Links to Other Stuff

     There are a metric butt ton of MTB links out on the net, but these are the ones that I personally use.  If you have a link that you think I will find useful please email it to me.   If I start using it then I will add it here.

Cool Stuff

Arizona Nomad Adventures provides great mountain bike adventure tours that caters to small groups of six or less and uses a really nice 5th wheel RV as a roaming basecamp as they take clients from locale to locale.  If you like the idea of "Condo Camping" on a bike tour, AZ Nomad Adventures should be be the first place you look.

Trail Review Sites

Ron Bigelow Photography. While Ron may have shifted the focus of his site to photography, he has a bunch of trails maps and directions. 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.

Mybikesite.  Good information about trails from all over.  Most of my experience with the site has been gathering information about the Southern California scene.  But they have trails from all over listed. The site is not as active as it has been in the past. They also have a huge links page.

SoCalTrailRiders.org - This is a very active forums site that is a really good resource if you are looking to find people to ride with. They are predominately focused on Orange County, but have a solid San Diego County following as well.

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.

GeoLadders - Looking for a ride in Orange County?  Take a look here.  They offer lots of routes and have many "games" that can be played using your GPS.  They are all geared towards getting you out on the bike more. You can download GPS data files for the trails on the site. The site is also commonly referred to as "Ego-Ladders".

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. 

The Ogre Hut. Dennis aka "Ogre", has a great site has plenty of excellent information for Mountain Biking in Northern California.

Mountain Biking Video Websites

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.

Some Where In SoCal - Don't try looking for trailhead directions on this site. There are some talented free-ride/downhill guys and gals whooping up on trails at various spots. Some of the trails are "Fight Club" trails so enjoy the videos but don't ask how to get to them.

Shane Schieffer - This guy also has some cool videos.  I really like his composition style.  Make sure you check out his homemade helmet mounting case and counterweight system.  A man after my own wallet in that department.   

Kid in the Corner.  Nice videos made from some guys out in Montana.

Steve Wolf's Mountain Biking Site - A really good site with lots of trail reviews and videos from around the Northern and Central California area.  If you get tired of all the biking information you can check out some pictures of the inside of his knees :-)

Utah Mountain Biking There are all sorts of information on this website as well as videos.

MTBBritain Check our the guys in Britain running amuck on the trails

MTBKanata   Some our Canadian neighbors out on the trails. 

PORC  - Pensacola Off Road Cyclist - In addition to their videos, that have some good links to MTB resources in the Southeast USA.

Winston's Video Socal Videos  - Winston is a great guy who produces really good videos. He does not have his own site, yet but he does have a long standing thread on the fooriders site showcasing his vids.

GPS and Topographic Resources

Global Position System Information:

	GPSinformation.net  This site run by Joe Mehaffey, Jack Yeazel,  and Dale DePriest has an extensive list of resources and articles varying from beginner stuff to advanced how to information.
	Garmin's Support page offers quite a bit of useful information.
	Here is a good introductory web page that discussing GPS application
	MTB Guru - This guys has done some creative mashing up of pictures, google maps, and GPS files.  He has some great MTB specific GPS how-tos.

Topographic Resources

	TOPO! - http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/topo/  This is the software I described on my GPS and TOPOS page.
	TopoUSA - This is software package that offers electronic maps with GPS intergration.  Although I do not own this software, I have seen it used and I really like the 3D modeling of the terrain that can be done.
	Peter Bennett has an extensive links page pertaining to freeware mapping/cartography software.  Good information, and it will allow you to do integrate you GPS and TOPO maps for next to nothing.  However I find it rather time consuming to go this route.

Other Stuff

alt.mountain-bike - (Note you will need a news reader program for this link to work) This is a very active newsgroup, with a lot of very helpful subscribers.