Another dusty trail day! We had 16 people help work on Upper Cold Springs Trail. The first mile was brushed by a hired crew the week before, so we just did dirt work and rebenched to open it up and make it super fast and fun. Everyone survived the group ride down Cold Springs, and […]
Blood Road Film Night
We’ve all experienced one of those days where a bike ride meant more than just that. For Rebecca Rusch, it was a journey of self-discovery and searching for a place where her father was shot down in Laos 40 years earlier. It was an evening of filled with cycling, soul-searching and good people. As always, […]
July Trail Work at Elings Park
Donn Longstreet led a crew of 10 volunteers in cleaning up some of the narrowed single track at Elings Park in preparation for their Semana Nautica race on July 4th. We worked on the south facing slope to rebench and deberm, widening the trail bed and improving water drainage. Baird King and Jimmy Hopper joined […]
Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day June 2016 (#TKMBD)
A little bit late in posting this post-event write-up, but better late than never! First off, a huge thanks and kudos goes out to Jason Moore for organizing and staffing the entire event! So if you are at all familiar with Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day you are probably asking yourself why is he writing about […]
Central Coast Trail Stewardship Summit
Trail stewards and land managers gathered in Santa Barbara February 19th to 21 to participate in the Central Coast Trail Stewardship Summit for Multi-Use Trails. The summit was organized by Chris Orr, locally based trail advocate and International Mountain Biking Association’s Trail Solutions team member and was hosted by the Los Padres National Forest, the Santa […]
Tequepis Roundup
The day started off with a slight chill and ended with a slight rain. Other than the “wintery” weather that we have grown accustomed to NOT having in Santa Barbara, the day was beautiful and lots of work got done. We met at Lizard’s Mouth and Winchester Gun club where bikes were put into the proper vehicles […]
National Public Lands Day Roundup
National Public Lands Day (Cold Springs!!!)
Celebrate September 26th’s National Public Lands Day with a volunteer trail work event in Santa Barbara! This year Santa Barbara’s Front Country Trails Program (Forest Service, County, and City) and local trail maintenance organizations (SBMTV!) will be hosting a volunteer trail work day on the upper section of the Cold Springs Trail in Santa Barbara. […]
July 12th San Ysidro Trail Work Total Success
New Bike Bells!
SBMTV volunteers from ages 6 - 60 met up at Rusty’s pizza last Wednesday. Fueled by pizza, firestone dba, bark’s rootbeer and the latest MTB bike movies… volunteers cranked out a mountain of new bells. Why do we do it? Over the years SBMTV has distributed over 10,000 bike bells on behalf of the MTB and […]
