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Posted by: tashi

For a quick excursion from Qualicum the Hammerfest trails are nice, stay to the riders left for the flow, drop down towards the river for a bit more janky.

The south Benson trails in Nanaimo are all-time and have easy fire road climbs. Start with the Simpsons route (Uterbraten, Max Power, Hutz etc) and then go up to Chainsaw ridge, Meat Draw etc if you’re down for more climbing and more gnar. Do both for a big day and add in Panoraimo to really fuck your legs up and get more DH.

Cumberland is awesome but I don’t know specifically what trails to route you through - I like a big pedal along with my big gnar down. Queso and upper Queso and whatever the way out route that feeds into Queso are awesome but require a good pedal. The lower stuff (Blockhead etc are also awesome and make for good shorter, less climby routes. 

Tzuhalem in Duncan is excellent also, lots of sustained descents.  Fire road or singletrack climbs. Check Trailforks for popular routes, they’re good.  Maple is nice but Tzu is better.  Provost is shuttle territory basically (if I’m up to date there.)  

One of the best aspects of VI trails are the excellent climb routes so I recommend you do like the locals do and seek out singletrack climbs, we’ve got the goods!  Basically the further south you go, the more pedaling you’ll have to do so stay outta Vic if you don’t like tech singletrack climbs.

Ill definitely look those up. Ya I dont think I want to go much more south than Nanaimo.  I dont mind hitting some pedalling bits, just dont want like the epic grunt pedals the whole way up.

Dont know if this ok for the Shore section but didnt know where to put it. Gonna be on the island for a week and ill be bringing my bike and was hoping for some trail recommendations. Will be based out of Qualicum and will be riding by myself so no shuttling.  Was thinking Cumberland and Nanaimo but no idea what trails to ride.  I prefer the downs much more than the ups so no crazy epic pedals. Would love some routes or other riding areas to check out

Well i think this marks the first year in about 10-15 years i havent had a real day riding in the park. Took 4 laps this year on green and blue trails with some friends who wanted to try it on a bachelor party but that was it this year. 

Think ticket prices played a big part. Between the lift pass, gas and food, it just makes it to exspensive to head up from the valley now a days. Also theres so many good trail around now a days and i recently switched from a dh bike only to a only a trail bike so it meant much more time exploring new trails. Also in years past, it seems like its 30 minute waits for the chair on nice weekends. 

Maybe next year ill get back up. Need to try out creekside and new dirt merchant sometime.

Ok thats what i was wondering. There is a 22.2 one btw. 

Ive never actually installed a new shock so do you basically just get the shock with bare eyelets and then these are like spacers you just put in with the bolts? Like i dont need any fancy tools do I. Ive seen some fore du bushings but im just not sure of the process

Im looking at buying a new x2 air shock and looking at the spec for my bike it requires one end to have 22.2mm x 8mm hardware and 40mm x 8mm at the other end. I seem to be able to find the 22.2 ones online but cant see 40 x 8 anywhere. Is there anything to do to solve this? Its replacing a cane creek double barrel on a banshee darkside it it matters.

Posted by: ReductiMat

Full stop.

Who is blaming the trail crew?

I only state observations here. I've lost spokes three times in the last week and half of riding, all at DIC. It was a, "Heads up, treat DIC with kid gloves for now".

That said if we're going to open this thread to opining on questionable recommendations made by sub-par MBA grads to their 60 year old VP's, I'd suggest that building the park out further without cementing a method upon which you can maintain the trails that bring destination visitors in, perhaps they should re-think things. Lines seem to be way down this year.

Today three guys spent all day fixing the landing of the Canadian Open step down landing. Because all 58 of the people hitting that are nephews of Mr. Vail.

A crew also rebuilt the bigger creek gap on DM because it had been a month since the last rebuild.

The lower bit of GT is open now.

BBT has sections that make me want to ask if it was designed, because there are two sections that are bloody sublime... luck? Or genius?

If all goes well, I'll ride every day until close. I really like it here.

I didnt mean anyone in here was blaming them. Nickel just made it seem like the unimformed on the mountain are blaming them.

Its rough as fuck right now but its to expected. I wouldnt blame the trail crew though. 

A: it was just cworx, it always gets beat to shit and

B: we need rain. So bad. Please.

So basically im in need of new tires on my downhill bike but im not sure what to do.  My current setup is minion dhf's ust front and rear on 823 rims, 26 inch wheels.  For the last year or so ive had a tube in the front though.  The first decision is weather i want to go tubeless.  Its been so hit or miss I find.  For the last year or so my rear has been fine but there was a time where one of the wheels would just go flat and then id fill it up and it would be fine and i was also having burping problems for a while.  Then sometimes it works fine.  I think ill stay tubeless as i have 823's, so do i need ust specific tires or can I do it with any tire? I was reading some people say they have no problem running regular minions tubeless. 

The other problem is it seems very hard to find 26 inch ust minion dhf's online (havent checked lbs yet). Ive been thinking of trying a dhr 2 on the rear but they dont seem to make a ust one (goes back to the question of do i need ust to go tubeless).

I think i want to go dhf front and dhr 2 rear. Anyone have much experience with the dhr 2 vs a dhf on the rear? And if im not getting ust what compounds/sidewalls should i go for.  There seems like theres 10 options for every tire now and im so out of the loop.  Thanks peoples.

I walked into the first bit. Looks super awesome. I think ill man up and hit it this year. Was funny to see the guy in cut off jean shorts with a bike so old his bars had a crossbar hitting it good.

Anyone know what happened tonight(Thursday)? Was shuttling and went up the road to retrieve the vehicle and there was a truck on the side of the road at the baden powel parking lot and noticed someone on the other side of the road picking stuff up off the road.  Figured something flew out of his truck and didnt think anything of it.  Came back down to a bunch of vehicles there and saw a guy lying on the side of the road getting his neck/head stabalized and a wrecked motorcycle in the ditch.  Didnt see any other vehicles with damage though.  Came back up and there was a search and rescue truck with some lady at her car down the road a bit more.  Was a bizzare night.  Anyone hear what happened? Hope the guy was ok.  The fire department showed up to help out eventually and police.