With hump-day out of the way, riders got to touch their tires to classic Sunshine Coast singletrack on the 40km course from Sechelt to the BC Ferry terminal of Langdale. With over 1,400 meters of climbing, earning those turns was no easy task but the rewards included the one-of-a-kind 7km singletrack descent down ‘HWY 102’ […]

Stage four of the BC Bike Race began by boat or floatplane over the spectacular Jervis Inlet and finished with grass under the riders’ feet in a field only blocks from the ocean. It was a refreshing finish after completing the days longest stage. Riders were able to grab a meal at the catered food […]

Today’s sun finally treated racers to the beauty of the Sunshine Coast under clear skies. The entire BC Bike Race operation left Campbell River this morning to take the second BC Ferries trip across the Georgia Strait to the town of Powell River. Riders were greeted by the sound of the Powell River community ringing […]

Campbell River hosted day two of the BC Bike Race under the wettest conditions in race history. With a police escort, 525 spirited racers left from the Robert Ostler Park under a steady drizzle of rain. After a neutral start the police escort pulled aside and an opening road section spread the field out before […]

Surrounded by a country celebrating its birthday, the winners of the opening day at the BC Bike Race started their seven-day journey through epic BC singletrack. Barry Wicks, and Wendy Simms (Kona Bikes) won the opening stages of the 2012 BC Bike race in very different fashions. Simms came across the line without a close […]

The 6th annual BC Bike race has officially kicked into high gear with 500 racers from 33 countries completing registration and boarding their first of the weeks four BC Ferries rides to cross the Georgia Strait from North Vancouver to Vancouver Island. From base camp in the historic village of Cumberland, racers will depart in […]

In case there was still any doubt, former professional road cyclist, David George, added further confirmation to his complete conversion to dirt when he beat a strong field of seasoned mountain bike racers to win Round 5 of the MTN National Ultra-marathon Series at Mabalingwe in South Africa’s Limpopo Province on Saturday. The 36-year-old George, […]

The inaugural 36ONE MTB Challenge, held in Oudtshoorn, in South Africa’s Western Cape province last weekend, broke new athletic endurance ground and celebrated the birth of a new format of mountain bike challenge. The 361km race, which followed a relatively circular loop and which had a 36.1-hour cut-off limit, revealed that it is essentially a […]