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Contributor introduction: Greg and Denise
I figured my first entry on The Biking Hub should be an introduction.
I started riding a couple of years ago and, while I am not so much into the speed of downhill racing, I do like the skinnies, gaps, and drops made famous by the biking scene in south west British Columbia. I don’t have any championship titles or movie credits, but I do have my Banshee Scream, my truck, and a passion for the sport. And riding with my partner Denise three or four times per week definitely helps me develop solid bike skills.
Denise, even though she will never admit it, is a great rider. She’s been riding for 10 years, with much of that time being spent on downhill runs with the boys, and she does not shy away from the gaps and drops that are commonplace on the trails out here. During her time on a bike, she’s won three BC Cup Downhill Championship titles, a World Masters Championship, and a BC SuperCup BMX title. Also, she has done a couple 24 Hour of Adrenaline events. This girl rips, which is why it’s always amusing to hear comments like, “Gonna be waitin’ for the girl.” Of course, these remarks are soon followed by, “I could hardly keep up with her. Then she hit that frickin’ gap and was gone. Unbelievable.” And if that isn’t enough of a pedigree, she’s pretty much the love interest of all of the boys she coaches.
Introductions aside, I hope it’s obvious that our primary interests are in downhill and freeride and our contributions to this site will lean towards that side of the mountain bike spectrum. While we don’t shy away from good, long, uphill rides (or pushes) to get to the top of a hill, we prefer the downhill part of the sport to the leg burning climbs on epic xc trips or races.
We’ll be juggling the time on our bikes with our careers, a fledgling business, some volunteer work, and trail building. The articles we write for this site will touch on most of these things, in addition to documenting our road trips to places like Nelson, Invermere, Golden, Rossland, Kelowna, Kamloops, Whistler, SunPeaks, Williams Lake, and Gibsons.
2006 is going to be an exciting time for us - I hope you’ll enjoy what we have to write and show you.
Freeride Dawgs: Offering mountain bike tours and skills coaching in Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, and the rest of British Columbia
1. Posted by Week 1 » The Biking Hub | 10:44 am, 13 January 2006
[…] This week, you were introduced to The Biking Hub’s five contributors — Dan, Ashwin, Greg and Denise, and myself. We have a couple of others who have expressed interest in becoming contributors and we’ll introduce them as they become active with the Hub. Also, there was a bit of fresh content from our contributors too: Dan provided his initial thoughts on the 2006 Canondale Rush and Ashwin gave us some ideas about the importance of goal setting for racers. […]