Wease corning at Yaletown

While my Canada day did involve drinking, I started it off with a little intensity at the Yaletown Grand Prix Criterium. I saw a number of fixed gear riders and couriers out trying their hand at criterium racing. For those that don't know Yaletown is a rather nasty and technical course. It is a six corner course, with some off camber turns and rough pavement in the fasters corners. The back straight away is along Homer, you then fly down Nelson, hang a hard right through a very bumpy corner onto mainland. You then carry all your momentum into the fast right followed by another straight and a hard climb up Davie and back onto Homer.

Yaletown Course [Enlarge]

It was a damn hard course because every two seconds you are hammering out of the saddle. Plus it requires good bike handling skills because you want to no brake as many corners as possible, but you are being bounced around in them and you are constantly wondering how hard you can push the bike. Anyway for all you cool fixed hipsters, you should think about bombing around this course when there is no traffic and maybe we might get you out here racing next year?

Oh yeah, don't forget your helmet :)

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