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BC Bike Race adds singlespeed categories

Published: Nov. 12, 2008

The BC Bike Race has finalized its plans to host two Singlespeed Categories in the upcoming 2009 Event (June 28-July 4th). Leader’s jerseys will be awarded in the Men’s Open and Women’s Open categories*.

The BC Bike Race is a seven day epic mountain bike stage race from Victoria to Whistler on the west coast of Canada. The route passes through lush rain forests, over the Coastal mountain range and spends the majority of its time on singletrack built by mountain bikers for mountain bikers.

“Having seen the global growing interest in Singlespeed we thought it was only fitting that the singlespeeders have their own category. We are currently designing the leader’s jerseys for these two categories and if all things go well in 2009, we look to increase the number of categories for the upcoming years”, said President Dean Payne.

Dejay Birtch an advocate for singelspeeders and a participant of the 2008 BC Bike Race was instrumental in pushing forward these new categories. “I think we (the singlespeeders) are looking to be recognized and as our numbers grow, our representation should as well”, said an excited Dejay.

Registration is open for the 2009 BC Bike Race at: www.bcbikerace.com

* all categories must have five teams minimal to be an official category If another category should have 5 teams we will consider elevating to a full status category.