Bike clubs, “race face” and other phenomenon

June 10, 2008 at 3:00 pm

There’s old school, and then there is “old school”. Found this in a pile of my ma’s old photos from her days growing up on the Ykon River. The Fort Selkirk Bike Club. She’s fourth from the right. Check out the rake on the forks!
Steel has been real for a looooong time.

Having a blog also allows the blogger (moi) to rant, so i will.
Whitehorse, has it really come to this? What is “this” you ask? Well, the surly attitude of most of the so called riders i seem to come across. What, is it to friggin hard to reply to someone saying hi. or waving? Good god! You’d think that some people want to make this place like Toronto (or maybe they do?)
Arriving at the top of the Magnuson Gully t’other day, i ran into a posse` of 20-30 somethings on DR rigs just starting to ride after their shuttle (WTF? Don’t get me started) to the top of said gully. Well, you’d think i was speaking in Russian by the way they reacted to my “hey guys”.
C’mon people, smile, be happy, say hi to your fellow riders. Its ok, this is not Toronto, or Van, or whatever big city you’re from. No one will think you’re lame for saying hi.
There, i’m better now.
You can bet that the folks in the above photo said hi to other riders out on the trail.
On another topic, according to sources, West Coast legend Hestler declared the SFD/Girlfriend/Juicy/Yukon River Trail loop to be one of his top ten rides ever. There. Its official, we have great trails.
And just because this is a frame building outfit, here’s one from the troops, freshly built up and out ripping the trails.

Now it just needs a custom fork to top it off.
There’s still fresh snow at the top of Grey, so get up there and ride in it so you can tell peeps that you rode in fresh snow in June.