Hello SHARE Members and Friends. We need you! We will be constructing a new bridge on upper end of the Coyote Run trail as part of the SHARE 2012 REI stewardship grant benefiting OC Parks. Time to get dirty, lift some heavy timber, do some constuction, and have a great time.

• Date:  Sunday, February 12
• Location:  Aliso and Woods Canyon Wilderness Park (AWCWP)
• Time:  8:00am to 1:00pm
• Bring: gloves, sturdy shoes, water and lot’s of enthusiasm
• Task:  Build a Bridge
• Grub:  Served at noon complements of Share Mountain Bike Club
• More info needed?  Contact SHAREMTB@gmail.com or contact Ken Rands 949 6360345

Map of Location

Preparation has begun!

See you there

Please RSVP to SHAREmtb@gmail.com

Our partners, the Irvine Ranch Conservancy, will be sponsoring an exciting trail work day this weekend Saturday, February 4^th at Buck Gully in Newport Beach. 

This project will restore about 3 miles of multi-use single track in this coastal canyon which is full of interesting wildlife and mature coastal sage scrub. When complete, the trail will be open 7 days a week. We need lots of hands for vegetation clearing and possibly some tread work.

Signup and detailed information

Anyone interested in helping out needs to sign up at www.irlandmarks.org (click on the Activities & Programs button and then navigate to the Trail Work at Buck Gully program). We hope you and some friends can make it.

If you know already that you want to join SHARE for the first time or renew your membership, click here to go to the SHARE Membership Letter. Go to the bottom of the letter to join using Active.com or Paypal.com

About SHARE

SHARE was founded in 1988, 23 years ago, and has been a strong and consistent voice in the Orange County mountain bike community. SHARE has Park Representatives that work with land managers at local Orange County and State Parks to promote mountain biking, creating and improving the trails we all love to ride.

In 2011, SHARE donated to…

Orange County Parks

Our annual Poker Ride is a fund-raiser for projects in the parks.

IMBA’s Annual Take a Kid MTB Day

A great event for kids of all ages.

Families Forward

A non-profit organization that assists families in financial crisis, to help them achieve and maintain self-sufficiency. SHARE donated 10 kid’s bikes and helmets for our annual Christmas Bike Donation.

Wheels4Life – A Hans & Carmen Rey Charity

A non-profit charity that provides free bikes for people in need of transportation in Third World countries.

Projects

SHARE has partnered with land managers and other non-profit organizations in Orange County to build and maintain trails thoughout Orange County parks.

In 2011, REI recognized the contributions SHARE has made and was awarded a grant for projects at Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park & Peters Canyon Regional Park.

Benefits of a SHARE Membership?

Include discounts at The Path Bike Shop, JAX Bicycle Center-Irvine and crankbrothers on-line store. Be part of the SHARE community of mountain bikers where we RIDE IT! WORK IT! AND SHARE IT!

Memberships

$30 for Individual Membership, $40 for Family Membership, $50 Affilliate, and $250 Life Time

Join Now!

SHARE organized a trail work event at Santiago Oaks Regional Park. Twelve volunteers were there to give back to the park.

Santiago Oaks Regional Park has become a favorite Orange County destination for many of our local mountain bikers. With this park being the site of the last two SHARE Poker Rides, SHARE was more than happy to provide the people power to help maintain the park when we are asked to help. So it was no surprise with a fairly short notice we were able to pull together a group of volunteers of all ages and abilities to come out and take care of a few projects on the rangers wish lists.

The park rangers had asked us to revise the lower portion of Hawk Trail  where it meets Bobcat Meadow Trail to eliminate the unsafe T-intserction of  the trails. We also completed the planting of native plants and cactus along  the re-routed Oak Trail (aka the 3 B’s). 

The first part of the trail work day was toof complete a reroute at the bottom of the Hawk Trail to make it a more sustainable trail and eliminate an unsafe intersection with the Bobcat Meadow Trail. We found a new path and armored it rocks to build up a base for the new path. The next job was to close off the old trail and move on to some planting, with cactus and new oak trees positioned we dug in and got busy putting them in the ground. Thank you for those who showed to give back.

Afterwards, we enjoyed a well  deserved lunch at Chronic Taco.  Thanks to all who volunteered!

Trail Care Crew Event on Dec. 9 and Dec. 10 – Wrapup

Thanks to the International Mountain Bike Association, and especially IMBA trail care crew Morgan and Steve Lommele,  for bringing together the various Orange County mountain bike communities and land managers for two days of discussion and learning.

As part of the recent Trail Care Crew visit to Laguna Beach, IMBA partnered with Hans Rey, the Laguna Canyon Foundation, Share and other area riders to assess many of the existing legacy trails and provide feedback on how to make the trails more sustainable while at times maintaining their gravity-oriented character. After our Trailbuilding School, local riders expressed their desire to work with land managers to decommission some of their unsustainable fall-line trails and create fun, flowy, sustainable singletrack as part of a larger system of multi-use, multi-skill trails. This two-way partnership between land managers and riders is critical to success.

IMBA hosted a Club Care presentation and a screening of the movie Pedal Driven that brought together local bike industry leaders from Crank Brothers and SDG Components; pro mountain bikers like Hans Rey, Brian Lopes, and Richie Schley; club leaders from Share; and leadership from the Laguna Canyon Foundation.

