Serious Mountain Bikers Love Milwaukee

 

On August 13, 2006, the St. Paul Pioneer Press ran an Associated Press (AP) story that featured Milwaukee in a piece about urban trails geared toward mountain bikers.  In the story entitled “Mountain biking, with no mountains in sight; serious bikers find challenges on urban trails,” retired telephone company worker Mike McCluskey begins the story by saying he “never would have guessed that he could get his mountain biking fix in the middle of downtown Milwaukee.”

 

Dave Nicholas, managing director of Xterra (Nissan Xterra Midwest Championship was held in Milwaukee on August 6, 2006), states in the article that “Milwaukee trails are surprisingly challenging.”  Nicholas added, "…you think of Milwaukee being the Midwest and being flat. You go out on that course, it's anything but flat."  The signature feature of the Milwaukee trail is the “‘banzai,’ a 20-foot- deep ravine where riders plummet down a steep drop and (hopefully) emerge on the other side.”