Keith Bontrager
Keith Bontrager is best known as the bike and component design guru behind his eponymous road and mountain bike components, but behind the scenes the man universally known as KB is an enthusiastic and well-respected endurance mountain bike racer. KB has taken part in a over 50 24-hour races in the last few years, and in his diary takes us inside the mental, physical and technical challenges of long-distance mountain bike racing, starting with one of the sport's greatest tests, the seven-day TransRockies Challenge.
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The tale: Part two
The second race on the trip was the 24 Hours of Moab, so after a quick stop in Flagstaff AZ to check... -
O Bom, O Mau, e O Feio (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly)
I've been putting this one off for a while. I have my reasons of course; I had a lot of work to do... -
Breathless and cold in Colorado
There is very little oxygen in Winter Park, Colorado. I think the people out in California must be...
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Warming up
It's been a hectic winter and spring but I finally got on a bike with more than a test ride in mind... -
A call to the pros
It's 6 AM and the sun is just coming up. I am on the wrong schedule today. Seems I've become... -
Coulda woulda shoulda
I wrote the first part of this before the stage, so I thought I'd at least catch up on the result....
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Riding the sawtooth
After two days of racing it's getting hard. It rained off and on all night in Elkford, but all that... -
Global warming is not my thing
I took me a while to get to this, for all the reasons that you'd imagine. I'd recovered well and... -
Looking back at the 3 Peaks
It's been over a month since this race went down, and I have been pretty slack... errr... busy...