Regan on Prolly

Regan has made it into the big leagues of the fixed gear blog world with his great photos of Jamie Emery's Speedvagen CX bike. Check out the post on Prolly is not Probably HERE.

Nice photos Regan.

Women's Team Pursuit Final - 2012 London UCI WC

For those of you who missed it, here is the BBC footage from Friday's Women's Team Pursuit final in London.

Pro City Island Cup XC #1

2012 Island Cup XC #1 Course Preview from Pro City Racing on Vimeo.

Come out and support grassroots mtn biking on the Island with the first instalment of the 2012 Island Cup Series XC Mar 11 at Hartland Mtn bike park. Here is a course preview and poster with all the deets. See ya out there.

Check out the race poster

Oak Bay Bikes waits with Bated Breath...

As Tara, Jasmin and Gillian bring home the silver medal from the London Track Cycling World Cup!

Streaming the London WC WTP Final

Option 1:  The “International Grey-Area”

Go here:  http://expatshield.com/

Download the installer and install expatshield with all options set to yes (this program assigns you a UK IP address so you can stream the BBC content)

You can safely uninstall it after your finished watching.

19:00 GMT (11:00 PST)

Go here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cbrv2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/watchlive/
Enjoy.

Option 2: “The Russian Solution”

Go here: http://livetv.ru/en/eventinfo/106431_world_cup_london/

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I have tried Option 1. It seems to work just fine.

I am, however, intrigued by anything Russian; so, Option 2 is tempting.

My only advice is to figure it by about 10am PST, because you never really know when these things will actually get started.

(If both of these options totally shit the bed, you can always suffer through the Tissot Timing feed. It is super stressful to watch, but it is as real-time as you get.)

CTV Interview with Canada WTP Squad

Photo: The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press

Canada's Cyclists Make Gold Pursuit Final

Posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 4:00 PM ET

Jennifer Lukas, CTVOlympics.ca Staff

LONDON, England -- Canada's women's pursuit team set a Canadian record and guaranteed itself a medal at the UCI Track Cycling World Cup on Thursday, finishing first in the qualifying heats.

Competing in London's Velodrome -- the venue that will host the track cycling events at the upcoming London 2012 Olympic Games -- Tara Whitten, Gillian Carleton and Jasmin Glaesser finished their heat in 3:20.785 to set up a Friday evening gold-medal final versus the home crowd favourites, Great Britain.

"It’s a really exciting time for our team right now," said Whitten, who is also a podium favourite in the women's omnium, which begins Saturday. "When we had our trials in LA, we saw that all five of us are produced fast times. It makes the decision really hard for the coaches, and pushes us to be at our best every day, and makes the team a lot faster.

Canada raced early in the schedule, as the fifth of 15 heats, and the venue was almost half empty as the team began whipping around the bends just after 6 p.m. GMT. It was the fifth heat ever run on the Olympic track.

As the splits started show better-than World Record times, however, the crowd's initially lacklustre cheers started to gather intensity.

Canada went on to finish 1.22 seconds outside of the record time.

"What struck me most tonight was the crowd," said Carleton. "You can tell the people here are crazy about cycling. I could hear during the race the announcer amping the crowd with every split that showed up on the time board, which I would normally never do. 

"I just thought that was the most motivating to do. It’s very exciting to hear when you’re on pace for the World Record, but at the same time, it doesn’t register too much, because we're still focused on the execution of the plan, and what we’re supposed to do. It’s still a great morale boost."