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Our home town of Moab, Utah is ringed by majestic sandstone cliffs. Beyond are challenging, solitary, and scenic mountain bike rides many hold as the absolute cream of the sport. Our methods are designed to maximize the thrills Moab has to offer and minimize impact. Ride groups are no more than five riders including guide(s). We allow no mixed skills within a group, unless the package of rides is private. Each package of rides begins with instruction in riding techniques unique to Canyonlands' high desert environment. Very small groups guarantee a suitable pace on a suitable trail, more flexibility, personal service, solitude, low environmental impact, and nearly unlimited trail choices.
MOAB MOUNTAIN BIKE VACATION GIFT CERTIFICATES
Moab done right:
Dreamride is committed to the finest cycling equipment. Real attention is paid to the skills and fitness of each and every client. Careful daily ride planning and quality rest at the end of each day eliminate stress and worry so you can focus on the ride. Dreamride's select accommodations are chosen for location, comfort, cleanliness and charm. Daily guided rides last from four to ten hours. Trails are tuned to the skill level of the first party to book a date. Comfortable transport to and from the trail, tech support and skills tips are provided by mature local guides with decades of real life cycling experience. CUSTOM MOUNTAIN BIKES, legendary high-zoot custom built DREAMRIDE RENTALS, necessities and accessories are available in our small SHOP, open only to vacation guests, or by appointment. From Moab we help with travel info and logistics before and during your stay. SERVICE UPGRADES are available to solos, couples and/or small groups originating any Moab package. Call 1-888-MOABUTAH for information on private charters. Click on GUIDES for brief backgrounds of staff.
*SAFETY contains comprehensive and highly recommended information on desert survival and mountain bike etiquette.
*BIKE SKILLS takes you to tips on riding slickrock and sand, technical information on mountain bike designs and environmental concerns relating to mountain biking in Moab, Utah.
"I have learned that there are 3 things of essence in order to
achieve a dream ride:
NOTE: Skills and environmental awareness evaluation guarantees more safety, enjoyment and continued access to the special areas we utilize. You will be provided with a questionnaire to assist with skills placement before you arrive. The first ride in any series is an environmental awareness and skills evaluation that helps us decide on trails as the series progresses. There is information in the TRAILS SECTION to help with evaluation of skills before booking. Our SKILLS INDEX will further assist all involved with understanding environmental and skills concerns for mountain bikers in Moab.
Clients who book a private "elite" package can mix mountain biking with other sports such as CROSS COUNTRY SKIING or HIKING/CANYONEERING/SWIMMING. Private parties can request a focus on spectacular rock formations, archeological sites, dinosaur hunts and/or photography. In the heat of summer Elite clients are invited to join us for clear water canyon swim with mellow cliff diving and a natural jacuzzi. During clear weather for two weeks each month, depending on the phase of the moon, from April through September, NIGHT RIDES can be part of any private Elite package.
During Moab's off-season, from roughly December 15h thru February 15th, mountain bike and custom bike/hike/ski packages feature cut rates on the best lodgings in town.
Dreamride's low key shop, office and staging home is open by appointment only to guarantee personal attention during your time with us. We are located at 124 West 200 South, two doors down from the Gonzo Inn. The Mill Creek Parkway passes just behind our shop and the Bullock Creek Singletrack trailhead is just out our door. Our location offers easy access to downtown restaurants and shops while maintaining a quiet, restful, atmosphere away from traffic.
Click on MOAB NEWS AND WEATHER for forecasts and seasonal statistics on Moab's local climate, as well as company developments, environmental news and Moab events.
Dreamride's mountain bike skills clinics have been featured in Max, Sunset and Australian Way Magazines, as well as ABC's Good Morning America.
"Had a super time in Moab. You folks are the greatest! You show great consideration for the environment and your guests, both on the trail and off. The scenery, the ride, the geology, botany and paleontology lessons were awesome and will be remembered for the rest of my life." ~ C. Wayne Terry, Ontario, Canada
"There are trail guides; and then there's the real deal." ~ Bike Magazine
"This Moab guide is setting a new standard for guidebooks. Lee Bridgers' first-hand accounts give the reader a sense that they have some behind-the-scenes information about Moab." ~ Brian Fiske, Senior Editor of Mountain Bike Magazine
Get a signed copy for $25 including shipping and handling call 1-888-MOABUTAH.
If you are interested in understanding the damage that huge race events inflict on the environment, click on MOAB AND 24 HOUR RACE EVENTS.
Necessities of survival and all tools of joy are made possible by the planet we ride, so all true thanks to Mother Earth and the Great Mystery. Best trails in the West thanks to whomever or whatever combined to create them. Much gratitude to those who care for them. For the ability to offer these great trails commercially we thank the Utah State Educational Trust and Sovereign Lands offices, United States Bureau of Land Management, National Forest Service, the Navajo Nation, and chosen private land holders in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Hawaii.
