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39 Things I Learned While Doing The BC Bike Race - Pt. 1

Aug. 17, 2011, 12:03 p.m.
Matt-D
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Joined: July 2, 2006

When Stuart Kernaghan wasn't learning things the easy way at the BC Bike Race this year, he was definitely learning them the hard way.

Learn the first 19 of 39 tips the easy way *here.*

Aug. 17, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
CraigH
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Joined: Nov. 19, 2002

Great info in there (even though I've never done the BCBR), almost all of it would be applicable to multi-day mtn bike road trips too.

Looking forward to reading part 2.

Aug. 18, 2011, 12:39 p.m.
syngltrkmnd
Posts: 246
Joined: Dec. 9, 2004

Great report and great tips - I hope I don't spoil anything but I am looking forward to Stuart telling us "Bring your own mechanic". :)

The dropper post would have been AWESOME when I was in Transrockies.

RIde. Eat. Repeat.

Aug. 18, 2011, 10:04 p.m.
J-Dude
Posts: 110
Joined: April 17, 2006

I liked Rule #17… and now I really want to do this race!

:banana:

Aug. 19, 2011, 9:16 p.m.
norona
Posts: 2202
Joined: Feb. 4, 2007

Stuart it was a pleasure watchin u race each day and these are awesome tips, I have been telling 90 percent of the riders to get a seat dropper post, most don't listen, they say because of the weight and they either don't ride or have as much fun as they could be having on the free downhill decents! Looking forward to the next installment!!

:woot:

@davenorona

@Dave Norona

Aug. 8, 2012, 9:53 a.m.
Tracer-Tong
Posts: 1668
Joined: June 5, 2004

Did the second installment ever get posted? I googled.

www.vitalmtb.com

Aug. 9, 2012, 3:03 p.m.
xcolin
Posts: 583
Joined: June 6, 2006

My neighbour did the race and loved it. He echoed the dropper post and bigger tires sentiment…helped him a lot. He said it was such a good experience and met a lot of cool folks from around the world. He also echoed the fact that there were a lot of people way above their heads in the race.

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