The province announced this week that it is investing $65,000 in the BC Bike Race to help welcome 600 participants from 36 countries to coastal B.C. for the annual seven-day mountain bike race tour.
The BC Bike Race will run from July 5-13 and helps to bring attention and international visitors to some of B.C.’s smaller communities – such as Cumberland, Powell River and Sechelt. The event sold out in just one day, has a waiting list in the hundreds, and recently generated $3.4 million of economic activity in the province, with $2.3 million in the host communities of the tour.
Last year, when the 10th annual race passed through the Sunshine Coast, riders made it into Sechelt on Saturday, July 9 – Day 3 of the race – and finished in Langdale on Sunday. Day 3 is notoriously the hardest leg of the journey – and the longest at nearly 60 km.
MLA for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky Jordan Sturdy made the announcement in Squamish on behalf of Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour.
“Bringing the world to B.C. with this epic mountain bike race tour is a great way for the global community to explore B.C.,” Sturdy said in a news release.
