Trail Tales

"This is far from the most egregious example of filming being done with little to no regard for the environment or surroundings..."

“What is it? Well it’s a pick, an axe, a trowel, a rake, a scraper and a stomper all in one.”

"I have decided to leave the UK and move to Canada, specifically the sea-to-sky corridor. I think that's what it's called?"

"At first I thought this was a joke, but I confirmed with the sender that he’s not making this up and this is an actual honest-to-goodness problem..."

"It tastes great with your beer of choice, you can make it using mountain bike tools you have laying around the house and it tastes great with the beer of your choice..."

"Dual slalom was my best event - as long as the jumps were no more than knee high I could compete with the best of them..."

Three days riding some of BC’s best trails with your buddies and Vanderham and your own Tacoma to drive? We’d call that a Dream Ride.

"Yahoos band together to create an echo chamber to support their entitled views, build on the insanity, and then take it all a step further..."

Ever have the wheelie dream? The balance point feels like a bean bag chair. Making that dream come true? Easy. Just one thing: I need to learn to manual.

"This sounded like a really bad idea as I first read your question, but as I dig into it a little bit deeper it doesn’t sound quite as awful..."

Are there are alternatives to eating $10 worth of pre-packaged future-sh!t on a ride - maybe even real food...

"What is the width of the handlebars on my bike? I’m sitting on the sofa and am too lazy to do this myself..."

Uncle Dave doesn't believe in either N+1 or S-1 - he has his own unhappy formula to keep him dissatisfied with the bikes in his garage...

Should a bike reviewer do a World Cup Racer level build on a test bike or ride it the way 95% of riders would...

"And then I'd hit them right in the f@cking face with a totally unexpected doozy of a change that required all sorts of really fancy, expensive sh!t..."

"I hit the ground like a sack of discarded pornography mistakenly shipped to a Salt Lake City Safeway..."

"Since then, I've been bribing her with cake on increasingly difficult climbing tasks, cleaning them every time..."

"Not child labour bad - more like privileged child with a distorted worldview having his dreams crushed kind of bad..."

“…Spring is coming on hard in BC and that means road trip time. Good vibes all around in this little beauty from Della Creek.”

"I can hold my breath underwater for four hours, chew a shark's head off with my bare teeth, put a bullet through a gnat's ass at two miles..."

"I debated how to answer this question. Earnestly? Sarcastically? Satirically? I finally decided on Scholarly..."

SRAM continues to own the 1x arms race upping both cogs and teeth and making Japanese engineers angry...

MEC Dirt Search is a Canada-wide contest that awards $10,000 each towards trailbuilding to one group in the East and one in the West.

"Oval chainrings and 50 tooth cogs are new and I don't need them - therefore they probably are stupid and suck."