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There's a reason so many of us make resolutions each New Year: we understand that goals help us to be more successful and achieve more than we would without the incentive of a goal to drive us. There's no better way to find the motivation and drive to get the most out...

On behalf of the whole TransRockies team, we'd like to wish you and your families a safe and Merry Christmas and a very happy 2011. Along with a great excuse to eat a little too much and enjoy a glass or two of eggnog, the holiday season offers a chance to reflect on...

2011 will be a momentous year for the TransRockies as it celebrates 10 years as North America's original epic mountain bike stage race. The 10th edition of the race just got a even litte more special with the addition of a new TR4 solo event that will take riders...

Registration for the 10th TransRockies will open this coming Friday; October 1st. Anniversaries are always special occasions and the entire TransRockies organization is looking forward to celebrating this milestone. This also will be Fernie's 10th year of hosting the...

Though riders were pushed to their limits during stage 6 of the 2010 TransRockies, there was still one test to pass before they would be able to celebrate their successful finish with family, supporters and friends. Stage 7 covered 46km from Rafter Six Ranch to...

Friendships are always strong and easy when skies are sunny and the going is smooth but life teaches us time and time again that the true measure of the bond in not measured in the sun, but when the weather turns bad and when the struggles begin. So it is for teams in...

After a day of riding over and through the foothills of the Rockies to the west of Calgary, riders headed back into the heart of the mountains on Stage 5. In doing so, they left the mud and meadows of the cattle ranch lands behind entered the high peaks and...

The TransRockies owes a debt of gratitude to the many local riders and trail builders who spend countless hours maintaining the great singletrack which is used each year for the event. This year, the TransRockies was proud to be able to make a donation of $1500 to the...

Alongside all the obvious skills that are essential to success in long distance mountain biking—fast climbing, brave descending, exceptional endurance—being a good bike mechanic with the ability to improvise solutions in remote places can often be the difference...

Stage 3 of the 2010 TransRockies was officially the most remote day of the event with a route which travelled deep into some of the wildest, most spectacular terrain in the lower Canadian Rockies and which included a new crossing of the Great Divide that dropped...

The morning after they’d stretched their legs with a 31km prologue around Fernie’s singletrack, the 450 riders of the 2010 TransRockies and TR3 lined up on Voctoria Avenue for Stage 2. Led by the vintage Studebaker fire engine for the traditional lap around downtown,...

Like many ski towns, Fernie has more than the usual amount of great coffee shops lining its Main Street and they were bursting at the seams with hundreds of mountain bikers and their friends throughout Day 1 of the 2010 TransRockies and TR3.   Riders were, of course,...