Hey Boneshakers,
It's been a while since our last update because we're not very good at organizing. The race is on September 15th on some of Squamish's more rigid-friendly trails. We'll be announcing the course shortly.
We're introducing a few new categories this year. We'll have a men's category and women's category. If you're not into that gender binary stuff, you can race in our non-binary category. Last year all the riders had flat handlebars and we'd like to encourage more handlebar diversity, so we will have a drop-bar category. The Boneshaker thinks single-speed bikes are cool, so there will be a single-speed category. We'll have a tandem category, naturally. While we think it would be dumb to ride mountain bike trails without brakes, if anyone is interested in a brakeless category we would add one.
A single rider (or team in the tandem category) can only win one category, but you don't have to declare your category until the end of the race. For example if you were the fastest person on a single-speed and the fastest person with drop-bars, at the end of the race you would have to choose witch of those categories you wanted to be named the winner of.
If you'd like to suggest a category get in touch.
Keep on shakin' in the bone world.
Bones Hakey