Bert Flinn Trail Day!

We’re big believers in maintaining a good work/party balance. We just had the party so it’s time to go to work!

We’re hosting a much needed trail day this Saturday, June 1st. The focus will be on tidying up Starz and North Starz in Bert Flinn Park.

Come out and earn some good trail karma (and eat a few donuts!) Coffee and lunch will be provided and as always, there will be some great swag from our trail day sponsors (Secret Cycles and The Runner’s Den).

We’ll meet at the back parking lot of Heritage Woods Secondary at 9am. Click here for a map.

To help plan work parties, as well as prevent us from wasting money on uneaten food, we ask that you register by clicking here: http://torcc.ca/BackyardTrailDaySignup.htm

See you Saturday!

You know all those buff trails you ride season after season? The ones that always seem to have fresh golden dirt and new features week after week? The ones you can’t wait to charge on after a long winter and they always seem to be magically free of downed trees?

You’ve heard about the elusive trail fairy but have maybe never seen one in real life. TORCC is here to tell you that they’re real but they’re in need of a little help. Trail fairies need tools, materials and food and these things cost money.

If you can’t make it out to trail days another awesome way to give back is to reach into your pocket and donate.

We’re making it really easy: join us on May 26th at the St. James Well in Port Moody for a burger, a beer and a chance to take home a prize from some of our amazing sponsors. There will be door prizes, a silent auction and a 50/50 draw.

Tickets are $20.00 and can be purchased at Cap’s Westwood Cycles in Port Coquitlam or at Secret Cycles in Port Moody.

Contact us if you have any questions at all.

All proceeds from this event go back to the local trails in the form of tools, equipment and signage.

When? May 26th, 5:00 pm

Where? St. James Well (Newport Village, Port Moody)

How much? $20

See you there!

Event Sponsors:

 

 

 

 

Yesterday felt like we could have actually been in Mexico as BC was breaking records for the hottest May 5th. We might have broken our own record as 35 people came out to volunteer more than 150 hours of labour to the trails. That should definitely earn everyone some serious trail karma!

Physio was in pretty rough shape as it continued to see riders throughout the winter. Some of the soft spots were starting to get deep and root exposure was becoming troublesome in a few areas. We filled in the holes that were forming on either side of the new bridge on the lower section and pretty much laid new dirt on a 1/3 of the trail. Some sections were dug out and stabilized with rock and mineral soil and new dirt was added to some of the eroding steeps. In short, we accomplished a lot of work in half a day.  We wouldn’t say that the climb has been dumbed down but one of the trail builders summed it up well with “now there are no excuses …”

A lot of new and old faces came out and brought their skills, strong backs and love for the trails with them! Thank you to everyone for coming out instead of drinking beer (or mojitos) on the patio

Some people walked away with some pretty awesome swag so we’d love to give a special shout out to our awesome sponsor for the day:

Stay tuned for more trail news!

Click here to view the meeting location on a map

To help plan work parties, as well as prevent us from wasting money on uneaten food, we ask that you register by clicking here.

A big thank you goes to our sponsors for the day:

Cap’s Westwood Cycle will be providing volunteer support and draw prizes for the trail day.

Trail Building Clinic?

Would you be interested in learning how to build a trail from the best in the biz?

Click here to leave your name and email address. If there’s enough interest we’ll keep you posted on a workshop later in the summer.

Web goddess and fellow mountain biker Jenny Lee Silver has redesigned and improved the TORCC website.  Not only does it look great, but it is much easier for all to use.  As well, it provides great integration with social media.  TORCC would like to thank Jenny for all of her hard work!

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If you haven’t already joined, please show your support of off road cycling in the Tri-Cities by becoming a member today.

An incredibly rainy Saturday morning couldn’t keep away the 22 volunteers who came out to to improve the drainage and trail surface of the Backyard Trail. Many hands made light work as we all completed the trail work a bit earlier than anticipated. Because of the rain, not many pictures were taken, but those that were can been seen by clicking on the album below.

Every volunteer walked away with a draw prize from Secret Cycles or Kintec. Thank you all for your support!

Secret Cycles (Coquitlam) provided volunteer support and draw prizes for the trail day.

Thanks to everyone who gave up their leisure time to come out and help work on the bottom section to Physiotherapy. A huge amount of work was accomplished in a really short time.

The entrance from the road is untouched, but once in the trees, the low spots have been back filled, and some of the high spots have been brought down to make a consistent grade. A small re-route was cut to add one more corner in to make the top section a little more rideable. The section just after the new bridge got re-shaped a little to make it a more even grade. A lot of dirt and rock got moved by a very eager and hard working crew. The new section will still be challenging, but should be consistently climbable by anyone who is a strong rider, and will be much nicer to walk up too!

A big thank you goes to our sponsors for the day:

Kintec Suterbrook Village, Port Moody provided draw prizes for this trail day.

During the last week of May, local mountain bike trail builders, a TORCC coordinator, and four members of the Blue Mountain Motorcycle club sat down to talk about trail usage on Eagle. While BMMC has no affiliation with Eagle, these four riders are very familiar with the mountain, and even talked about the potential of starting up an Eagle Ridge moto club (even if just in name).

There are several trails on Eagle that were historically used by motorbike that we effectively took over for mountain bike usage, such as the Dentist, but in their current configuration, we all decided that there was no reason why they couldn’t remain multi-use. To facilitate this, we collectively agreed that education was the best plan going forward, and we’ve discussed putting in signage at trail heads saying whether the trail is MTB, Moto, or shared. We realize that there are potential risks to doing this, since none of the trails are legitimate, but working together will do less harm than working against each other. Currently, the shared trails that exist are: Dentist, Decapitator Bypass (that links up to Mossom/Manhandler), Mossom Creek and Sidewinder.  As well, we discussed how mountain bike trails could be built to make it less appealing to dirt bikers who insist on riding them.

Overall, the mood was constructive and positive, and we all realized that we are in this for the same reasons, and aren’t all that different, although we have very different requirements of trail usage.

We will post more developments as they happen.