Mayo Clinic

We’re really getting our southern hemisphere on here at Bush Pilot.  Last week it was the Kiwi’s and now it’s Gaby Mayo and friends from Australia (hence the bad pun.  I wasn’t gong to call it “Hold the Mayo”).

As usual, we thought we’d start with an easy trail.

But of course things got out of hand in a hurry.  The next one is of course a Canadian, that being Dave Foot’s first run on the Night Stocker.  You can always tell the locals by the half lid helmets.

Since that went so well, we kept the pace up and also ran the line on Jack and Jill.  Gaby had no problem with it, although Pat and Jamie weren’t convinced.

No day in the Mice seems complete without a little session on the Redemption Compression.

As it seemed that the boys were a lot more at home on the jumps and less comfy on the technical, we did another run up on the Bog to get their huck on.  Which was the right call, as they on sighted pretty much all of it.  So no pics of the jumps.  Here’s Jamie on a random steep part instead.

Then we finished with some classic Canadian sand chutes.

Riding blisters…

Day one down, with beers in the lake.

…and one more for the ladies….

Kiwis – 1

Alright, some fresh meat for the machine.  A trio of Kiwis have shown up, having randomly found out about the Bush Pilot on the internet.  Lets see what they can do…

Pretty good action for guys that say they don’t have jumps at home.  I kind of expected it though.   Most Commonwealth riders are adaptable.

I found out later that the first jumps we hit on the first ride of the first day constituted the biggest airs they’d ever taken.  And this record was to be broken several times, much like this carbon bar of Nathan’s.

Yeah, I’m still not sold on the carbon handlebar.   This happens way too often.  Luckily I’ve got a stash of spare Chromag goodies on hand for just such an emergency, so we were quickly back in action.

And it was some good action.  That NightStocker line we cleaned out last week is a good one, and it will only get better this fall once I get it cleaned up a bit more.

A bit of a session on the last booter on Drops A Lot was also a game changer for the boys.

Not a bad start, with a solid 10k’+ of descending and some beers on the beach.

Tomorrow….Kobau….

Giant Demo’s and Free Shuttles

Check out that Giant van.  That thing is huge, yo.

And it comes with a Giant tent, too.

Dave is just regular size, but he did bring a fairly large assortment of spicy snacks for us to enjoy between laps.

Stan got a giant workout wrangling bikes for over 30 riders.

Some giant horns for a good event.

And another shot of Stan being a good influence on the next generation, and I’m out.

Thanks to Giant and Freedom for a great Friday night.

Sorry about the no riding shots, but I was chasing the sun and didn’t have time to stop for pics.  4 days on the KVR and Reg and I really needed to give’r, so we did.

 

Next up… the Peel Out in Williams Lake!