BCBR Day 3 - Powell river

Too tired to blog yesterday.

Crap night due to endless wind meant I was knackered before starting.
NASCAR: wind??? What wind?? Bastard!

Early rise. Cappuccino at "grind". Kike and Nascar happy. Dopey
smooths a slurpie or something like that.

Bus.

Ferry.

I have my back taped. Ouch.

11:00 am race start. Short dirt track up. Long dirt road along... We
draft so we Zip along.

Then the fun begins. Steeeeep uphill and into roots. Dry roots. Wet
roots. Sharp roots. Big roots. Long roots. Up roots. Along roots. Flat
roots. Broken roots. Edgy roots. Pink roots. New roots. Slow roots.
Moving roots. Tiny roots ( not too many of those).
Basically. Roots.

Did I mention the turns. Sharp turns. Sharper turns. Down turns.
Twisty turns.

Did I mention the ups and downs? Up and down and up and down ad
infinitum.

About.a bazillion gear change.

Are you still concentrating. I could barely hold it together at the end.

A few fast flowy turny sections, 3 long travereses then the final
downhill.

My back was killing me.

Glad to finish

Tired

Veerrrry tired.

We do rip: 4 hrs - 19th overall. Woohoo still in the top half.
70's crop. 3:27 hrs - 19th overall.

Then
Bike maintenance
Warmish? shower (that sucks)
Massage. ...aaaaaahhhhhhh
Dinner
Sleep

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Powell River Tent City

Home!!!!

After racing fun!!! Cat style!!!

BCBR sox!!!

Must have coffee or smoothies!!!

BCBR Sox!!!

Day 3 - starting well at the Cumberland grind coffee shop

BC Bike Race - Day 2 - Cumberland to....Cumberland.

First night tenting in years passed well....only two ventures in the middle of the night to mark my territory.

Wakey wakey at 5:45....nnnggghhghhg already?? Rush rush rush...breakfast...bus... Ps Dopey turned 40 overnight. Welcome to the club.

School buses of the yellow and old variety were used....som didn't make it far before spittting diesel on the manifold. Race start delayed by 30 minutes.

AcDc highway to he'll gets us in the mood and we are off. Hand is doing well - downhill bumps not too difficult - but unfortunaty no warp speed....yet.

Equipa Espana look fine sporting "pedal damn it decals" thanks Drew from Niner. Dopey and missile ride Swiss today....(jerseys).

A quick road warm up for 2km and straight into woods and ....traffic. There's a steep uphill which forces everybody off the bike...but thins out the crowd.

The impatient lady gets....impatient. We laugh and let get go in front. We pass her later. But she can pedal. But we don't care...she's wearing long socks!!! What's with that.  

Now....can you say ....fast and flowy!?? Repeat....after...me... .fast and flowy!!! Wow. Twisty turny rock rooty... That was yesterday. This is a carpet ride of LOAM. look it up in the dictionary. L o a m. 

Ossum.

20 km of sweeet single track. No major ups. No major downs. Thought the trees and the ferns. Strands of fern rustling against your legs. A stream of dirt kicked up by the rider in front. Sweet traction. Leeeeeaannnn the bike. Yes it grips. Left and right and right and left and flow and twist and .....continue for 1 hr. O.M.G.

At this point Pantani the Aussie speeds past 70's crop for the First Time and then few minutes later gets passed. Repeat n Times during the race. Then Watch the firework explode.   

Km 22 to 30....Nascar and Missile suffer backache but valiantly ride on. We make good time. 

Aid station 1 arrives. We stock up. The impatient lady arrives and dumps her bike in the middle of the area and hits my leg. Bice. Bye bye impatient lady.

Dopey doesn't hassle me this time...we set off "whenever I'm ready"

Technical downhill on dusty rocks tests the surgeons work. It holds. But the missile is not in the house. I hear he'll be back though.

Dopey is away enjoying the run. He waits at the bottom.

Missile see slimy rocks and bails buy not before a "coming through dude...." and a hot biker chick rides expertly past. I'm impressed. My courage mysteriously returns. On the bike - great...the tricky part is done. Now it's super fast and gravelly. Brakes....what brakes. 

But I then miss a turn and have to back track. The first north shore style bridge over a river awaits.....but there's a guy stinking up the place and I have to dismount...grrrr... He complains he has broken ribs... I wave my hand at him with my middle finger(crookefly) showing. Well not really but Joest had a "word" with him.

