While the quest to open some Wilderness trails to mountain bikes might seem like an obvious benefit to the mountain bike industry, the Sustainable Trails Coalition (STC) has failed to bring major corporate sponsors on board. That might slowly be changing, as Santa Cruz Bicycles has endorsed the STC as one of its advocacy partners.
At this time, no announcements of corporate donations to the STC have been made public, but Santa Cruz has a long history of supporting mountain bike advocacy. For instance, in 2016, Santa Cruz Bicycles donated $500,000 for mountain bike trail construction in the San Vincente Redwoods near Santa Cruz.
The STC is far from the only advocacy organization on Santa Cruz’s list. The company also lists the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, Mountain Bikers of Santa Cruz, Land Trust of Santa Cruz County, Stafford Lake Bike Park, NorCal High School Cycling League, Trans-Cascadia, Central Oregon Trail Alliance, Northwest Trail Alliance, Team Dirt, and IMBA among the organizations they support.
Way to go Santa Cruz!
OK other manufacturers, get on board. Looking at you Ibis.
And Yeti!
Oh, wait. Yeti’s President in part of the IMBA board ….
never mind.
Makes me want to go out and buy a Santa Cruz, I hope this STC opens the eyes of all bike related companies as well as all Mountain Bikers everywhere, get out your check books and give to a group that really supports mountain bikers unlike IMBA.
Good on SC for this. I do not know if Pons ownership has helped SC’s direction in moving them in a more egalitarian direction (lower costs, more alloy options, etc.), but this and working with groups taking a more aggressive approach versus amelioration is plus in my book. Now, how about a alloy HT LT and some better color options for the N4 ?
This just makes riding my Santa Cruz bikes even sweeter! Thanks Santa Cruz
Woohoo!