We’re doing a pretty rough job with keeping all forms of intranet updated….facebook, instagram, cyclingnews.com journals, Vimeo videos and Cyclingdirt.org, where does one end and the next begin?
For now…we’re heading into stage 3. Harlan’s sitting in 4th, Sager’s in 2nd after winning yesterday’s stage. We’re both dragging from our great idea to race an “opener” marathon in Osorno, but honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way. What would you do? You’re in Chile, its NOT SNOWING (like at home)?
You’d race your bike, that’s what you’d do.

As we speak, we’re on our way down to Osorno, Chile for the Conquista Volcan de Osorno, and then the Trans

Dude. We’ve been up to a lot, but at the same time, it’s been a pretty low key Fall since Blake raced the Breck Epic.
Local racing, resting, some training, then a really long and convoluted series of plane flights to get us to the Langkawi (Malaysia) International Mountain Bike Classic.
Results were mixed, Thomas Turner and Blake Harlan starting the week off strongly while Sager was sick, then as Sager came around, TT and Blake started feeling a little goofy themselves. In the end we ended up with top 20′s …

Its a border battle between the Swedes and Norwegians, with a Cajun thrown in the mix for a 6th place overall.
Here’s a camera view of the almost 20mph avg speed for the 50 mile route:

Snyder in the Super D

Kelsy in the STXC

So. We’re breaking out the Kleenex because I’m going on Oprah here.
BCBR is a race I’ve not sat around thinking “I’d like to win that thing”…but leading into it, I thought, “why not?”. Sheppard is proven. Dietch and Deho, clearly have engines and resumes that daunt anything I’ve come close to accomplishing, but like I said…”why not?”.
In order to win, there are thousands of things you need to do, but even more crucially things you need to not do – like don’t get dropped. Stage 1 was going to be …

Check out the trailer here and learn more about the Bicycle Film Festival here… or watch the full screen version of the trailer here

Here are a couple of vids from the last few stages of Cape Epic, and then what we returned to from a South African summer, here in Utah.