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BC Bike Race Day 4: Sechelt to Langdale 52km / 32 miles 1,508m / 4947ft 1,522m / 4994ft descending Average Time: 4:56hr Tides often turn for racers on Day 4 of the BC Bike Race as the arc of days dip to the finish and the trails begin to find a greater downhill trajectory. […]
Day 3: Presented by Ryders Eyewear 58km / 36 miles 5:03 Average Time 1599m / 5246 ft Climbing It was probably the constant swing of the morning weather and the day with the longest mileage of the race that induced the most anxiety for riders on Day Three of the BC Bike Race, presented by […]
Day 2 Powell River Presented by lululemon athletica 52km/32 miles, average time: 3:44 1096m/3596 ft Climbing Cool breezes and overcast skies greeted the BCBR riding caravan as they awoke on the shores of the Georgia Strait in Powell River. This small isolated village on the Sunshine Coast has turned with the tides and […]
Day 1 Cumberland Presented by BC Ferries 45km/28 miles, average time: 4:12 1159m/3802 ft Climbing The BC Bike Race has officially begun it’s tenth anniversary edition with 600 riders from 36 countries completing a cool and rainy Stage One in the forests surrounding Cumberland, BC. Their journey through months or years of preparation was rewarded […]
Racing for a national title should never be taken for granted, and this past weekend Ariane Kleinhans lined up for the Raid Evolènade in Evolène with the drive and determination to take 1st place. Not 2nd. First. The following insights come from Team Spur manager Nic Lamond. “A rare moment of indecision darted across Ariane Kleinhans’s face […]
In 2005, XCM as we know it today wasn’t really a thing. There certainly wasn’t any XCM series, and people participated in 100-kilometre races because 100 is a nice round number and they were looking for a challenge. The Convict 100, or Dirtworks 100 as it was known then, was a pretty radical idea. Someone […]
By Mike ‘Riot’ Tourond The 2016 XCMountain Bike race season kicked off with the Homage to Ice (H2i) on April 16 at Dufferin County Forest. Even up to one week before the race, it looked like snow storms were going to leave the trails a mess. However, the organiser, Substance Projects, along with an […]
Mitch Wheatley made a move back to mountain biking about a year ago. After a promising start as a junior, the real world took over, including a fair bit of time riding and racing on the road. But the temptation of mountain biking was always there. While Cape to Cape is an excellent event to […]
All photos by Ian Moses One of the long-time event locations for the Chocolate Foot crew, Nowra really delivered for the final round of the 2015 Finish Line Singletrack Mind MTB Series. Although the NSW South Coast can be an unforgiving place at times, as the local weather has caused more than a few rescheduled […]
We’re three-quarters of the way through Cape to Cape 2015, around the time in any stage race, no matter how long, when cracks begin to appear. There was clearly less concern for things like warm-ups this morning at the race start, some tired faces, and a few racers sporting badly laundered kit shadowed with Margaret […]
