Next Tuesday, January 31 is a movie premiere in Calgary for “Go Death Racer” which is a short documentary on the 2010 Canadian Death Race (ultra race) in Grande Cache. Sponsored by the Tech Shop and The North Face – free water bottle and $25 off the Tech Shop...
For those of you who know what Good Life (http://www.goodlifebikes.ca/) is this might be of intrest. This was posted on their facebook page a few hours ago and thought it was important to share…. maybe in hopes of helping them find a new place. We got notice today that the...
Whether it is cricket, football, swimming, basketball, baseball, tennis, cycling, hockey, motorracing or track and field, sport has it all. Drama, tension, history and triumph. Sport also makes us feel every kind of emotion we know. Joy, sadness, revenge, anger, happiness, pride, embarrassment and many more. Here are a...
One of the interesting facts about land mammals is that their life expectancy is the same – if you measure it in terms of heartbeats. All land mammals will live for about 1 billion heartbeats. A shrew has a heart rate of 600 bpm (beats per minute) and a...
Its the Single Speed Cross Country World Cup… SSCXWC. It took place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Jason Perry was on site and documented the cyclocross action in his 2011 SSCXWC set for all of us to see. Looks damn fun to me…. now all I have to...
Shared via facebook from the speedy Mr.Horn.
Mr. Murray cleaned up at the Banff Winterstart race this past weekend. Ryan crossed the line stopping the clock at 29:18 which grabbed him a 12th place finish in the popular November race. When asked how he thought the race went Ryan said “with all this extra chin weight...
Thanks to everyone who showed up! Here are the official results: John White 0:07:41 Bryon Howards 0:07:58 Kyle Marcotte 0:08:38 Kelly Marcotte 0:08:43 Mike Young 0:08:45 Chris Hopper 0:09:21 Russel McWilliam 0:10:43 Mark 0:14:21 Gareth Williams 0:16:21 Carson 0:16:45 Meghan Donahue 0:18:47 Amy Herbison 0:18:47 Trev Williams 0:28:47 Jan...
The Beer Mile is getting closer…. as a last ditch effort I have started to distribute these around the city. Info on the Beer Mile can be found HERE Rules for the Beer Mile click HERE
Quietly released over the weekend, the City of Calgary Pathways & Bikeways app is now available free of charge in the App Store for use on the iPhone and iPod touch. “We wanted to build a convenient and efficient tool for pedestrians and cyclists,” said Corinna Baxter, a...
This just fuels the fire.
The Jason Lapierre Memorial Cycling Weekend Mission The Jason Lapierre Memorial Cycling Weekend has evolved into one of Alberta’s premiere cycling events over it’s 4 years. With the race’s ever increasing exposure to the public, the mission has remained the same: to highlight the engaging, exciting, pure spectacle of...
I was riding my cervelo a week ago and it started to creak near the bottom bracket so i took it into the shop to have a look at what was making the noise. I took off the crank arms and found this little crack in the frame. So...
This contest used to be run to raise money for the endowment fund for the Jason Lapierre Scholarship. Since we have reached our endowment fund goal we are looking for a new organization to raise funds for. 100% of the entry fees will still be going towards a worthy...
Now that Calgary has started to get a few bike lanes I thought this video might be appropriate. Lets hope Calgary Police don’t start enforcing these “laws”.
The use of performance enhancers in sports is inevitable. Celebrating it instead of banning it would make competition safer, more honest, and more fun. Sports are supposed to be pure-that’s why there are rules and referees; that’s why the first Olympians competed in the nude. It’s also the reason...
My week of biking out in BC has come to a girding halt. I have Achilles Tendinitis (Tendinopathy)…. but, this is just a self diagnosis . After a ride to Cochrane the other week my achilles got a bit sore. I just assumed it was because I hadn’t ridden in a...
