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Final CPTA of the year

The final event of the year will take place on Saturday the 18th. Disregard the links on the page....they are from last year. Blogger has changed a little and I am not up to date...sorry!

Jeff will be running it as I will be out of town. I am sure he could use some help setting sections so make sure you give him a call if you want to help out!

Looks like John had a great showing in Quebec at the UCI Trials Championships. He made the final and ended up 7th overall.

More Trialsworx media

Here are a couple of links to some pictures and videos made by others...

Video from the Victoria gang

Pictures from Russell Phillips cousin

Trialsworx article

Here is a link to an article about John and Trialsworx from the Whistler Question...page 49 if it doesn't come up...

Good luck to Jeff, John and Trevor in Quebec!!!! Anyone else going?

Trialsworx

Well another successfull Trialsworx...even for Mitchell! He did come away unscathed here! The sections were quite difficult. It was pretty hot as well so we decided to just do 2 laps instead of 3. Even then we had to send out search and rescue for Alex Li.

As usual John Webster won the event although Russell Phillips seems to be closing the gap a little? John rode spectacularly as always!! Jeff Anderson was a little further back but he was up there with me since Wednesday setting everything up and with all the work he did I am sure it took a lot out of him for the competition. Thanks a ton Jeff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The sections were long as usual with Webster being the only Elite rider to make it thru the 'bucks creek section. It was right near the end of the day and he made it thru with about 5 seconds to go, gapping up the entire waterfall and just squeaking thru to a huge eruption from the crowd.

In the Expert category Joe Baxter from the UK won a VERY tight race. Joe had 12 pts, Alex Li had 13 and Zak Maeda had 15. Nice big group of Experts including Mitchell Long and John Goodwin competing for the first time in Expert at Whistler.

In Master Jeff Lenosky fixed his passport problems just in time to win with just 16 pts! Only 4 more than the Expert winner. Jason Yu and Jason Cuthbert rounded out the podium.

In Sport Gino Salveo took first by 2 points over Jay K-C. and James Wessels 3rd. Sean Watson rode brakeless and still managed 4th! Cameron Rinkes came up from Oregon but had to DNF due to illness.

In Poussin we had a ton of riders with Danielito winning with 0 pts. The Coupal brothers are VERY glad that Danielito is turning 11 next year!!!! Josh and Ryan Coupal finished right behind Danielito and should dominate the category until they turn 11! Lots of other very young kids including youtube sensation Jackson Goldstone who at 6 still won a medal in the Beginner category.

Kidsworx was a riot as always.....79 kids were registered including many pushbikes and a young boy on a wheelchair who had the biggest smile of the weekend on his face....except when Jeff was helping him up and down the first ramp obstacle! Lots of very cute colour coordinated girls and a little boy with a donald duck helmet and a soother! Kidsworx is the highlight of the Crankworx festival in my opinion!!!!!

Thanks to all who helped with the kids event including Trevor Bodogh from Ontario and Ian Johansen, Lauren for having to sign up that many kids, Jason of course and Jeff as well who was there the entire week. Thanks to John Webster for grabbing some riders and checking for the Friday event (good karma John?).....big Daniel for singlehandedly taking down the Fitz Creek sections....of course the Long and Goodwin families for helping out with everything including making the evenings so much fun! Shirl for all the background stuff that nobody notices...Secret Cycles for donating prizing as well as 2 pushbikes to raffle off, Clif Bar for donating 200 bars, wherestheseat.com and CBTrials for donating prizing....Eric Crowe and Bubba from the muni for getting us those awesome logs.

Again...props to Jason and Jeff for making it happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

RESULTS

KIDSWORX PICS

TRIALSWORX PICS

Trialsworx info!

For Trialsworx info you can go to the Crankworx website or click here.

Seems like most of the rooms in Whistler are booked already so if you are wanting to come up and stay act quickly!

Secret Cycles have donated a couple of Kazam pushbikes for us to raffle off. It will be a free draw to be held at 2:00 on Saturday the 14th.

Sections will be pretty much the same areas as before. Novice, Sport in Rebagliati and the Gazebo area and the Expert/Elite in Gazebo, Starbucks creek, and Fitzsimmons Creek. Our base of operations will be at the gazebo again.

