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Cycling-Utah-August AUGUST 2016 CYCLINGWEST.COM 1 Active Lifestyle Magazine FREE August 2016 CYCLING UTAH UTAH • IDAHO • WYOMING • NEVADA • W. COLORADO • N. ARIZONA • MONTANA • NORCAL IN THIS ISSUE • HALEY’S WORLD • ADAPTIVE CYCLING AT WYDAHO • THE HOUR LONG COMMUTE • BIKE TOURING IN N. CALIFORNIA • COMFING • FITNESS WITH WUKAR • CYCLING FOR BIGGER ATHLETES • SNOWBIRD ICUP • TRENTON HIGLEY BIKE ART • CRUSHER IN THE TUSHAR • CLIMBING FOR NON-CLIMBERS • A TRIP TO THE TOUR • COMPLETE EVENT CALENDARS ROAD• MOUNTAIN •TRIATHLON• TOURING• RACING• COMMUTING• ADVOCACY 2 CYCLINGUTAH.COM AUGUST 2016 AUGUST 2016 CYCLINGWEST.COM 3 MOUNTAIN BIKING Going Big For Real - Adaptive Cycling at the Teton Mountain Bike Festival Rendezvous Mountain Bike Festival 1124 4th Ave to show they were not about to yield Salt Lake City, UT 84103 to disability. www.cyclingutah.com Joe Stone, an “incomplete” C-7 www.cyclingwest.com quadriplegic from a near-fatal para- Phone: (801) 328-2066 glider crash, was the first adaptive rider at the Festival and been a regu- Dave Iltis, Editor, Publisher, & lar attendee and contributor the last Advertising [email protected] several years, each time bringing with him more adaptive cyclists also David R. Ward, Consultant and drawn to the allure of Teton trails, Founder mountain weather, and camaraderie. [email protected] On breaks between runs, he chats with curious riders, as always the August 2016 Issue; eloquent and passionate spokesman Volume 24 Number 5 for adaptive riding. Contributors: Ben Simonson, “Prior my injuries I was an Michael Gonzales, Wayne active outdoorsman, so I ached to Cottrell, Lukas Brinkerhoff, get back on the trails and rivers, Charles Pekow, David Ward, doing the things I’d always loved. I Dave Iltis, Nate Gibby, Eric especially missed mountain biking, Helgoth, David Treinis, Art O’Connor, Phil Sarnoff, Kelly so it wasn’t long into my recovery McPherson, Tom Jow, Steven before my internet searches turned Sheffield, Steve Chambers, me on to adaptive off-road riding,” Enrique Arce-Larreta, Howard Joe explained, gesturing to the burly Shafer, Ian Scharine, Jamie three-wheeler on display beside him. Morningstar, Peter Drinkwater, To the uninitiated eye, an adap- Mary Drinkwater, Jeff Hodges, Joe Stone leans into a turn on Sidewinder on his recumbent-style hand-cycle. Photo by Eric Helgoth, helgoth- Stephen Morningstar, Chris photo.com tive bike strikes an image worthy of a Rube Goldberg contraption. Chains, See, Cathy Fegan-Kim, Trenton the hill’s “Bullwinkle” switchbacks, Sherene “Lefty” Ricci lost a leg to pivots, cogs, straps and grips are Higley By David Treinis with Sherene Ricci in hot pursuit, an aggressive cancer; Jake and David arranged in a bewildering sequence occasionally catching some air on suffered accidents that rendered them Assistant Editors: Lisa Hazel, atop a chassis that looks like a dimin- The time-honored encouragement the table-tops as they neared the paraplegics. Mark Deterline utive top-fuel dragster pointed back- from one all-mountain rider to anoth- Dreamcatcher chair lift. The kudos for these three—and wards. So it’s fortunate that man- Distribution: McKibben er is to “go big.” What was it, then, about these the half- dozen more in their cadre— ufacturer Jake O’Connor, founder Lindquist, David Montgomery, So nothing should have seemed three riders on blue runs that had was in recognition of their skills and others of Reactive Adaptions, rolled his (To add your business to our particularly out of the ordinary attracted a small crowd of spectators, and daring in taking their “adaptive wheelchair up to Joe’s tent just in free distribution list, give us a for riders and onlookers watching pumping their fists and cheering in a mountain bikes/trikes” on the very time to explain the impressive and call) David Poole approach modest kick- collective show of awe and apprecia- same trails with the other riders. clever technology behind these truly Printing: Transcript Bulletin ers on Grand Targhee’s trail fea- tion? Each of the courageous athletes in capable machines. Publishing tures last Labor Day. Or seeing What is was, was this: each of this group had a story that would Continued on page 10 Cycling Utah and Cycling West Jake O’Connor aggressively lean- them was riding with such gusto give any able-bodied rider pause, is published eight times a year ing into the high-banked berms on and abandon despite being disabled. and they’d gathered at 2015 Wydaho beginning in March and continu- ing monthly through October. Annual Subscription rate: $15 (Send in a check to our address above) No refunds on Subscriptions. Postage paid in Tooele, UT Editorial and