This Saturday marks the final cross country / endurance event with the ever popular Elgin.

There is a 20, 40 and 80km ride option. Come take in the gorgeous trails and scenery while helping to support the Elgin Eco Association (this is a fundraiser!) and the EXCELLENT home cooked spaghetti and salad supper!

Check out the flyer on Velo NB here!

Come on in and check out FitWorks one day only sale on in stock shoes and bike clothing!

Mike presenting the Cyclebetes 200 $9000 donation. photo courtesy of Don Ricker.

Just a reminder that Incline Sports will be hosting the 4 Hours of French Fort Cove this coming weekend.

Saturday will see the Fat Boy Crit and Velo Tour, Sunday is the 4 hour event.

Click here to find out more information.

Don’t forget that the MBS Cup series continues this Tuesday with three weeks of Track at the Caisse Populaire Velodrome in Dieppe.

Other events happening this September and October:

• BMX: Monday and Wednesday (from 6 to 7:30). Wednesday will be your coached evening with Mike LeBlanc for the members. Monday will be open night for everyone.
• Track: Tuesday and Thursday (from 6 to 7:30). The next three Tuesdays will be racing as part of the Mike’s Bike Shop Cup. Charles Cormier will be responsible for these evenings.
• Racing:
  • September 15, 22, & 29: Mike’s Bike Shop Cup - Track
  • September 26th: Double Point Subway BMX Youth Series
  • September 26th: Atlantic Open Track Championships, presented by Apogée
  • October 10th: Final of the Subway Youth BMX Series
  • October 13, 20, & 27: Mike’s Bike Shop Cup - Cyclo-cross

Yesterday was a gorgeous day for 63 riders to do the Cyclebetes 200 ride. Organized by Mike LeBlanc and sponsored by Mike’s Bike Shop, the Pumphouse and many volunteers, this 200km supported ride for Juvenile Diabetes raised $9000 yesterday. Congratulations to everyone that participated, organized, donated and volunteered for a worthy cause.

A large congratulations goes out to both Renée and Annik for competing in the recent Hadley Challenge (F’ton, August 23rd) and Gravity Hurts events (Campbellton, Aug 29th). Both of these gals just entered racing this year and have displayed great performances at several events!

Links to the events are:

Hadley Challenge

Gravity Hurts, Sugarloaf

Next up on the Endurance event list is the Four Hours of French Fort Cove, held on Sunday, September 20th by Incline Sports in the Miramichi. Incline representation, Angie Vickers recently told me that she is putting together a great gals prize package to help encourage more women to come out and challenge themselves in the sport.

This event is extremely well run and the course is fantastic. The course is laid out for every ability level (more advanced riders are given a few small routing detours along the trail for extra challenge. The 11km loop features about 9km of sweet, flowy singletrack.

Event details can be found at: Velo NB. Click HERE for the official event web site.