Double Cross Borderline Nationals

Once again BMX Canada brings it’s National Series race, stop #3 for western Canada, back to Langley BMX, literally minutes from the Canada/USA border. It’s no wonder this race is coined the Borderline Nationals.

- Lee Cejalvo

Situated under hydro power lines it can easily be labeled as the High Voltage Nationals since there’s definitely a buzz you can feel. As one of Canada’s oldest tracks and local to yours truly, it was a pleasure to be in my own back yard for this historic Canada Day (150 years old) long weekend.

Martyn Boulter of Monster Bike Supply, and Langley BMX’s club president, really has a great crew of execs that spent countless weeks prepping the facility with new additions and upgrades. While the track mostly remained unchanged since their last National in 2015, it still proved to be an exciting course with the long sweeper first corner and dirt corners which made for some exciting race action, to say the least.

Always a fierce rivalry are two young girls in the 8 year old class. Islanders ‘Turbo’ Tiffany Brosius and Rift Canada’s Piper Graaten always seem to have great sprint battles to get things going. While Brosius had the power to lead the group on both days, it was Graaten’s perfect corner executions that pulled her past the Monster Bike Supply’s ‘lil’ Turbo Tiffany. Saturday’s was an inside pass on the last corner, and Sunday’s almost identical move happened in corner 2. Graaten is definitely on a streak, as she is the current leader for National #1 girl going into the Worlds break.