Blackstone Fernie TransRockies

Big news from the team at TransRockies! In the style and spirit of the Gran Fondo road cycling tours, the team at TransRockies Events is excited to present a unique mountain bike experience: TransRockies Challenge TransFondo Fernie. For 2012 the TransRockies Challenge will feature a single stage tour in Fernie that will offer you the [...]

Fernie celebrates 10 years of hosting the TranRockies with TR7 ( seven day team) victories in both men’s and women’s open classes. Martin Vale and Carter Hovey battled trough mechanical issues to win three stages and finish on top. They started stage seven two minutes behind and rode hard to win the final stage. Krista [...]

Water? Check. Food? Check. Tube, tools, rain jacket? Check. Bear spray? Bear spray! There aren’t many bike races which list bear spray as mandatory equipment but the TransRockies route travels through some very active bear country and route changes due to wildlife are part of the TransRockies. After conservation authorities contacted TR organizers during the [...]

Lance Armstrong once described the Tour de France as “3500km of pointless suffering and with few exceptions, most ultra-endurance events fit this same description. The kind of people who sign up for epic adventures and races aren’t the kind of people who go home and brag about how great the weather was and how much [...]

There’s an old saying that goes “be careful what you ask for, you just might get it”. After three beautiful days in Fernie, riders finally got a break from the dry conditions, but it probably wasn’t the one they wanted. While the fastest riders got through the 47km stage in less than two and a [...]

One of the strange things about endurance racing is that many times the hardest days are also the most memorable days for athletes. The type of person who signs up for epic events is there to be tested and the greatest rewards are to be found on the days when the course and conditions are [...]

Fernie’s Stage 2 of the TransRockies switched up the challenge from the rolling technical trails of the opening day to a long leg-crushing climb and descent of over 1000 metres vertical on Porky Blue, one of the signature rides in the area. The day dawned clear and the thermometer rose even more quickly on the [...]

The 5th Annual Blackstone TransRockies Kids’ Bike Rally basked in perfect weather and was enjoyed by almost 100 participants. The Kids’ Bike Rally is for kids, five to nine, and is a fun and educational stage rally, themed and staged alongside the TransRockies. The TransRockies is celebrating it’s 10th year! Straightline Bikes started the kids [...]

The TransRockies is the first North American epic to reach its 10th Anniversary and Fernie is the only town to host all ten events. The riders who turned up in Fernie for Sunday’s start were treated to perfect clear, dry high mountain weather for the 32km Stage 1 Time Trial. Two racers were to be [...]

Mountain biking is a big industry worldwide, and there’s no question that Fernie is on the radar. Although the TransRockies was not the first multi-stage team endurance mountain bike event, its sister European event, the TransAlps, was. And all these new events like the BC Bike Race or the Furious 3, they have been copied [...]