Mountain Bike Oregon
This year I was fortunate to sign up for Mountain Bike Oregon (MBO), every year MBO is booked up well before the dates of the event. MBO happens in August and is a small outdoor vacation for you an your mountain bike in Oakridge Oregon. This year I went with some friends from work, so we had a little fun group. We rode about 100 miles totals.
MBO takes place just outside of Eugene Oregon, Oakridge is becomeing a mecca for excellent mountain bike trails.last for 4nights, 3 days in which you get a meal each breakfast and dinner, tent camping facilities, and organized shuttles to trailheads which you sign up for in advance. The majority of trails you sign up for have guides, local volunteers that know the area, can ride at any pace and will assist you should you get lost or hurt. Showering facilities are provided by a local high school (shuttle bus from the campground).
The good.
- A choice of a lot of Sweet trails to choose from, long short, freeride, xc, downhill ish.
- Organized shuttles too trail heads
- Solid 3 days of riding. It's easy to do 6+hrs of riding each day.
- Friday and Sat night events - bike toss, mini bike race in the beer garden.
- free beer from local sponsors.
- Major bike manufacturers are there Santa Cruz, Cannondale, Felt, Pivot, Titus to loan out bikes for test rides.
The bad.
- $400 to play for 3 days. ($450 for extra bonus trail). You decide if this is good or bad, my viewpoint... overpriced.
- crappy breakfast, ok dinner
- the sign up sheet for the good trails get signed up for fast, so there is an archaic waiting line scramble which really doesn't go hand in hand with the $450 you plunked down. Pre register anyone?
- the bus to and from the showering facilities gets a little annoying, but so does the sub par food.
Check out my pics here. Please note, most of my time is riding, so the good stuff does get captured with two hands on the handlebars!
Oh yeah, one of the driver blokes also rolled a shuttle van! luckily no one was hurt and the bikes all flipped off the top and were ok. my bike was in the pile also.
