Tippie/Fenton Wedding

Froriders, the mountain bike equivalent of Juggalos.

I wasn’t even supposed to be here, but due to a continued sucking in the tourism sector in BC, I found myself with a fully charged Prius and enough time to get to Whistledog to catch a pretty damn good party.  And you can tell by the hat that I wasn’t the only one to rip down from the Kootenays to be there.

That’s another old Cove’r, Tim-o (or has he likes to be called, Madrone), also known as Sarah’s brother.

It was a bit surreal, as I claim Brett as one of my better friends in the bike world, and Sarah as one of my better friends from the old Cove.  When world collide, you get scenes like this one below (it’s a pretty big pic, might take a bit to view….):

For some reason, I’ve got a bunch of pics of Sarah’s ass.  What can I say?  I’m weak that way.

Hee hee hee hee! 

About to drop in with 100 or so riders, and the newly married couple of Mrs. Tippie and Mr. Fenton.  On the subject of “Something borrowed, something blue,” I don’t know what Sarah had that was blue, but she did borrow my knee pads for the ride.  Glad I could be there for ya.

And in other old faces, we ran into Matt from the UK, who came out with the Release the Candy tour a few years back.  Or as we like to call him…

“Princess!”  (read the purse carefully, it’s sorta hard to see.)

Fernie Co-ed Skills Camp

Oh wait…the Fernie adventure is not over yet.  There’s also a weekend skills camp to go yet.  I was going to say, “The usual thing, yadda yaddaa…,” but then I heard this excited and amplified voice coming from the race event area a block over from the skills park.

Yup, Tippie is in town and someone gave him a microphone.  The annual Furious 3 mountain bike stage race was on, and boy did I feel sorry for those guys having to compete in these conditions.

It was pretty good for us though.  Plenty of challenge dealing with wet roots and mod.

Day one is always a bit slow, but we did find time to ride some bridges.

Or in some cases, ride off some bridges.

Ahhh…they all got it once.  

It’s only day one, we’ll get everyone dialled in tomorrow.

First, we gotta have a water fight!

More Video

This is actually from last year, but I held off on putting it together until the Ride Guide got their stuff to air. By then it was summer and I was busy, and so here you go, just in time for winter. There’ll be some more from 2010 in a while, but maybe not quite as action packed as this. 2009 was quite exceptional…

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