Dreamride LLC
For a special space to enjoy the after-ride glow ELITE LEVEL SERVICE UPGRADES are available for Moab packages. Supervised and/or guided by company owners, Lee and Miki Bridgers, elite upgrades offer a more luxury where it counts, a wider selection of trails, more challenge and a lot more personal attention.
Service upgrades carry the option for full moon rides or all day epics, private skills clinics, hiking/canyoneering, mountain singletrack, waterfall swims, road riding, or extended forays to outstanding slickrock freeride areas. This is the only way to gain access to our high-end Elite-only rentals, an expanded range up to 90 miles from Moab, a Toyota Sequoia shuttle vehicle, after ride hospitality in our home-style hangout, and options such as DVD rentals and photography services. Sit down with us for a beer. For more information click on the Elite banner.
"Thank you for a great time in Moab! Wendy and I
were nervous that we could go out and ride together with
enough stuff to keep me happy technically and keep her from suffering.
You were able to keep both of us very happy and overwhelmingly satisfied
with our Dreamride vacation." ~ Gordon Stevens and Wendy Howard, October, 1998
A dream trail
A dream guide
A dream bike
Thanks for providing the 3 elements in a superior way. Wendi and I
were delighted with our dream vacation." ~Javier Perez, executive head of MasterCard Europe
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Sample the Trails
Click on MOAB TRAILS for a list of mountain bike rides arranged by skill level. This sample is here to give you an idea of the type of riding suitable for a rider's skills category. There are well over one hundred Dreamride-designed routes in the Moab area alone, and there are many more permitted in southern Utah and western Colorado that can be accessed with a ELITE SERVICE UPGRADE and remote lodgings for a night during your stay. Vacation ride series are skills-specific and flexible. Routes are decided daily, sometimes on the trail, based on the skills and interests of each group, weather concerns and human contact.
Choose a Tour Package
Select your mountain bike tour package from our VACATION CATALOG. For a list of pre-scheduled open packages for upcoming months, click on SCHEDULES. Dreamride's Moab three to five day packages come with or without accommodations at a range of levels of luxury. For experienced and fit riders, any package can be booked with an ELITE SERVICE UPGRADE, allowing longer rides and other cycling activities like night riding. If you want to expand your package, you may request additional days or combine Moab with FRUITA, COLORADO. Call or email for information on other combos.
Only Dreamride offers vacations dedicated to MOAB SLICKROCK. Jaded mountain bikers will love the MOAB ULTIMATE for five days on every imaginable slickrock surface, featuring custom routes through exotic sandstone formations in the Moab area. Dreamride is the only commercial outfitter to maintain access to all legal trails in Southeastern Utah in addition to slickrock areas we alone are permitted for.
Choose a Bike
Dreamride offers a notoriously dreamy upscale RENTAL FLEET and CUSTOM DREAMBIKE SERVICE whereby you can order a handbuilt Ventana, Moots, Pegoretti, De Rosa, or Dreamride brand bicycle prior to, during or after your visit. We stock Marzocchi forks, Magura brake systems, all colors and models of Chris King hubs and headests, Louis Garneau clothing, Dianese armor and a wide range of high end necessities. Go to DREAMBIKE.COM to check out our custom Dreamride Edition bikes.
Join a Skills Camp
Dreamride's legendary SLICKROCK SKILLS CAMPS have been featured on ABC's Good Morning America, Sunset Magazine, Mountain Bike Action and other sports magazines world wide. We can custom schedule a one to three day clinic as part of your private package or you can join our bi-annual SKILLS BASH in May or November.
Get Yourself and Your Bike to Moab
Click on MOAB TRAVEL LOGISTICS for information and helpful advise on how to get to and from Moab with your equipment.
Take Some Pictures
Dreamride is a MOUNTAIN BIKE FILM and ACTION PHOTO service, specializing in stunts, locations, and pictures of your vacation.
Dreamride provided locations, stunt doubles, and production co-ordination for the Moab mountain bike segment of the IMAX movie, Everest and is environmental adviser to National Geographic, Mountain Bike Action and many other publications and production companies.
Get the 2nd Edition of Lee Bridgers' Moab Guide
This book was written with our guests in mind. A signed copy of MOUNTAIN BIKING MOAB comes free with all Elite Level packages. Purchase one prior to any vacation in Moab and use its environmental, safety and local history information to enrich your experience.
From outside of the United States, call 435-259-6419.
P.O. Box 1137
Moab, UT 84532
For email contact information click on:
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It's a place, not a race.
