Time to get in Shape!

This is me and yes I am wheezing in pain. I just finished hiking my bike up a cliff face and I admit I am out of shape!



Good thing we are building a Fitness track littered with jumps and flow to get me in shape!

I was on Pinkbike today and Katrina Strand our local ripper from Whistler listed a Training program.

Check it out!
SPRING FITNESS TRAINING PROGRAM PART 1!

Cold weather is good for the lungs!

"The very fact that this track exists is a very good sign for the future of bike parks on the south island. Municipalities are afraid of the unknown and this park will set a precedent for this kind of bike facility in our neck of the woods. It will make it easier for future bike-parks to be built, because land-managers will be able to see on paper that this sort of facility is viable. For this reason alone, the park deserves the support of all the riders, and parents of young riders, in the greater Victoria area."

Kind words from Riders Cycle their crew hit up the park on the weekend for some fun in the sun!

Check it out the full story here on their Blog and props to Mitch Thacker for the photo's : NORTH SAANICH PUMP TRACK

Park is OPEN get in there!

We shut down the park for weather reasons during that crazy holiday storm, but Cliff Halliday and his Union crew went in there and cleaned up all the fallen branches adn opened the gates yesterday.

Please go and enjoy the park the track will exhaust you, sadly I am a one lap guy at the moment!

We will have scored a great deal of help since opening the park and now we have a website coming with the generous and talented help of Colette and her firm BR Thompson Co.

So get in the park and ride it, get stoked and look over the snow fence at how much property we have been given to expand, if you look at the market value of property these days we are sitting a half million dollar parcel.

North Saanich is being very generous by not only letting us build there but helping us develop /maintain the park so everyone start thinking about what we can make this park into. We have designs for the open areas but I want feedback for the treed areas and future pump track expansions.

A year ago hand clearing the pump track section...

But thank god Gordy Martman has machines we can use for the open areas because wheel barrels suck!

Park Directions!

We have been hiding this park for almost a year, I am finally posting the information on how to find it... But please respect that in bad weather as we have right now, park etiquette must be taken to heart! Knobby tires eat the track up sooo fast so please think ahead and bring track friendly tires. If not in your budget just use common sense and enjoy this park!


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North Saanich Freeride is now Open!

Officially this is it, Phase 1 is open for anyone to ride at anytime with in daylight hours!!!

Been a long time coming but please go and enjoy it!

We will have a Grand Opening in the Spring and begin phases 2/3/4/5/

Thanks to everyone involved for their efforts!

North Saanich Freeride Park AGM!

This is it, by this weekend we should have phase 1 legally open for all to come ride! Massive pump track was finished last night with the aid of a light system and some old fashion elbow grease!

**FOR CONFIRMATION OF PARK OPENING, CHECK BACK FRIDAY EVENING**

Our third AGM is set for Dec 11 2008, 7PM at Mary Winspear.
We are looking for volunteers to help with fundraising and to help run our society.

NSMBS *North Saanich Mountain Bike Society* will be eagerly seeking the right candidates to make this park like no other. We want to open phases 2, 3, 4 and 5 the following year with an ambitious goal to erect structure making it a covered, all weather riding facility.

We appreciate any support that you may be able to
provide.

Again Dec 11th 2008, 7PM at Mary Winspear Center out here in Sidney, right off the Highway.


A lot has been done behind the scenes to even get to this stage, we have an amazing Gas sponsorship through Peninsula C0-Op intended to keep our Generous donations of Machines from G & E Equipment Rentals / Dave Aylard, North Saanich Municipality Parks Division and Endless support from Sidney Water Front Inn and Spa .


Tilt your head a little bit! This is our end goal, so please support North Saanich and our quest for a place for kids and adults to enjoy their rides.

Long over due upate!

Sadly, I had issues entering the blog all the codes went dead so I have let it slide for months!

Amazing things have happened since the last post:
Rock roads installed
Drainage pipes laid
Co-Op gas sponsorship
Tracked bobcat and wheeled bobcats being loaned
2 Olympic MTB Athletes stepped up to endorse the park

We are about a week away from opening Phase One, as seen on the image above. Modest but now that we are legal we can get to work on new phases.

I will make a better posting on teh events later, I have just cracked the codes. Old Google would not allow a password reset or reminder -?- but we are back online!

Big thanks to all the vollunteers who haev made this happen.
Stay tuned!