There will be a cash purse for Master, Expert and Elite and prizing for Novice, Poussin and Sport.

ShawTV is also interested in coming out and filming the event.

CPTA 1?

The next CPTA event is this Saturday....here is some info...

CPTA Biketrials Event May 15, 2010 10:00 - 3:00

This event will include a free Kids Competition and a mini Biketrials Competition for all levels. It will also be a fun "social" for all riders to come out and have some fun, try some Biketrials bikes, bring their kids, wives, g/f out to try some actual sections and have some great food.

We will also have a judged "Olympic" type event down one of the rock faces in the base area for the "pros". Riders will have 30 seconds to negotiate their way down and the winner will be judged on style, speed and how much they were able to bribe the judges….

The kids event will have 3 basic "sections" for the kids to ride. The last 3 years in Whistler we have averaged over 70 kids! They do not need a special bike….they just need to be about 10 and under.

The competition will have sections for everyone from beginners to some of the top pro's in North America. Beginners only need basic trail riding experience and a good safe bike….and helmet of course!

Riders who will be competing at the main events (Whistler and the CPTA July 3rd event) need to sign up at Cycling BC online to join the club and be insured for the year. CPTA members will not have to pay for this event but riders who do not sign up will have to pay a $10 drop-in fee.

Sign up is below….join the "CPTA Biketrials Club" in the drop down menu.http://www.cyclingbc.net/associate-club-membership/?id=1074

Kids Competition 11:00

Mini Competition 11:30?

Olympic event 1:30

For more info email Mike at mbaia@shaw.ca or call 604-469-1593

Location of event http://www.baiabros.com/images/cptamap.jpg

Calendar

June 12 Social/Kids/Mini Comp

July 3 CPTA Biketrials Competition

Aug 13,14 Whistler Trialsworx

Looks like Jeff is setting a bunch of the expert/pro sections and I will set the beginner/sport/kids sections.

Party at the Baia's afterwards!

CPTA season

Looks like the first scheduled social/comp happens to be on the Easter weekend. I think we will reschedule it to the following Saturday April 10. This will be a very casual social to work out the kinks before the first competition of the year the following weekend in Mill Bay on the Island.

Maybe a few of the kids can set a couple of sections for the 10th. This will be more of a social than anything. A chance to get together and chat about the upcoming year. Kids sections....Free hot dogs and drink! I have an idea for a small little "Olympic" type challenge as well. Bring friends!

Click here for info on Johns competition on the Island.

Mike

CPTA 2010

I have been sitting here vegging to the Olympics on TV and thought I would figure out a schedule for the year while on the couch!

We will do 2 major events....Whistler and one CPTA. The rest of the CPTA events will be a cross between a competition, social and free riding clinics. I thought if we had more frequent smaller events we can get more people to come out and help. The 2 major events will have prizing with the rest just being fun events to try and encourage others out to come out and set, teach, bring friends, wives, girlfriends, kids and just have fun! I thought of having only 3-4 sections at the smaller events, maybe close together and starting near the same time with other riders/parents setting them to get a feel for the process. Maybe some speed sections, team competitions, very young kids sections, whatever it takes to get people out! I would really like to start easing out of it and we will need more people to step up to take over eventually!

Riders will need to sign up online to Cycling BC for $30 to cover insurance, then possibly a $10 drop-in fee for the smaller CPTA's and slightly higher entry fee for Whistler and the big CPTA.
More info to come

Tentative schdule

April 3 CPTA Social/Competition/Clinic

April 17 ?? Mill Bay Competition (Websters!)

May 15 CPTA Social/Comp/Clinic

June 12 CPTA Social/ Comp/ Clinic

July 3 CPTA / Golden Spike Days / Canada Day comp

July 17 T-Town Throwdown Tacoma

Aug 13,14 Whistler Trialsworx

Sept 18 CPTA Social/Comp/Clinic

BIU Worlds

Canada put on a fantastic show in Ping Tang China with John Webster getting 2nd place in Senior! This placing automatically moves John up to World Elite next year. He will be the first ever Canadian Elite rider! Jeff Anderson was 6th and Steve Dicken 7th. Figures.....those 2 are never more than a placing apart...EVEN AT THE WORLDS! Dave Herr was 15th and Aaron Dobler had an injury and had to bow out after the first lap. Mitchell Long was 8th in the Benjamin Category....a very respectable showing!

