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Let Them Eat Cake – Day 1

Posted on by Smoke

Yes, the theme of this years May Two Four long weekend would have to be cake. Don’t ask me why, it just was.

Things started early on Friday, with the arrival of the crew from the Collective and our pal Radek from Pinkbike.

Most of these guys haven’t ridden up here yet, and they got a supremem day for it. Winter is finally over.

Radek goes big. Or Radek IS big. Take your pick.

Here’s some fun with macro. Yes, and action shot on macro. It actually worked.

This one didn’t. As Dan Barham tells me, push the ISO as afar as it will go, make it black and white, and call it art.

Big Radek again.

..and one of the Collective minions showing him up. Sorry, I totally spaced your name. It was a LONG weekend.

The price Radek paid for his “going bigness.”

We crammed a couple of good runs in before sundown. It was awesome with allthe heat and flowers and goodness out there.

We finished off with the Kelowna premiere of Seasons, and the assembled crowd loved every second. It would be after midnite before I returned home, and I wondered what I might find there….

I’m OK, You’re OK

Posted on by Smoke

Early season is finally here. This is going to be remembered as one of the longest winters in memory. I heard that the Rusty Muffler was only a short walk through the snow before it became rideable, so I grabbed the K-town loc’s and headed over for a mission.

Oh yeah, that was a LONG winter, wasn’t it Rich?

Rob on his first teeter of hte year (no, he didn’t clean it. Look close…).

Justin sandbagged us all. He’s been charging the low elevation trails for weeks, and is in pretty good early season form.

Rob is pretty competetive though, and kept his stoke on till the end.

Alright, bring on 2008!

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….