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Ending the weekend right ✨

We spent the day in the mountains, riding bikes, soaking up the sun and ending with a little taco picnic.
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#mountainbike #outside #views #forest

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LAST WEEK to enter the Team Dream / @itsnotabikeshop fundraiser for a chance to win a rare Team Dream frame and help us rebuild the Idlehour trail entrance bridge.

Sixty-six days after the Eaton Fire started the US Forest Service granted us permission to scout the burn zone to assess the damages. Almost two years after the fires we've been at work to establish the trail, create safe passage, remove fallen trees and we still have lots of work to do.

One of our major projects is replacing the historic wood bridge off of Mt. Wilson Toll Rd. By donating $10 it will help us replace the bridge, build it to the current USFS specifications, and fund the expansive materials and labor.

Link in Bio

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A little bit of everything. ✨

We headed into the Sequoia National Park for some camping, trail work and some mtbing. Each year Lowelifes RCC makes a trip out to the Sequoias in the summer to help out where we can since we take a break from the heat in LA.

Camping, views, sunsets, MTB, shuttles, hikes, swims, bomb food, painting, warfare with squirrels lol 🤣 Good long weekend.
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#trailwork #camping #mtb #views #mountains

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Sunset ride ✨

Ending the weekend with a quick sunset bike ride in the Angeles forest. Views for days.
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#views #bikeride #mtb #outsideisfree #sunset

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Coaster Brake Challenge #36 heat 3

I missed last week's by a few minutes and couldn't find them haha so the third heat was the best one to start on, The Beast climb. It was a pretty tough climb on a single speed, I probably gave up like four times lol.

My hub got too hot and steamy on the way down and I had to let it cool down lol Thanks Eric for stealing my hub cooler lol

Anyways it was a lot of fun and can't wait for the last one.
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#cbc #coasterbrake #coasterbrakechallenge #views

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As we are getting prepared for our upcoming trail work campout, these are a few photos from our previous campout at Westfork.

We've been hard at work restoring trails affected by the Bobcat Fire, our current focus has been restoring the Gabrielino between West Fork Trail Camp to Newcomb Pass. This trail has been untouched since the fires back in 2020 and the projects have been endless. Our team of volunteers have been working to remove and cut large trees off the trails, establishing the original trail path and lots of treadwork.

After this weekend we would be completing this section of the Gabrielino and taking a break for the summer. We will be back in October for our monthly scheduled trail work weekends. If you are interested in joining any of our trailwork weekends, please sign up for our newsletter, link can be found in our bio.

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Photo dump from this past weekend.

Beautiful meadow vibes, flowers, birds, bikes, and plein air painting. ✨
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#outsideisfree #outside #views #bikes #camping

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2026 Swift Campout ☀️

This year's campout was a tiny group but a big adventure. Riding directly from my front door is one of my favorite things to do so I had to do that this year.

Bikepacking with views, good company, fun single track, swimming, painting, camping, enchiladas, and bomb breakfast.

2 Days, 40 miles, and 6k Elevation gain.
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#sc26videocontest #mountains #lasucksforcycling #adventure #views @oldmanmountainracks @swiftindustries

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Another year in the books✨

Just a little older, maybe a little slower but excited for another year filled with beautiful places, hard bike tours, flowers, critters and hanging out with amazing people.

Cheers to another year 🍻. Looking forward to more bikes, more camping, and exploring new places 🙏

Small collection of 34 in a nutshell.
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#outsideisfree #lasuckforcycling #adventure

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Bikes, swimming, camping, trail work ✨

Another successful weekend with @lowelifesrcc. We've been working on restoring the Gabrielino, there's lots of tread work and trees down that were slowly working through.

We had two different saw crews working from the top and one from the bottom and the fact that they never met tells more! I got some time on the saw and what's even more rad is we have two other badass ladies killing it on the saw crew.

And Dinner on Saturday was a cherry on top, spaghetti and homemade meat balls with cheese cake on the side ✨

Until the next programming.
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#lasuckforcycling #views #bikecamping #trailwork #mountains

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Nothing to see here 🫣

Have a few clippies from Eric's Bday Bash, we did a little bbq, camped, bike ride/hike a bike all just chill vibes.
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#mountains #bikecamping #views #lasucksforcycling

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We brushed up on our chainsaw skills and dove in even deeper this weekend during our chainsaw re-certification course. It was a special class long in the making. We had always talked about holding a class on one of our actual projects in the backcountry. These classes are usually held at a Rec or Fire site that is accessible and more catered to first time sawyers. Our saw instructor on the Angeles, Greg, made it happen. All it took was for him to retire. We could not be more proud of Greg and his commitment and true love for the Angeles, and his new future path. We held our first class with him now that he officially retired as a USFS Battalion Chief on our next project - Gabrielino NRT - West Fork through Devore to Newcomb Pass. It was great to also include a few of the key sawyers who work with Saw Boss @tediseasy over @mwbaorg and @stevemessermtb of @corbamtb.

Greg is like no other. Humble but demands respect, and a fountain of wisdom way beyond his years. He sets the bar high and so do we, because there’s no tree project worth tackling if you can’t do it safely. Many folks want to run a saw and reach out about wanting to get certified who have yet to volunteer on a basic trail maintenance day. Our team of sawyers is a tight knit group for a good reason. We have spent countless hours working on trails together. That’s something all of our sawyers have done and is Step 1 to becoming a sawyer: showing up to the party.

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