hi I'm Alexander Christie, I'm an enduro rider from Smithers British Columbia
I'm from Ontario, I was recruited for my current job from University. My original
plan was to live here for a year and Here I am seven years later!
I had a Sherco trials bike for a little while in there and I really enjoyed the linear power
it was pretty eye-opening where he could go just with traction
I mean that thing had like 17 hp and went anywhere, so yeah I bought the Sherco enduro because I was pretty interested in that feature
I can't imagine life without motorcycles I'm hooked they're the perfect size to work on, to store
What do I enjoy most about dirt biking? I enjoy the community
the people, meetups, seeing other people how they ride just the...
yeah I don't can't think of a better word than community where it's a lot of people
from different circles and a lot of you know pats on the back, "go get'r"
everyone's out for a good time! My best experience on a dirt bike was
the 2016 Loose Screw Jared Jacob and I all went down to
Kamloops for the dual sport BC loose screw dual sport ride it's a more of a navigational challenge
You're give it a GPS route or a roll track and you just try
to complete the the 200 kilometers of single track in a day
The next step for me? Getting better recovering; recently, last summer, I suffered an ACL tear and had
reconstructive knee surgery. I'm just walking now but I hope in 2020 to do a
big race somewhere or a big event. Yeah ravel somewhere and do something big get back on the bike.
the two things I'd really like to do
when I can ride again are
I'd like to get another trials bike
because the gains that I had when I owned that were incredible, and I really
enjoyed riding it. To polish my technical side, but I'd also like to
really work on riding more confidently faster especially through berms and
corners kind of leaning the bike over more and having a little bit more of an
XC style riding stance right now I think I ride a lot
standing up which is kind of rubbed off from the trials side and I'd like to kind
of balance that out more with the faster side of riding.
My favorite terrain
I really enjoy steep hills with either low me and root-y shale-y ground
I really enjoyed it because I think those hills really separate riders, where you
can have big balls and ride fast at the limit all the time
but if you don't have the skills you just can't get up those hills like in the
technical stuff what I love has no run-up, you're not not coming in with
momentum it's entirely you managing your traction to get up there and you can't
fake it. yeah so my favorite areas; loose, rooty peety, steep.
oh facepalm moments alrighty
yeah so I I took my bike in the back of my truck out to a riding area, drove out
in pretty remote area. I got there and realized that I had left my key on on the 500 the
entire way out there so my headlight was on and I got there my battery's dead and
the bike wouldn't start, so pretty big head shake. The EFI bikes even though
they have a kick start they won't start if the fuel pump can't build enough
pressure so I ended up pulling the battery out of it and put it next to my
truck battery and putting the wrenches across the terminals to charge it for a
while and then I had to put the battery back in fired the bike up and went for a ride