Road Trip Psychosis

7 days on the road, 4 towns and 1 EPIC DH race!


After rolling through Williams Lake (Red Shreds Bike & Board Shed), Prince George (Summerside Bikes), Jasper (Vicious Cycles) and the Icefields Parkway, I hauled the Brodie van and trailer down to Golden, BC, for the Mount 7 Psychosis race. As an added bonus to the festivities, Nathan Rennie and Chris Kovarik managed to make the race, placing 2nd and 3rd respectively. The real big crowd-pleaser was that not only did Whistler resident Tyler Morland win the race for the 2nd year in a row, but he beat his own previous best and set a new course record of 12:58:33, breaking the 13 minute barrier and shattering his previous time by about 30 seconds!

Psychosis/Road Trip Pix....

End of the Trail...

Uh, yeah. I've been back for about 4 days now and I've been sick for 3 of them. The trip finished up after spending some days in Calgary, Edmonton, Airdrie, Sylvan Lake, Canmore and Golden. Every stop was great and I managed to get some riding done in Calgary (DH race! I managed to come in 4th for my category without preriding the course, plus I've never ridden there, crazy.), Canmore and Golden, as well as the rides I had already done in Nelson and Rossland.

I'm back on the road in about a week to go see our northern BC dealers and then we're swinging back over to Golden for the Mount 7 Psychosis Downhill Race. Hopefully there will be some great images from those places as well.

In the meantime, I've added a few more photos to my FLICKR account. Enjoy!

Dinos and Clouds

Well, it's been a couple days and I've been busy driving. Yesterday I went from Fernie to Calgary via Lethbridge. There was thunder & lightning in Fernie, blue skies in Pincher Creek/Lethbridge and storms and rain in Calgary. Thankfully, I managed to get to Calgary in time to see the last period of the Edmonton/Carolina game!

Today was essentially a day off. I drove north, stopped at Cranked in Airdrie (the fastest growing town in Alberta) and then crossed over to Drumheller to check out the Tyrrell Dino Museum. It's about a 90 minute drive each way but was well worth it.


If there's one thing I consistently see on these trips, it's baby farms animals. Today I saw a bunch of young horses actually chasing each other. They were "rippin'" (cool word of the year btw) around this field chasing each other. It's funny when you see that if you haven't grown up with horses. I'm only used to seeing them stand around and swish their tales. As for the other animals, well there were tons of sheep (still to be sheared) and cows. The funniest scened was a ranch-dog running with a newborn cow tightly around a few horses. They were playing and it looked hilarious.

Anyway, it's off to Edmonton tomorrow.

Greetings!

Welcome aboard. There won't be a lot of substance here. More photos than anything else. Hope you enjoy.