Town Of Edson

Go Kit Derby needs speed

The need for more speed was evident — but the 30 youngsters participating in the first-ever Edson Kinsmen Go Kit Derby had few complaints.

The inaugural event, which took place on June 19, Father's Day, utilized 13 Avenue, just west of the Tags store as the race route. But the hill, combined with some unforeseen design difficulties in the soap box cars resulted in snail's pace speeds. As a result the majority of the cars had to be pushed to the finish line.

Race organizer and Edson Town Councillor Gean Chouinard explained that drag in the rear axle of many of the cars caused some unforeseen drag that slowed down the cars once they came off the starting ramp.

He said the 13 Avenue hill wasn't organizers' first choice.

"Hillendale Hill [40 Street in east Edson] was our first choice."

Chouinard said the Kinsmen decided not to go with 40 Street because they were concerned the event might limit access to the subdivision.

Despite the difficulties Chouinard said the Kinsmen were pleased with the inaugural event.

He said the event will be held again next year and may even become a twice-yearly race.

Each youngster received trophies for participating. The Town of Edson's 100th Anniversary Cåommittee donated the trophies.

ALS 100 Day Bike Tour: Edson

&Nbsp;  The rain poured outside the window again. When we started biking, I had to take off my gloves after only about half and hour. The water had soaked threw the gloves and my hands were prunie and tender. Nothing that I wore anymore stayed dry for long. I had found a certain kind of comfort in knowning that I was as uncomfortable as I could be, and that my situation couldn't get any worse pending a snow storm.    My bike had been having problems ever since Kelowna and early in the day I had started losing spokes. The rain fell, spokes broke and repairs were frequent. The amount of kilometers we were putting behind us fell short of what we had hoped. When we rolled into the town of Edson, we looked for a little while for a cheap place to sleep or a willing person to host us. This was not to be the case tonight, and so we found a motel, paid the fee and warmed up indoors.    Instead of spending our night in front of the TV, we spent it eating our last can of chef boyardie and fixing, oiling and maintiaining our bikes. My back tire was in such terrible condition that the only was to ride it was to disengage the back brakes because the tire was nowhere near true since I had been losing and replacing spokes constantly. It only needed to get me threw another day to Edmonton, where I could get a mechanic to fix it up... again.

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