Specialized Soil Searching Tires
These Tires Build Trails

What’s mountain biking without trails? We created Specialized Soil Searching to fuel and support the energy and passion of the trail building community. By employing trail builders, hosting dig days, spearheading fundraisers, and telling their stories, we’re creating a community to further the development and maintenance of trail systems that are the lifeblood of our sport. And with our new limited-edition Soil Searching tires we’ve created yet another to way support this critical trail work.

Pedal The Planet Forward

Since 2018, Specialized Soil Searching has provided financial, organizational, and outreach support for trail systems around the world. We focus on three essential and interdependent aspects of trail work—ambassadors, dig days, and fundraisers—to assist communities in maintaining and growing their trail networks. Trail advocacy is the right thing to do for the sport, supporting not just bike riding, but creating sustainable, multi use trails as well.

Pedal The Planet Forward

Since 2018, Specialized Soil Searching has provided financial, organizational, and outreach support for trail systems around the world. We focus on three essential and interdependent aspects of trail work—ambassadors, dig days, and fundraisers—to assist communities in maintaining and growing their trail networks. Trail advocacy is the right thing to do for the sport, supporting not just bike riding, but creating sustainable, multi use trails as well.

BY THE NUMBERS

IN 2019 AND 2020 SPECIALIZED SOIL SEARCHING SUPPORTED:

50 TRAIL BUILDERS
200 DIG DAYS
11,000 VOLUNTEER HOURS

Why not sponsor trail builders like athletes?

What if the outdoor industry sponsored trail builders the way it currently sponsors professional athletes? We are, it’s called the Specialized Soil Searching Global Trail Ambassador program. We’re supporting a group of Trail Ambassadors from around the world so they can focus on building and maintaining trails for us all.

Why not sponsor trail builders like athletes?

What if the outdoor industry sponsored trail builders the way it currently sponsors professional athletes? We are, it’s called the Specialized Soil Searching Global Trail Ambassador program. We’re supporting a group of Trail Ambassadors from around the world so they can focus on building and maintaining trails for us all.

We host, we dig!

We host Specialized Soil Searching Dig Days around the world. They’re a chance to connect with your trail community—to get your hands dirty, build awesome trails, ride bikes, eat warm food, drink a cold beverage, and meet great people. Keep an eye on Specialized Soil Searching for information on upcoming dig day opportunities.

FUNdraising

Trail building requires equipment, time, hard work, and some money to pay for much of the above. We host fundraisers around the world, where you can donate to a trail organization and get a chance to win some amazing gear or even custom Specialized Soil Searching bikes. We also provide grants and bike raffles to qualifying trail organizations, through the Outride Fund.

FUNdraising

Trail building requires equipment, time, hard work, and some money to pay for much of the above. We host fundraisers around the world, where you can donate to a trail organization and get a chance to win some amazing gear or even custom Specialized Soil Searching bikes. We also provide grants and bike raffles to qualifying trail organizations, through the Outride Fund.

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Desierto de los Leones

"To be able to talk about environmental conservation, we have to ensure that conservation is at least as profitable as exploitation. Today, what is happening is quite the opposite." This is the motivation of Mauricio de Ávila, ambassador of Soil Searching in Mexico, who for more than 10 years has been involved in the creation and conservation of trails in the Desierto de los Leones, on the outskirts of CDMX. Through Soil Searching we managed to summon more than 100 riders who in one weekend managed to rehabilitate a trail of almost 3 kilometers."
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El Chichimeco

Ryo Hazuma is a man who can—and will—move mountains. Living in the Minami Alps of Japan, he dedicates himself completely to developing and maintaining trails at this UNESCO World Heritage Site, all while consciously bridging the generational divide.