Welcome! There is a pretty good racing community in and around Anchorage. Are you looking at mountain bike racing or road or a combination? I will focus on mountain because this is a mountain bike forum generally so will assume that is what your focus is on.
Most trails are ridable one either a hard tail or full suspension setup. Mostly comes down to the preference of the rider. There is a good mix of both. Depending on the specific course, one might be better than another on a particular night, but probably not a huge advantage either way. A good setup would be a full suspension with lockout capability for the doubletrack sections of trail that are fairly smooth.
As far as tools, I usually race with a spare tube, CO2, and chain tool with masterlink. Figure anything I can't fix with that and I might as well walk back anyway. Most races are multi-lap races, so you never get all that far from the parking lot at any point.
Here is a link to the mountain bike website. They are still in a bit of a transition phase, but you can link to more info from there: http://www.arcticbikeclub.org/subpage.php?page=5
There is a race series out at Kincaid. There are also a number of miscellaneous races spread around the area, Hillside, Chugiak, etc...
If you are interested in the road racing, let me know and I can get you to all that information as well.
Most trails are ridable one either a hard tail or full suspension setup. Mostly comes down to the preference of the rider. There is a good mix of both. Depending on the specific course, one might be better than another on a particular night, but probably not a huge advantage either way. A good setup would be a full suspension with lockout capability for the doubletrack sections of trail that are fairly smooth.
As far as tools, I usually race with a spare tube, CO2, and chain tool with masterlink. Figure anything I can't fix with that and I might as well walk back anyway. Most races are multi-lap races, so you never get all that far from the parking lot at any point.
Here is a link to the mountain bike website. They are still in a bit of a transition phase, but you can link to more info from there: http://www.arcticbikeclub.org/subpage.php?page=5
There is a race series out at Kincaid. There are also a number of miscellaneous races spread around the area, Hillside, Chugiak, etc...
If you are interested in the road racing, let me know and I can get you to all that information as well.