Mitchell and family are now touring Beijing and the great wall....I am sure if Mitchell could get his bike up on it he would be all over that! John, Jeff and Steve are now in Australia for the UCI World Championships. We should know tomorrow morning the semi final results.

On a more local front, CPTA 4 was scheduled for the 27th which would have put it on a Sunday. That day doesn't work well for the Islanders so we will change it to the 26th...the Saturday!!!!

Come on out and cheer on our Canadian team!

Greetings from the Long's in China

Ni Hao;

Just a quick email to all of you to let you know that we are all doing fine in China. It is hot and humid as expected and the flight was pretty grueling as we arrived Monday morning at 3:00 am. We lost an entire day!! Everything was pretty uneventful except for the part of loosing Mike at the Beijing airport for an hour and a half!! That's another story! We are settling into a groove in Ping Tang. Life is certainly different here! People are very friendly and foreigners are certainly a novelty. Lots of talented riders here and Mitchell is sizing them up and schmoozing with everyone. Jeff, John, Steve and Mitchell have been getting in
daily rides and also riding with others from different countries. Food is okay and we are loving the noodles for breakfast! Rest of the food is starting to taste all the same! Tomorrow
is Mitchell's competition so we will head out of Ping Tang for a 2 hour drive. We'll let you know how everyone did as soon as we know! We met a local guy who is 20 years old and he invited us to his house for a visit after dinner. He showed us his dance moves and then took us all out for drinks by the river on our first night here. Mike is enjoying the cheap beer and we are all looking for a place to get a massage this afternoon. The time is going by fast and before you know it we'll be travelling on our own off to Guilin and Yangshuo.
Well until then... hope all is well with everyone and we will hopefully keep in touch!

Cheers from the gang

Mike, Lynda, Mitchell and Nicholas

Trialsworx

John Webster from Mill Bay, BC beat a very competitive international field for a win at the top Biketrials competition in North America. John finished with only 12 points to beat Japanese Elite rider Yasutaka Shibata by 2 points with USA rider Ryan Cecil 3rd with 25 pts and Andorra rider Xavi Casas with 26 pts.

The Biketrials portion of Crankworx began Friday afternoon with the 4th annual Kidsworx Competition. Riders 9 and under were put through their paces on 4 actual Biketrial sections. Each section was manned by one of the top professional Biketrial riders in the world! There were 63 riders registered for the event including many on push bikes and bikes with training wheels. Each competitor received a very cool medal for their efforts. The smiles on the kids (and parents and grandparents) faces lit up Whistler for an hour! Many of the parents say they are forced by their children to come to this every year now!!!

The first part of Trialsworx began right after Kidsworx with riders under 16 and intermediate riders setting off to ride the 6 different "sections". There was one in the Town Plaza, 4 in Rebagliati Park and 1 along the raging Fitzsimmons Creek. This year it was also the North American Biketrials Championships with riders from around the world competing. Kids as young as 5 were out there showing their skills. In the Poussin category Danielito Chernetski from Port Moody was flawless, not getting a single "dab" or point against him for the win, beating out an amzing 7 year old in Felix Pratt and emergin 5 year old star Jackson Goldstone from Squamish. Benjamin winner Mitchell Long from Burnaby is heading to China for the World Championships on Saturday! Minime winner John Goodwin has dominated all year. This competition was close for a while but he eventually wore down his competition by just not making any mistakes the second lap. Chantal Laurie was the Femina winner.

