Win a dream Mountain Escape with Ritchey & Mission Workshop – Mission Workshop and Ritchey are sending one lucky rider plus and a friend into the Sierras for a killer mountain bike experience. Get flown to Reno, shuttled to Tahoe to ride the Northstar Free-Ride Festival the weekend of Sept 16, stay in the historic Truckee Hotel, demo new bikes, and get hooked up with some awesome gear. The winner will join Tom Ritchey on a group trail ride from Northstar to Mission’s “Mountain Pop-Up” to sample local brew & margaritas, check out new Mission gear & get a sneak peek of Ritchey’s new ‘Ultra’ hardtail mountain bike, one of the things you’ll walk away with. Enter for free at: MissionWorkshop.com
Where to Ride (& Watch)
- Crankworx comes home to Whistler for the next 10 days – The 2018 Crankworx World Tour is coming to a head as the enduro & gravity fueled mountain bike racing comes back to where it all started for the finals. There’s really too much to list from enduro to DH, dual slalom to slopestyle. Check out the spectator’s guide to figure it all out, then follow along live at: Crankworx.com
Advocacy & Industry News
- Buddy Bike raising funds for adaptive bike to LA’s East Side Riders Club – Buddy Bike is fundraising to provide one of their adaptive tandem bikes to the East Side Riders Bike Club (ESRBC), which provides opportunities to vulnerable kids in South Central Los Angeles by steering them in a new direction on a bike. The new Buddy Bike would allow kids with special needs to ride along with the club. GoFundMe.com
Gear & Special Deals
- Rethink the school bus with Yuba’s Back-to-School Sale – When it comes to school transportation, Cargo Bikes are all the rage these days. Yuba says they magically transform stressful transportation time into quality family time. Plus, you get to cut the line. So they’re having a Back To School Sale to help get you there in style. Shop the sale at: YubaBikes.com
- Ride through summer in style with 25% off US-made Detroit Bikes – Get your summer on now with 1/4 off of a new Detroit Bikes city bike or cruiser. Save 25% on the U.S. made steel bikes at checkout with coupon code “SUMMER25” from now until Sept 21. DetroitBikes.com
- Save 50% on Rapha’s week of daily deals – The Rapha summer sale is about to close (it seems) and so they’ve been running a new 50% off daily special on one item each day this week. Now you can pick through the available stock in all of the Men’s Daily Deals or the Women’s Daily Deals, plus a lot of carry over stock clearing price cuts. Rapha.cc
