What: Hell's Belles
When: July 4 to 5, 2015
Type: Gravity / Beginner to Highly Advanced
Cost: $385 CDN Panorama Resort and
lbbikes have joined together to create a MTB skill developing weekend designed to welcome the new rider as well as challenge the advanced with a gravity skills enhancing experience that's a little more than the traditional weekend camp.
Pairing accomplished professional coaches
Lindsey Voreis from
Ladies AllRide and
Lorraine Blancher from
lbbikes, with the mountain luxuries of Panorama Resort makes this weekend a one-of-a-kind, mountain bike skill-enhancing retreat.
Snap Shot:• Friday Night Welcome and Bike Set Up
• Saturday Après -
Poolside to learn bike maintenance, think spa for your bike
• Sunday Morning Mountain Side Yoga - optional but highly recommended
• Camp lunches enhanced by
CLIF Bar• Belle lift line priority
• An opportunity to win some of our favorite products to take home
Extras (if needed)
• A discount on bike and gear rental (bike / helmet / pads)
• 20% discount on Resort Accommodation (various levels)
Panorama has a long history of hosting Canada Cup Downhill races, it also boasts a quality signature Black Diamond jump Hell’s Bell's. The combination of legitimate gravity runs and an all women's gravity event made it fitting to call the event the inaugural "Hell's Belles" weekend.
Weekend OverviewFriday Night
7:00 pm - Welcome and Bike Set Up Our weekend starts with a Welcome and Bike Set ensure you and your bike are ready for camp. We'll cover suspension set up (SAG), handlebar width, lever positioning and our bodies biomechanics with it. We'll also start to answer some pre-submitted "off the bike" questions you sent in at registration. Riders who submit a question with their registration will be entered to win a main camp prize.
Saturday 9:30 am - Meet at the base of the mountain, steps away from most resort accommodation.
Split into respected riding groups (similar abilities / similar goals) and blend applicable coaching sessions with applicable bike park runs.
10:00 am to 5:00 pm - Ride the bike park with a group lunch.
Saturday Poolside Après Think Spa for you bike. Meet poolside for an informative après, (hot pools if it's 'rolling thunder, pouring raining'.) We'll go over bike care essentials plus finish answering the remaining questions you have too. (These sessions are quickly becoming one of my favorite part of the weekend.) The first drink (alcoholic or non) and some light appies are on us.
Sunday 8:00 am to 9:00 am - Rise and Shine Yoga
This is not mandatory, although we invite you to start the day with mountain side yoga session. Maintaining a full range of motion of your major biking joints will ensure the investment of a skill enhancing weekend will enhance your biking life for many years to come...
9:30 am - Meet at the base of the mountain. Split into respected riding groups and continue the momentum and progression to learn.
10:00 am to 5:00 pm - Ride the bike park with a group lunch.
Weekend Essentials• Full Face Helmet Mandatory
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Sign Me UpClick here to Register for Hell's Belles and remember to include an off-the-bike questions you also want to learn.
Click here to contact Panorama for Weekend Accommodation and Bike Rentals.
For further Panorama Resort insight, check their
2015 Bike Park Update here.
For further Hell's Belles insight, contact
Lorraine at lbbikes.
lbbikes is enhanced by
Race Face,
FOX Racing Shox,
Specialized Canada,
Sport Oxylent,
CLIF Bar,
Troy Lee Designs,
Oakley Canada,
Five Ten and
Crankbrothers.
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