Mountain Biking

Starting in 1993 or 1994 or so, I wrote up a bunch of SF Bay Area and Santa Cruz MTB trail descriptions. When Ross Finlayson set up his very well-organized MTB-oriented web site at Stanford (1995 or 1996?), I was happy to see my trail descriptions as a part of it. I haven't kept the descriptions updated.

Ross' site is now at MTB.LIVE.COM. Its name has been "The Internet's mountain bike park" for quite a while.

I also correlated, contributed to, collated, and compiled the Dictionary of Mountain Bike Slang, with a lot of help from the readers and writers of the rec.bicycles.off-road newsgroup, back before it got moderated and then died. My version was just a plain text list, first posted to r.b.o-r in July of 1995. Jim Frost converted it to HTML and it has lived at his site, http://world.std.com/~jimf/biking/slang.html for the past several years. I made a local copy here, 19 May 2002.

Bay Area MTB Advocacy Groups

MBOSC -- the Mountain Bikers Of Santa Cruz covers Santa Cruz county; I have been MBOSC secretary for a few years. MBOSC also has some responsibility in Monterey County, since there are AFAIK no similar groups there. We should make more of an effort to keep in contact with the Velo Club Monterey.
ROMP -- Responsible Organized Mountain Pedalers is the oldest MTB advocacy organization in the country, possibly the world.
Bicycle Trails Council -- East Bay (second oldest...);
the EBRPD's MTB patrol;
two groups from Marin County (BTCM and Access4Bikes);
IMBA

To do:

Add trailworkers.com,
... BARTC
... The SF Bay Trail,
... tww (Team Wrong Way),
Link to some of Pete Fagerlin's MTB videos, like this one: "Some footage from Tahoe/Sierra Buttes".

Here's a page with links to some studies on MTB impacts .

Here's a link to a San Leandro map:
Map to the MTB summit (using my_RURL macro)