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Nick Quin coming on a the team coach/rider

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Gonna learn how to go fast again with us

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First pro girl

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Always smiling

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Wins practice every race

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Lets his results speak for himself

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The most humble rider you will meet

Check out the rider info

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Hitting it home

Brett looking good

Buckwheat doing what he does

Jeff and Tyler at the top of Psycosis

Nick at Blairmore

Nick and Tyler on th Podium

Sit down to go up

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Buck – “no drag” – wheat

Buckwheat’s tool kit

Fastest bike at Panorama

Who just one BC cup overall?

Zak making sure my shock is working prime

Tyler dropping into dead dogStill dropping

Still dropping

Hayes rig at Sun Peaks

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The Prana is Kali’s newest lid. This is a Dot approved helmet that is lighter then anything you have picked up.

D2 Killer

The Avatar is a MTB specific helmet with the best safety rating. It this were a car it would have 74 air bags.

The thing I love about Kali is after they design the safest helmet with the best fit and awesome attention to detail, the lightness is a byproduct.

Here is a side cutout of the Avatar.

Composite Fusion and Dual Density foam – As you can see in the photo there is no gap between the shell and the foam also check out the different color foam. Kali sprays their foam in into the shell rather then make them separate and glue them together. This means the instant your head hits the foam starts to absorb the impact. The dual density is a combination of soft and heavy foam. This allows the impact to be spread out around the whole helmet rather then concentrating in one area – Safest helmet you can put on your head.

Look for the Clan riding Kali this year and ask to check it out. You will be surprised by how amazing they are up close

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Thanks to everyone that supplied the pictures without knowing. I got them from Google images and NSMB.com

The Greatest Team Ever

This years team selections and sponsor signings are happening as we speak. This year is going to be real exciting with couple of sponsor changes and a couple of rider changes. Stay tuned for the news.

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I was in the reading room flipping through the new special addition Decline Magazine – A friend brought it for me hot off the Interbike show Floor. As I flip through the killer images and outstanding stories one – story hit close to home.

I saw my bike – just my bike – being cleaned up and shined up by the Mudd Bunnies at The North Shore Bike Fest. The Bunnies did an outstanding job by the way .

I would take my hats off to Cycling BC while I am here but they just announced a logo contest which is against my religion so we will just leave that where it lays for now.

OK OK not really that cool – there is of course more -  But first my glass has risen once again for Decline as they continue to show the world a little bit more of my backyard – The North Shore – you know what I’m talking about.

This is what really caught my eye. North Shore Bike fest – Again – or is it still – afterall it’s a SPECIAL edition.

What was cool was that there was more pics of my Favorite Racing clan -and more specifically the man behind the Clan – Jeff Bryson

( Really Buckwheat is the Man behind the Clan but he didn’t make it in the magazine – he was probably fixing Clan bikes so the crew could try to keep up with Big Jeff – Next time Buckwheat.)

He is a close up using a super zoom lens – don’t try that at home Sterling or Dan -

Actually Dan Barham did take the pics and Dan Gronross set up the course so I should raise my glass(es) to them also – and after all that glass raising I thinks its time to go back into the reading room.

Cheers

This past weekend was the 10th (or so) annual Full Boar Challenge held at Greenstone Mountain just outside Kamloops, BC. Over the years it has changed venues and seen many people come and go (mostly come) but Trev and the boys at Full Boar always put on good races and an even better party. Saturday marks practice for the enduro DH, an xc race and a night hill climb. The xc doesn’t draw a ton of competitors but bragging rights and old rivalries are on the line so competition is stiff. The defending champion, Aaron Wiss, was on hand and barely won again this year with only a ten second winning margin over a buddy of his (sorry I didn’t write down names) on the five-lap course. Both of these guys looked like they could crush you in half with legs and then karate chop you on the head with there protein bars. Lotsa laughs and healthy competition. The enduro DH practice on Saturday greeted the riders with 2 inches of fresh at the top and obviously below zero temperatures. Boar (trev) always has bad luck with this race weekend as I can’t even remember the last Boar Challenge that we didn’t have snow. But he is old school and loves it. Ha ha. Anyways despite the snow, the traction was actually really good and then became super tacky after the dreaded hill climb and was classic Kamloops dust by the end of the course.

