Latest articles by Keith Bontrager
The late spring flurry
OK, I am getting ready to go out on my first two laps of a 24-hour race in Madrid, Spain. It's the...
Twentyfour12 '07
Bontrager (the company) has sponsored a 24 hour race in England for the last two years. Bontrager...
Rough on the hands
After a quick warm up spin from New Abbott, we were in Mabie Forest ready to grin and bear it. The...
The tale: Part two
The second race on the trip was the 24 Hours of Moab, so after a quick stop in Flagstaff AZ to check...
A testing day - for riders and tyres
Today we raced from the rustic setting in Etherington Creek to the equally rustic campground at...
Mountains of Moab - Part I
Things have been hectic here, and that's why it's taken so long. I am off to Japan and Thailand to...
A call to the pros
It's 6 AM and the sun is just coming up. I am on the wrong schedule today. Seems I've become...
Team strategies and a tough decision
Today was a tough stage. It was long, there was a lot of climbing, there was plenty of sticky clay...
The Vaude Trans-Schwarzwald
August was going to be a big month for me. I had been riding most of the year with this stage race...
Fat Possum freakiness
Dear Diary... Sorry I’ve been silent for so long diary. Work’s been very demanding all winter and...
The tale: Part one
My season ends with a 2 week road trip around the Great Basin in the southwest. The conditions are a...
The first "special test"
Stage 2 was short and sweet, 45 km on the map with 1,000 meters of climbing. That seems easy enough,...
Off to a bonny, muddy start
The season is going and I have been a slacker. But there is no time to catch up now since I just...
TransScotland final wrap
The last stage was not the typical short party stage that these races often end with. There was no...
The penultimate day
This entry is a bit wordier because I am writing it from the New Inn in Appletreewick after the race...
Stages 3 and 4 and the second TT
First - some important MTB trivia. I was informed this evening by Clive, ace DH man and proprietor...
Warming up
It's been a hectic winter and spring but I finally got on a bike with more than a test ride in mind...
Global warming is not my thing
I took me a while to get to this, for all the reasons that you'd imagine. I'd recovered well and...
Solving the sports physiology puzzle
I dig Canada. The people, the trails, the beer, the candy smoked salmon, the organic potatoes, it's...
Excuses, excuses...
Now it feels like the year of riding is really starting. I flew to London and hopped on a train...
Oh deer!
As you know, I like to find food. That makes it tough to travel sometimes, knowing what I am...
Yorkshire, here I come!
My plan was about the same this year as it was last year - get up north with a few days to ride,...
Chasing setup at Landahl 24-Hour
It's been a while since my meltdown in Canada. I've spent the time constructively and fairly focused...
