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From what I tell, it's hard for business to 'officially' support one trail due to land ownership issues. For all the trails here, there's only about 3 official ones :D (and IIRC you are building one at the moment ;) ). A buddy was hoping that his employer would take on a certain trail, but it's on SN land so they had to commit to another one (CL). I know my employer is interested in this but will have similar hurdles. Sounds like we might just go down another route.

From what I can gather, it's names out of a hat when it comes to who ends up getting to sponsor a SORCA event? Obviously though you have to put your name in the hat....

I'm not a social butterfly so when I go to my one token SORCA Social a year, I just end up standing around and thinking 'why am I here', and sneak out when no-ones looking ha ha.

Another way of looking at this, is to find the businesses owners and / or staff who actually go out and work on the trails? It's 'easy' to throw money at something in return for a name on a website and the chance to make more money, but if you really care, you'd show up and get your hands dirty.

I'd even be happy with normal EXO type casing up front but 42a rubber (or bring back Maxxis Slow Reezay!) for grip, and for the rear just any old crap out of the tire recycling bin that has thicker sidewalls to protect my rim.

Most people in Squamish don't even go as far as Valleycliffe!

Yeah we have the Olfa ones at work. I concede that they are a better product, but shiny shiny 😉

I got a folding anodized utility knife at Canadian Tire when they were half price. I look totally 'baller' when cutting up weed gummies.....

https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/mastercraft-folding-utility-knife-0575084p.html#srp

That was good to watch as I've seen a few of their repairs over the years but never seen the operation or people behind it.

I wonder if they will do a bulk discount on the pile of dead carbon rims at our shop :D

Dead Sailor package sounds great as I've never read a single article on here!

To be fair (to be fair to be faaaiiiiiir), I hadn't spotted the shape. It just reminded me of other companies that use the same or similar names. Not quite as bad as this though heh heh:

https://huddersfield.greatbritainlisted.com/trailers-mobile-homes/abi-marauder-450-ct-45-berts-caravan-good-condition-no-damp-very-light-690kg-good-tyres-awning_6437715.html

'Invader'..... that name hasn't aged well all things considered! It always amuses me that mountain bike related companies feel the need to use aggressive / macho sounding names for products to be used by someone riding a bicycle over some bumpy things :)

Posted by: syncro

Perfect rationale why there should be some hiking only trails and that trail orgs should invest some effort into creating them or advocating for them. Plus it's much easi6ro put in a hiking line than an mtbing line.

FWIW I totally agree. For shits and giggles I looked on Trailforks to see what 'hiking' trails are left in the Braemar Tennis Courts area. They are all pretty well now MTB trails and all smoothed over. Walkers are left with nothing, and then MTBers moan that people walk on 'their' trails. Christ I'm turning into Monica Craver (RIP).

Continuing to play Devils Advocate, there are absolutely going to be people walking on these trails because MTBers have taken over the lower accessible slopes of all the suburban mountains. IIRC the only hiking trails on Fromme are St Georges, Per Gynt and the Cedar Tree Trail. Seymour is even worse. If a mountain biker who rode on Fromme on a regular basis for over 10 years can't figure out what trails are safe to walk on any more, there's no hope for anyone else. I see even St Mary's is practically a high speed 'flow' trail now with all the dumbing down (oops....) going on.

The RSC doesn't have contact point adjustment. It just dials out the 'dead spot' where when you start to apply the brake lever but the pistons do not yet move.

That said, the swing link in the RS and RSC levers does add significant modulation and power over the T lever and are a great upgrade. I'd go with the RSC levers to minimize lever throw while still having the pads sitting away from the rotors. 

As to which brakes are the 'best' at a certain price.....you'll never get an agreement. I've had 4 piston Shimano brakes and various 4 piston Sram ones. Shimano have more initial bite if you want that. And yes, you can modulate the brakes pretty well with your fingers to make up for the lack of modulation in the brakes. Personally when going down steep slabs, I like brakes to have plenty of modulation so I can afford to be a bit more 'lazy' with my fingers. I've never personally found my G2 RSC brakes to be under-powered as such, but more power wouldn't be a bad thing either.

