Simon’s B-Day Ride Down Syncline:
We have just posted a video of my birthday ride down Syncline from Last year. My 39th birthday started with some runs down the dog river trail near Hood River. From there, we drove into Hood River and shuttled up to the tippy top of Post Canyon for a ride back to town. To cap the day off, we crossed the river into Washington and did a sunset run down Syncline. It was Lars’ first time down the trail, and only my second, having descended it once five years earlier. Mother nature came bearing gifts, in the form of a great Owl sighting, a crazy fast rabbit, and an incredible sunset. Thanks for a great birthday go out to Mountain Man David Murphy, and my brother Tom, and of course to Lars for capturing it all! Check it out at Virtual Descent. I’m going to think of how I can top that one for the impending 40th!
Pictures:
Simon’s podium
Shaums March gold medal men’s 30-34 (Mad March Racing), Gene Hamilton bronze medal men’s 40-44 (Better Ride), Simon Lawton bronze medal men’s 35-39 (Fluidride)
Sept 3rd 2006.
For the second consecutive year, Sun Peaks has hosted the UCI World Masters Mountain Bike Championships. Over 250 athletes age 30 and over raced for the World Championship title, in both cross country and downhill. Eighteen + countries were represented.
The downhill course had three separate sections that went straight down the hill for 200 to 300 yards at a time through the roughest terrain many of the veteran racers had ever ridden, and hit speeds near 45mph, then headed back into the trees at the midway point. The bottom section was re-routed through the single track above the driving range and finished in the village allowing for great spectator visuals as the racers made the last greuling sprint.
Simon described his own run as ” One of the herdest efforts, and all out highest speed runs I have completed in some time.” Simon, who placed 3rd very respectively behind Lars Tribus (2nd) and David Beeson (1st) wsa only 24 hundredths of a secon off the win. One of the closest margins in history.
Simon would like to thank all of his and Fluidrides sponsors.
Iron Horse Bicycles
Twenty20 Headcams
Sram/Rockshox
DT Swiss
FullSpeedAhead
Fluidride
