We’d love to be a kick-ass Betty (n. a female rider), but we don’t love the idea of bacon (n. scabs on a rider’s knees, elbows or other body parts).
That’s why we’ve signed up for Canada Olympic Park’s mountain bike workshops for women.
This spring, COP is teaming up with Bow Cycle to offer a series of evening (three 2-hour sessions, $99) and weekend ($199) classes designed to teach us everything mountain bike related. So we’ll soon know the difference between a snake bite (n. a double puncture of an inner tube) and a sharkbite (n. the mark that a chainring makes in your calf when you fall).
And once we’ve conquered the rough trail, why stop there? We’re becoming roadies (n. a rider who prefers riding on paved surfaces) with our copy of Done In a Day: Calgary: The 10 Premier Road Rides ($17.95). This brand new book from Western Canada’s outdoors expert Craig Copeland describes the best biking routes in and about Calgary. Lets hope the expert direction will keep us from becoming an over-the-bar blood donor (n. a rider who is injured by flying unexpectedly over the handlebars).
Ride on! (n.,v. said when it’s time to start biking and you can’t think of anything else to say).
Canada Olympic Park
www.canadaolympicpark.ca
Classes begin May 13
Done In a Day: Calgary: The 10 Premier Road Rides
Available at Chapters.Indigo
*All references from the Dictionary of Mountain Bike Lingo.