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The South Island Mountain Bike Societyis an affiliated member of the
International Mountain Bicycling Association
The South Island Mountain Bike Society
Volume 20, Issue No. 5www.simbs.comMud News
Mega bike trip to the Okaangan 4
When bikes were black and white 5
Yukon Adventure 8
Inside
Lil’ ridershit the trailsmore photos on pages 10 & 11
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Board of DirectorsPresident: Scott Mitchell (250) 361-7966 [email protected]
Vice President: Dan Cammiade [email protected]
Treasurer: Richard Baer [email protected]
Secretary: Christyna Jones (250) 217-8176 [email protected]
Members @ LargeWayne Rix - Map Sales and Director at Large (250) 479-2897
Danielle Stevens - Membership Director [email protected]
Chris Oman - Trails Director (250) 658-2819 [email protected]
Matthuw Ronald-Jones – South Cowichan Director [email protected]
David Cusack - Website Director [email protected]
Richard Cook [email protected]
Nathaniel Cook [email protected]
Eban Tomlinson [email protected]
Scott Clarke
Editor: Darlene Oman [email protected]
Mud News is published six times yearly by the South Island Mountain Bike Society, and is distributed free to members of SIMBS, local bike shops, and other activity outlets. The opinions expressed in the articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily reflect those of the SIMBS Board of Directors.
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ON THE COVERRider: Marina and dad AndrewLocation: Hartland-Mount WorkPhotographer: Carmel Ecker
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Over the past few months many of us have ventured on holiday with our mountain bikes returning with tales of epic singletrack, buff berms, and the perfect pint to finish off the ride. The Travel issue brings a few of those tales to you and hopefully inspires you to get our and try a new ride on your next trip.
SIMBS has some travel plans in the near future and by the time you read this we will have made it to Cumberland and the Riding Fool Hostel for the 4th SIMBS getaway. We are excited for another year of awesome riding in the Comox Valley. I was fortunate enough to make it to the Riding Fool Hostel earlier this summer for a couple of great days mountain biking. One of the most impressive things about the trails in Cumberland is that every time I visit there seems to be a new trail to ride that makes the old loop that much longer and better. I am inspired by the trail builders commitment to building more and more. The Cumberland Community Forest Society has done an amazing job of preserving the local forest and protecting the trails. Last year the SIMBS crew made a donation to the Society during the getaway and we plan to do the same this year.
The September board meeting for SIMBS was very busy with too many topics to cover in the allotted two hours. I am so happy to see that many of the new
directors this year have taken the initiative to improve many aspects of the society. We now have a very professional sponsorship package and we are organized for potential 2013 sponsors. We are working on a members survey to gather some more information about our membership and to improve our communication strategy to reach our members. We also have received a proposal from a rider and trail Builder in Duncan that shows his plan to help develop the trail networks
and relationships with the landowners in all of the popular riding destinations in Duncan. Hopefully over the next few months we can help form a relationship with him to move forward with his plan. As we are in the early stages of this I am intentionally being vague; however, I hope to have lots more information for the next Mud News. I think you will see some great improvements with SIMBS in the next year with all of the great ideas that the 2012 board has come up with. Hopefully this leads to more riding opportunities for you or whatever else you want from us.
Thanks for reading and keep the Rubber Side Down!
I am inspired by the Cumberland trail builders’ commitment to building more and more.
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p SIMBS INTRODUCTORY RIDE2ND SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTHBeginner to intermediateYou can learn skills and/or be guided around the park. Meet @ 9:45am, Hartland parking lot. Ride @ 10am. RSVP to Wayne Rix, 479-2897. If no one RSVPs, the ride will be cancelled.
p SIMBS YOUTH RIDE2ND SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTHAfter many months without a ride leader, the SIMBS youth ride is back.Meet @ 9:45am in the Hartland park-ing lot. Ride @ 10am.
p SIMBS WOMEN’S RIDE2ND SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTHBeginner to intermediateJennifer Magdalenich leads this ride. Email her at [email protected] with any questions. Meet in the Hartland parking lot at 9:45am, ride at 10am.
p SIMBS TRAIL MAINTENANCE3RD SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTHBring boots & appropriate work wear for the weather! SIMBS provides the lunches. Meet @ 8:45am, Hartland parking lot. To be included for lunch, contact Chris Oman at [email protected].
