Upcoming events: Cascadia Junior Cycling Race Team Reception Celebrate the success of our junior racers’ mountain bike season! Tuesday, August 3rd, 4 – 6 PM at Cog Wild. RSVP by emailing bill@cogwild.com with the number in your party. We will also wrap-up our GoFundMe fundraiser, which you can contribute to here. Thank you for all […]
We are happy to announce that we are now offering a rental house in Oakridge! Ensure awesome riding and a cozy place to put up your feet or party down. Our quaint cottage has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom, a cozy living room with pull out sofa, and a big deck with BBQ. Down the […]
(Tumalo Creek, late December 2016) With winter well underway in the Oregon Cascades, my mountain bike life has traditionally taken a backseat, or left me searching for dirt either north or east of town where snowfall is typically less likely to accumulate. Not being an avid skier or snowboarder, winter is typically not my favorite […]
By Dillon Caldwell (Cog Wild Guide and Marketing Director) As a lifelong mountain biking enthusiast, I have developed a very particular (if unusual) definition of the term “mountain biking”. And as a seasoned mountain bike tour guide, I’ve been exposed to a wide range of other concepts of what exactly it is that the two-wheeled […]
By Katy Bryce, Freelance Writer and Cog Wild Friend Clam chowder, sand dollars, bald eagles and fat bikes. That’s right. We are excited to offer a new and different tour—a fat biking adventure on the amazing Oregon coast. This is something we have wanted to do for a long time and it’s finally coming together! […]
Writer and Photographer Ronald Jacobs came and rode with us. He had a wonderful time, of course, and took some great shots. Our guides came out to to ride, look for Sara, Matt and Lev ripping some trail for the camera. The article is in Dutch, we will try to get an English version.
Mountain biking in Central Oregon Drugs were a way of life for Kirt Voreis’ parents. His father died in a motorcycle crash while high on cocaine when Kirt was just 5 years old. He recalls how his mother raised him among methamphetamine addicts in Fontana, Calif., and became addicted to the drug herself, working nights […]
Front the Bend Bulletin, June 8, 2012 Editor’s note: Mountain Bike Trail Guide, by Bulletin outdoors writer Mark Morical, features various trails in Central Oregon and beyond. The trail guide appears in Adventure Sports on alternating Fridays through the riding season. Bob Gilbert barreled down a steep, rock-strewn section of singletrack, then glanced back at […]
Do you love Yoga and Mountain Biking? Join Ryan Leech to work on being a better mountain biker – through yoga. Join Cog Wild & Ryan Leech for his amazing Ride & Reach program. Happening in Bend June 15 and 16, each day will focus on different aspects of mountain biking. Each day will include […]
Bend Bike Demo with Cog Wild and all your local bike shops June 15 & 16 at Phil’s Trailhead from 11am-6pm. Sagebrush Cycles with the Rocky Mountain demo truck Hutches with the Giant demo truck Pine Mountain Sports with the Santa Cruz demo truck Trinity Bike Shop with the Marin demo truck Ellsworth bikes Web […]