BC Bike Race - SR

Canada, June 28-July 4, 2008

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Schedule

Stage 1 - June 28: Shawnigan Lake - Cowichan Lake District, 89km
Stage 2 - June 29: Cowichan Lake District - Port Alberni, 125km
Stage 3 - June 30: Port Alberni - Cumberland, 80km
Stage 4 - July 1: Cumberland - Sechelt, 60km
Stage 5 - July 2: Sechelt - Squamish, 65km
Stage 6 - July 3: The Best of Squamish, 65km
Stage 7 - July 4: Whistler, 47km

Stage racing returns to British Columbia

By Sue George

In only its second year, the BC Bike Race is drawing a top-notch field of endurance specialists for seven days of team competition. Back to defend their titles from the inaugural edition will be Americans Chris Eatough and Jeff Schalk of Trek / VW. Eatough is the six-time 24 hours of Adrenalin World Solo Champion while Schalk has won all four rounds of the National Ultra Endurance (NUE) series in 2008.

Mountain bike legend and 24 hours of Adrenalin World Champion Tinker Juarez (Monavie-Cannondale) will partner with team-mate Mitchell Peterson. Both hail from the US. Monavie will field a second team inclucing Jason Sager and Bart Gilliespie.

Canada will bring several strong teams to challenge the top Americans. 2004 Canadian Olympic Team member Seamus McGrath is using the race as training for Beijing. He'll partner with long time Canadian National Team member Chris Shepherd, and they will race as Team Felt / Team Canada.

U23 Pan American Champion and two-time World Championship Team Relay champion Max Plaxton will team up with Team Rocky Mountain Bikes partner Andreas Hestler, who was a 1996 Canadian Olympic Team member, three-time Trans Rockies Champion and five-time Canadian National Champion.

2003 La Ruta de lost Conquistadores winner Marvin Campos is making the trip from Costa Rica and will partner with Manuel Prado to form Team La Ruta / Sho-Air / Economy Renta Car. The pair should be well suited to race together after training together for the past three years.

On the women's side, one of the favorite teams is Team Taint Slo with American racers Sara Bresnick-Zocchi and Kelli Emmett. Otherwise a Team Giant racer, Emmett has been having a stellar year racing the North American pro circuit.

In total, 101 men's teams, 34 mixed teams, 15 women's teams, 46 80+ (Combined age) and 11 100+ (Combined age) teams - all two-person teams - will take to the fray. Another five four-person teams will add to the fray.

The race commences June 28 and runs through July 4. The first two stages are the longest while the next four stages average 67km per day. On the final day, racers are treated to a 47km journey on technical trails in the mountain bike destination town of Whistler.

Stay tuned to Cyclingnews for race coverage, including a diary detailling daily race adventures.

Start list

Team Of 2 Open Men

1 42
2 APB/BWR-Asheville
3 Arrowsmith Bikes Photo
4 BC Buds
5 BCBR Team Howells
6 BCR Racing Photo
7 Beaver Creek 1 Photo
8 Beaver Creek 2 Photo
9 Beef Pie
10 Big Ring Racing Photo
11 Big Ring Racing's Ripped Ninja Squad Photo Bio 
12 Bikeparts.Com Photo Bio 
13 Bloody Rippers
14 Brown Fish Jumpers
15 Butt
16 Chipotle Titus / Fusion Sport
17 Chouda Glide
18 Cimabike.Com.Mx Photo
19 Comor / John Henry
20 Craig/Dave
21 Crank Brothers
22 Crashed Helmet
23 Cycle Logic
24 Cyclepath
25 DCMMTB
26 DCMMTB 2
27 Don Quijotes Photo Bio 
28 Don't $$#@! With John And Aaron
29 Dunham Brothers
30 Eagle Homes
31 Epp Photo
32 Fat Man And Little Boy
33 Fat Monkeys
34 Flaming Gallah Photo
35 Flight Centre Photo Bio 
36 Flight Centre - B
37 Go Banana Bio 
38 Go Cyco
39 Go Orange
40 Green Mountain Boys
41 Gripped Films/Kenda (GFK) Racing Photo
42 Helly Hansen Photo
43 Helly Hansen / Momar Photo Bio 
44 Hirslanden-Globetrotter On Kona Photo Bio 
45 Ice Road Bikerz
46 Innovative Fitness
47 J&O Photo
48 Johnson Usher-Jones
49 Klunker
50 Kona
51 La Ruta / Sho-Air / Economy Renta Car
52 La Times - Rei
53 M-Factor Bio 
54 Mafia Racing Photo
55 Massholes On Wheels
56 Melton-Sumner
57 Mona Vie Cannondale Photo Bio 
58 Monavie Cannondale
59 Norcal Bike Sport / Mountain Hardware Photo Bio 
60 Optimal Solutions Physical Therapy
61 Pain For Pleasure Photo Bio 
62 Pedal Beyond
63 Pork Pie Photo Bio 
64 Puffing Billy Goats Photo Bio 
65 Recycled Cycles
66 Ridin' Dirty
67 Ridley's Cycle/Deadgoat Racing
68 Rock Racing/Viacom
69 Rocky Mountain Bikes
70 Ryders
71 Save Your Skin Photo Bio 
72 Schweddy Chamois
73 Sector Bike
74 Shockwave Seats/Fuji/Santa Cruz
75 Sinaloa Bikes Bio 
76 Skyline
77 Slow Twitch
78 Sobe/Cannondale
79 N Tough Men Photo Bio 
80 Spin / Dieringer Bikes (Ss) Photo Bio 
81 Spin Doctors
82 Stu And Hugh
83 Subaru-Gary Fisher Photo
84 Synergy Adventure Colombia Photo Bio 
85 Team Amyot
86 Team Benaroya Ii Bio 
87 Team Benaroya Iii
88 Team Bike-Rx Bio 
89 Team Canmore
90 Team Holsby
91 Team Norco/ Experience Cycling Photo Bio 
92 Team Pedal
93 Team Zoom
94 The Bicycle Paper
95 The Inflatables Photo
96 Therrien
97 Transalp Conquerors
98 Trek Vw Mountain Bike Team
99 Velocity
100 Visenka - We Love Bacon Photo Bio 
101 Zocchi-Blair Project

