Claire nailed her best ever World Cup result at Mount Saint Anne with 6th place finish, making her the top Canadian Dh’er. “It is a really, really physical long track. You have to try to relax and hang on. There are some harder ruts now that it has dried out but most of them are avoidable. The weather has done us a favour. The course is faster and it’s shorter. It’s just so physically demanding. It’s hard to ride your best when you’re so tired. It makes you want to stop and take a nap!”
Here at the office, we think it might have been the ‘tuck’ that helped her out.
Here are the top 10 results.
| Women |
Time |
Gap |
| 1 Rachel Atherton (GBr) Animal Commencal |
5:12.36 |
0 |
| 2 Sabrina Jonnier (Fra) Team Maxxis |
5:13.79 |
1.43 |
| 3 Tracy Moseley (GBr) Kona |
5:21.86 |
9.5 |
| 4 Mio Suemasa (Jpn) MS-Intense Factory-Racing |
5:35.52 |
23.16 |
| 5 Fionn Griffiths (GBr) Norco World Team |
5:37.21 |
24.85 |
| 6 Claire Buchar (Can) |
5:39.40 |
27.04 |
| 7 Helen Gaskell (GBr) |
5:43.63 |
31.27 |
| 8 Anita Molcik (Aut) 4 Elements Yeti/Hotec/Rsp |
5:47.15 |
34.79 |
| 9 Scarlett Hagen (NZl) |
5:47.40 |
35.04 |
| 10 Micayla Gatto (Can) Commencal/Marzocchi |
5:47.74 |
35.38 |
Wednesday July 30th, 5:30pm Ride. 8pm Wine & Cheese
To all the ladies! Grab your favorite girl posse and join other like minded girls for an evening sesh on Seymour. Can’t make the ride? Simply come for the Wine & Cheese Après at the Cove Bike Shop on Main Street.
The fine details:
·The Ride- Meet at Parkgate Shopping Center (base of Mount Seymour) at 5:30pm. We will break into groups for an XC loop & shuttles. Trails TBA
·Demo Bikes- Cove Bike Shop will provide demo bikes for those without a ride or who want to try something new. Arrive at Parkgate by 5:15pm so we can ensure proper set up for you. Demo’s lent out on a first come first serve basis.
·Mechanics will be on hand, at both Parkgate and the Cove, to help dial in your rig just how you like it- for FREE
·The Complimentary Wine & Cheese Après- Meet back at the Main Street Cove for 8pm
·We have draw prizes from Sombrio, Cove, Barefoot Wine & Gentle Fawn
**Sombrio Girl team members include Claire Buchar and Kathy Pruitt
***Thanks to Yorick Carroux for the poster photo.
Last weekend I did another DH race of this season, national DH championship in Bozi Dar. It was great fun to ride DH bike again and I was enjoying it a lot. The course is pretty fast with few technical sections and is about 4 minutes long. During trainings on Friday and Saturday it was raining so the track was even more technical. Luckily on Sunday the weather was good and we were riding on the dry course.
Sunday afternoon was the race time. Weather was nice and there were lot of spectators cheering and making great atmosphere on the track. My run was pretty good and I was having lot of fun on the bike. When I crossed the finish line I was on the first place but there were still 2 guys coming. Finally I finished on the 2nd place just 0,5 sec. behind Czech best DH rider Adam Vagner.
At the moment I´m already in Canada getting ready for another fourcross World cups in Mont Saint Anne and next week in Bromont.
-Kamil
Last weekend I did another trip to Belgium for a fourcross race in Malmedy. It was pretty cool to come to Belgium again as I like the country and it looks like that fourcross is getting bigger there this year. The course in Malmedy was designed by Phil Saxena and it was the longest fourcross I ever did. The times in qualification were over 1 minute, so it was almost as a short DH race.
During whole weekend it was raining but luckily for us the course was still in a good shape and we were able to jump all jumps and rode pretty fast. Also the atmosphere was pretty good as there were quite a lot of people cheering during the race.
In qualification I had really good run and finished on the first place. In the race I won all my heats and got into the final. I had great start and lead the run all the way down and win the race in Malmedy.
1st place Kamil Tatarkovic
2nd place Joost Wichman
3rd place Daniel Prijkel
WHISTLER, BC, July 16, 2008 – Kokanee Crankworx organizers are proud to announce the popular Mountain bike clothing company Sombrio as the official merchandise partner for the festival. Sombrio will be producing all the Kokanee Crankworx branded clothing including hats, T-shirts and hoodies.
“Having witnessed the evolution of the sport of mountain biking through the Whistler Mountain Bike Park over the past few years, I’m excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with Kokanee Crankworx on such a unique and influential merchandise program,” says Dave Watson, Sombrio Founder, Owner, and Team Rider. “I’m stoked to have the creative freedom to develop a Sombrio-styled program that will be officially linked to such a progressive and talent rich festival.”
“We couldn’t be happier to be working with such a quality, Canadian company as the official merchandise partner for the festival,” says Jeremy Roche, General Manager of Kokanee Crankworx. “Sombrio has developed an incredible merchandise line for this year’s event and we can’t wait for it to arrive!”
Sombrio is currently in the process of manufacturing the Kokanee Crankworx branded goods for the event including a style of organic cotton T-shirts. All merchandise will be sold at the event through Garbanzo Bike and Bean and in the official Event Merchandise tent during the festival. For more information on Kokanee Crankworx please visit www.crankworx.com.
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