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Help wanted: plan a BC enduro trip in August

April 29, 2016, 1:37 p.m.
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Savonna and Kamloops have some great trails. I have really enjoyed all the time spent there riding. Except the ticks.

April 29, 2016, 2:44 p.m.
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Hi again,
I have a question for the Whistler specialist. If I want to go to Top of the World and riding some good trails after. I saw on Trailforks that you have some options on your way down:

1/ Stay on Top of the World and finish in the Bike park.
2/ Ride "ride don't slide" to "BC's trail"
3/ Go to Khyber pass and Middle of nowhere.

What is the best option for you? For info, I already rode the rest of the WBP and I will ride it again with a regular lift ticket anyway.

Thanks.

2 or 3…RDS is more steep, Khyber Pass/MON/Kashmir back to creekside is probably one of the better rides in they valley at this point, imo. It's long and technical though, bring water/food/tools/etc

April 29, 2016, 9:05 p.m.
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April 30, 2016, 10:35 p.m.
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2 as well it has some steep sections and when i rode it last summer late August it had been rerouted insection and was all loam and tons of fun , BC trail was fun as well I enjoyed them more than TOTW .

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May 1, 2016, 11:34 a.m.
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2 or 3…RDS is more steep, Khyber Pass/MON/Kashmir back to creekside is probably one of the better rides in they valley at this point, imo. It's long and technical though, bring water/food/tools/etc

This, or do both if you are able, do totw to khyber, then reup from creekside, and push up to RDS.

May 5, 2016, 11:11 a.m.
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Hi,
I know that my next question is highly subject to become a troll but I will post it anyway.
Flat pedals or clipless?
I like both but bringing with me 2 pairs of pedals and 2 pairs of shoes is too heavy for the check-in luggage in the plane.

May 5, 2016, 11:39 a.m.
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Khyber Pass/MON/Kashmir back to creekside is probably one of the better rides in they valley at this point, imo. It's long and technical though, bring water/food/tools/etc

So, better not to take the DH bike then? Better to take an Enduro or AM?

May 5, 2016, 12:56 p.m.
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So, better not to take the DH bike then? Better to take an Enduro or AM?

I'm coming with my Enduro this time. I don't have a DH bike anymore.
Last time I came with my DH but you can only do bike park or shuttling (which is not very easy when you have only one rental car).
With the Enduro (I have a spartan) you can climb to the top by yourself :)

May 11, 2016, 12:33 a.m.
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Hi,
I have a question about the ride planner on Trailforks.

Here in France when my riding activities are transfered from Strava to Trailforks the total elevation gain increase by about 20%. I know that trailforks is using some elevatio data from the map and maybe the map in Europe is not that accurate.

I'm in the process to create ride plan in BC for this summer and I'm wondering if the elevation calculation on the Trailforks Ride planner is wrong or if in Canada you can rely on it.

Did anybody compare Strava to Trailforks elevation yet?

Thanks.

May 11, 2016, 12:10 p.m.
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Hi,
I have a question about the ride planner on Trailforks.

Here in France when my riding activities are transfered from Strava to Trailforks the total elevation gain increase by about 20%. I know that trailforks is using some elevatio data from the map and maybe the map in Europe is not that accurate.

I'm in the process to create ride plan in BC for this summer and I'm wondering if the elevation calculation on the Trailforks Ride planner is wrong or if in Canada you can rely on it.

Did anybody compare Strava to Trailforks elevation yet?

Thanks.

Check out the Trailforks forum on Pinkbike. The main Trailforks creator actively monitors it and can answer questions (he is on this forum too sometimes as Canadaka).

http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/trailforks-feedback/

May 11, 2016, 12:43 p.m.
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Check out the Trailforks forum on Pinkbike. The main Trailforks creator actively monitors it and can answer questions (he is on this forum too sometimes as Canadaka).

http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/trailforks-feedback/

Already did that before and he doesn't have a real fix for it. I guess the terrain model behind it is not precise enough.

May 18, 2016, 5:16 a.m.
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Hi again,
I have a question about the Comfortably numb loop in Whistler.
I checked and it seems to be very long to complete but when you look at the photos on trailforks, it doesn't look very technical.
So for you why it's so long to just ride 13 Kms? And another question, does it really worth to ride it?

Thanks.

May 18, 2016, 7:04 a.m.
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Hi again,
I have a question about the Comfortably numb loop in Whistler.
I checked and it seems to be very long to complete but when you look at the photos on trailforks, it doesn't look very technical.
So for you why it's so long to just ride 13 Kms? And another question, does it really worth to ride it?

Thanks.

No, so many better options to ride. If you really want to ride part of it, just do Yummy Nummy to the descent part of it.

May 18, 2016, 7:09 a.m.
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Hi again,
I have a question about the Comfortably numb loop in Whistler.
I checked and it seems to be very long to complete but when you look at the photos on trailforks, it doesn't look very technical.
So for you why it's so long to just ride 13 Kms? And another question, does it really worth to ride it?

Thanks.

it's actually really technical and rooty. It's been a number of years since I've ridden it full pull from start to finish as it is a 3-4 hour ride, but you can ride it many different ways. You can do the first bit to the bridge and then bail out down Young Lust, or a bit further past the bridge to Jeff's trail. A lot of people do Yummy Numby climb out of Lost Lake and then 'descend' Foreplay, you can also hang a right at the top or YN and ride CN backwards using the golden door cut out and ride back to Jeff's Trail or young Lust. I did the Yummy/CN/Jeff's route on Sunday evening, it's a favourite way to do it as riding that part of CN in that direction is mostly down and super fun, and the forest is really awesome. I was about 50 minutes for that combo, but that was pretty pinned with no stopping.

I hardly ever recommend people do the full ride, but it is worth doing one of the options as it's a rad trail in a super cool forest.

May 18, 2016, 7:25 a.m.
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No, so many better options to ride. If you really want to ride part of it, just do Yummy Nummy to the descent part of it.

Hi,
I already planned to do that actually.

Thanks to all of you for your precious advices.

:)

NB:
On the thread about forum versus social medias and how facebook killed the internet forums, honestly when you're not local it's a lot more easy to find informations on the internet forums like this one, than on Facebook. First, the search engine give you more results about the forum content when you do a search. And for the facebook pages, when you're not local, it's hard to find the right group. Facebook is very powerful when you already have the right connection with people which is very easy locally but quit hard when you just go to a place to visit.

I considere myself lucky because I came every year in BC to ride between 2005 and 2010 and my wife is from Vancouver so I have some knowledge about the area, the different bikeparks and where to find the information.

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