More Fun and Comfort Fat Biking? Here’s How…

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Here I am all smiles coming into the finish line for Frosty’s 50K last year in. Not only was the course superb, but I nailed all the details to ensure a great ride.

I’m headed to Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada in a few weeks for Frosty’s Fat Bike Festival again, and I couldn’t be more stoked! The event features two races: a crit style XC and a 50K, fat bike demos, skills clinics (with fat bike instructors, including me), a “Ride with the Pros” event in Maligne Canyon, dinners, beer tasting at Jasper Brewing Company, discussions on fat bike-related topics, and mostly a whole lot of fun. PS, it’s not too late to sign up! The snow is stacking up in the Canadian Rockies and temperatures are tracking in the 20’s Fahrenheit so conditions will be perfect. Last year an Arctic flow consumed the region…

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KS-Kenda Women’s Holiday Shopping Guide: Get the Inside Scoop on the Most Rad Gifts for the Cyclists on your List (and maybe for yourself too…) —

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Nikki confidently playing on the rocks with her KS dropper post!KS LEV Ci Carbon dropper post. Seriously, a dropper post is a game changer! No Matter the dirt discipline your cyclist enjoys, a reliable dropper post will make descending faster, obstacles easier, and smiles larger. The LEV Ci Carbon is so light we have it […]

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Injury Recovery is Serious Business — KS-Kenda Women’s MTB Team

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This is not how I envisioned finishing SSWC My 2018 race season ended with an exclamation point. Not the tattoo I hoped to sport from a victory at Single Speed World Championships (SSWC), but with a broken clavicle in pursuit of said tattoo. After a few days of tears, moping around, and various medical appointments […]

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Gear Gossip: Lake Shoes — KS-Kenda Women’s MTB Team

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Believe it or not, cycling shoes are designed specific to the type of riding a rider does. For example, a road rider will spend long days in the saddle spinning a high cadence. An exact fit to control the foot is needed for efficiency. When mountain biking, a rider will maneuver over obstacles with varying […]

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Stage 7: It’s Bittersweet to Become a Que-Biker — KS-Kenda Women’s MTB Team

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With a good night of sleep and breakfast cassoulet in my belly, I was ready to tackle the final stage of the Quebec Singletrack Experience. Today, we rode the Enduro focused trail network at Sentiers Du Moulin. Mercifully, it was a shorter course built up with wooden gangways (even one over a chalet), ginormous ramps, […]

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Stage 6: No wonder Neilson Trail in Valle Bras-du-Nord is considered one of the top 10 MTB trails in the world. — KS-Kenda Women’s MTB Team

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To get to Quebec Singletrack Experience stage today, we abandon the lux coaches for a school bus that would be capable of getting up the Shannahan. It instantly set a playful mode to the day. Nicola was singing, “the wheels on the bus go round and round” and we were giggling at being launched off […]

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Stage 5: And Some Days are Hard, too — KS-Kenda Women’s MTB Team

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Today’s Quebec Singletrack Experience stage took us to the resort town of Lac Beauport where permission was granted from 68 private land owners for us to ride a circumference of the lake up in the surrounding mountains. But don’t think this was a quaint pedal around a pristine lake where I nibbled on pan au […]

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Stage 4: An Easy Day, Quebec Style — KS-Kenda Women’s MTB Team

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Sandwiched between two big days of the Quebec Singletrack Experience was Stage 4 at Lac Delage. Have you heard of it? Yes, then you must be a fat biker. The trails here are reputed to be the best fat bike trails in North America! I’ll tell you that they are the real deal mountain bike […]

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Stage 3: A Little World Cup DH and XC — KS-Kenda Women’s MTB Team

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Today’s stage of the Quebec Singletrack Experience took us to Mont Sainte Anne, home of the World Cup since the early 90’s (and getting ready for it again this coming weekend). Fortunately, we took the telecabine (I’m being helped with my French; this is a gondola) to the top and took in the 360 views. […]

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Stage 2: Praying for Good Legs at La Chapelle Mont-Laura — KS-Kenda Women’s MTB Team

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Stage 2 of Quebec Singletrack must have known my legs would need a little boost, so we started off with a switchback climb to a chapel. I’m pretty sure every rider asked the patron saint of cyclists for good legs as they rode by. I sure did! After some position jockeying early on, I settled […]

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