East Bay

Ride Recap: BTCEB Ride Like a Girl at Joaquin Miller Park

Each month the Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay puts on a women’s only ride called Ride Like a Girl. The emphasis of these rides are to have fun and to meet other women who love to ride. The rides are geared towards all levels of riders, lead by experienced leaders and are split [...]

02.07.2013 BTCEB Read the full story →

BTCEB Gala Ride Recap: Del Valle Regional Park

One of the best things about participating in group rides with the local mountain bike club is being exposed to new trails you might not ordinarily seek out to ride. Last week’s Gala Ride with the Bicycle Trails Council of the East Bay was a shining example of that, when we trekked out to Livermore [...]

10.18.2012 Bike Parks and Trails Read the full story →

EBRPD Master Plan Meeting Recap: Trail Access in the East Bay

The first of six meetings to discuss revisions of the Master Plan that directly affects mountain biking access to single track in East Bay Region Parks was held this week. I (and others) left the meeting last night with a feeling of optimism concerning the future of mountain biking in the East Bay area. Single track [...]

09.14.2012 BTCEB Read the full story →

Bay Area Dirt Jump Destination: the Pleasanton Bike Park

The Pleasanton BMX Park is one of the few public riding spots the Bay Area where novice dirt jumpers can go to develop their riding skills. It was constructed about 7 years ago, and although it is accessible by public transportation, remains below the radar of many mountain bikers seeking to develop and improve their [...]

07.18.2012 Bike Parks and Trails Read the full story →

Bishop’s Walk Trail Work at Joaquin Miller Park

This weekend, a major trail project took place at Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park. Bishop’s Walk, a popular entrance and exit point to the park has been eroding for a number of years now. The route follows an old road bed (likely established by Joaquin Miller himself) before diverting off in what essentially was a straight [...]

06.12.2012 BTCEB Read the full story →

Bike to Work Day: Bike Happy Hour, Oakland

Oakland is surprisingly a great town to live in as a cyclist. Although there are certainly plenty of neighborhoods one wouldn’t want to cruise through easy-breezy and carefree, (because you might get knocked out, robbed or bike-jacked) there are lots of bike friendly routes and ways to get around that don’t involve driving your car. [...]

05.21.2012 Advocacy Read the full story →

Shredding on Trail Bikes

Just came across this sweet video edit put together by Connor Rickey of his buddies Alex Chamberlin and Chris Jones shredding the trails in our backyard here in the East Bay. I’ve been thinking about filming a similar edit myself- there is something even more rad about shredding on a trail bike with an XC [...]

03.01.2012 Blog Read the full story →

A backyard with a view

Last Friday night was a good one. Riding bikes with some cool dudes in one of the sweetest, most photogenic pump track backyards to date will do it. This backyard with its mounds of carefully shaped soil in the shadow of Mount Diablo ranks up there on the wish list of any mountain biker. (although [...]

08.23.2011 Pump Tracks Read the full story →

Rock Armoring at Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park

Every time we ride the bike friendly trails in Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park we would comment on a particularly bad section of trail. It was essentially a mud bog that stayed wet all winter, even when every other part of the trail was dry. It was so bad that a go-around route had been formed [...]

04.24.2011 BTCEB Read the full story →