Award winning mountain bike documentary, Klunkerz is screening in Cedar City to benefit the 222nd Family Readiness Group. Klunkerz is a nostalgic look at mountain biking’s beginnings, and how a group of Northern California hippies modified fat tire bikes for off-road trails which lead to the mountain bike as we know it today. Klunkerz will…
Category: Mountain Biking
Hit the dirt with Fire Road Cycling in Cedar City
Are you a mountain or road biker who wants the challenge of off-road cycling without the gnarly, technical terrain that threatens to eject you over the handlebars? Then the Fire Road Cycling event in Cedar City on July 9 is the ticket. It’s an event for bikers of all types and ability levels to gather…
Mountain biking the Good Water Rim Trail
The San Rafael Swell in central Utah isn’t exactly a mountain biking destination. Old jeep roads winding through abandoned uranium mines is the norm in these parts. But with new mountain-bike specific singletrack being cut like the phenomenal Good Water Rim Trail, the San Rafael’s pedaling potential could be limitless. The ride follows the edge…
Mountain biking Bonneville Shoreline Trail via City Creek
City Creek Canyon is one of the many ways to get onto the popular Bonneville Shoreline Trail above Salt Lake City. As a counterpart to the Dry Creek entrance further south, City Creek also gets a lot of traffic from bikers, hikers, trail runners and dog walkers. But any similarities end there as the ascent…
Video: Lower Porcupine Rim Singletrack
Porcupine Rim. It’s a Moab mountain biking legend. Our friend, Jared Anderton took a spring trip to southeastern Utah and tackled the ride with his GoPro. The subsequent edit got accolades from the online community, even winning the GoPro Video of the Day on Facebook. Here’s how Anderton describes it: “We took a late spring…
Mountain biking Pothole Arch Trail
Moab’s Amasa Back Trail got a whole lot more interesting with the opening of a new, official network of trails in the area, including the Pothole Arch Trail. Now, instead of the typical out-and-back, you can make your Amasa Back ride longer by adding Pothole Arch to the trip. Pothole Arch Trail is a really fun sideshow that’s totally…
Deer Valley expands lift-served mountain biking
Deer Valley has long been the undisputed king of lift-served mountain biking among Utah’s ski resorts, and it’s going to get a whole lot bigger when the resort expands its summer operations to include new chairlifts and trails to an already impressive network. Cross country and downhill riders will all have something new to look…
Mountain biking Amasa Back
In mountain biking, there are old-school trails, and new-school trails. New school are recently cut routes that are specifically made for mountain biking. They have banked turns, smooth, flowing lines, and fun, technical drops. Old-school trails are pretty much jeep roads and hiking trails. Amasa Back in Moab totally falls into the latter category, but…
Mountain biking Moab’s Sovereign Singletrack
As if Moab wasn’t already the greatest mountain bike mecca in the world… but in recent years, new trails have been discovered and built to make this southeastern Utah hamlet even more exciting for those of us living in the Fat Tire World. Sovereign Singletrack is one such ride of the “new class,” and it’s…
Video: Mountain Biking Fruita + Grand Junction, Colorado
Skiing in Utah is still going full blast. Meanwhile, skiers are missing out on mountain biking that is already approaching peak season in southern Utah and western Colorado. While Moab and the St. George areas are home to our favorite desert trails, we also take road trips to another sweet place to ride this time…