On October 1st, SIMBS Vice-President Dan Cammiade met with Morgan Kennah, Manager of Sustainable Timberlands and Community Affairs for the forestry company Island Timberlands in their office in Nanaimo. We talked about the trails at Burnt Bridge that are on the company’s private property; namely Spike, Natty Tread, Science Experiment, Hillbilly Hill, Dude Trail and Ron’s Connector.
As a result of the discussion, Island Timberlands is considering entering into an agreement with SIMBS to manage the trails and potentially hold races or events there.
The next step is for SIMBS to submit an Area Tenure to define specifically which trails we want to maintain and use. There will be an annual $500 administration fee to secure this agreement, and it does not mean we have access whenever we want. The company needs to reserve the option to deny access at any
time for active harvesting, fire season or other reasons. This is not the only extra cost, as our insurance would go up by approximately an additional $500 annually.
This agreement would have Island Timberlands staff going back and removing large debris from the trails after harvesting an area. Once this is done, the trail remains for the next 70 years, as that is the harvesting cycle.
Island Timberlands is going through each riding area in the book Mountain Bike Vancouver Island and marking any other riding destinations they occupy and where potentially we can form similar agreements if needed.
So hopefully soon we will be shuttling volunteers up to Burnt Bridge to repair and buff up the wicked 28 minute DH trail “Spike” among many others.
Possible access to more trails up islandAdvocacy Dan CAMMIADE
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TravelMegaBike Trip to the North Okanagan
Seeking a great nearby getaway? Head south to Methow
David CUSACK
Richard BAER
This past July, the Clowns on Wheels (CoW) biking group got together for a week of riding in the interior of British Columbia.
CoW started out as a group of Navy friends getting together to ride on weekends. Group members have changed over the years as military members came and went, and non-military friends have been picked up along the way. About six or seven years ago the group started taking an annual riding vacation called MegaBike Week, with riding trips to Squamish, Kelowna, Whistler, and Cumberland.
Planning for this year’s MegaBike week started months in advance, with complicated excel documents being passed around via email. Everyone does their best to make it out for the week, despite how far away they live. This year there were two friends who flew in from Ottawa, one from Kingston, one from Halifax and five from Victoria.
We rented a house on the way up the mountain to Silver Star that had a spectacular view overlooking Vernon. This location was a great base from which we could explore a lot of different trails in Vernon and Kelowna.
Day one brought the threat of thunder showers, so we decided to play it safe and warm up on a local Vernon shuttle trail called Spanky’s. The top part of the trail cuts through some clear-cut and it was a little tough to follow. As soon as the trail heads back into
the trees it quickly picks up with a lot of good flow. Spanky’s can be steep and technical at times and there is a very steep section that dumps you right into a creek. Conditions were wet the day we rode it, which forced us to be a little cautious and take it easy on the first run. The second time through we rode a lot faster and it went a lot better. Spanky’s is worth checking out if you have some time on your way up to Silver Star.
At lunch time the weather seemed to be clearing so we made an executive decision to head up to the Silver Star bike park. At this point, the bike park had only been open a week or two and they were still recovering from a bad snow storm from the first of June. Needless to say, Silver Star had some of the muddiest conditions we’ve ever ridden in. Maintaining speed was challenge because the berms were a soupy mess, and you’d cross
If you are looking for some open Okanogan style riding in different place, then you should consider the Methow (Me THOW) Valley in Washington State. It is closer than Idaho or the Oregon riding spots and has a nice small town feel.
It is centered on the town of Winthrop which was remodeled on an Old West theme in the 1970s.
To get there you need to drive east on State Route 20 otherwise known as the North Cascades highway. Turn east at Arlington and be ready for some climbing.
The valley is approximately south of Manning Park or Princeton in B.C. so it is easy to drive in a day.
Once there, try to arrive before 6 and stop at Methow Cycle & Sport right on the highway as you get to Winthrop.
They have a big one page free trail map and the owners are very helpful. One of the staffers asked me about my bike and what kind of riding I liked. Out came a yellow highlighter and just like that, I had a course to follow up at Sun Mountain.
The loop was perfect for a 29’er hardtail,
fast, flowy and just long enough. I was only there long enough for the one
riding day but there are lots of trails to fill a week.
