Trail Tales

Sell or store? What to do when you've got two fresh, but fast devaluating, bikes that you can't ride for a year and a half...

Did Marzocchi's best years coincide with the most buxom Bomber babes representing the brand?

"Cheating wasn't really considered cheating, it was seen more like entertaining performance art..."

“The point is, we’ve always looked pretty stupid riding our bikes…Dress up like your favourite dirt jumping from and maybe some of whatever-the-hell-that-takes will rub off on you.”

“The chance of failure is awesome and I love embarking on things where I might fail…”

“He didn’t mention much about the challenges of altitude sickness and acclimatization during his pitch; that came after we’d paid for our plane tickets…”

“Everybody knows that plus bikes are the new “massive bike industry conspiracy” and 650b was only created to pave the way for its introduction. Please put more effort into staying current…”

“To a junior mechanic, high on bikes but resigned to wasting his summer chasing extra shifts to save money for college, it sounded like heaven.”

“It leaves me wishing that we were capable of conversing with one another without having to talk about the expensive shit dangling between our legs.”

"I will have a first aid kit and a satellite phone. In case of a life-threatening injury - but keep in mind that the heli-service is based in Addis Ababa..."

Not sure if you're Dad Dave in addition to Uncle Dave, but if not, I'm sure you've had riding buddies that are now fathers.

What does it take to be a top 10 contender in the Enduro World Series? Yoann Barelli shreds the west coast trails of BC on a 6″ bike harder than most people on an 8″ bike…

“Those employees add layers and polish to the culture the owners molded from frame jigs and late nights and cheap whiskey. And so it is with Kona.”

‘423 hectares of torched forest presented an opportunity we couldn’t pass up, it was time to take out the tools and load up the camera gear…’

"There is almost no point in talking about this any longer because we’ve entered the domain of bad teenage drama..."

"I’m not the most competitive person - as long as I'm happy with my riding, I could care less what my score is..."

A candid and insightful interview with the people's champ on judging, peformance and who should have scored higher than Aggy and Sorge...

"I'm a fan of the shit disturbers. Those willing to speak their minds when they care about something, potential consequences bedamned..."

"I watched multiple friends get carted off in ambulances over two days. Compound fractures. Internal bleeding. Broken vertebrae..."

"I know that every time you come tearing down Crank-it-up and you catch a flash out of the corner of your eye, you're heading right back up to ride that trail again..."

"It wasn't until the next day that I learned, because of a social media posting by Paul's sister, that he had needed a nine-hour surgery..."

"We’re plunging towards disaster, one slo-mo infused, red-bull drenched web edit at a time..."

Here on the North Shore we've got so many trails that we can afford to bitch and complain about new ones being built...

"You’re talking about a tremendously boring subset of a sport that nobody really cares about..."