At the top

For those of you who have never ridden Greenstone, it is a must ride mountain. The trail starts of very tech with steep rocky pitches right off the get go, it then winds down through the tight trees of the burnt out forest, to the VERY steep hill climb. After that its warp speed down a fire road, but not your average fire road – a cool one – which lasts forever – its awesome. Then into a kinda choppy peddley cross country section, and if you have got the lungs you can peddle all of this too, but this section separates the men from the boys. And then finally into high speed classic Kamloops dust bowl corners to the finish. Practice was sick. Now I had bigger priorities to take care of in town on Saturday night so I could not stick around for the hill climb, movie premier, or the hill climb. It was my moms 40th birthday. Yeah that’s right I said 40. She’s young. Best mom ever. Happy birthday mom!!!!!!! From what I hear the light hill climb(cuz it is held a night – duh) was awesome and won again by Swanny – a local.

Trev on the mic

The New World 10 premier was also good and there was endless drunken debauchery stories for me to hear in the morning. Sunday the riders were greeted with sunny skies and a blue bird day. However the snow turned to frost on the trail and never thawed out because that part of the trail is on the south side of the mountain. This created problems, most notably for me. For the last couple of seasons the cove boys have been making an appearance and have been winning handily. Christian Short, Ewan Fafard, Dan Skogland and Mitch Forbes were all in attendance and we looking strong to defend the title. However, having not raced the last few challenges I was looking forward to CRUSHing them. . . Racing was good, no serious injuries and after a day of Enduro racing Mitch Forbes came out on top with a new course record of 16:32. Yes you read that right the fastest time of the day was sixteen and one half minutes. Average times are 19 to 20 mins. Dan Skogland came in second with 16:36 I think and Ewan was in third and Christian in fourth – Cove sweep. Big props to Skogs as he raced on a proto cove G-spot and 6 and 6 inch bike. I said there were some peddley section but I don’t think they make um for the GNARLY downhill parts – so a huge shout out to him. I crashed and had a mechanical and came seventh with 17:24. The enduro DH is also a poker runs and for the first time ever the winner of the race had the best hand. The best poker hand always wins a new bike or bike frame. This year it was a Brodie hardtail frame and Mitch graciously gave the frame away to a young family trying to get their little grommet into mountain bikes. Nice work Mitch. I wish I had more results to post from other categories. Sorry. But a huge thanks has to go out to Boar, all his staff, the volunteers and everyone for coming out. I was a hell of a ride. And to all the meatballs that didn’t show up . . . . you don’t know what your missing. See y’all next year.

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Sam Phill and Sam Hill have more than names in common, unfortunately for yours truly, it’s not dh racing skills…but it something almost as good…new specialized bikes to ride this year.

I’ve been on a specialized since buying bryson’s hand me down big hit years ago, before the kid hit puberty and was able to grow a beard and pot bellies. This year it was time to trade in the old 2006 beat down
demo 8 and get into something new. This is where bryson had to do a little convincing on the new rig.

Sam Phill in second

A man with my skills and excessive bone density needs all the help he can get..new demo 8 was the first thought until bryson came along with……you should get a demo 7 and pimp it out with a dual crown and zero stack headset….. to make a long story short I eventually bought in and in the end was very happy. With the after market parts: travis dual crown fork, integrated headset, Chromag 30″ low rise bar (which is the best), saint cranks which came from Hank the Yank Dixon (an one old and one new). With the bars set up as low as they could go I was ready to ride….more pictures to come

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The Clan is going big next year by upping the number of riders on the team. We want to get a couple of younger rippers so we can help them along. We want The Clan to be strong in years to come so starting them young is the way to go.

If you would like to or know anybody that rips get in touch through the site or on Facebook. We are also looking for a girl so we can have a bit of class at the races.

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Bret picking the first Canada Cup appart

Jeff practicing at the Seymour Smack Down

Tyler finishing on top – Nick close behind – some wiener inbetween

Nick gets flat – the other kind

The Clan

Brett heading to the pits

Helping or making it harder for Buckwheat?

Braaaaaaaap!

The bike to be riding

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