MaxRockatansky profile

Can you provide your height details etc. and maybe the reach of the bikes you have come from? Interested to hear your take and how much longer this is than your daily rig.

I am curious but not convinced on the massive reaches on some of these bikes.

How far do bears roam? I presume further than say the distance from GSM, which is closed to Boogie which is not...

Happy Leclerc won also. Happy to see something other than merc out in front. Happy that he beat Vettel....

Albon had a good first race with REdbull also. Nothing fancy but quietly worked his way through the pack. 17th to 5th is a solid effort. Not a massive fan of Verstappen so if he can get up to pace quickly I could start cheering for Redbull again. Renault don't seem to be all that promising so while Danny Ric is my guy its tough to support them while they are playing dodgem cars mid pack..

Posted by: TonyJ

Hey you kids, leave my jank alone.....

I was disappointed to see Lower Digger get paved, but I totally accept that is the new norm. But Upper Digger is great the way it is, there are a few people that keep it running (on the DL).

If you don't like Upper Digger, then ride something else, there are so few trails left with that kind of tech on Fromme, it needs to be preserved.

Rode grannies to upper digger the other week. Forgot how fun those trails are. There is flow to be found on these trails for sure. They 100% should be left as is.. The steeps are still really challenging and it makes me laugh what we used to ride them on...

pfft. Rotating earth....

The earth is flat and the fact that BC forest fire smoke does not spread across the "northern hemisphere" in 24 hrs proves this.

Posted by: switch

Tonight there's police with assault weapons checking out the hiking trails on Seymour...

There actually was a lot of armed cops on the darkside last night. Reports of a dude with a gun. Turned out to be a pellet gun according to the face-space...

Wonder what the load 

Posted by: PaulB

From last February:

If all goes as planned, SpaceX will launch the second Falcon Heavy on Wednesday and go for the triple booster landing. No Roadster payload this time, just a boring communications satellite.

Wonder what the load rating is on those red tie downs....

We just finished 10 lessons on Seymour. Great experience and very well organised. My main advice is book the earliest lesson time you can unless you are able to make a weekday work.

The kids went from zero (literally never set foot on skis) to blue runs (on seymour...) in that time and are fully self sufficient now.

Posted by: craw

Posted by: MaxRockatansky

I have used Strava as a ghetto training tool for a while. To track my efforts, climbing and distance per month etc. but the app is so inaccurate (and seems to be getting more so) getting worked up on the segments (up or down) is ridiculous. 

It is so inaccurate now I also am questioning its usefulness logging rides. It obviously uses maps to calculate distances as they seem ok but the times are way off. Gaining 18km/hr average speed from one ride to the next with no stops, mechanical's  etc.

Have you tried using the ride logger in Trailforks? It records the key stuff but ties it to actual trails (trails, elevation, distance, time moving, etc).

Trailforks app doesn't work well at all for me. Crashes. super slow. Not sure why...it seems to update weekly...

I have used Strava as a ghetto training tool for a while. To track my efforts, climbing and distance per month etc. but the app is so inaccurate (and seems to be getting more so) getting worked up on the segments (up or down) is ridiculous. 

It is so inaccurate now I also am questioning its usefulness logging rides. It obviously uses maps to calculate distances as they seem ok but the times are way off. Gaining 18km/hr average speed from one ride to the next with no stops, mechanical's  etc.

Posted by: Kenny

Yeah it's wierd you hear so much conflicting info regarding the smuggler and Sentinel. I've heard people say Sentinel is very much a trail bike and gives up nothing to the smuggler on flat trails or climbing, and then I've heard people say the Sentinel is a major DH sled and the smuggler is much more usually day to day unless your day to day is alternating laps of the bike park and cypress shuttles. 

Just goes to show d

Nothing beats beats getting down to bham and doing a demo. I wish NSBS had a couple.

Depends on what your version of Enduro is I would say. It's more Pemberton Enduro than Whistler EWS if that makes sense...

It handles everything you throw at it but Whistler EWS would have been nice to have another inch travel for sure. Crazy train, hey bud etc. on any other week end, its all you need. EWS got the trails pretty shitkicked though....