The Cape Epic in South Africa has grown into the premier mountain bike stage race in the World. Every March riders from around the World descend upon Cape Town to take part in what they call the “Untamed African race”. It’s full of tough riding and adventure as teams of 2 take on 8 days, […]
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BCBR Mountain Bike was going to be tough this year with a deep field. 3 past champions, Geoff Kabush, Felix Burke and myself, Karsten Madsen, young gun, Carter Nieuwesteeg, and World Cupper, Andrew L’Esperance. Andrew races short pinner races all year and was likely the favourite as these stages would fit right in his wheel
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BCBR Doubleheader The BC Bike Race has grown into one of the go to stage races in the World. This year we lucked out and had two of them to race within 2 weeks! First up was the the Inaugural 5 day BCBR Gravel Explorer kicking off in late September in the Okanagan, then after
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The Lead boat challenge in Colorado was the toughest two days of racing I’ve ever done back to back. Racing 168 km at 10 000ft + on Saturday at the Leadville Trail 100 MTB race is enough to send the system into shock. Toss in a 2.5 hr drive, bike maintenance, a 3 hr sleep,
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The Oregon Trail Gravel Grinder is a 5 stage, 560 km gravel stage race through the heart of the Cascade mountains in Western Oregon. It has big climbs, epic views, some rough stuff, but most of all a great camp life as the organizers set up a racer village every night full of good food,
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Unbound is a 330 km gravel race across the flint hills of Kansas State in America which has grown into one of, if not the most competitive gravel race in theWorld. It’s a race of attrition in which every rider faces adversity, whoever faces the least and does the best job dealing with it generally
With the current Covid 19 travel restrictions I’ve been looking for adventures closer to home this past winter. Last week I saw a 2 day weather window which doesn’t happen too often in the Rockies during April. Not wanting to let this opportunity pass I made a last minute plan for an overnighter. The idea
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Let’s look back on the top 10 shoulder dislocations over the past decade which eventually led to shoulder instability and this recent Latarjet procedure to fix it!
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After 11 months in Nepal it was tough to leave when it was finally time to head back to Canada. Being in lockdown for 4 months straight from March to July was a rollercoaster as the pandemic turned things into a real gong show. Being stranded up in the Himalayas in the Solukhumbu (Everest Region)
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Check out this video created by Gauravman Sherchan on my time in Nepal this past year.
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Lockdown in Nepal turned into a bit of an adventure as I took off deeper into the mountains back in May to live at the Chiwong Monastery, about 50 km fromMount Everest. The situation I had been living needed to be changed, and no hotels or guesthouses in the region were taking anyone in due
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Everesting in the Himalayas: Everesting is the challenge of riding or running the elevation gain of Mount Everest (8848 Meters) in one effort. It is to be completed on the same climb, ascending and descending the same route, with no sleep. It was first done by George Mallory in 1994, in Australia, as he prepared
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