The links below will get you started.Methow Cycle & Sport:
methowcyclesport.com/Trail maps: methowcyclesport.com/
about/methow-valley-trail-information-pg107.htm
Check out my Flickr set of the Sun Mountain loop: www.flickr.com/photos/boonerator/sets/72157627248261815/
The guys checking out a log bridge on “Addiction” in Kelowna.
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your fingers that you’d make it across any wood work -- if it was still open. Despite the conditions, we all had a blast.
On day two, we decided to let the park dry out and made the trek over to Kelowna to ride another shuttle trail with some impressive wood structures called Builders Only. Right from the start there were a series of wooden features and step ups and it didn’t let up from there. We did two laps, and that took most of the day because there were so many features to session along the way. We stopped every 100 metres or so to check a structure out - some of which were huge and impressive. If you ride there all the time, you could ride it a lot faster because you know what’s coming up. If you are a shuttle driver, you might want to go get some lunch and then come back to pick everyone up.
On day three we headed back to Silver Star where conditions had improved - the berms were drier and the wood work was rideable. We did numerous laps on Rock Star, LTG, World Cup Downhill, and the group favourite Double Dog. Silver Star is well worth the trip. Although it does not have as many trails as Whistler, the trails are just as fun and the lift lines are shorter.
Day four was my last day on the trip, so
to make getting to the airport easier we rode Addiction in Kelowna. Addiction is a short shuttle trail (you can see a theme developing here) which is fast and flowy with a lot of wooden features. The first few laps were slow as we looked over all the stunts, but we picked up the pace as the trails began to dry out from the morning’s rain. Addiction has one of the most impressive wall rides you’ll ever see in the middle of the forest. By the end of the day we had knocked off eight laps. A lot of the stunts require the same kind of commitment levels as Builders Only. This trails is a blast to try and ride as fast as possible, even if you do not hit a lot of the stunts.
The rest of the riding week included a trip to Salmon Arm, a few more days at Silver Star, and a trip back to Kelowna to ride Guillard.
This year’s MegaBike Week was a success for many reasons: there were no trips to the hospital, no vehicles were broken into, and despite some late nights doing bike maintenance, there weren’t too many mechanical failures.
We haven’t yet decided where to go for next year’s MegaBike week, but we have already started thinking about it and the Sunshine Coast seems to be strong possibility.
Everyone takes a well-deserved break to get a view of Kelowna from “Addiction.”
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Memory lane Sarah MITCHELL
For whatever reason, you’re in Whistler with your bike and you’re not going to ride the bike park. While some may question your sanity, there are MILES of awesome, challenging, FREE single track to occupy your time. Basic trail maps can be found at most hostels/hotels and information booths, and there is also the fantastic guidebook “Whistler Mountain Biking – A Guide to Trail Rides in the Whistler Valley.”
Lost Lake Park is probably the easiest trail system to access and has the best signage. Ranging from novice to intermediate, these trails can consume your whole day or serve as a quick way to bring a giant grin to your face. Notable trail combos include (in either direction):
• Dwarf Nebula – Pinocchio’s Furniture – Fountain of Love – The Torture Never Stops - Disco Boy – Dinah Moe Humm – Peaches en Regalia
• Zoot Allures – Toads of the Short Forest – Gee, I Like Your Pants – Son of Mr. Green Genes – Jellyroll Gumdrop
Other notables include:Awesome single track that should not
be missed are “A River Runs Through It” and “Kill Me Thrill Me.” While both are ranked as ‘black diamond’ they are heaps of fun for riders of all abilities.
“The Flank Trail” offers relatively easy mileage (there’s climbing involved), and presents fantastic connections to Industrial Disease, Cheap Thrills or Billy Epic.
Advanced riders might want to look into the trails behind the Emerald Estates including Big Kahuna, Shit Happens and White Knuckles.
Cross country lovers should head to Function Junction to take in Riverside, Farside and Trash.
For those who enjoy spending long hours on their bike, there is Comfortably Numb – a 35km adventure that takes most riders around seven hours to complete. Be sure to bring snacks AND WATER!
Riding Beyond the Whistler Bike Park
Above: Riding Disco Boy in Lost Lake Park.Below: “Grand Wazoo” in Lost Lake Park – the best trail in lost lake - has lots of fun skinnies and bridges, but isn’t too technical.
