An expected 1,225 bicycle riders will pour down from Canada into Haines Saturday during only the second Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay in five years.
“Covid changed things,” race coordinator Mia Lee of Whitehorse said this week. Yukon’s capital city is growing, including with cyclists who weren’t around in 2019, the last time the 149-mile relay was run.
That explains the 91 eight-member squads registered. “Some riders are just checking it out for the first…
