Share With Us How You Carry Tools On Your Bike
Last fall, we posted an article by David Alden-St. Pierre called “Trail Builder Setups,” featuring how one creative trail builder modified a B.O.B. trailer to carry his tools into the backcountry. We’re now expanding on that article and creating a series showcasing how different trail builders take their equipment to work on projects. After that first article, many of you sent photos or tagged us in your posts showing your fun and creative setups. Now it’s time to take this to the next level and explore this topic more.
Trail building days and projects come in all shapes and sizes. Getting to the work site often does not require more than grabbing a McLeod and walking two hundred meters to begin trail work (or less). And yet, other projects require not just pedaling in but covering quite a distance. How do you carry your tools if riding 5-10 miles (or more)? Use a B.O.B. trailer? Add an Old Man Mountain rack to your bike and attach tools to it? How about a backpack with a chainsaw and tool from Trail Boss that breaks down into smaller pieces to fit?
One of the fun aspects of this magazine is that we get to celebrate you. Whether you get paid to build trails, or you’re a volunteer, you’re the heroes of mountain biking. You’re also ingenious and creative when it comes to transporting tools. We’ve all seen impressive setups … and ones we know with one look are doomed for failure. Then there’s the whole conversation about the best bike to use? Full suspension? Hardtail? Ebike? I was talking with one of the leaders of a nonprofit trail building organization; they bought ebikes for their backcountry build projects to get people and tools to the work site.
How are you carrying your tools? What creative setup did you create or adapt in your garage? We’d love to hear! Click the button below to drop us an email and share your photos so we can feature your unique builder setups in this series.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sean Benesh
Sean is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Trail Builder Mag. He is also the Communications Director for the Northwest Trail Alliance in Portland, Oregon. While in grad school, he worked as a mountain biking guide in Southern Arizona. Sean also spends time in the classroom as a digital media instructor at Warner Pacific University.