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Memory lane Wayne RIX
At the last SIMBS meeting, it was suggested that, as the longest serving SIMBS Board member, I ought to tell you young’uns a little something about mountain biking in these parts back in the day, when everything was black and white. So here goes my trip down memory lane…
In 1992, Thea and I moved back to Victoria from Toronto. Of course I brought my off road Pro Am with me. It had a rigid frame and fork, but had some suspension in the form of a “flex-stem.” (Look it up.) SIMBS was just beginning to form and there was certainly no map of Hartland trails in those days. I got lost twice. One time I accidentally rode down a gravel road right into the dump and a sympathetic security guard had to let me out the front gate. I got the impression it was a common occurrence. The parking lot didn’t exist then.
On another ride I left my bike, with two water bottles on it (there weren’t hydration packs then either) and explored a junction in the trail by foot. Before I knew it, I’d wandered so far away from my bike, I didn’t know how to get back to it. I must have looked pretty stupid wandering around the forest in my lycra shorts. Fortunately, some hikers came along and I was able to describe the location where I had left my bike well enough that they were able to direct me to where it was.
Riding with Dave was usually an adventure. (He eventually got so adventurous he left his wife and moved to Guatemala!) However, while he was still part of the riding group…
About six of us met at Brannen Lake near Nanaimo one summer day and headed south towards the Abyss and other points like Westwood Lake. If only we could have bought Dan Cammiade’s wonderful map book with pictures, instructions and most importantly, detailed maps! We were navigating with some information scribbled on a piece of paper. There
was no indication of which way was North on this paper and we soon found ourselves having ridden right off our map. These days you can get a map, carry it with you, AND come across a sign showing the same map and saying “You are Here.” Or you can carry a GPS. Anyway, we made at least one wrong turn and eventually ended up on Harewood Mines Rd. Now we knew what to do – go east to the pathway beside the Nanaimo Parkway and head north to Brennan Lake. It took us twice as long as
we had planned to be out. Everyone ran out of food and water. (By then you could get 2-litre hydration packs.) Back at the car, the green bananas I left in the rear window were way riper than even I like, but we ate them anyway.
Another time, well into winter, Dave decided we should follow the markers from a bike endurance race that had happened the previous summer at Burnt Bridge. We all had a little
rain gear, but not everything you would want for winter riding. Things were going ok; then we followed a stream bed that had been dry in the summer. At the bottom we could not find the next marker and no one could remember the turn from the previous summer. So we had to hike-a-bike back up the slippery, wet stream and we nearly froze. The ride back to the parking lot from there was hell. One guy started up his truck and cranked the heat to high, but it took a while just to get warm air coming out. I don’t know how he drove with frozen feet; mine took nearly an hour to thaw out. The next week I bought some fire starter for my pack and we all bought Gore-Tex socks.
It seems though, that everything that comes around goes around. The evolution in bikes and equipment over the last 20 years has been phenomenal. But now the coolest videos on Vimeo show guys railing trails on hard tails, and long distance singletrack adventure rides are the new “it” thing…the equipment and the maps are just making it easier and safer than it was back in my day. But you won’t have the same crazy stories to tell your kids.
When bikes were black and white
One time I accidentally rode down a gravel road right into the dump and a sympathetic security guard had to let me out the front gate.
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In May of this year, I was in Whitehorse with Steve Wheeler, one
of my riding friends for many years. We were part of a group of 12 who were in the Yukon for a ski mountaineering trip. As luck would have it, the weather forecast was poor and we could not fly in to the base of the mountain, so we had some time on our hands. While the rest of the group pondered how to spend their extra time, Steve and I knew exactly what we wanted to do.
Before we left Victoria, I had told Steve we would go mountain biking if we had the chance. My memory of mountain biking in Whitehorse was from the 90s when I was up in the Yukon for a planting contract. It was my first time to Whitehorse and also my first exposure to the 24-hour days of a northern summer. I remembered riding at night, lights unnecessary, along the top of an
embankment next to the Yukon River on fast, flowing, single track.
It took a few tries before I found some suitable bikes at Cadence Cycle. The guys there were great, and Neil and his crew set us up with some full suspension Marins. It was a Saturday evening. In 20 minutes
they would be closed until Monday. Nonetheless, they were happy to help us out. Because our schedule was weather dependent, I was worried about getting the bikes back to them before they opened on Monday. Problem solved with the loan of a combination lock – “Just lock the bikes up to the fence there.” Tools, spare tube, map – again, no problem and they lent us everything we needed – “Just put them in the mailbox when you are done.” Incredible. What a way to promote riding! We were able to get a short ride in before dinner.
