HOT ASS days!

Published: 2010-01-12
Author: Kevbot

Been at home in Melbourne, Australia now for a few weeks with the intention of missing the misery that winter in Vancouver imposes upon all! Nonetheless, I do miss the wet roots and loam, and a cracker of a crew to rip them up with! Instead it's been heatwave after heatwave!! I was out on the DH bike the yesterday in 43 degree heat and was ripping some cutties on the road for a laugh! It was so hot in the sun that I was making Bitumen berms with the insane Maxxis' in the middle of the road! I wonder how long they're going to hang around for!? Possibly until the next scorcher turns the road into a tar lake!

Ken Faubert of team DC recently headed Down under to check out the riding, the great weather and the Aussie scenery... not specifying whether female or male... to be determined through his Blog! We hit up all the local DH trails about my area and had a ball!! One that he rather enjoyed in particular is one of my most favourite trails that I've ridden. It's out in Warburton, Victoria! Super quick trails with a bit of everything thrown in for good measure, lasting up to about a 6 or 7 minute run. It makes me giggle! Riding with Ken has been good fun for sure! He has moved on over to Adelaide for the Aussie Nationals that are taking place this weekend.

Just got in from a pisser of an XC ride that ruined my out of shape DH legs! My local area takes me through some dry open forest that offers kangaroo and rabbit trails everywhere! Terrain that my Giant Trance X1 relishes!! Pinning down loose tight XC trails on the Trance is making me push my cornering, and surprises me about the grip that the 2.1 Kenda tires are giving me! It's also teaching me about the benefit of lower rotational weight respecting the CrossMax wheels that the Trance is spec'd with. It makes corner transitions a treat, as well as adding massive benefit to my climbing capacity... kinda hard to keep the front wheel down though!! I'm enjoying the XC bike a bunch again, which is soon enough going to have to be coupled with hitting up the gym so I don't turn into a rake!!

Tomorrow is another day on the XC rig, followed by a weekend up the mountain at the local MTB resort, Mount Buller. Should prove to provide plenty of laughs with some new riding buddies! Am pretty stoked about getting out on the DH bike again for some solid runs! It seems a little unhappy at the moment, but a little love and the old beast will tear the trails down again! I just have to learn to untame the thing over the course of this summer at home! Keen to ride as much as possible!!

Happy riding!
Open it up!

Kev

Shredding in Squampton

Shredding in Squampton

The Morning started with a flash. I could here the pounding far off in my head, but i was unable to wake from whisky in-duced sleep. The pounding quickly got louder, slowly tearing me away from my haze of dreams. I opened my eyes, staring up at the paint and cob-web covered ceiling. However the pounding noise of my dreams started again. Damn door I thought. I awkwardly got out of my bed , my whole body aching for more sleep. The person pounding on the door sounded like they were giving it one last series of slightly louder blows before giving up. I forced my legs to carry me up the flight of stairs out of my dank basement dwelling. I darted across the dining room and in one smooth motion reached for the door and whipped it open. The stranger who was so persistently knocking had turned there back to the door, obviously giving up on it being answered. The man all of a sudden spun around sensing my presence. We locked eyes only for a second before both springing into action. He exploded at me like a grenade swinging a wild left hook . The stranger was surprisingly quick but not quick enough, I had already anticipated his next three moves and countered with a step to my right side and a quick Jab to the mans solar plexus, crumpling him over at the waste. I followed my strike up with a dive bomb punch to the back of his exposed neck. The man began to fall to the ground but before he hit I swiped him up by the ears, aligning his head for a well placed knee strike right to the tip of his nose. The mans face popped like a apple stuffed with a fire cracker. I let go of his body letting it slump down into the doorway. In my peripheral vision I picked up more movement out on the street . It was another man quickly approaching, but this man was different. Unlike the this previous visitor, his shoulders were relaxed, a casual snap in his stride. This new visitor obviously had a different agenda than my previous visitor.
He rounded the bush to my stairs and bounced up the flight towards me. He raised his eyes to meet mine. It was my good buddy Dan Gongross and he was here to go ride some Mountain bikes.
And so we did..... in Squamish.....and it was awesome

