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Big Bear is Back!

Posted by blogbike on May 24th 2013

Remember the good old days when NORBA’s National Championships in Mountain Biking were held at Big Bear, California?The days when you constantly ran into folks like Missy Giove, Shaun Palmer, Steve Peat, Brian Lopes, April Lawyer, Myles Rockwell, Leigh Donovan, Marla Streb? Those days are long gone and due to several accidents in 2005, Snow Summit closed the park to big bikes. This was the end of an era for mountain bike down-hilling, dual slalom and cross country racing in the greater Los Angeles area. The sport suffered badly and it took years to recover. Eventually with newly reformed rules …
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