More floooooowwwwww. Fast fast fast. Dust in our teeth from grinning. We hit a rolling gravel hardpack. We Flyyyyyyy. Rolloung, rolling rolling....keep thos niners rolling....keep those miners rolling...rawhide.... Etc 

We blast past 10 people. We Do Rip on our niners!!!! Yeah.

Jean mi: you may now take this opprtinity to place your niner order.... 

I continue

Aid station 2 informs us that we have 14 km left. They lied. It was less. Yay. It's fun. Wayyy Fun. Bug thd legs are a tad....well...basically. Tired. But our grins are not!!!!

Up. A Little. STEEEEP. Ouch. Northshore is ridden. Well mostly by locals , a little by us. Finally we climb to 360 metres and it's now downhill. Space nugget awaits. Twisty. Rooty. ROOTY. loaaaaaammmm. Down. Ledges. Drop offs. Logs. Twisty turny. We are spat out onto the gravel. 1 km to go.

NASCAR proceed to implant a 5cm nail in his tyre 200m from the end. He runs gone.

We do Rip finish 23 minutes later. 

Pantani finishes 45 minutes after us.

Impatient lady arrives after us. Nice pedalling...bad attitude. Booo.

Day 2' 57 km are over. Boo. 

70's crop is in 9th position overall

We Do Rip are now In19th overall

Tent city awaits. Bike wash. Body wash. Eats. Coffee. Blog.   There...you are now all up to date!!!

See you tomorrow.

Ps we can only send iPhone photos so sorry there are not more.

 

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BC Bike Race Day 2 - Cumberland to ....Cumberland. !!!!

First night tenting in years passed well....only two ventures in the
middle of thenight to

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Joest is 40

Happy birthday Dopey!!!

Tent City - Nanaimo

Day 1 Recuperation

Bands....

Bc Bike Race - Day 0 Results

Joest and I finished 15/38 yesterday...Joest north shore experience of
2 days ago meant I best him by 30 seconds on the prologue. Oscar and
kike finished 8th/38.

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Bc Bike Race - Day 1 - nanaimo - nanaimo

Up early...pancakes for breakfast (again)...ready for 67 km. Ferry
ride and then we had to find our bikes in 500others!! Finally found
them. Drink. Stink more( it's got to be clear,see) and the 11:00 sharp
off.
Police escort for 10km on the road then into the woods for the first
loop of singletrack. Up and down, down and up, just for fun of course.
And just for starters. Stoked. It twists. It turns. It's rooty. It's
rocky. It's loamy. Yeah. The traffic on the trail is heavy so at first
we bunch up and ride over one another! Continue previous description
for about 40km. Did I mention it goes up, then down, them sideways.
Then up some more. Then UP. Then UP. power move please. Another power
move. Power move=pedal. Hard. Lift the front. Higher. More. Push hard.
Lift the rear. Do it again. Do it some more. Mix it up. Don't fall
off. Don't run over the guy who who doesn't make it.
Learn to say AWEsome. Say it a lot. Because you mean it. Because
everyone else says it. It comes out goofy because your smile is so big.
Bridges. Cool. Don't fall in! Drop offs. Don't do an OTB. Trees. Don't
run into them. Did that one move....no...your front wheel slid sideways.
Wait up... That guys going the wrong way.....no just another switchback.
Finally a fire road....it feels like a highway compared to the roots.
A little bit of rest. Then...finally...the cherry on the
cake.downhill. Single track built by people who know how to build.
Fast and flowy? Not yet. Backwards and forwards through the trees.
Roots and rocks (a bit) but down!!! Yeah. The last 10 km go in a blur.
My grin is a GRIN!! faster and faster. Flowing now. The gels are
kicking in. Energy ...yes!!
Finally the best flowing smooth fast bermed banked loamy soft track to
the road. AWESOME!!! ....dude.

We do Rip - 5:04 hrs (dopey/missile)
70,s Crop - 4:27 hrs (nascar/Kike)

Goodnight!! ......dudes

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Day 0 - Prologue

We have finished....the first part is over. The prologue was a fast gravel road up, then twisty steep technical single track up hill then a very technical bumpy tooth twisty rocky downhill. It took me 10 minutes 30 seconds the others dudnt swutch on their gps! Well find out shortly. Bike fine. Dopey fine. Nascar fine. Kike.
Also fine. Eveything perfect. This was just the 'Amuse Bouche' to decide the starting position. The real stuff starts tomorrow. 65 km through the woods. Yeah.

