CAT 5 started a minute behind everyone else. I took it as a challenge and really enjoyed picking riders off. I did the opposite the next day, moving up a category and getting a good start in. It becomes an entirely different race when you spend it trying to maintain a lead rather than constantly pass. Photo Sam Hill.
Not my first race, but one of my earlier ones. There were over two dozen riders out in the nice weather and a couple of people taking photos. Photo Sam Hill.
N/A Irv Tremblay, Garrett Thibault, Marc Tremblay, Dalton Fayad
I think food and the food and drink following this particular ride was at a small town’s gas station. It’s about the journey, not the destination. Photo Randy Lewis (http://www.lewisimages.ca/).
One of the main guys behind the RCC’s whole cyclocross season was Brad Kerr, who finished second in Master’s 30+ at Nationals in Winnipeg Manitoba. Photo Pedro Elgueta.
Breaking away for the sole purpose of being in front of everyone when this photo was taken. I had very little strategy and learned a lot the hard way in this two day race. Photo Pedro Elgueta.
I spent nearly as much time on borrowed bikes as I did on my own bikes. I blew up my rear hub mountain biking on my cross bike. A fellow I hadn’t even met lent me this Trek for nearly a month. I made sure not to mountain bike on it. Photo Randy Lewis (http://www.lewisimages.ca/)
Fatbikes aren’t kept away for just snowfall. There’s a sand dune area a few hour’s drive outside Regina that the guys will occasionally get out to. Unfortunately, I missed the trip that happened while I was in town. Photo Kris Abrahamson.
Dogs and fatbikes go well together. Distances and speeds are kept lower with the wide wheel bikes, and reduce the chances of running a pooch to its limits. Photo Kris Abrahamson.
First time I’d met most of these guys and they served me chicken wings that they BBQ’d right after the ride. They weren’t the only hospitable ones either. I’d been loaned tools, bikes, and given free rides to the trail head by many members of the community. Great people go a long way to making Regina a wonderful place to ride a bike. Photo Jocelyn Mariel Froehlich.
Not a whole lot to dumb down. You really need to get crafty to use as big of a bike that Matt Froehlich insists on shredding. Photo Jocelyn Mariel Froehlich.
A lot of the time, mountain bike geometry wasn’t essential. One can get along just fine out here with whatever. That being said, I’d buy something a newer if I were in the market. Photo Jeremy Erdmann.
The first fatbike I borrowed in Regina out at Wascana trails after a melt/refreeze. I was thoroughly impressed by the amount of fun I had in a variety of conditions, so long as I didn’t need to get through anything too deep and heavy. Photo (and bike) Jeremy Erdmann.
After a slip out by the rider pictured behind me, I was able to hold third for a large portion of this race. I wiped out in the last lap and only barely came out on top in a sprint to the finish. It was a huge improvement over mid pack only a few weeks before. Photo Jason Christason.
This article will include pictures of all types of riding, Cyclocross being one of them. The picture above is from the Saskatchewan Cyclocross Provincial Race, which was not without groms. Photo: Sam Hill.
Everything is a serious as you want it to be. Even if you take it seriously, RCC club president Pedro Elgueta will probably still beat you. Photo Dave Van Zeyl.
This was an early morning ride right before temps went above zero and everything turned to mud. I went back out the next day and stopped being able to move halfway through the ride from all the mud build up. I think I ended up spending more time cleaning the bike than riding. Photo Alan Sales.