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Bike Park Improvements Hit Snag

County Hearings Officer nixes parts of the expansion plans at Big Sky Park
Chris Miller

The big things that were coming to Big Sky Park may get scaled back, depending on the outcome of a special hearing by the Deschutes County Board of County Commissioners. After Bend Park and Recreation District submitted its plans to the Deschutes County development department earlier this year, nearby homeowners raised concerns about lighting, noise, […]

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Hell on Wheels

BMX racing returns to Redmond
Avatar photo Phil Busse

In the ’70s, riding dirt bikes was an informal sport, jumping Huffy bikes off mounds in backyards and tearing Schwinn Sting-Rays through hiking paths (certainly a precursor to mountain biking for thousands of kids). But even though the sport had formally arrived in America in 1969, when a group of teenagers in West LA started […]

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Go Here 8/28-9/4

Avatar photo Corbin Gentzler

With Labor Day here, a farewell to float tubes may be in order. But, cooler shorter days don’t mean time to hibernate; instead, they make for perfect biking weather. It’s no secret Bend is bike-nut crazy, but not all of us were born on berms, with mud coursing through our veins. For those new to […]

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