Meet the mountain biker going viral for bombing SF’s most terrifying hills

Hi!

👋If you're looking for a distraction, I spent the last month tailing San Francisco’s most terrifying mountain biker and learning all about the Bay Area’s long and fittingly confounding political battle over mountain bikes in the region.

The birthplace of mountain biking — geographically blessed and temperate, a playground of old-growth redwood groves and shaded subtropical forests containing trails that splay playfully into the Pacific — turns out to be a pretty bad place to be a mountain biker!

Here’s the story:

https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/18/meet-the-mountain-biker-going-viral-for-bombing-sfs-most-terrifying-hills/