New Team Member Carlos Zavarce with a big fat injection of truth

Well, the fog from New Years has lifted… my body, which was at one point in my life a palace, though that point is not easily recallable, is now the equivalent of a degree in philosophy….useless.
How did I get here?
Oh that’s right, non-stop drinking and eating for the better part of a month.
So, with the determination of an obese, female first year university student after making her new years resolution to go to the gym, I have resolved to do the same.
For those of you reading this….What the hell, do you really have nothing better to do?
If you responded, yes but wanted to see who Carlos Zavarce was because you’ve never heard of me…touché
If you responded no, well, that sucks, maybe take up guitar?
I’m currently finishing up my 5 year sentence on the prison planet Hoth, where the only thing close to mountain biking is riding tauntauns and the only thing close to fun is cutting them open to sleep in. So as I toil away my last few months in this hell hole before returning to the glorious center of everything awesome (Whistler). I figure its time to get myself in shape.
Now you might think my long-term goals is dominating the Senior Sport category at all the BC cups this year, you may be right, however, the real reason is something much more awesome.
August 14th, Adam Mantle and I will battle to the death, or at least the first sign of a nose bleed. LET IT BE SAID AND LET IT BE WRITTEN!!
BLOG ENTRY 1 COMPLETE

-Carlos aaaaahhhhh Zavarce

New Dunbar Team Page

Welcome to the new Dunbar Cycles Team Page. We are currently in the final stages of locking down our Race Team for the 2010 season. Stay tuned the next couple of weeks for a press release on the complete 2010 race team. In the meantime check out all the other riders and there blogs.

Dunbar cleans up

The Dunbar Team put on a strong showing this week end at the Rat Race in Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast this weekend with thirteen team riders in attendance. Out of the thirteen riders we clinched a total on nine podiums in the various categories and four riders in the top ten fastest times of the day!

The course was dry and prime, with gorgeous loose berms in the upper open section, root mine-fields through out the wooded section which forced riders to pump n' gap for maximum preservation of that critical momentum. The flat sections of the course still hurt like hell to pedal and pump through, but compared to the wet years gone by, keeping speed was a bit more pleasant this year.

Full results can be found here:

Results by Category

Overall Times

A big thanks to the organizers and trail builders at Sunshine Coast. It's up there as one of the best race venues of the year!

Bikes recovered, crooks in jail!

Kamloops RCMP have arrested two men and seized a large amount of stolen property, which includes the bikes stolen from Team Dunbar. The bikes have not been returned yet as there is a lot of paper work and fact checking to happen first, but we hope the team will have their bikes back this week.

Six bikes stolen in Kamloops

Six bikes were stolen from the Dunbar team trailer in Kamloops in the early hours of Saturday 17th of May 2008.

The bikes that have been stolen are:

• 2008 trailer park. gunmetal grey, with lime green components. argyle fork, white rims, juicy rear brake only. 1 day old.
• 2007 black giant reign x 1 - fox 36 fork, e-13 lite guide with broken idler pulley. rear cable/brake line routed through chainstays. Easton bar and stem, fox rear shock.
• 2008 Transition Bottle rocket, silver with red caps on pivots, fox 36 fork, sunline bar and stem, sixty magnesium pedals.
• 2007 DeVinci frantic, light blue, brand new wheelset, mavic black ust tubeless rims on blue hope hubs. Marzocchi 66 fork, black.
• 2007 Morewood Izumi DH, white. Hadley, mavic ex721 wheelset, chromag stem, easton EA 50 bar, saint brakes, shimano hone cranks, black mrp chaindevice, atomlab trailking pedals, fox dhx 5 rear shock, rockshox boxxer team grey fork.
• 2004 Last Raffnix hartail, beige, 07 silver pike, hope bulb/mavix ex 721 wheelset, truvativ hozfeller cranks, e-13 bashguard, single speed. Raceface diabolus stem, ns bar, avid juicy rear brake only.

any information please call the shop

604 224 2106

cheers,

The Dunbar Team.