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Ah, Marin. “The birthplace of mountain biking,” they say. And they speak the truth. The legends of the sport hail from here and can still be spotted on the slopes of Mt. Tam. This place is a cornucopia of landscapes and ecotones.  Dry, stubby chaparral clutches rare serpentine rock, gnarled mahogany fingers around sage-green earth. …

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When I visited Marin County, the birthplace of mountain biking, in 2012, I rode what were essentially the only two bike-legal singletrack trails in Marin County, Camp Tamarancho and China Camp… and I rode them both in the same day. By Access4Bikes’s own admission, they “face a decades long shortage of quality singletrack and legal …

The post News: Access4Bikes Raffling a Marin Rocky Ridge 7.6 to Raise Money for Marin County MTB Trails appeared first on Singletracks Mountain Bike News.

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Dan Milner, the Trail Ninja, travels halfway around the world to visit the birthplace of mountain biking: Marin County, California. He explores two trails: Camp Tamarancho and China Camp, basically the only two legal singletrack trails in Marin. Watch the video here: For more on the riding in Marin, check out my blog post from …

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Marin County, California, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, is renowned as the birthplace of the sport of mountain biking. While some locals from Crested Butte might contest that claim, it is pretty much agreed that Marin County was home to the first mountain bike race, Repack, held on the gravel service …

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