Summer Memories

We’ve been having spring-like weather all over B.C. for the past few weeks and it feels like the season is getting an early start. So there is no real need to look back on last summer and dream of sunny rides gone by. Most of the photos your going to see in this post were shot in a rain storm anyway. But do you ever see photos of yourself that take you back to a moment with so much intensity that you can almost feel the raindrops hitting your skin, hear the puddles splashing under your tires and smell the sage brush soaking in the rain?





Allan Mcvicar has been a friend of mine since the day I moved to Kamloops. I still remember the first time I met him. I sat in the middle of his little pick up and awkwardly had the hand of an almost complete stranger touch my bum several times while shifting gears on the way to the bike park. Although we got to know each other fairly personally and quickly, it wasn’t untill we had known each other for a while that we discovered a common love for rainstorms.




Allan and I have been on countless photo missions on the sunniest of sunshine shred days and we’ve bagged a lot of amazing photos. Regardless of how gold the sun sets shine, the stormy days and photos are the ones that always stand out in my memory. There is something I find truly unique about being out in the crashing thunder and pouring rain. No matter how far you look, there is no one else around. Everyone is hiding in-doors where it’s warm and dry. And if they were outside during those moments they would probably be cowering under umbrellas and trying to run away with long faces. But Allan and I are always laughing and trying to squeeze as many shots out of the storm as we can before it passes over.




We had a few of the nastiest stormy days last summer and they were some of my favourite moments on my bike. Allan just let me have few of the photos we had shot in those storms and they take me back to those moments like nothing else. I figured I needed to share a few of Al’s amazing nuggets with everyone. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!