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The Alpen Tour ended with the mother of all rainstorms, flooding and ultimately the cancelation of the 4th and final stage.  With the stage cancelled I opted to bundle up in all my North Face rain gear and head out for a little tour of the countryside to see just what sort of flooding was […]

The 3rd stage of the Alpen was cut down by 20 km to avoid the high alpine snow. Thus making the estimated win time 2.5 hrs instead of 3.5. Shortening races is never cool, but in these circumstances it was a wise choice. After being the polite Canadian in stage 1 and giving away 175

Stage 2 of the Alpen Tour was a 15 km, 1100 M vertical time trial up the ski hill here in Schladming Austria. It would’ve been a great day to be skiing down the hill, to be riding up there in spandex and bare skin was about as logical as having a soccer match on

After 12 years of racing I finally managed to check off my first race over in Europe, the centre of the cycling universe. It was a humdinger as 500 + riders set out to tackle a 69 km, 2900 M vertical course in the Austrian Alps. The x-factor today was the weather which served up

Getting to Pemberton turned into a solid run around which ended with Cody nearly crashing into a Black bear with her cubs.  Finishing off our pre-ride around 9 pm, Cody came ripping around a corner to find mother bear and her cubs.  Mother bear wasn’t super pleased as she backed away a few steps, then

My roommate Cody Canning and I packed up what felt like most of our Condo and headed off  to Pemberton for the weekend to race the Nimby 50.    The race is said to be a rad 35 km loop up on the mountains surrounding Pemberton.  I’m stoked to be finally getting a chance to do

Coming back from the America road trip it was a treat to get 12 straight days at home in Victoria.  I backed off the hours on the bike, focused on some hard efforts, and chiselled away the winter insulation.  Supplementing your diet at Nourish cafe and training alot with Mr Plaxton gets a person flying

The final stop on our America road trip was in the cowboy town of Prescott Arizona.  This town of 40 000 country folk was the capital of Arizona from 1864 to 1889, but more importantly is now host of the annual Whisky 50 mountain bike race.   The race attracts most of the top pros

The plan was to ride from my home in Victoria BC to California for a solid 40+hr training camp to finish off the base miles for the year and test out some new TNF gear.  I was stoked to be heading out on an early spring bike tour  although the weather had my nerves a

The time in Victoria the past few weeks was great.  The weather was great, the riding was great, everything was great except for my head as I tried to recover from having my ears almost explode on the flight home from Louisiana.  I’m not sure what went on there but my head couldn’t equalize when

April 20-21 Sea Otter, California (XC,ST,CR,RR,TT,) April 26-28 Whisky 50, Arizona (MX) May 12 Salty Dog, Salmon Arm (MX) May 25 Nimby 35, Pemberton (XC) May 30-2 Alpen Tour, Austria (SR) June 5-8 Four Peaks, Germany (SR) June 15 Test of Metal, Squamish (XC) June 30-6 BC Bike Race (SR) July 20 High Cascades 100,

We as Kona mountain bike racers had two missions last week. One was to do some southern riding and get our engines going for another year of ripping. The other was to test out the new Kona road rocket ship called the Red Zone . We succeeded at both. First we rode for a week