ECHO – Mountain bikers, dust off that bike and get ready for the first MTB event of 2009! Echo, Oregon (map) plays host to Echo Red to Red on February 22. Part of the Oregon Mountain Bike Series, Echo Red to Red is designed to showcase the High Desert mountain biking trail system near the [...]
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Filed under: Eastern Oregon, MTB, Racing
by Melanie Fisher
Cog Wild has started up twice-weekly mountain bike shuttles from Bend up towards Mt. Bachelor every Tuesday and Thursday. Currently the shuttle takes mountain bikers to Swampy Snopark, but as soon as the trail from Dutchman Flat Snopark is available, the shuttles will also drop off there.
Shuttles leave from Cascade Lakes Brewery on [...]
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Filed under: Eastern Oregon, MTB, News
Not too late to sign up!
by Melanie Fisher
Bend’s Big Fat Tour is three days of fully supported, guided and shuttled single track mountain biking bliss which takes place October 17-19, 2008. Not a race, The Big Fat Tour is a friendly mountain bike ride that takes place on Central Oregon singletrack over three days and [...]
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Filed under: Eastern Oregon, Event Rides, MTB, Travel
Oregon mountain bikers need to take action and ensure important trails around Mount Hood are protected with bicycle-friendly designations. Representative Earl Blumenauer has proposed a comprehensive plan for Mount Hood, one part of which would close the beloved Boulder Lake area to bicycling. This important detail is a key divergence from the proposed Lewis and [...]
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Filed under: Advocacy, Eastern Oregon, MTB
by Tom Baldinger
I have a treasure in my back yard. Not many people know about it. At the risk of spilling the beans, I am going to let Eugene mountain bikers in on a sweet secret. I live just outside the city limits on Lorane Highway and have 70 miles of trails to ride on [...]
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Filed under: MTB, Willamette Valley
by Tom Baldinger
In an almost mythical era in the past, I was youthful and svelte. I was tall, skinny and fast.
I relished hill climbs, hair-raising descents, epic treks. I acquired a reputation as a glutton for punishment and for leading my peers on unexpected bushwhacking episodes. I was a young man in a mountain biking [...]
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Filed under: MTB, Personal Stories
by Brian Sather
This winter in the La Grande area of Oregon, we had lots of snow. There was a seemingly endless cycle of snow and wind. Many of our roads and highways, including I-84, were closed numerous times from heavy snowfall and drifting. People who live in frequent snow areas like ours know the extra [...]
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Filed under: Advice, Eastern Oregon, MTB
Ellee Thalheimer
I roared down the trail (I say “roared,” but, between you and me, I probably wasn’t going all that fast) trying to keep up with Laura in Tillamook State Forest. At one point, I was cursing her, the trail, my stupid egg beater pedals, and the dumb guy who passed us in a [...]
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Filed under: Advice, Health, MTB
How mountain biking enthusiasts and land agencies worked together to create an Oregon freeriding mecca
by Tom Baldinger
Black Rock Mountain Bike Area is a set of mountain bike trails outside Falls City, Oregon. The tale behind it is unique and a good lesson for other mountain bike clubs around the country. In the early 1990s, most [...]
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Filed under: MTB, Willamette Valley
by Mike Ripley
Words can barely describe what took place and what it took to finish the 3rd annual Test of Endurance 50 presented by Mudslinger Events and Cyclotopia of Corvallis. The event brought together 128 men and women—from weekend racing warriors to adventure-seeking trail riders—in the coastal foothills northwest of Mary’s Peak. The Test of [...]
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Filed under: MTB, Racing, Willamette Valley
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