Links to Other Stuff
The whole links page thing has pretty much gone the way of the dinosaur but here are some that I have and still use. I know longer add to the page, but these are the ons that are still around.
Trail Review/Forum Sites
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Ron Bigelow Photography. While Ron may have shifted the focus of his site to photography, he had a bunch of trails maps and directions back in the day. He was a real inspriation for me to get out and explore. Most of the trails are of the Orange County and LA areas. He also has a large collections of photography related articles that will help just about any photographer get better. The way he sees the world through a camera is amazing. Even with no MTB content his site is worth exploring. |
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DirtTreaders. This forum site is very active that is a good resource to hook up with other riders and getting to know the area. They main following is based around San Diego but they have peeps all over Southern California. They also have a fairly active advocacy forum. |
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SoCalTrailRiders.org - This is a very active forums site that is also really good resource if you are looking to find people to ride with. They are predominately focused on Orange County, but the there is a following all over SoCal |
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MTBReview.com - This side has a bunch of trail reviews as well as reviews on all things MTB related. Take the reviews with a grain of salt as the site sees a tremedous amount of traffic and anyone can post a review. One person's "great" is anothers "crap" so it can be hard to seperate the junk from the gems. |
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GeoLadders - Offer lots of routes "games" that can be played using your GPS. Routes are worth points and when you upload that route to the site from your GPS you get the points. You can download GPS data files for the trails on the site. While there is lots of good data on the site there are some pretty crappy routes that maybe high on their ladder "points" but low on the fun and interesting scales. I would use this site in conjunction with other sites to get the full picture on a route. |
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Gary Fox's San Diego MTB Rides. This site has some good maps of many San Diego area rides as well as a ride schedule calendar. |
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The Ogre Hut. Dennis aka "Ogre", has a great site has plenty of excellent information for Mountain Biking in Northern California. |
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SDHorseTrails. Equestrains often have special needs for trails like staging areas and large parking lots. This is typically not the kind of stuff I have been paying attention to when I review a trail so you will find this kind of information typically lacking in my reviews. This website focuses on the review of trails as it pertains the equestrain experience. So Saddle Up! |
Mountain Biking Video Websites |
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Pete Fagerlin - The is by far the grand master of helmet cam videos. He makes some really cool mountain biking videos. I highly doubt that anyone who is making good videos has not seriously dug through his how-to section. |
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Utah Mountain Biking There are all sorts of information on this website as well as videos. |
Tour Companies
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Katun Mountainbike Adventures is a Mexico based tour company that offers tours in the Copper Canyon and Baja areas. For two-week ventures to day trips they will certainly show you a good time. When I did my tour through Copper Canyon, Katun was partnered with the american tour company we went with and took care of all the local arrangements and basically ran the show. | |
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Magpie Cycling Adventures has an outstanding reputation of providing top-notch service to some awesome places in the southwest. They are based out of Moab and go way out and about from there. They were camped near us on the North Rim of Grand Canyon during my 2010 Arizona roadtrip and I was pretty impressed with their operation. The owners, Mike and Maggie, gave me some really good advice on bits of the Arizona Trail which really added to the coolness of our trip. | |
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