Saturday’s Kluane-Chilkat International Bike Relay promises to feature fancy bikes and packs of precision riders drafting each other for advantage.

The KCIBR didn’t start out so sporty. Held on July 3, 1993, the first relay drew 166 participants, more than half riding mountain bikes or hybrids. There were no solo riders.

The relay was the brainchild of City of Haines tourism director Susan Bell, local bike shop owner Thom Ely, and Pat Egan, an RCMP…