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Help Raise Funds for Marin Singletrack: Marin Mount Vision Bike Raffle

The Marin County Bicycle Coalition and Access4Bikes are working to open more singletrack to mountain bikes in Marin County and they’re raffling the top-of-the-line Marin Mount Vision XM9 ($6,799) to raise funds. You can buy tickets online here and the winner will be announced at the Access4Bikes film festival on October 25. Despite Marin laying …

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Advocacy Alert: Comment period open for Inyo, Sequoia, and Sierra National Forests

WHAT: The “Detailed Proposed Action in Support of the Need to Change Items in the Notice of Intent for Forest Plan Revision for the Inyo, Sequoia and Sierra National Forests” is open for public comment. WHEN: Until September 29 WHO: You! Please take the time to comment, as mountain bike access in the Sierras could be affected positively or adversely. …

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Infographic: The Trails We Love (Flow Trails, Advocacy, and Etiquette)

We put together this infographic based on the survey we ran last month. and gained a ton of great insights! Feel free to draw your own conclusions; this information wasn’t compiled to push any particular agenda or a particular way of thinking about trails. However, I would like to offer some additional info on flow …

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Mountain Biking Basics: Trail Etiquette

We live on an increasingly crowded planet and trails, whether we hike or ride them, are a refuge from the daily grind. And while these wonderful strips of bare ground in our open spaces help us escape from civilization, it often seems like the rest of civilization is escaping on them at the same time, …

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6 Reasons People Give for Not Biking… And How to Refute Them

If you’re an avid mountain biker, you’ve probably heard every excuse in the book from people about why they don’t mountain bike.  “You should give mountain biking a try,” you say.  People shake their heads and scoff.  They look at you like you’re the nutty one for biking in the first place, and then they’ll …

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