Last Shore Ride (As A Local)

As if I’d never come back….

Actually, I ended up riding Seymour again on April 1st, but I had to drive all the way from Summerland to do it. Just a tourist now.

I couldn’t do my last loc’s ride with my usual riding buddy, as Wade is in Nepal right now. I’m never at a loss for folks to ride with though, so I hit up the coffee shop for some morning java and it took all of about 40 seconds to hook up a ride with Mike.

We went up to assess the winter’s impact on CBC. It’s in great shape, all things considered. A few trees down and a couple of washouts, but overall it’s dry and clear of snow.

All the major constructions are intact.

Mike is riding some new German bike called a Bionicon. Fully adjutable on the fly geometry. Needs a bit of refinement, but some good potential.

See? There it is.

We also hit up Corkscrew and Boogieman (running into a bunch of Mud Bunnies on the way).

The work on Boogieman turned out great. Now it’s the smooth one while Pangor is just trashed.

Great “last” ride, and a final look in the rear view as I left.

Ahhh, I won’t be gone so long as I can still visit….see you out there soon.

Windsor Bike Team

Just a little volunteer afternoon with the Windsor Bike Team. It seems their regular coach (our good friend Diana Kilby) has come down with a case of torn ACL, so I’m filling in on coaching duties for a bit. Not much to do really, just going for a ride.

Here’s the hooligans now.

Nobody really wanted to climb, but I convinced ’em that Pangor isn’t that far up Seymour.

It isn’t really that far anyway.

I think a couple of them were surprised at how quickly we got up there.

I know the rest of them were surprised at how out of shape I am at this time of year.

Anyway, lots of fun.

We climbed, we sweated, we rode.

Good times.

Only one more ride on the Shore as a local….stay tuned.