westwood guest house
