Throughout 2008, SORCE Bike Club will be celebrating South Surrey Bike Park's 10th anniversary . The traditional gift for a 10th anniversary is aluminum---so look for plenty of aluminum bike related swag over the next twelve months. 

SORCE Bike Club is celebrating the South Surrey Bike Park's 10th anniversary throughout 2008.  The South Surrey Bike Park was the brainchild of entrepreneurial adventure travel guide Brian Lane of Ruff Stuff Adventures. He approached the City of Surrey in 1997 and proposed a public private partnership: He would construct a public mountain bike facility on city land in exchange for the right to run all events and clinics at the facility. Several of the current SORCE members helped Brian and his friend Drew brush out the first trails. The first sanctioned race in the new park was in March 1998, the Boneshaker XC. Unfortunately there was a falling out between Mr. Lane and the city later that year and the facility was shut down, ostensibly because of a “border dispute” with the adjacent Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest.  Consequently, many trails were left unfinished, existing trail was not maintained, and all stunts were removed.  As a local resident I wanted to see these trails maintained so I left my name with the City as a contact.

 In 1999 a series of stakeholders meetings led to an agreement where the park would be reopened and while trails in the urban forest were permitted, the majority of all new trail construction would occur to the east of the Park. SORCE would cooperate with the City in new trail construction and older shortcuts to the Urban forest would be decommissioned. Over the next year or two, our signature stunt trails, Dances with Firs, Moby Stick, Smell the Helmet and Secret Squirrel were built as well as the BLT green circle beginner trail.  The Dirt Jumps and the Trials Area were fast tracked through the lobbying efforts of SORCE executive.  Fast forward to 2008 and we have held over 80 traildays, eight sanctioned races, six Bike Festivals and numerous skills clinics for all ages.

Our lobbying has encouraged the development of six more parks throughout the City and SORCE has put in over $17000 directly into the park. In 2006, SORCE President Jim Richardson was a keynote speaker at the World Mountain Biking Conference and published an article entitled “Surrey Sanctions Singletrack” in IMBA’s Managing Mountain Biking manual. 

As we enter the second decade of the park many of the pioneers of the SORCE Bike Club are still walking the talk but it is time for a new generation to take over and carry the club and the park to the next level. Help keep the spirit of mountain biking alive and see what you can offer. Email SORCE at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you can help.