THE team of Ray Lachance and Rod Dagneau claimed top spot in the inaugural running of the innovative North Shore Overlord GPS Mountain Bike Race held on Mount Fromme Aug. 27.
The unique event featured teams of two or four released onto Mount Fromme to choose their own course through a series of difficult mountain bike trails. The riders were tracked by Flaik GPS technology throughout the race and were only allowed to ride each trail once over the six hours allotted for the race.
Lachance and Dagneau combined to total 95.88 kilometres of riding on the difficult North Vancouver trails, averaging 47.9 km each. In the corporate four-rider event team Squamish - made up of Jeremy Pelletier, Mo Lawrence, Quinn Moberg and Sam Bowerman - came out on top with a total distance of 174.29 km or an average of 43.6 km per rider.
Event organizers said this was the first ever race in the world to track free-riding mountain bikers using GPS.