Just the fact that these guys all broke bread together was enough to get the movement started.

Here is what IMBA had to say about the state of Mountain Biking in OC. “From the 70 TCC visits we’ve had in two years, Laguna is probably the best-suited to build a world-class mountain bike destination: stunning terrain and scenery, open space, industry leaders, pro riders, a sustainable club, willing partners in local land managers, and a passionate community of mountain bike advocates. It’s just a matter of channeling all of that positive opportunity into a cohesive, long-term movement, which Laguna is on the verge of doing.”

Morgan presenting trail work design training.

Steve and Morgan, See you later!  Thanks for a great time.

Thanks to Hans Rey, Crank Brothers, and the Laguna Canyon Foundation for hosting a productive and fun weekend.

Trail Care Crew Event

Friday Dec. 9 @ 5:30 pm and Saturday Dec. 10 @ 9 am

Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park Trailers

Join the IMBA Trail Care Crew, Laguna Canyon Foundation, Hans Rey, Crank Brothers, OC Parks and Share for this extraordinary trail work training and work session. In addition, sounds like Hans will also be sharing Flow Country trail design philosophy.  This is really a fantastic opportunity to be inspired to learn “sustainable” trail building. This event will be a great opportunity to bring all of Orange County’s mountain bikers together to meet and to better understand the possibilities and limitations in our local parks.

Friday, December 9, 2011

5:30 PM – IMBA Club Care Presentation

7:00 PM – Crank Brothers and Hans Rey present Pedal-Driven (Advanced Screening)

Saturday, December 10, 2011

9:00 AM – Trail Learn and Build

1:00 PM – Trail Work in Aliso and Wood Canyon Wilderness Park

Information and Signup at:

http://lagunacanyon.org/

AND

Further Information at:

https://www.imba.com/civicrm/event/info?id=181&reset=1

Hosted By: Laguna Canyon Foundation, Crank Brothers, and Hans Rey

We are pleased to announce the Enduro Stuff Challenge & Mountain Bike Expo at Caspers Wilder-ness Park in San Juan Capistrano on December 10th, 2011.

Yes that’s right, another race in our OC Parks, the second ever! The first one was so great they (OC Parks) are asking for more. Not only will there be a great race, but a Mountain Bike Expo with demo bikes, lighting systems and more to check out!

Racers this time will have the opportunity to camp the night before if they wish. Check out http://endurostuff.com/Endurostuff/Challenge.html for more details. Registration is limited to a 200 racers, so register early to get your spot! SHARE members get a discount so sign up at https://endurostuff.webconnex.com/endurostuff

Details

• Dec. 10th!
• Caspers Wilderness Park
• San Juan Capistrano, CA
• Race Starts at 9:00 am

New for this race is an open Single Speed and Clysdale classes. So 1 geared and low geared people can put it down on this tough course and see who has the most raw power out there.

Money from each entry will go back to supporting trail maintenance in the park! If you would like to volunteer to help for this race please send and email to info@okolestuff.com and let them know you are from SHARE.

Hello SHARE Members and Friends. We have an opportunity to help complete the re-route of the Oak Trail in Santiago Oaks Regional Park. Time to get dirty and have a great time.

• Date:  Saturday, December 3
• Time:  8:00 – 12:00
• Where:  Meet at Park HQ, 2145 N. Windes Drive, Orange
• What:  Lower section of Oak Trail tread work and restoration of old trail bed. 
• Bring: Sturdy shoes, hat and water.

Please feel free to ride to the work site or ride after the project. You may want to explore the new trails in Santiago Oaks Regional Park. 

Free parking at the park HQ.  Tell them you are there for the trail work.

Please RSVP to SHAREmtb@gmail.com

Over 80 kids rode in the event! With 140+ participants take on the 5th Annual IMBA event

Well if you weren’t there on October 1st you missed the biggest event of the 5 years that SHARE member Adam Davidson has been putting this local event of the national IMBA Take A Kid Mountain Biking Day. With over 140 participants of which 80 were kids there was no shortage of fun to be had. The event was broken up in 4 rides so there was something available for all age groups and riding abilities. Adam does a great job of finding sponsors to support the event and gathers enough donations so almost nobody goes home empty handed. There was another organization to benefit from all of Adam’s effort, Wheels4Life.org will be receiving a donation that will allow them to purchase at least 20 bikes for their cause. If you missed it this year you can mark down October 6th, 2012 for next years event.

Check out pictures of this year’s event and sign-up for next year’s event at: http://web.me.com/highergroundsa/RideLikeAKid/Home.html

Enjoy the video clip of this years event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4463wzFJ-WE

SHARE Mountain Bike Club was there…

On October 30 SHARE assisted the Irvine Ranch Conservancy to complete the Turtle Ridge trail in Bommer Canyon.  We all look forward to the opening of this new addition to the Irvine Open Space trails.

The trail extends between the small trail head in the Turtle Ridge community to West Fork trail in Bommer Canyon that can be accessed from the Bommer Canyon trail head.  Once officially opened, this Irvine Open Space trail will be open 7 days a week.  This single track trail will wind down from the ridge giving riders and hikers a great view of the canyon. Three cheer to the Irvine Ranch Conservancy for building such a fine looking single track.