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Meet the ‘Lowelifes’ Making L.A.’s Mountain Bike Trails Possible

This band of SoCal misfits is willing and able to work on mountain bike trails nobody else in Los Angeles will touch.

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“There’s not another crew like us, really,” Matt Baffert, an extravagantly mustachioed board member of the Lowelifes Trail Crew, said in the opening moments of Old Man Mountain’s latest video.

He’s right. The Lowelifes are a rough and rowdy crew dedicated to hacking away at Los Angeles’ “lost” trails — singletrack formerly lost to fires or neglect. It’s not easy working in that SoCal sun. But the Lowelifes are committed to repairing trails that L.A.’s other crews can’t or won’t access.

They also make hand-pressed tacos for their trail volunteers, and that right there should be enough to catch your interest!

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