Weekend workshop to train aspiring trail masters
A free Trail Master Summit workshop will be offered in Sitka, teaching the science and techniques of sustainable trails.
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Tag: Sitka Cycling Club
Sitka named Silver-level bike-friendly community (for the second time!)
Sitka has received a Silver Level designation in the Bicycle-Friendly Community Program of the League of American Bicyclists (for the third time!). Doug Osborne is the president of the Sitka Cycling Club. Osborne thinks Sitka -- which was the first community in Alaska recognized in the program -- should go for gold.
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New single track mountain biking trail comes to Sitka
If you’ve been for a bike ride on Sitka’s Cross Trail recently, you might’ve noticed a skinny one-way path called the “907.” It’s Sitka’s first official single-track loop for mountain biking. And for the last few months, it’s kept the Sitka Cycling Club busy.
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Half-Century bike ride a first for Sitka
The Sitka Half-Century is Saturday, August 24 at 9 a.m. Doug Osborne and Brian Looney joined KCAW's Brooke Schafer in the studio to discuss the bike ride, which is the first of its kind in Sitka.
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No excuse for poor bike maintenance, experts say
Charlie Lowell is in Sitka this week for the Alaska Walk/Bike Conference, where he led a bike maintenance workshop. He is the youth program director at the Susitna Bike Institute in Anchorage. There, he teaches all ages about how to keep their bikes in tip-top shape. But how does one do that? Lowell offers a few places to start.Read More
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