Ready To Rock !!!

Ladies....our prologues is about to commence....see you on the other side !!!

Moutain bike race

Hi Missile, Dopey and Nascar,

Have a nice race in Canada and please, do not fight as these two guys:

Boumboum

Tuesday June 29 - Hermance Trail + Juicy Mosquito Path

Fast, trickery, muddy or dusty, always challenging, some like it others don't - we shall test You.
Meeting: Choulex
Time: 18.00h
Dine: Restaurant du Cheval-Blanc - Le Carre (Meinier) - you will love it, just ask 3DC !
Who is in ?

The New Mt Muessy ride

The team: No5, Limoncello Frusback, Iron Ass, 3DC

The ride: New Mt Muessy, 32 km, 590 m, 2h08

The Condition: Beautiful, dry and sunshine

We all agree, that the Mt Muessy is one of the most fun, beautiful and divers ride among all the cats & dogs rides along the right or left bank. It's alos the only place to notice that the salève is far enough to be nice.

3DC show to the cats (was only cats for this rides) new tracks on the north face of Mt Muessy to make the ride to a total of 32 km.

Back home, beers, (we had no thime for jaccuzzi again this time) steack and Diolinoir at the Diligence have made this longest Tuesday of the season a perfect moment.

Show up points: No5, Limocelleo Frusback, Iron Ass, 3DC +1

Hosting point: 3DC +1

The Push my back point: For Limoncello Frusback (this one will be long to engrave on the 1st aid kit) +0.5 for going down bling on the chemin des Dames not knowing the track. On day he will join the torn short, stiches, cast, hospital team with Labrico and Missiles.

There is a 2 points bonus for the first one to pass the tricky stage (on the bike of course) on the New Mt Muessy loop.(if the ref agree of course)

That's all folks!

Tuesday June 22 New Mt Muessy ride

Start at 18h00 from Bogis Bossey 3DC

Where: New Mt Muessy tour after discovery ride.

about 32 Km.

Meal at 3DC place or la Diligence depend on jacqueline mood.

Monday ride

Anybody up for a ride today, Jussy woods or Petit Salve. Two hours might get some sunshine, just becuase it is monday and it is the longest day

The CAT MTB Team supports the BC racers

Missile, Dopey, Nascar, the Cats supports the Dogs while racing in BC-Canada.
Race fine, have fun, write home !

The dream team is desperate to earn points

We were three, there is the proof!

Follow us during The BC Bike Race!!!

Joe's starting June the 27th, Missile, Nascar and myself (Dopey) will participate in the BC Bike Race. You can find daily pictures, movies and race results on http://www.bcbikerace.com.

We will try to keep you posted on the blog but we need to see how the IT environment is set up and if we have time to post.

Here are two little teaser video's of the what we will be in for, Enjoy!

Tuesday, June 15 - Ride Report

Riders: BoumBoum, Papy, 3DC, Christophe the Newbee
Ride details:
- started from Douane de Veyrier (BB, 3DC, Christophe)
- Followed the Arve river banks to the Casino (by the Migros) where we met with Papy who was waiting next to the wrong bench (meeting point), some minutes lost.
- Kept on the Leman-Chamonix trail till about 5 kms from Bonneville
- Returned with a detour via a BoumBoum special single track
- Lenght - difference in height (total positive) - duration: 50 kms - +508m - 2h53
Host: Christophe, including dinner prepared by Christelle (JMi ... Christelle, not Estelle), and Thomas

Highlights:
- Saleve is not the only wonderful play ground when starting from Veyrier
- No rain, but enough mud to make 3DC and Papy's shiny bikes look like real MTB's and not roadies
- A lot of excuses for not joining, let's say they were valid for most. Guys, you missed a really nice ride
- Met with 3 wild bores who where peacefully cruising in a field, may be 15 meters from the trail. Although the grass was a bit high, we could see them for about half a minute
- Re-visited the geography of Haute-Savoie: Where exactly is the Vuache, the Mole, or the Voirons??? And renamed la Menoge by .... "la M'noge" (Papy)
- Two pictures taken: one to be posted (thanks 3DC). The other one may not pass the censure. Still, we missed our official photographer.