Moab, Utah is a unique and special place. We live in a long valley below tall canyon rims. The Colorado River crosses our valley, cutting through the massive sandstone walls like a knife. Above and beyond are expanses of solid rock and more canyons. Certainly Moab is the most famous desination for mountain bikers around the world, but we are a small part of the human story of this town and the unique lands that surround it. Moab is much deeper than mountain biking and Dreamride is much deeper than mountain bike touring. We ride the best that Moab has to offer.
How Moab got its name.
When the original Mormon invaders entered this Valley a Ute Indian was asked what the place was called. Since these white guys had parked their wagons in the wetlands, it is safe to say that this Ute was trying to be helpful when he answered, "moapa," which literally means "mosquito water." The intruders, being obsessive religious Book-of-Mormon-Bible-thumpers on a mission from God to gain allies in a war against the United States, not only ignored the warning and built a fort on the spot, they went Biblical, twisting the word moapa into "Moab" and offering it as proof that the Ute were decendants of the Lamanites, a tribe of Israel whose skin was darkened by God for their abominable religious practices and unsanctioned fornications. The Mormons had found their long lost brethren, the sons and daughters of Moab, after all these years. Moab, if you remember from Bible Study, was the insane, murderous son of drunken gay-hater Lot of Sodom and his hot young daughter. Mosquitos and incest. Perfect!
Ride hard. Rest easy.
Exercise respect for Mother Nature.
It's what we do.
We've perfected the art of Moab day rides in series with environmental methods and education, very small groups with matched skills and interests, and trails selected for appropriate challenge, pacing, logistics and impact. Our high-end rental bikes are custom-built right here in Moab for the job at hand. And, we know you need luxury where it counts, so we are located right next to the finest lodgings in town.
Butch Cassidy slept here.
Moab wears a bandana over its nose. Butch Cassidy used to hide out in town, living comfortably with families he supported by having the fastest horses in the west. His partner, the man who made Butch famous through his courage and daring, Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry, avenged the death of his mentor, Flat Nose George Curry, just thirty miles north of town. Bill McCarty's Blue Mountain Gang were the first outlaws in Utah territories, hiding out just thirty miles south. Cyd Swasey escaped a posse just west of here by jumping over 20 feet across a five hundred foot drop into a slot canyon. Moab was a rough town. As the "law" moved in, the riff raff and gun fighters were run out, usually ending up in nearby Cisco. Now a ghost town, Cisco was the roughest, sleaziest, most dangerous place in the west for quite some time. We can actually put you in a hotel that was originally a brothel removed from its foundation and floated down the Colorado river from Cisco. This hotel now sits about 75 yards our shop. We can take you to old log hideouts and legendary lookouts. We love western history and share it freely. Lee Bridgers, Dreamride owner, specializes in Indian culture and history. Elite clients can check out books on Cowboys and Indians from our library. We also have a collection of DVDs to enjoy.
It's like a good restaurant:
If you see the owners in the kitchen, you are in for a good meal.
There are massive tour operations lining Moab's Main Street willing to take anyone with a pulse out into the desert by any means necessary. These tourist-trappers are for inexperienced families and budget hounds, or those who simply don't plan their vacations, "who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing." "MacTours" charges your card at the window, puts you in a bus with the transient guide-without-a-clue, and sends you with a group of up to thirty on a well-worn, crowded trail. Some sell "classic mountain bike camping trips" like the Kokopelli and White Rim Trails, so they can put you on a safe and easy dirt road with an underpaid guide and cook for you for days on end, and charge you for everything. Among the Lokota there are people called "contraries," teachers who defy expectations and convention through unexpected deeds, actions and words. We don't know what you expect, but if it is a cookie-cutter, camping trip or a singles club approach to mountain biking, then Dreamride is something completely different. We are mountain bikers. Our guides actually live here and are over 40.
The Moab Entrada Slickrock Tongue
In the canyon country surrounding Moab are a variety of exposed geological layers and erosion effects found nowhere else on the planet. Our favorite unique-to-Moab formation is the Moab Entrada Slickrock Tongue, a massive, cracked and eroded sandstone slab extending for well over fifty miles. Created by the layering of sea sediments and all forms of erosion over millions of years, it offers a wide variety of surfaces on which to surf a bike and see forever. Understanding ecosytems that inhabit this rock surface help us ride much of this formation without leaving any evidence of our passing.
If you haven't noticed,
Dreamride is different.
"Screw the money. Let's just do it right." Because our business is a passion, a lifestyle, the only bling bling we own are ghost beads. We could be fatter. We could have an RV or a boat or three cars. We could be sitting on Maui while others do our job, but we sacrificed the chance to have movie star teeth and ivy league educations for our kids to run the best mountain bike tour company on Earth. Dreamride remains a mom and pop business specializing in mountain bike environmental education and personal cycling vacation services for individuals, couples and the smallest of groups.