photographic con- tributions are welcome. Send via email to dave@cyclingutah. com. Or, send via mail and please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope to return unused mate- rial. Submission of articles and accompanying artwork to Cycling Utah is the author’s war- ranty that the material is in no way an infringement upon the rights of others and that the mate- rial may be published without additional approval. Permission is required to reprint any of the contents of this publication. Cycling Utah is printed on 40% post-consumer recycled paper with soy-based ink. We are solar powered too. Cycling Utah / Cycling West is free, limit one copy per person. © 2016 Cycling Utah Pick up a copy of Cycling Utah or Cycling West at your favorite bike shop! Josh Whitney of the EVOL Racing Team p/b Breeze Bars rounds a corner in the Crushe in the Tushar race in Beaver, Utah on July 9, 2016. Drew Free is in the background. Cover Photo: Photo by Chris See, christopher-see.photoshelter.com 4 CYCLINGUTAH.COM AUGUST 2016 COMMUTER COLUMN Peter Drinkwater - Embracing the Hour Long Bike Commute Mountain biking, on the other hand, has always been about recre- ation - spending time outside and with friends, seeing beautiful places, getting away from it all, and pushing myself to climb or come down some- thing difficult. I really like them both commuting and mountain biking, but I think of them pretty differently. CU: What’s your new commute like? PD: My commute is almost 19 miles each way of mostly flat riding. I ride from Orem to Lehi, near the Point of the Mountain between Utah and Salt Lake County. The bike storage room at Ancestry.com’s new Lehi office. Photo by Peter The best part of my ride is that Drinkwater 34 of my daily 38 miles are on the Murdock Canal Trail. The Trail is for the day, bike tools, and anything changes I’ve made to the stock setup flat, smooth, away from traffic, and else I might need for the day. I prefer are adding a rear rack and putting just a delight to ride on [CU: For a pannier so I can avoid carrying on road tires that I can run at 120 more information about the Murdock a backpack - packs can get pretty psi. My bike handles the commute Canal Trail, see the July 2015 Issue sweaty and unpleasant on a long ride. very well, though I haven’t fully Peter riding from Orem to Lehi on the Murdock Canal Trail. Photo by Mary of Cycling Utah online at cyclingu- I recently rigged up a clothesline adjusted to the drop bars and often Drinkwater tah.com]. under my desk using some strong think about switching them out for the cycle commuting experience. It My goal is to commute by bike magnetic hooks so I can hang things something flat. By Jamie Morningstar was great to start the day with some two or three times each week. The up to dry during the day. Luckily, my exercise and I liked the feeling of rest of the days I work from home coworkers are very understanding - CU: What advice do you have Peter Drinkwater is a forty- getting to school feeling awake and or from another office in Orem, so one is even a fellow cyclist who has a for readers who want to make their something software product manager, ready to learn. I also enjoyed seeing on a good week I don’t drive out to commute very similar to mine. lifestyle more bike-friendly? father of five, proud Utah Valley the change of seasons up close and Lehi at all. PD: I guess I’d just say, “do CU: How has the transition to a resident, and newly-reborn distance personal. So far, the weather has been it”. Grab a bike, hop on it, and ride longer commute been? cycle commuter. Later I got a car and shifted excellent for the long commute, so somewhere. You can start out small, PD: It took a few trips to get the After years of cushy 2-mile com- gears to recreational mountain bik- I’m still waiting to see how I’ll do riding around town with your family. legs used to the longer ride, but it’s mutes, Peter’s employer, Ancestry. ing. Over the years I’ve commuted to with the longer commute in dark, We ride to the store, church, the park, been pretty smooth. com, recently from Provo to Lehi. work and ridden around town, some- cold, rain, and snow this fall. I’m the library, and other places around The hardest adjustment has been The office move increased Peter’s times consistently and other times pretty well equipped to ride in most town. Sometimes we all just hop on the commitment of spending an hour commute to almost 20 miles, but infrequently. weather conditions, so I’m hoping I our bikes and head off somewhere, each way commuting and the result- rather than giving up the benefits of Over the last 10 years I had set- can ride almost year-round.
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