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Your Local NICA Team Could Use Your Help to Get More Kids on Bikes The East Bay is home to a number of NICA (National Interscholastic Cycling Association) teams that all race as part of NICA’s NorCal League. NICA was established in 2009 and is built on a foundation…

EBRPD District Plan Survey — Act Now! The East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) wants your input during Round 2 of its public outreach on updating its District Plan.  You can provide your input through an online questionnaire and budgeting exercise.  They are looking for feedback on (1) their…

To Reroute or Not to Reroute Trail work in Joaquin Miller Park: Castle Park Trail If you have ever ridden in Joaquin Miller Park you have probably pedaled over a trail that BTCEB helped to reroute.  There have been at least three such reroute projects, and we are about…

February 2026 The “Shortest Month” Edition . . . Photo credit: Julien Kettmann on Unsplash About BTCEB Bicycle Trails Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was founded in 1987 by a dedicated group of volunteers who fought the impending closure of almost all bike trails in the East Bay. Today we are…

Freehub PRESENTS: A Mountain Bike Film Festival Join BTCEB in celebrating community, culture and cinema Freehub PRESENTS, brought to you by Arkansas Tourism, is a collection of films from not only some of the best filmmakers and riders but also new up-and-comers, all given the proper big screen experience….

25 Years of the Oakland Bike Patrol BTCEB led a successful effort to stop a ban on mountain biking in Joaquin Miller Park — our beloved JMP — in 2000. The following year, in 2001, BTCEB and the Oakland Police Department established the Oakland Bike Patrol (OBP) to address…

What is that? Or How About Some Citizen Science? Madrone? Manzanita? Marsupial? Have you ever been out on a ride or a hike, seen a plant, bug, bird or animal, and wondered what it was? Okay, for the sake of argument, let’s just say that you have …. Well,…

January 2026 The “Spring in January” Edition . . . Photo credit: Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash About BTCEB Bicycle Trails Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was founded in 1987 by a dedicated group of volunteers who fought the impending closure of almost all bike trails in the East Bay. Today we are active…

What’s In Your Pack? Just a little different, not completely different … Here’s the third in what is now officially a series of “What’s In Your Pack?” articles. It’s not completely different than Rebecca’s pack contents and not quite as extensively dedicated to trail work as Scott’s pack contents,…

2025 Advocacy Wrap Up Another full year 2025 was another busy year for advocacy.  Progress was made on a variety of fronts and the work will never end.  On some efforts we’re the lead, and on others we’re a contributing supporter. It’s been great to see various groups such…

Trail One Components: Thank You Yet Again! Trail One Components has made another Trail Treasury donation to BTCEB to support our trail stewardship efforts.  This $1000 donation increases the total of their donations to BTCEB to $6000 since they started their Trail Treasury program.  The Trail Treasury program supports…

Let’s support the Access Petition and 2026 Work Plan from Mount Diablo Trails Alliance Mount Diablo Trails Alliance is out of the gate in 2026 at warp speed: buckle up and hang on!  They’ve got a petition to show support for Change In Use (CIU) to expand mountain bike…