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Getting ready to start 1400ft of downhill goodness in the Franklins.

Hard to believe it's been 3 years since this post. I've knocked off Madrone and Cameron Park. Also returned to Dana Peak a couple of times since my inaugural ride there (definitely a fav now). Flat Rock has remained elusive for me but with my son in SA, I'll eventually work out a meet-up with him there.

They are allowed in Travis County parks. So as this is not a race, you are allowed to sign up and come out to enjoy a day of riding! ARR does not exclude E-bikes if they are allowed by the land managers.

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Built the wife an ebike for our anniversary. Total game changer for her.

I'm super jelly.

Dang, these rocks are slippery even when dry.

East Texas riding. A great change of pace from my typical Hill Country haunts.

Flat Rock Ranch is by far the best riding in Texas, in my view - in fairness, I love Colorado-style singletrack, and Jimmy has done a wonderful job of re-creating that experience. Hope you are able to get out there after hunting season!

Yup, that time of year again. The Austin Ridge Riders Cranksgiving fundraiser at Pace Bend Park is sponsored this year by KOM Trails. Registration linky HERE. Lots of good swag, as usual. One raffle entry for each 8-mile lap. Not sure if there will be trail work stations this year. Always a good time and (I hope) more great food for participants and volunteers.

This 65 year old heart attack survivor thanks you and the org!

The live feedc 24/////7.

Yep. Extending Wyoming Springs to Old Settlers (3406).

This is for the new road going in?

Greetings, I hope everyone is doing well! I am looking for someone to take over this website, and in particular, the forum (which, right now, is the entirety of the website, since the forum is parked on the root of the domain). I am moving from Austin this month, after moving here initially in 1997. It's been a long time, and I've seen Austin grow immensely during the nearly 30 years I've been here! I've been looking for a change for a while, and we finally bought a house in another state in May, my better half has already been living there since July, and it's time for me to finally get the hell out of here (business kept me here a bit longer, and I'm wrapping that up and about to pack all of that up). I've had an awesome time mountain biking (and sometimes, riding on roads) in Austin over the years, and it's been amazing watching the mountain biking scene here explode during that time. As well as all the trails that have been built or expanded during my tenure here. I've met tons of great people, had fun building trails, and overall had a fantastic time riding the wide variety of trail systems we have within an hour's radius of Austin. Just recently I was given a tour of the (relatively) new Katy Trails and have had a lot of fun with those, and I know they will continue to be expanded over time. Definitely get out there if you haven't already. 🙂 Running the forum is pretty straightforward, especially once it's moved to another server and is running (something I'm glad to help with). I will transfer the austinmountainbiking.com domain as part of this process, at no charge. The site will need to be moved to another server, and it'll probably run fine on a VPS. Right now it's running on a dedicated server along with some other sites I host, but it's not a very resource intensive site, and it's also not huge. If the server logs are pruned (which I've never done), the site will be under a GB in size, including the database, which is only 100MB zipped. I am happy to help someone move the entire site and get it functional on another server, it just needs to be running PHP 8.x, along with MySQL (there will be specific PHP and Apache modules required as well, but that's generally not difficult to setup). A site with access to cPanel would be ideal, as I could easily transfer the site over with very little work involved. When I first set the site up (as an alternative to Bike MoJo at the time, which was being overrun with spam), I had planned to do a lot more with it, but my life just became super busy and I simply did not have time to dump into this site as I had originally planned. Someone else could take the site and market a bit, such as promoting it on Facebook, Twitter, Threads, etc., to attract more users. There's obviously a large biking community in Austin. 🙂 I have no plans on taking the site down immediately. However, if nobody is ultimately interested, I will eventually take it down, as I am trying to simplify things in my life, and running and maintaining dedicated servers and the websites sitting on them is definitely on that list. Please send me a PM here if you're interested, and we can talk. Thank you! ..Al

My ebike has changed my riding life.

We're all leaving! Time to post the Okerholm video on TikTok!

I have to laugh at myself, as I'm starting to warm to e-bikes and really the change has been happening the last month of so. Going from, "Hey, they are for slackers!!!! to Hmmmm, there's going to be one in my future. It's all OK" I can see they are keeping older riders on the trail, pavement and gravel longer. The rate of adoption of e-bikes and the evolution of e-bikes is astounding; there are some road bikes around now that aren't readily identifiable as e-bikes. I'll also venture a guess the number of riders in the 70+ age bracket with a comfortable retirement income + discretionary cash may be part of what is driving the e-bike adoption curve. The downside: I'm a regular at a Tuesday morning ride on the Southern Walnut Creek Multi-Use Path. Meet between 8 and 10 am (depending on time of year) at Govalle Park on Bolm Rd. Ride at your own pace, regroup at the turn-off to the tennis courts, stop and chat at the very end, turn around, ride back and have coffee. Mostly older folks, retired. Recently some riders are showing up with e-bikes. A few people got them for medical reasons (capping heart rate to avoid triggering afib, bad knees). Now a few more perfectly fit strong riders have showed up who don't really "need" an e-bike, but got one anyway, because...So now the overall speed of the group has increased, and I can't keep up. The leisurely chats while riding along that kept me sane during Covid aren't happening.