A few mountain bike brands have stepped up to support trails and riders at the grassroots level over the past couple of years, and we hope the trend endures. Two recent examples include the Santa Cruz Bicycles Paydirt program and the Specialized Soil Searching initiative, along with numerous efforts form other bike companies to better support female athletes, younger riders, and to fight global issues like cancer and the mounting climate crisis with a piece of their profits.
Specialized Bicycles recently teamed up with two riders from Portland, Oregon, to support their gravity racing efforts and their trail building work near the Pacific Northwest capital-of-cool. Julie Baird and Chris San Agustin love to dig nearly as much as shred, and they have been working hard to rebuild their closest trail network in the hills above the sleepy bedroom community of Scappoose, Oregon. Both have been trails around Scappoose since anyone can recall, but a timber operation a few years back saw many of the storied tracks lost to clearcutting. Local riders have since been working hard to rebuild the network. Baird and San Agustin have their hands deep in the famous “PNW loam” of those singletrack efforts.
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