Sunday morning we were again weathered out, so we set off to explore. The map was excellent as was the trail marking system. We rode over 30 kilometres on and never on the same trail twice. In one area, a winter XC ski trail system made for very fast double track. Elsewhere, beautifully built single track contoured and flowed
Travel Craig GILLETT
I remembered riding at night, lights unnecessary, along the top of an embankment next to the Yukon River on fast, flowing, single track.
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Above: Riding by one of the many small lakesBelow: The trail signage was superb.
through the rolling hills and around the numerous picturesque lakes.
Monday was the same weather scenario so our bikes were rented for another day. We decided to climb a communications tower access road up to the top of Grey Mountain where the map showed some black diamond trails. There was still snow on the mountain, but the road was plowed, so we pedaled on and arrived at the top around an hour later. The upper trails were snowed out, but looking at the terrain, I could appreciate why I had seen several big rigs on the bike racks around town. The mountain is steep, rocky and suitable for shuttles (after you ride/push past the end of the road, up the ridge, to the trail head). After our climb, we rode down the road for a bit then turned on to a trail and biked through snowy patches for a kilometre or so, before descending below the snow line and back on to fast single track. Reluctant to chance damaging our rental bikes, we rode by several well crafted log rides and teeter totters. More fast, pumpy, flowing, and well constructed trails flowed beneath our wheels. Whooping and hollering from the sheer joy of riding, we put on over 40 kilometres that day and only doubled up on one trail. Of course we finished the day with grins from ear to ear.
We returned our bikes as our group decided to move out of Whitehorse and closer to the mountain to wait for a weather window. Unfortunately, the poor weather persisted and the summit eluded us.
Ten minutes riding from downtown Whitehorse will get you to an extensive, well built and maintained trail system. While a Google search will reveal that there are plenty of other trails in the Yukon that could easily justify a mountain biking road trip, the trails in Whitehorse are definitely worth checking out, even if you are just passing through.
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Oct. 14 was SIMBS 5th Annual Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day. It also happened to be the first rainy weekend of the fall, after a long and glorious summer. Despite the rain and cool weather, about 15 hardy kids dragged their parents up to Hartland for the afternoon.
Russ Hays and North Park Bikes were there to check over the bikes and get all the kids ready to go.
There were plenty of volunteers only too happy to take the kids out for a wet soggy ride. After a little messing around in the TTA, they were off. The kids all had a fantastic time - kids just seem to love water and mud, don’t they?
They came back after their ride for hot chocolate, hot dogs and treats courtesy of Country Grocer. North Park and Mac’s Cycle provided tents to keep everyone dry while they fuelled up and then gathered for the fantastic draw prizes.
The Trek Store outdid themselves this year, donating a large number of kids helmets and gloves. Marty’s Mountain Cycle and Mountain Equipment Co-op also provided great prizes for the kids. And because the turnout was lower than expected due to the weather, everyone went home with a sweet prize. Once again, the success of this event was due to the wonderful volunteers who came out and helped. Many thanks to Alycia, Holly, Carmel, John, Wayne, Bruce, Laura, Nathaniel, Darrin, Russ, Greg, Chris and David. Thanks also to Country Grocer, North Park Bikes, Russ Hays, Marty’s Mountain Cycle, Mac’s Cycle and Mountain Equipment Co-op.
Photo by Matthuw Ronald-JonesIn Cobble Hill, the rain eased up just before 1 p.m., draw-ing out 17 kids with about the same number of parents and volunteers. All three area bike shops: Cowichan Cycles, Cycle Therapy and Experience Cycling came out to help with bike and helmet checks as well as giveaways for all the kids. Thanks to the local parks commission, there were hot dogs, chips and hot chocolate for everyone.Photos by Carmel Ecker
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Above: Darlene Oman, event coor-
dinator, grills up some lunch.
Left: Thanks to Country Grocer for providing tasty snacks for the post-ride festivities.
Despite the rainy deluge, 15 kids signed up and went out for a ride.
Russ Hays and North Park Bikes made sure every bike was safe to ride.
For the kids who made it out, there were prizes galore.
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