The Master, Senior and Elite riders started out on a beautiful Saturday morning. They were riding 6 sections with 1 in Town Plaza, 1 in Village Common and 4 absolutely crazy sections in the dry Fitzsimmons Creek river bed. The competitors ride them in order doing 2 laps for a total of 12 different sections. Lowest score at the end of the day wins. Ryan Cecil from the states started early and put the pressure on the other Elite riders with some amazingly smooth rides thru some very technical sections.
In the Junior/Senior Category Zak Maeda from Los Angeles took the win not making many errors the entire time. He finished with 10 points to beat local riders Kevin Lui and Chris Hii by 1 and 2 points respectively.
In the Master category, which is riders over 30, Dave Lloyd from Vancouver Island beat out Trials legend Jeff Lenosky by 3 points. It is such a treat for the young guys to see riders such as Lenosky still competing at such a level, and to see the interaction between them.
This was the finest Elite field ever in Canada with Yasutaka Shibata (one of only 20 World Elite riders) coming from Japan, Xavi Casa from Andorra, Ryan Cecil from the US and of course our incredible local riders John Webster, Jeff Anderson, Steve Baia and many more adding to the awesome field. The sections looked incredibly difficult to maneuver through with the village sections having massive logs, rocks and water for the riders to find their way through. The Fitzsimmons Creek sections were strewn with huge boulders and some great spectator areas to watch these world class riders do their stuff. John Webster won for the the second consecutive time in Whistler, getting a little payback for a slim loss to Yasutaka at the CPTA event the Saturday before in Vancouver. Ryan Cecil from North Carolina rode very well for a 3rd place finish with Monster sponsored rider Xavi Casas from Andorra coming in 4th a point back of Cecil.

Biketrials is one of the most spectator friendly sports and the international field of riders put on a great show all day for the thousands of spectators.Thanks to Whistler Arts Council, Tourism Whistler, Kokanee Crankworx and the Canada Pacific Trials Association for supporting a fantastic event!

Also thanks to the Goodwins, Longs, Minato's, Ian, all the checkers, Secret Cycles, MEC, Me and Eds Pizza, Bryan at BetterAwards.com, Tom Lee, Eric and Brad from the Whistler Works yard.....

Results here

Pics here..

CPTA 2

The second event of the year is in the books. All went well....except for the first time in a while the Elite winner wasn't named Webster! Japanese Elite rider Yasutaka Shibata came over and just barely beat John. There wasn't a lot of difference between the two....a tough timing (language?) issue for Yasutaka and a very slight brush on an arrow by John were the only mistakes the two made. They were both flawless on what I thought were going to be some tough sections. They have two totally different riding styles but the results were basically the same.

Just slightly behind those two were Jeff Anderson and Steve Dickin, then Russ Phillips and Steve Baia. A couple of Euro riders who I thought were going to be here didn't show. They all will be at Whistler though.

Jason won a real close Expert field with honorary Canadian Pete Hellenbrand was 2nd with first time Expert rider Jesse Ellingson coming in 3rd. Jesse rode amazing for his first time with the biggger boys but I think they had to pry his fingers off his brake levers at the end. It is definitely a big step up from Sport.

In Master Dave Lloyd came away with the win in his first Master Category competition, taking the crown away from perennially winner Ian Johansen. Ian was seen checking Dave's ID after the competition.

In Femina Chantal won with Haley Martin 2nd. Both rode well on some tough little sections.

Danielito Chernetski took first in Poussin with another first timer, Jackson Goldstone (5 YEARS OLD) coming in 2nd. The sections were a little tough for Jackson but you couldn't tell that by the huge smile on his face the entire time.

Another very close race was in Sport with John Goodwin and Mitchell Long never more than 2 points apart the whole day. They ended up tied at the end of the day but John won in a ride-off. These two really missed Jesse (who moved up) and Kevin Minato (vacation) but they put on a great show nonetheless. I think these 2 will be joining Jesse in Expert very soon.

The rain held off all day and many thanks to Lauren and Kylie Goodwin who ran an awesome bbq and concession ....... on their birthdays yet!!!!

Heading up to Whistler Sunday....see y'all up there!!!

Pictures soon!

Results

Pictures

CPTA #2 and Whistler Trialsworx

Quick pic of Steve at the T-Town Throwdown in Tacoma. Sounds like another very successful event!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whistler prep is coming along.....lots of great riders coming including Andrei Burton from UK, Xavi Casas from Andorra, Stephan Pcola from Slovakia and hopefully Shibata from Japan.

To register ahead of time go to this spreadsheet and fill out the appropriate tabs (CPTA 2 and/or NABC) and email it back to me at mbaia@shaw.ca. This way we can get a lot of the work out of the way ahead of time. You will still have to fill out a waiver (and pay) at the site. Many people found the Karelo online registration too confusing.