Team Of 2 Open Mixed

1 Beerless Fevers
2 Bikebooboos.Com
3 Boyd Biking And Adventures Photo Bio 
4 Cbd Sydney Photo Bio 
5 Citrasate.Com
6 Cj Bros. Photo Bio 
7 Crash Test Dummies Photo Bio 
8 Dakine
9 De Apples
10 Deadgoat Racing
11  Dickwitt Photo
12 Downey Photo
13 Fig Rolls Racing Bio 
14 Fitmanager
15 K2 Steep & Deep
16 Kona - Riding In Memory Of Denis Fontaine
17 Kopec
18 Lady & The Tramp
19 Leki Bikextreme
20 Los Bandidos / Ghost Racing Team Photo
21 Married With Bikes Photo Bio 
22 Monaviecannondale.com Mixed
23 Mountainbike Magazin Cube-Bikes Photo
24 Peddly Intent Photo Bio 
25 Pure Austin/Team Schein Photo Bio 
26 Rebound
27 Runningfree.com Photo Bio 
28 Shark Attack!
29 Spike Shooter Photo Bio 
30 Sportgenic/Flightcentre
31 Steamin Van Diemens Photo Bio 
32 Team Bergen Photo Bio 
33 Team North Of Here Photo
34 The Hair And The Rabbit Bio 

Team Of 2 Open Women

1 Big Ring Racing Featuring Fresh Air Experience And Joe Mamma
2 Contessas
3 Creeky Saddles
4 Dead Last
5 Double Trouble
6 Helly Hansen Vancouver Island Bio 
7 Kirs N Em Bikes
8 Lindquist
9 Miss Mavericks
10 Mountain Biking
11 Steed Sistas Photo Bio 
12 Taint Slo
13 Thiele's Automotive
14 Tired Butt Inspired
15 West Side Moms Like Dirt Too Photo Bio 

Team Of 2 Veterans 80+

1 Adventure Seekers Photo
2 Bike Over Tea Kettle
3 Centra Pathfinders Photo
4 Chahuistle Guanajuato Team Photo Bio 
5 Cimabike.Com.Mx
6 Coppertank Boyz Photo Bio 
7 Different Bikes 2
8 Different Bikes Deadgoat Photo Bio 
9 Dubin's Revenge
10 Ellsworth Canucks
11 Evin Ross/Bruceco Roofing Photo
12 Fat Cyclists Bio 
13 Giant/Cyclepath Calgary
14 Grip It & Rip It Photo
15 Jones
16 Lockhart
17 Married With Children Photo Bio 
18 Mountain Top Cyling
19 Moyer
20 Mud Slugs Photo Bio 
21 Old Badgers
22 Olympia Cycle And Kal Tire
23 Peak Fitness Racing Photo
24 Phase Iv Scientific Health & Performance
25 Playin' Dirty Bio 
26 Ride For Karen
27 Shockdocs
28 Sofa Kings
29 Special Needs Photo Bio 
30 Spike Shooter Photo
31 Steamboat
32 Steed Cycles Dark Horse Racing
33 Stop Looking At My Bum
34 Oman Tail Gunners
35 Team Moose Mountain
36 Team Now - No Opportunity Wasted Photo
37 Team Power To Be/Cycopath (Adventure Therapy Society)
38 Team Wobbly Wheels
39 Tee
40 The Grande Americanos
41 Thiele's Automotive
42 Threesixtythree
43 Uk Double Dutch Pancake Bar
44 Voyager Health Care Photo Bio 
45 Vulture Enterprises
46 Winded Photo Bio 

Team Of 2 Veterans 100+

1 Badger Boys
2 Bicilibre
3 Climb And Punishment Photo
4 Collins
5 Deer Creek Destroyers
6 Don't Know Until You Go Bio 
7 Double Shot Photo Bio 
8 Harbour Air
9 Team Camacc Photo Bio 
10 Weapons Of Ass Destruction
11 Woodbury

Team Of 4

1 BC Ferries
2 BCBR Team Payne
3 Endless Biking
4 Leon Photo
5 Novak

Past winners

2007
Men: Trek / VW (Chris Eatough & Jeff Schalk)
Women: Shore Girls Don't Cry (Cynthia Young & Michelle Newtwon)
Mixed: Crystal Mountain Hotels (Hillary Harrison & Ryan Watts)
Veterans 80+: Gerick- Nelson (Randy Richmond & Sandy Mitchell)
Veterans 100+: Kootenay-Okanagan Cooperative 1 (Doug Nottebrock & Con Diamond)