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There’s no need to toss your ruined tubes or tires. Sure that gash in your sidewall and that cursed tube may have stopped you in your tracks but consider donating their carcasses to one of the participating bike shops.

GORC’s newest sponsor, has donated more than 400 premium vinyl decal stickers soon available for your car. Two sizes available and they made their debut at the Bike Swap in January.

You can still access our old Blogger blog at gorctrails.blogspot.com. We plan to pull the ‘best of’ articles from it when we have some free time. All new blog posts will originate from our new site here on out.

We are hard at work compiling information for three additional gravel routes: the Al Foster in Wildwood, the Hamburg off Highway 94 and the never-ending Katy trail. Look for these new trail pages in the coming weeks.

If you’re leaving ruts like this, you should be riding on the road or gravel. We’ll probably have to schedule a workday to fix this kind of stuff instead of working on the new singletrack across University Drive that was begun yesterday.

This past Sunday, we got a group of interested people out to review the new section of trail at Greensfelder which will be built on Saturday, Feb. 23rd. See here for details. The Greensfelder Trail Crew- Matt, Bryan, Ron & Scott had scouted the area previously with clinometers, and taped a rough line signifying the approximate trail layout.

If you’re leaving ruts like this, you should be riding on the road or gravel.
We’ll probably have to schedule a workday to fix this kind of stuff instead of working on the new singletrack across University Drive that was begun yesterday.

Over 40 volunteers (GORC, Americorp and school students) helped clear the trail corridor and build a sustainable benchcut near the beginning of the trail. This workday will help the contractors who are bidding on this project see what the finished trail should resemble.

I’ve been riding with some Backcountry Research gear instead of a hydration pack for a while now. My Osprey pack still gets put to use for longer trips out on the Ozark Trail or similar backcountry rides, and my big CamelBak comes out for Patrol gigs, but for shorter local rides I’ve enjoyed shedding the monkey on my back.

GORC hosted the Volunteer Appreciation Party at Greensfelder Park in St. Louis county. Over 40+ people showed up to celebrate each other’s hard work in 2012. With many more miles cumulatively built all around the region, each year mountain bikers have better and longer singletrack options.