CPTA 1

After a few years of guranteed horrible weather for the CPTA events we have been quite lucky the last few years. Saturday was the perfect day for a comp!

After fueling up at the Goodwin Bar and Grille the Poussin, Femina and Sport riders ventured out to the sections. Every category in the morning was extremely competitive.

Danielito and Felix battled it out all morning in the 10 and under Poussin Category with Danielito winning by a single point. Nicholas Long rode strong all morning but could not quite keep up with the other two. All three have a couple of years left in Poussin and I think I will have to up the skill level on the sections very soon!

In Femina Chantal Laurie was also very strong in beating Haley Martin. We definitely need more girls out competing!!!!!

The Sport Categoy was the most competitive. All 4 riders (Mitchell Long, John Goodwin, Kevin Minato and Jesse Ellingson) all rode in a group together and were very close the entire tme. Kevin ended up breakin his fork after riding extremely well for 7 sections. Tough break for Kevin but I think now he sees his competition riding has improved quite a bit and he can compete with the others. Next comp should be interesting!!!! John Goodwin just did not make any mistakes though and used his Japan experience to eventually pull away from his competitors. John's dad Craig also used his Japan experience except that was at the party afterwards at our house. Jesse was also there until the end and Mitchell, being quite a few years younger hung in there until the end as well.

In the afternoon there were 2 Master riders (over 30). Both Ian Johansen and Chris Jenkins rode very well but were hampered by their home-care workers constantly getting in their way, and Chris's cane got stuck in his spokes a few times......all kidding aside these two are still very competitive even at their "advanced" age. Actually Ian would have been on the podium in Expert!

In the Expert Category Jason Baia took the win with Chris Hii 2nd and Tinker Pete Hellenbrand 3rd. Rob Adams was just out of the medals.

Now to the Elite......which was surprisingly the largest category! Steve Baia had a bit of a tough day and his mind was definitely elsewhere....his graduation was the same day and he had to be there by about 2:00. He started early and went thru the sections very quickly which showed. Even though these guys only ride for 2 minutes each section it is VERY tiring and extremely difficult to do one after the other. As usual John Webster took the win, making everything look easy except for the "section from hell" otherwise known as Jeff's section. John did get further into the section than anyone including making an incredible "up" from a very difficult base and a very cool gap landing flat on a huge angled boulder. With 2 5's on the one section and a brake failure 5 on another he only had one other dab the entire competition. Definitely in China form! Jeff and Steve were battling it out for 2nd with Jeff squeaking by with 26 compared to Steve's 28. Right on their heels was the Islands Russell Phillips with 35, then Brit rider Aaron Cook with 36. Steve, Alex Li and first time Elite Aaron Dobler rounded out the field.

Thanks to Peter and Jason for checking all morning long, Peter and Jeff for setting a few sections, Chris Jenkins for supplying some prizing, Kylie and Lauren for their awesome concession.

The party afterwards at our house was a blast. We ordered a bunch of pizzas, sat by the fire, the kids played on the speed trials course and played "The Disc Game" which John Goodwin and I absolutely dominated....there should be medals for that too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pictures are here

Clinic and CPTA 1 info

Well the first clinic/social of the year was a great success. The weather was spectacular which is odd for a CPTA event. Lots of Island guys came over and a bunch of kids including Felix and Jackson (7 and 5 years old) who tore it up pretty good! These 2 definitely have some huge trials skills at an early age and could be the Elite 2019 riders! There were probably 20-25 riders and that many again of family members. I figured just at this little fun clinic/social we had most of the top riders in North America attending! Check here for some pictures of the event.

CPTA 1 (click for info)

The first competition of the year is Saturday June 13th. We will have all the regular categories as well as a "beginner category" which will be $10 for a one day waiver and riders will ride the Novice lines but they will not be eligible for medals or prizes (if we get any...)

I encourage everyone to sign up with the CPTA Biketrials Club online here which costs $30 and this goes directly to Cycling BC to insure you for the year. This also saves me much time and effort!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you sign up ahead of time it only costs $15 for the event. If you don't sign up it costs $30. You cannot sign up the day of the event!

As always there will be a great concession with coffee and McGoodwin sandwiches in the morning and their "always spectacular" burgers and dogs later. Bring some money and help support Kylie thru University!