Suggested points:
+1 for the riders (Boumboum, Papy, 3DC, Christophe)
+0.5 for the injured ones still joining for dinner (Zulu, Labrico)
+1 for Christophe for hosting
+0.5 for BoumBoum for the ride lead, and remembering the location of this really cool single track on the way back
+0.5 for 3DC for photo modeling
+0.5 for Christophe for the home made Limoncello (well appreciated by all!)
We all behave, no negative point today

Thanks to all, Christophe

Dopy land

Go check this out form Dopy land
http://www.zoopy.com/video/4l2j/nederland-denemarken-bavaria-babes?t=00:58

Riding the Jura woods.....a Nascar Production

A test video made by Nascar.......Enjoy!

Riding the Jura woods from Joest Hoekstra on Vimeo.

Director: Nascar

Editor: Nascar

Production Designer: Nascar

Rider: Dopey

Stunts: Wheelie king....Dopey

Art director: Nascar

Music: Keep on F***in', Nashville Pussy

Costume: Dopey

Guest stars: Chicks on horses

Location: Jura, VD, Switzerland.....the fine foothills.

Pic of the week......Who know where this trail is???

Welcome to Boum Boum Land - The Scores

The "Biggest bonk...." Award - Nameless....at least you managed to get there on time + 1 for encouragement!!

The " I'm not Philippe Petit Award" for Labrico proving that 29 inch wheels rerally are too big for him !! (HE fell over when stopped!!!) Laugh....I nearly shat... +1

The "Duracell Bunny Award" - Zulu for being that bunny + 1

The "This NOT Bacon" award - Labrico for feeding us bacon flavored "Stuff" post ride +1

The "press here and pull award" - Missile for teaching Nascar something he apparently had already done 'not for the first time' !!! +0.5

The Boum Boum land award + 2 !!! YOu know who gets these!! Amazing.

thats all I can think of for now.....BOUM BOUM takes 2'nd place.......

Tour de Boumboum-land....here are the pics + gps

Test 1, 2, 3....test 1, 2, 3......My eyes are hurting....this handlebar

makes me go quint-eyed.

Morning!

My name is Missile....I tend to forget...that there are trees in the forest,

install or tighten bolts on my brake caliper and spacer of all sorts.

He is the ref....We love him but I am sure he knows what to do.....

(I hope he doesn't forget the BCBR experience...!?)

I love you.....yes, sweetie I love you too....

....I do have friends....but they are hiding in the forest!

You press here and turn there....Listen to me!

Two hard heads together....one taking a pic!

Push...

You are now officially in the Nerd category....

Up and down....through Boumboum-land. I hope will enjoy the ride.

Thanks for coming. We hope to see you again soon!!

The Scores!!!! Finally....

woo haaaa....finally....beer in hand....scores updated...

as Dopey doesn't count any more (but we still love you) the real battle is for second, like a good F1 race....no.5 and Nascar are battling it out..... who will will.... Who Knows. WHO CARES!!???!!  Well I know all of you in 4/5/6th do (that includes me somehow.... ??? Go figure....) Let battle for 4'th commence!!

Probably the toughest MTB race in the world.

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www.cyclingnews.com/news/divide-racing-begins-friday

Tuesday, June 15 ride

Hi Cats & Dogs

I updated the ride calendar, but still need to take the time to learn how to post. Anyway, here it is (hope my distribution list is complete):

- Meeting place: Douane de Veyrier
- Meeting date and time: Tuesday, June 15 at 6pm
- Ride: Saleve - I count on BoumBoum and Labrico as guides for the tour.
- Cable Car - take some euro for the cable car
- Dinner - at home, 109 Chemin de Servette, F - 74100 Vetraz-Monthoux. It is maximum 10 min from Veyrier, probably even less.

http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=fr&geocode=&q=109+Chemin+de+Servette,+V%C3%A9traz-Monthoux&sll=46.75984,1.738281&sspn=7.089985,14.040527&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=109+Chemin+de+Servette,+74100+V%C3%A9traz-Monthoux,+Haute-Savoie,+Rh%C3%B4ne-Alpes&ll=46.182326,6.251907&spn=0.02799,0.054846&z=14

Pls send me your confirmation ASAP so we can plan for the dinner. Also send me your mobile number so I can touch base on Tuesday for those tentatively scoring negative points even before the rubber hits the trail.

Guys, have a wild week-end, and for those supporting a team, good luck for the first games. As far as I am concerned, I am not sure luck will be enough, we'll see.

