Category: General
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Ride Report: Nanaimo to Chemainus off-road
July 13, 2024 My pops lives in Chemainus, a small town along the coast of Vancouver Island between Nanaimo and Victoria. I’ve ridden to his place before a couple times now via a combination of paved MUP and quiet roads with a few kilometres of highway shoulder. But I hoped to find a way to…
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Ride Report: Sooke Shenanigans, April 2024
In February, a friend noticed that all three of the small cabins at Sooke River Campground, a campground I was entirely unfamiliar with, were available and for a very reasonable rate during an April weekend that they had available. Impulsively, I booked one while friends booked the other two. Given that April is typically a…
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Burnabop XL Ride Notes
This page is intended to offer some relevant insights to a rider who is about to ride the Burnabop XL route. Of course, conditions on the day of are going to vary widely. If it is raining or has been raining, expect mud in a variety of locations. I will try to note the most…
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Ride Report: Seymour Valley March 2022
The Seymour valley, also referred to as the LSCR (Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve), is a valley that I’ve spent quite a bit of time. There is nowhere else like it locally, providing a true wilderness experience just outside the city. By mid-March, when this ride took place, winter is easing its grip on Vancouver. But…
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Ride Report: Earlybird 200, 2022
This is being written in Dec 2023 as I think back to the beautiful and challenging 200k brevet I rode in March 2022. I believe it was either my third or fourth 200, and I still have not ventured to longer brevets. I’m not sure if I will or not! I rode to the start…
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Ride Report: Swift Campout overnighter 2023
Every year, Swift Campout is organized worldwide on the same weekend as my partners’ birthday. Since going as a family is not particularly feasible for a few reasons, some years I sneak off to join friends with a quick overnight camp and some years I don’t. This year I did, just joining for the first…
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Ride Report: Discomfort Zone
The Discomfort Zone route was put together by friends at Love Machine Cycling with Scott, who is both a strong road & gravel rider as well as talented mountain biker. The confluence of these skills can be found in this route: it’s difficult in many respects. I chose to ride it on my Stooge Speedbomb,…
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Ride Report: Birthday CJR 2023
First of all, “CJR” stands for Classic Jason Ride and was coined some years ago by my regular riding buddies as something you’d mutter under your breath when forced to once again get off your bike to carry it over an unrideable section of trail or up a flight of stairs. It wasn’t that I…
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Ride Report: Rob-route, Cypress
This report is tangentially related to my post about the Tripleshot Crossfondo event in Victoria. Rob is one of several of my friends who have done the event, most of them twice now – I did not partake the first year, but the notoriety it had was infectious and got me out the following year.…
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Ride Report: 2023 Tripleshot Crossfondo Trip
In mid October 2023, I rode from home to Chemainus BC, visiting my dad, then the next day getting a lift to Victoria BC for a rather unique and challenging event. The day after the event I rode home from Victoria to Vancouver. The result was four days (three riding), about 235km, and all upon…