The southernmost bike legal trail in Crockett Hills Regional Park has re-opened following habitat protection closure for nesting Golden Eagles. The nesting season looks like it was successful and you’re likely to see a pair of eagles soaring in the area. The BTCEB trail crew has began rehab work on Goldfinch. A full pass of brushing […]
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We are less than two weeks from the start of the 2022 East Bay Dirt Classic! The course is set and covers very little of the prior two years’ courses. I rode it on a hardtail with 100 mm fork and Diamond rode it on an Open with gravel tires and we both agreed having
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Bicycle Trails Council was selected as a grant recipient as part the Two for the Trails 2022 Grant program offered by Athletic Brewing Co. This year 190 applications with requests totaling $6.2 million were received! BTCEB is ecstatic to learn that our organization as been been awarded a Two for the Trails grant in the
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April rounded out our best start ever to trail work at Crockett Hills. Two work days were held with San Ramon Valley High School and Oakland Devo mountain bike teams with both days being focused on the Sugar City trail. We were able to make a significant dent in the cattle damage and also
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In case you didn’t see it several riders were attacked by a bull at the Rock Cobbler event near Bakersfield. If you ride in one of our local areas that are grazed be aware of the hazard. Cows, bulls, steer, and calves can all charge even though it’s not typically seen. So give them
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BTCEB Board of Directors elections will be held at our February 2 meeting. Nominations are open until Sunday, January 30. Five positions will be up for election.
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January Gala Ride at Rockville,
Ride Like a Girl Ride at Soquel Demo Forest,
Advocacy In Action,
Unknown Volunteers,
Cattle & Crockett Hills
…and more!
BTCEB Buzz, January 2022 Read More »
By Scott Bartlebaugh East Bay Regional Park District Trail User Working Group The TUWG met in July and has its final meetings scheduled in August and September. The last two meetings will be aimed at generating proposed actions and considerations the park district can use to enable more progress in providing trails to users and
August Advocacy Update Read More »
trails are in decent shape due to a relatively dry winter, the cattle being grazed in other pastures to the east and south, riders asking about conditions and giving the trails some time to dry out and some great drain work by Dave Sturgis and Tim Christol. A gravelling trial was done on Wood Rat just east of the tunnel.
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BTCEB Virtual Gala Rides are here! In the era of Covid we can’t do our normal Gala rides but we’re reaching out to provide some incentive to get out and ride and give you some possible routes to explore. To that end we bring you A Separately Together Gala Ride. They way it works is we’ll
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