Month: November 2007

Drying Out

Posted on by Smoke

Yesterday’s laps were great and all, but today was the one. It really dried out. We ran a full crew of trail builders on (what else?) Builders Only for some fast laps. I manged to pinball off a boulder, and there were numerous bails and crashes all day.

Here’s Rob sending it on Crazy Train.

Sure, he’s only been mountain biking for a littel over a year, but he IS almost 40 so you gotta give him the experience points. I think maybe BMX racing all over the world back in the 80’s probably helped too.

We ran into another group, and lo and behold we knew them.

Our pals from the coast, Marcie and Ja were shreddin the local today. They moved up to Kamloops about 6 months before we moved to Kelowna. They brought out some friends (don’t ask me their names, I wasn’t working so therefore I didn’t write anything down. Rippers, the lot of ’em).

Oh right. Winter. Well, just enough time to go back to our pad for a shower and beers….

The Weather Is Getting Worse…

Posted on by Smoke

but you guessed it….we’re STILL riding. Ryan came up to Westbank for a session on the local today, and even Barb got out for one.

It was misty enough to remind me of the Shore, and it was definitely slick enough on the upper sections. Check out my skidmarks going UPHILL (Barb slid off the side about half a second after this shot).

Another contact from PinkBike (a Saskatchewan loc, hence the nickname “Chewonit”) was out with us too, and althogh he copleted the first lap with us, he also managed to total his rear wheel on a minor bump near the top. Another one of those random rear wheel catastrophes that seem to happen to virtual povot bikes.

Yet I digress. Here’s Ryan dropping in the snow.

Actually, the trail dried up as the day went on, and the stuff from here down was just fine (which is why there’s no pics of it).

Quality Control

Posted on by Smoke

Gotta get out and ride this stuff too. Not just build. It’s all part of our testing and reliability protocol around here.

Mellow times today. Just a random locals session.

We did run into Travis and company from Penticton today. I think someone got a clothing sponsor recently. I can’t see many other reasons for wearing a lime green and brown striped jersey otherwise.