Austin Ridge Riders Mountain Bike Club

Happy Friday! You may have already received your email invite for Member Appreciation, sent directly to all active and new members on Friday, May 8th, and our update email sent Tuesday, May 12th. If you have not received these emails please use this link to drop us an email and we’ll double check your email on file, and confirm you are not unsubscribed: https://www.austinridgeriders.com/contact-us

The month of May is a great time join Austin Ridge Riders or renew your membership. As a local chapter of IMBA, we are participating in the Leading with Trails Spring membership drive which gives you an opportunity to be entered to win one of several awesome prize packages. Top packages include a Yeti mountain bike!

Your membership helps us support trails in Austin, but more specifically: it covers the cost of lunch at group rides, insurance, tools, storage, material for builds, rewards for volunteers, marketing materials and signage, the stickers we give out at events and much more. It can even be useful in securing “matching grants”.

When you join ARR, you’ll have access to all the great benefits provided by IMBA, as well as local benefits from our partners! Click here to learn more: https://www.austinridgeriders.com/membership-drive

Here’s our group ride schedule for the rest of the year! As a reminder, it’s helpful if you rsvp for rides so we can inform you of updates or weather cancellations. Also it helps us get an idea of how many riders to expect!

Be sure to follow ARR Trail Crew for trail workday updates, and The Hub for information on Ride Like a Girl events. You can view all of our currently scheduled events here: https://www.austinridgeriders.com/events

See you on the trail 🤙

Austin Ridge Riders was proud to support
National Walk Bike Roll to School Day, with our VP Cullen McMorrow, who is also a Safe Route to Schools Coordinator for Reilly Elementary PTA.

We had over 120 riders and pedestrian students & parents, with 59 student raffle entries and 9 winners of prizes like bicycle locks and helmets. Plus plenty of free sticker packs, sticker-reflectors, reflective leg bands, and bike-cargo pouches.

Thank you to our parent ride leaders Kaya, Jenna, Carl, Ben, and Diana; and sponsors Ghisallo Cycling Initiative, Empire BMX, The Peddler Bike Shop, Austin Ridge Riders Mountain Bike Club, Austin Youth Fitness, David Phillips Foundation, and City of Austin’s “Get There ATX” Program.

This Saturday, March 28, 9 am. . Come give back to the trail and help us show Wilco that mountain bikers are trail users that step up! https://www.tickettailor.com/events/arrtrailcrew/2133760

Join our Trail Crew tomorrow, 3/12 at Walnut Creek for a volunteer workday! We have good dirt and plan to work on a new log feature and a new berm! We are meeting at 4:30pm. More details + RSVP here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/arrtrailcrew/2113864

For more than 8 years, Austin Ridge Riders has been working with the Pecan Springs / Springdale Neighborhood Association, Austin Parks Foundation and Austin Parks and Recreation Department, to make the Little Walnut Creek Greenbelt at E. 51st & Springdale (aka "area 51) a successful trail system for the neighborhood and the larger East Austin mountain biking community.

Please consider joining the neighborhood's "It's My Park Day" event on Saturday March 7, 2026! There are still spots available, but they'll go fast! Register here: https://givepul.se/56qkkr

Help us reverse Emma Long! This Saturday at 9 AM our Trail Crew will be working with Central Texas Trials Association to reverse the loop direction at Emma Long park. This is also a heads up that the loop will now run clockwise. This will be light work, and we are limiting the workday to ten volunteers so please find additional details and RSVP via this link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/arrtrailcrew/2076735

Cranksgiving photos are live! Thank you to our member and sponsor for supporting this event as our pro photographer 📸 If you were with us at Pace Bend you may have a great photo of yourself in this gallery! They are free for participants to download for personal use. Here is the link: https://mannypandyaphotography.pixieset.com/cranksgiving/
..we’ll be emailing registered riders as well.

If you need a headshot or other pro photography services, Manny is your guy!