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25psi sounds great... I was up around 32-34!

Thanks Neil! 

I had no idea youre in PG - I'm up there for work sometimes. I'll have to come by! BTW... what tires were you running? Those looked neat. 

If you check the pre-race article, the header image is actually a shot from the side of the road while stopped to pee from a work truck north of FSJ, rather than some wonderful day on drop bars. https://nsmb.com/articles/suffering-looms-on-the-horizon

I mean, when you put it that way, it sounds silly! And *some* of these trails are old railroads! 

All that said... puttering around on BC's resource roads is an awesome way to see some absolutely amazing things, and you can cover SO much more ground on an appropriate machine like a gravel bike than you can on something bigger and heavier.

Thanks Cy!

Haha, it comes up every time there's some little glimpse of it somewhere in any of my pieces. Figured I'd get out ahead of it this time.

I thought I was doing well (from a "race" perspective), and then I found out the guy who finished one spot behind me had a ~6mo old! 

So... if we had some kind of handicap/adjustment for kids, that guy for sure smoked me.

If you review part one of my BCBR experience, you'll note there's a theme with my ice cream.

Mint oreo! 

Always.

"life around rally cars" 

Go on....

Turns out ETT and reach aren't the same.

And the campaign website is up now, if you're curious about Mathew's platform, etc. 

Also, if you'd like to donate... that part is key. https://www.mathewbond.com/

If you'd like to help support Mathew's campaign as a vollie, or with a couple bucks, or just help spread the word and get updates, fill the form out here. 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdw9YxjvYNWVpCQdNQkiLKcpU1RPYvISIg0h9Y22S7OceAa4w/viewform

I mean, my biggest impediment to spending more time at Cypress is that traffic getting home to Grand Boulevard is a dice roll.

Otherwise its great. Trails are sick, climb is brutal but efficient. Bike wash, beer, pizza... those are all just nice add ons.

The newsletter was what the NSMBA was told by BC Parks, verbatim.

They've since followed up, "visitors to Mt Seymour, with bikes onboard, who are intending to stage from Vancouver Picnic Area, will not be required to have a day pass, when the pass checkpoint is occurring on the lower mountain at 3km."

Posted by: Zowsch

I rigged this up last spring so I wouldn't have to drive to ride (and after I saw a similar setup flying up Mtn Hwy). All the more apropos now. For the record, I am not interested in simplifying to the point of getting an emtb.

https://imgur.com/gallery/pEicc9w

Could have been me... blue longtail bike?

Posted by: Bull_Dozer

So is the new Ironworkers interchange basically 100% done now? For those who regularly commute over the bridge - have you noticed a difference?

I commute over 2-3x a week... going downtown it'll  be quite a bit better than it has been - but kinda just back to the way it was - once the southbound path is finally open again; its too bad there's not going to be any improvements to the switchbacks down to Skeena/Bridgeway. Coming back, the new stoplight coming north on the north end is... I guess useful. Until all the paths in that area are done, its still not great unless you really know where you're going. The best/most improvements are around Keith/Fern/Old Lillooet/Mt Highway and are mostly good, although there's some weird choices on circuitous routing, and some sections that have just weirdly been left as gravel. Its definitely improved safety getting over to Seymour from my place

Posted by: craw

Posted by: SixZeroSixOne

Well, im glad I work from home:

https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/heres-what-caused-yesterdays-massive-traffic-snarl-across-north-shore-4698295

This is a precise illustration of my fears around increasing the size and frequence of the tankers heading up Indian Arm. Or an earthquake. 

Look at the effect this tiniest issue on the bridge caused around the city. If one of these bridges were permanently disabled the whole place would grind to a halt. We desperately need a transit link that's separate from these bridges. At least in an emergency pedestrians could still get around.

"What is the Seabus, Alex?"

I have one, too.

EDIT: although it would appear the forum gods do not want me to post a picture of it.

BC Parks should finish building the Mile Zero lot at IRR/Seymour. 

But they won't, because a couple of key DNV people freaked out about it.

"this thread is a timecapsule" 

There's large conversations in here that, if you removed the date stamp, would be indistinguishable from conversations happening today. ha.