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release by Velo NB
August 26, 2009 - This promises to be HUGE. Where else can you find the mountain bike DH Atlantic championship, mountain bike XC enduro, a pro BMX demo, a super-fun skill-testing Pond Crossing, great courses, huge prizes, and a chance to win a truck? Click here for all of the details.
Saturday, August 29
ProX Sports XC Enduro Race - Calling all cross country mountain bikers!
Come and race in beautiful Sugarloaf Park at our Mountain Bike Fest for our ProXSports 4hr XC Endurance race. If you are up to the challenge of the climb, you will love it, if you are up to the challenge of the downhill, you will love it & if you prefer the flats there are a few of those too, but you will learned to love the ups and downs. The race course is made out of approximately ½ single track and ½ double tracks with a few very short sections of dirt roads. The course is not highly technical but, still, you will find it demanding. Every level of riders can enjoy the course but even the most experience rider will be challenged. The course was designed with intermediate to expert riders in mind but accessible to all.
We have made this event accessible to all level of riders as to promote our sport by inviting all new comers to the sport to come and give it a try. Not sure, we have the Clydesdale category for the 200lbs+. Still not sure, come as a tag team. Find a partner, male or female and come and have fun. Do as many laps as you can/want, rest between laps, eat, you decide your pace.
We have a large number of door prizes for the riders. On Sunday, registered all XC and DH riders will receive a complementary breakfast provided by A&W in Atholville and you will also be able to purchase a full day lift pass at ½ price. This will give you no excuse not to stay with us for the full week and also enjoy the Xtreme Bike Shop Provincial Downhill Mountain Bike Championship on Sunday. A&W is also offering to registered riders and their guest, 15% discounts all day on Aug. 28, 29 & 30th
Fees: $40 Race only - $50 with one day lift pass
Pre-registration:
Telephone: 506-789-9185
E-mail: proxsports@nb.aibn.com
- 8 am - 10 am Registration and Breakfast
- 10:30 am Rider's meeting
- 11:00 am Race start
Race Registration Form here.
A&W PRO BMX DEMO
11:30 am
Shear Clothing Pro BMX/MTB team is made up of Pro riders from all over Canada and the United States. Jeremy Gallant, Ryan Gagnon, Michel Bourgoin, and Will Fisher will be showing off their skills over the entire weekend of the Bike Festival. Checkout their BIOs at www.shearbrand.com
Super 8 Motel Kid's Fun Race
cross country races for the 6-9yrs old and the 10-12yrs old. This is to introduce the kids to our sport. It will be a short course at the bottom of the ski hill that will be of 15minutes +1lap and 30minutes +1lap.
- 12:15-12:45 pm - Kids XC race 6-9 yrs
- 13:00-13:30 pm - Kids XC race 10-12 yrs
- 14:59 pm - Finish
- 16h00 pm (Approx.) - Award ceremony
Central Garage Pond Crossing
3:30 pm
DO YOU HAVE THE SKILLS?!!?
This event has been brought back in an even more spectacular fashion. The Pond Crossing is a fun event where your cycling skills will surely be put to the ultimate test! Be the fastest to cross the pond on a narrow floating bridge made up of tire tubes and wooden planks and you will have the chance to win a brand new 2009 Dodge Ram 4X4 worth almost $40,000! Anyone can try. If you don’t have a bike or don’t want to use yours, no problem, we’ll have one for you to use.
$5 for a try. Try it again and again!
Social Party
Saturday night we will have a party at the Downtown bar; ‘The Flagship'They have reserved a great band for us and riders (19+) will be admitted free of charge and will receive one free drink.
- 21h00 - Place: Flagship Dance Club
Sunday, August 30
Vélo Xtreme Bike Shop & Sugarloaf Bike Park DH Atlantic Championships
Prestige. Honor. Bragging Rights! Vélo Xtreme Bike Shop & Sugarloaf Bike Park proudly present the first annual Bike Festival Gravity Hurts Mountain Bike DH Provincial Finals. The new Festival of Mountain Biking is our premier mountain bike gravity DH race! Conveniently located within 15 Min. from the city of Campbellton, the Bike Festival provides up-and-coming athletes with a unique opportunity to compete against the Provincial's elite gravity athletes.
Each year over 30 athletes from Atlantic Canada compete for the cash, the multiple prizes and the opportunity to claim the NB Provincial championship title.
The 2009 Bike Festival will prove to be the largest Open event to date with various new improvements and additions including:
- an improved Downhill Course
- a new bike park, designed by Whistler's Gravity Logic, with 9 super fun DH trails
- cash prize purse
- new A,B,C,F Class racing category.
Mark your calendars, the world of mountain bike racing comes to Sugarloaf Bike Park on August 30th!
- Fees Cost for licensed rider
- Pre-registration $45 - all included
- Race day $50 - all included
- Breakfast 8 am - 10 am
- Registration 8 am - 10 am
- Mandatory Run 10 am - 11:30 am
- Break 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Start 12:30 pm
- Awards 3:30 pm
Spectators Guide
Witness the excitement of Downhill mountain bike racing as a spectator sport! 100-percent of the 2.5 Min. Downhill race course is accessible by hiking or access from a chair lift is available.
Don't miss this rare opportunity to watch the Provincial's elite mountain bike racers compete in our Bike Festival Gravity Hurts DH race. Athletes from the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec will be competing. Witness athletes racing the clock down one of the most technical mountain bike race courses in the Province! Racers use state-of-the-art downhill mountain bikes to navigate exciting terrain at unbelievable speeds. The Rock Garden is the most exciting spectator vantage point. Witness racers tackling the most technical section of the course in front of screaming fans!
Friday, Saturday, August 28 & 29nd DH Practice Open 10am to 7:30pm (chair lift fee)
Sunday, August 30th Downhill Race
- 8:30am - 10:00am Registration
- 10:00am - 11:30pm Mandatory Practice Run
- 11:30pm - 12:30pm Course closed for maintenance
- 12:30pm - 3:00pm Downhill Finals
- Starting order: F Women, C, B Men, A Elite Men
- 3:30pm - 5:00pm DH Awards Ceremony
Race Registration Form here
Family Fun Bike Ride
11:00 am
Bring the whole family and enjoy a leisurely bike ride around the Terry Fox. Participants will have a chance to win prizes!
Meet in front of the Ski Patrol building
A&W PRO BMX DEMO
10:30 am
Shear Clothing Pro BMX/MTB team is made up of Pro riders from all over Canada and the United States. Jeremy Gallant, Ryan Gagnon, Michel Bourgoin, and Will Fisher will be showing off their skills over the entire weekend of the Bike Festival. Checkout their BIOs at www.shearbrand.com
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