Even after a two-month West Coast bike tour from Mexico to Canada, Ben Donnelly was bug-eyed when he got a look at Seattle’s I-5 Colonnade, billed as the world’s first urban mountain bike park of its type.
“This is nothing but awesome, really cool,” said the 24-year-old rider from Asheville, N.C., the mountain playground of the southern Appalachians. “The Pacific Northwest knows how to build mountain bike trails. And I thought Asheville was a mountain bike mecca.”
After making his observation, he dropped into a …Â Details & Pictures