BC’s singletrack served up its best, and the Race Face crew delivered. The 2025 BC Bike Race was a weeklong test of endurance, grit, and trail mastery—snaking through the forests, rocks, and roots of Vancouver Island. When the dust settled at the end of a week of racing, it was Race Face athletes who stood tall across the leaderboard.
“BC Bike Race is always a good week on the bike, no matter how the racing goes. How could it not be?!” - Andrew L’Esperance
- L’Esperance leading teammate and overall winner Sean Fincham down the descents. It was great to see these two help and push each other out all week on the challenging course.
Sean Fincham led the charge, riding a flawless week to take the overall win in the Solo Open Men category. With precision climbing, smooth descending, and perfectly timed attacks, Fincham controlled the race from the front—winning multiple stages and never finishing outside the top three. His consistency and technical finesse were unmatched, and at the heart of that performance was a piece of gear that never flinched: the all-new Race Face Era SL wheels.
- Fincham tackling the rock rolls of Vancouver Island.
These wheels weren’t just along for the ride—they were a key part of the equation. The new Era SL wheelset is built for both elite racing and weekend pedal warriors: featherweight for the climbs, stiff for power transfer, and confidence-inspiring when trails turn sketchy. With a new lightweight rim profile, Vault hub internals, and decades of BC-born trail DNA baked in, they handled everything BCBR threw at them—from wet rock rolls in Nanaimo to blown-out corners in Cumberland.
- Race winner Fincham showing that the ERA SL wheels can tackle all the chunk BCBR threw at them!
Behind him, Race Face teammates Andrew L’Esperance, Peter Disera and Matt Bird added to the team’s dominance. L’Esperance rounded out the overall podium in third, racing with calm precision through BC’s most brutal terrain, with his Race Face Team teammate Peter Disera landing in 4th. Bird powered his way to seventh overall, charging every descent with the same fire that’s earned him a fast-growing reputation.
- Bird making time for some well-deserved airtime on the descents.
- Peter Disera looks focused on the greenery. Who can blame him? Some nice trails out there.
The team’s success wasn’t just about watts—it was about trust in the tools beneath them. When you're racing full gas across seven back-to-back stages, your gear either holds up or holds you back. This week, Era SL proved itself under pressure, and then some.
“These wheels are light enough to take on the steepest climbs and provide quick acceleration through endless switchback corners. On the descents, they managed the rocky rolls and chutes with ease and smoothed out the rough ride down”
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Andrew L’Eperance
“BC Bike Race really is the ultimate single-track experience, 7 days of some of the best trails I’ve ever ridden and raced on with a new and unique experience each day. I was happy to take top 5s on the last two stages but already have some plans to get back next year to pull together a better GC fight.”
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Australia’s Matthew Bird
Results:
1st – Sean Fincham
3rd – Andrew L’Esperance
4th – Peter Disera
7th – Matthew Bird
10th – Rob Britton