^LOL he was already gone. I doubt he heard me.... His riding buddy behind him was friendly and we were friendly back.

FWIW if I'd have been walking down the trail on my own, as someone who's mountain biked since 1987 and an active trail builder I'd have just rolled my eyes at the lecture, but my Ex (who's not a mountain biker) gave a different perspective on the interaction.

I had a funny one on fromme this afternoon. My Ex and I share our dog, and I came back down to the Shore to do the swap and go for a walk to catch up. I'm out of touch on all of the apparent trail work on Lower Fromme so figured it be a good place to go. We walked up the climb trail for a bit and all was good. Got out of the way for various bikers and had friendly interactions. 

It was time to complete the lap though, and I suggested walking down Lower Digger as it's an old janky trail that not many people ride so we wouldn't get in anyone's way.....

We started to walk down but it didn't look very familiar.... I just assumed that it was a bit of a re-route at the top so we carried on down, keeping a close ear and eye for bikers. One or two came down and all was good. Then I saw another one approach from a good way back.... We rustled up the dawg and got out of the way in time again. Only to be told in a condescending manner that the trail is not a very good choice for dog walking. No shit Sherlock! Sorry, I missed the memo about Digger being turned into fucking A-Line :D I muttered loudly "Oh shut up!" as I didn't have chance to discuss the situation in a mature level headed manner ha ha. My Ex then commented that it's douches like that that give mountain bikers a bad name.

Soooo you can never quite tell why someone is walking down a trail. Someone was walking a big dog down one of my trails on Sunday afternoon and I came up to her on the fastest section. I slowed down in good time, she then saw me and apologized for getting in the way (I don't own the land....), I said no problem and we smiled and each went on our way.

Funnily enough I see it completely differently. I'm never in a rush and am happy to walk up hill. I'm not sure how being happy to do one lap when others 'have' to do three is elitist. Maybe I'll get a 'ONE LESS LAP' sticker for my bike :D

That was a great read. We need "Be Like Betty" stickers too.

Anita has been posting about this for weeks on her Instagram stories. Ironically she never posted a link to the story so I guess one also had to be in a clique in order to find out what she was going on about?  Just a whole lot of 'smash the patriarchy', 'white privilege' type stuff and endless selfies of her drinking coffee, but zero context. Not exactly a marketers dream.....

On the other hand, Leo is awesome and a positive role model:

https://www.instagram.com/landosteezy/?hl=en

https://www.marinbikes.com/ca/riders/national-team/leo-smith

I tend to think that for many people, features=status.

To give a motoring example, I specifically bought a 22 year hatchback (I'd had the same model previously). It cost $1500. Other than very lightly assisted power steering it has zero driving aids. It has these funny lever things to get the windows up and down ;) Being the 'high end' model, this one does at least have a radio! But not much else. Not even much power....I think a massive 106bhp. I have to change between gears by trying to move a lever with one hand and push a pedal with another foot at the same time. What a palaver! Yet I really enjoy driving it, especially ripping up and down the S2S from time to time. I've clearly never broken the speed limit as that would be very naughty, but if I did, the little car would probably take every corner from Squamish to NV at 130kph just fine and not drink much gas doing so. But there is an expectation in society that you 'have' to have a vehicle with ALL the features, weighs two tons and has 500bhp. It's a huge waste of the planets resources and at the end of the day more numbing to drive. Might as well drive itself. How dull is that? 

But apparently this is the future of mountain biking. All the features and a bike that does almost everything for you. With all the electronic integration going on, they are the SUVs of the bicycle world. You'll never have to engage your brain or heart again.

Posted by: AndrewMajor

Broped is such a great term for blender-bikes. I wish I knew where it came from.

Sorry, that was me :) 

I wish I good find a good template for the old yellow 'One Less Car' stickers, and get 'One Less Broped' made. They'd be everywhere....my bikes, my car, my forehead....