Month: August 2005

German Freeride — Day VIII

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It’s the last day with Germans for me, as I’ve got to go and get ready for the Wade Simmons Freeride Experience. So, today we will ride Harper Mtn. with the lovely Carly from Full Boar and then drive off into the sunset towards Whistler, where I will drop the guys and take on a bunch of fresh meat—uhhh, I mean new clients.

In the meantime, the crew were stomping everything in sight.

Skinnyman was hitting ten foot drops on that little XC bike of his. I wonder if this voids the warranty? Never mind, it’s second hand anyway.

Poor little thing. Hubertus was also riding in top form. The demons of earlier in the week were fully exorcised. Thanks for the bottle, H. I’ll be putting it to good use.

Holy…look at that huge guy fly.

Ho hum, David is nailing everthing in sight.

So, as we see wave a fond farewell to the back side of hte german crew, it’s already time to look forward to riding with Wade and a mixed crew of world travellers over the next ten days.

Thanks to Phil for putting htis trip together, and to Tim at Huckwagon for keeping them outta trouble on the Shore for me.

German Freeride — Day VII

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Last day in the “sunny” Okanagan. Hey, at least it’s not dusty, right? The grasshoppers don’t seem to care.

Actually, the boys seemed to be a bit pre-occupied too.

Maybe THIS will wake them up.

Yup, that’s a wake up call all right. Had a few wind related spills right there a bit later.

The weather seems to be changing though.

Ahhh yes, 26C, 60% humidity, and a 40% broken sky with low hanging bikers.

The Tominator lays into the Ranch…

…then reaps the rewards.

Gotta leave yer autograph too.

Yup, a good day for sure.

German Freeride — Day VI

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A grey day today, but still pretty nice riding weather. The Okanagan gets kind of dusty otherwise. So, we’re at Outbound Cycle this morning and I ran into an old acquaintance from hanging around the race scene from time to time.

Karey Watanabe, Canadian born Japanese DH legend just strolled on up, so we made a plan to go hit the trails.

She’s the one wearing the skirt. Anyway, we did a warmup lap on Powers Creek to get the ball rolling, then headed on over to Gilliard tp try out some of the trails I haven’t hit yet.

They’re pretty good. Nice skirt, by the way.

Skinnyman had to give ‘er a go too. I missed David’s air, as he pretty much jumped over me. Freakin kids these days…..

At any rate, that Cat’s Ass, Fist First run is pretty sweet. Then we went to Boss Hog for a session.

The Kid hit’s the step-up, of course. What you won’t see for a while is Skinnyman accidentally nose manualing the same move…since it’s on video and I don’t feel like editing right now. Hey, I got it, and it’s pretty funny.

Wallride…and we’re out.