Newbee Christophe

Sundays ride in Salève

I'm planning a long ride on the Salève Sunday 12 June.

• Departure: Salève cablecar at 9:00am
• Lenght: 50km, about 4 hours
• Where: cablecar, top of Salève to Cruseilles, then back home to St-Blaise and the north foot of Salève
• What: lots of single tracks, nice views of Geneva
• Sweat: 1'100m elevation gain but 1'750m of downhill...
• Fuel: bring lots of water and some energy bars

See you Sunday.

Boumboum

Follow me trailer.....Enjoy!

Follow Me - the Teaser from Anthill Films on Vimeo.

Coming to Les Gets....after the BC Bike Race....!!!

More tire talk.....I hit it on the nail

I pulled this out of my rear tire after the ride. Guess what

happened....nothing!!! A little white bubble of Stan's NoTubes

milk appeared but that was it. No pressure lost....nothing.....

+ 1 point for Uncle Stan's NoTubes!

And... have I told you the TranGermany was aweful?

My tire.... no comment.

Papy's Cafe des Amis Ride.......PICS

And here they are......

Red Riding Hood and the 7 Cat riders......What can we say....

....he is the Ref but.....he still looks Gay!

Me Cat outfit too now.....Happy!

Is that your pocket knife?

What did you say No.5 this was.....??

Look here is a wheel....a 29er wheel!!

Fixed.......PHaaaaa!

To fast to shoot.

Dinner time.....

Swiss and Swiss-er.....

Beer time.....

After a good ride it tastes well.

Here are the happy campers!!

The red corner....You want to show your fingers again?

What an evening it was.......Thanks Papy!

Ref we are awaiting your scores.......

Papy's Cafe des Amis Ride Report

The Host: Papy
The Riders were Nine: Dopey, #5, Boum-Boum, LaBrico, Papy, Nascar, Missile, Husky and Newbee Christophe beautifully dressed in CAT gear. No comments for The Missile who elected to be dressed in red for a CAT ride ! (postmen wear yellow color...)
The Ride: Again Seymaz, bords de l'Arve, P'tit Salève, Arve again, Foron and Route de Jussy full speed + sprints !
The Length and Duration: 36.6 km - about 2hrs 15m on the bike....
The Dine: Café des Amis-Choulex, dressed in muddy biking outfits !!

Highlights: This time few things went wrong but that's the fun on it !

And the points now:
+1 for All for the ride
+1 for Husky for bloody arm, tumbles and smiles !
+1 for Papy for organizing (hey, I saved the table for late arrival/21.10h)
+1 for Missile-Zip Tie master award fixing up Nascar tire.
+1 for Nascar riding that tire back home.
+.5 for Missile-Michelin award-longest distance driven to come biking-115 km !
-.5 for Nascar getting lost while looking for a w.c. tree !
+.5 for Missile, riding/climbing the trail on his akward Single Speed-hats off !
+.5 for Dopey always being there shooting pictures
+.5 for Boum-Boum again for returning home on his bike in the rain
+.5 for # 5 for improving downhilling skills ...less walking.. ; )
+.5 for Labrico for extended biking hours to return home.(+1 h!)

Pictures of ride + evening will be graciously provided by wellknown photographer !

Again please add your insights/comments/arguments for the Ref to deal with!
The Scores were promised by the Ref, for next week...agw....

More ! Papy

SSimon = Single Speed Missile ? (asked Boum Boum)

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

2 POINTS FOR YOU !!!!

Wow - I wondered if ANYBODY would get that !!!

Good job!!!

And yes... here it is....

Niner sir steel frame in GODZILLA green

Niner steel fork - black

Wheels & Tires: my (old?) RIP wheels ...(needs an upgrade soon!!)

XT cranks – special edition !!! wow....

E13 32 tooth SS chainwheel (GREEN!!!)

Niner 18 tooth Cog

Chris King Headset...(muchas gracias senor balsolabre)

Spacers: Brand X – lots of them!!!

Monkey lite carbon bar

Stem: eastone EA70 from my parts box

Our grips white....(Green ones are coming !!!)

Cannondale seat post.....(needs an upgrade soon)

Seat??...something scrotty from the bottom of my parts box

Pedals: old 5’th hand XT

Brakes: new XT M775

Shifters NONE

Derailleurs NONE

Weight....I need to come to Oscars and weigh it !!!