Woodfest 2015 was a Blast!
The Wheel Mill hosted an amazing weekend full of indoor mountain biking fun.
Pittsburgh, Scott Bricker boasts, “has some world-class urban mountain biking. It’s really incredible.” After all, said the executive director of Bike Pittsburgh, “There aren’t many places where you can fly into a city and, within an hour, be on an amazing trail.”
But during winter, many riders would just as soon not even cross the street. Which is where The Wheel Mill, and this weekend’s Wood Fest celebration, come in.
Built inside an 80,000-square-foot Homewood warehouse, Wheel Mill is practically an urban forest in its own right. BMX ramps and mountain-biking obstacle courses sprawl from one room to the next, fashioned from plywood, recycled lumber and the occasional dead tree trunk. But it’s all indoors.
“People have told us, ‘I’m so glad you’re here, because I just used to drink over the winter,’ ” said Wheel Mill owner Harry Geyer, who opened the facility in 2013.
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