Fig Rolls Canada Race Roundup

We've been busy over on this appendage of the Fig Rolls Empire!

Lots of racing, and slightly pained expressions like this one Andrew is wearing.

NIMBY50 - A gnarly and excellent race (which isn't 50km long, but feels like it). Andrew got 10th place in the 30-34 year-old male category with 3h16m34s and Lina got 5th place in the 30-34 year-old female category with a time of 3h39m32s.

Return of the Ripper 2011 - Three races on the North Shore with healthy doses of pain, ridiculousness, and fun. Andrew crawled in at the back of the King of The Shore category for people who raced all 3 events on the same bike and wrote about it here.

Wade's Excellent Adventure - Paul and Andrew stormed into a rather unexpected 3rd place in the 2-man team and 5th overall in the most fun race ever (though it's a close thing with NIMBY). Chromag liked it too.

24 Hours of Light - Paul and Andrew did this race up in the Yukon back in 2007 and Lina and Andrew will be back this weekend to have another go.

Dusk til dawn imminent

Crikey. Metcheck currently predicting 300+ mph winds for the weekend!

I hope that's an error...

Monster

In a purchase justified by bike rationalisation and the sale of my previous cross bike, I now have a lovely brown Surly Cross Check. This has been built up in a more utilitarian manner than my previous bike, ridden to work and around the Lincolnshire countryside and down a few bridleways.

I saw an ad for some cheap 29er tyres a few weeks ago, and after a bit of research got them. The bike has now become a bit of a monster truck. Just took it out for a pootle round my local loop and it rolls straight over all the ruts, bumps and tractor tyre marks.

Big grin on my return.

Singletrack Weekender

As Joe said below it was ace again. I really need to a) get fit and b) practice on trails that are not fields :) Here is one of my DH runs. I took better lines in the race and didn't stop to look for a puncture either... ( i also need to sort out the shaky camera mount)

Singletrack Classic Weekender - Downhill Practice from MonkeyBoy on Vimeo.

12 Hours of Cumberland

Here's a race report from Fig Rolls Vancouver Island representative, Marc. Congratulations islanders!

Since the Vancouver lads were all off on other adventures I recruited some new racers, and we kicked arse. The format was the same, he who has the most laps wins.

We stuck to same plan as last year, with each rider doing a single lap. Dave took us out to a blistering start with a 35 min lap. The superb course was from miners, two and a juice, buggered big, short and curly, railroad connector, lower crafty, black hole, space nugget. I followed on the sh@t bike (which counts for two), unfortunately or fortunately the shit bikes were a little shitter this year and didn't play as big a role, my two laps were all we needed. One was size small the other was size rigid. The small was designed to blast your legs, the other without suspension was designed to shred your arms, the ridgid even came with ball bearings in the handle bars to remind you of every jarring bump. Trevor and Tylor matched pace and we off to a great start.

We took the lead early on and held it for the day. We squeaked out 20 laps in 11 hrs 28min. Giving us the most laps in our category and the most overall. Next were a couple of solo riders with 17! Those lads are machines.

All in it was an excellent tiring day.

Figrolls @ singletrack weekender

Video is bad quality i'm afraid!

Matt H up first but punctures, Duncan next then Matthew. Niki managed not to record me - must have been too fast.