About Us

Who is the Ghost Rider?

I am an avid Mountain biker & I have been riding since the early 1990’s in Canada, the USA & Caribbean. Back in the days when the 26 inch wheel-set was king, I rode a lot of the 24 hour race events but never got into the racing scene. My focus was more the weekend warrior & adventure experience.

Jump to late 2018, the Ghost Rider MTB crew was created and includes family and friends who ride, travel, explore, and be a part of the MTB community.

We hope to inspire some meaningful, safe and fun MTB adventures along with better MTB community & Ontario Regional Conservation authority relationships. We need public land for MTB riding to be built & maintained for generations to come.

Who is our group and what kinds of rides do we do?

We have a group of varying ages, skills and fitness levels and our rides challenge everyone. We don’t just ride easy trails or just hard trails. We tend to focus our riding on blue, black, double black & Pro-rated trails. Our ride outings vary, as some are no-drop casual rides, some are medium paced with stops after hard or challenging sections and then we have the fitness rides where we tear along dragging lungs through the dirt.

The casual no drop rides are ones where the group is just riding or walking everything from green to double black trails. In some cases we even session features if a rider asks to do that. There are no expectations – just pace yourself and don’t hurt yourself!

The medium paced rides are more of the fitness building rides where we try to maintain a steady pace with as few stops as possible on the trails while we ride random trails. Typically we stop at the end of each trail to regroup and then continue. This type of ride means the last guy to arrive gets the least amount of rest.

We will vary our riding depending on weather typically or just how tired we feel. In August we ride almost every day and do 20+km/day for the Great Cycle Challenge.

Where do we typically ride?

During the week, we will ride the Don Valley trails because we all live nearby. On weekends we go ride places outside of Toronto, sometimes we meet up with other ride groups for bigger and longer 25km+ rides.