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I Street Bike Park for the win.

Jason is such a legend!!

What a legend!

Boom!

I'm so excited to hear this. I had the pleasure to race against Reggie at the Bonelli Park XCT in SoCal race a few years back. In addition to being super gracious, encouraging, and supportive to all the junior and other riders, he absolutely killed it out on the XC race course. No doubt, he'll have a great influence on USAC and will help grow the sport.

Love this! One of the main focuses of our NICA team is getting more girls on bikes, and as this article so nicely points out, it starts with purposefully creating an experience that's focused on the specific needs of girls. Our team is packed with women coaches (we need more!) and we have weekly girls only rides, girls only skills clinics, monthly girls only social events, and we ask our older girls on the team to mentor our younger riders. The great news is that so far it's working, our girls program has grown by leaps and bounds each year. While this is all great for XC riders, I wish I could say the same about Enduro, where locally we currently don't have the same foundation of teams and events to foster the same type of rider development - there's definitely an opportunity locally to learn from what Jamie has done up north and apply it locally.

We're super lucky to have the I Street Bike Park here in Salt Lake, it's such an amazing training ground for our young riders! Many thanks to all those who pitch in to maintain it and keep it amazing!

@Murchman: Interesting, thanks for pointing that out. My experience is that pretty much all of our local bike shops who carry Scott offer a NICA discount on Scott bikes to our riders, not sure if that's just a local thing or if Scott works with their dealers nationally to offer the discount.