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Yes you did, thanks.  In the case of this bike, the gnarliest shore it sees is Circuit 8 or Bridge Brewing.   Its a faint clicking noise only when braking hard, Ill monitor it when I ride it again a few months from now.  Its on the bottom of the N+1 list...

I'm starting to think my straight steer tube Revelation is creaking on the XC hardtail, so I pulled it off and tried oozing loctite pressfit 609 through gravity.  No such luck, still creaky when braking but no movement felt by hand for sure.

I have swapped a dual crown dirt bike fork steer tube press fit before, but am leery of pressing out the steer tube from the single crown Revelation and repressing it with 609 in the right place.  I'm not the kind of guy to buy a new CSU just because of a little creaky noise.  

Thoughts?

Its OK guys, the Grim Donut long con made my day, sorry to say....

Seriously?  NSMBs first April 1 article?

You would think you live near Seattle...

Wait two weeks. The 10’s per day in the first half of March became the 50’s in the second half. The Easter bunny will bring the hundreds per day.

https://bedford.io/blog/ncov-cryptic-transmission/

STAY THE FUCK HOME.

Down here in New Zealand, we were given 48 hours notice in Rotorua to close all non-essential business and travel.  Three Air-bnb’s declined us accommodations, the car rental place closed with one day notice and our 400 km bikepacking ride back to the airport was in grave jeopardy due to convenience stores and restaurants closed within a day. 

We made to an airport hotel and are now hunkered down with 5 days of groceries and beer and tonnes of time in our room to pack up our bikes     The flight home is Sunday, I think the last one to Vancouver.  We havent left the room in three days, although theres a bike path out front next to an empty freeway.

NZ in the whole country has 283 cases, whereas BC alone has 659 and growing exponentially  

Please, listen to Clarkes message, but step it up.  Isolate yourselves, stop riding, stop the spread.

Even better, imagine a reengineered modern flex stem!  Carbon body, Titanium hardware, no side to side motion....   endless opportunity!

The best thing to do would be use a torque wrench to install your pedals to prevent over tightening them.

Apple?  Or devices in general?  Why do you need a 'next' device?  

(still using Ipad 3 and wife just upgraded her Iphone 4S to a broken screen Huwai chinese spyphone that she fixed herself)

he's killin' the skinnies, with the weight of a motor!

Posted by: oldmanbuilder

to the people advocating braids for trails that were cut when bikes were super shitty ... the solution is not changing a couple corners.  the solution is a whole new trail.  we're not going to braid our way from old-school trails to proper new school lines.

so how about leaving the old-school stuff alone?  we've already lost enough of it.

Totally agree, and ffs, can we please stick to the trail instead of braiding it a new straightline?  Especially if you're a pro rider flogging E-bikes on classic shore trails.

Case in point, how long do you think till the straightlines over/through the edge of the trail are fully worn in at 0.11,  0.12, 1.45, 1.47, 4.02, and 5.31?   I'll give him 2.49, that's a good debating point on where the logical trail should have been, but the log is rotted out at the end, therefore a sharp right instead.  it's the first two that really get my goat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deShhgaRQ3s

Yes, Gully, I'm calling you out to showcase clean riding.  You might be jumping over some sections, but the jongs behind you are just following your tracks over the moss and ferns.  First youtube comment - "That was insane! So fast. So many lines down boogieman that I didn't even realize you could do."

Thanks though, for your 7th & UOC laps, they were clean.  I'm sure Pete appreciates it!

Smoke got a good one in Peachland

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCswlBNHaW5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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Posted by: SixZeroSixOne

I also want to try Port Moody but not a fan of the Barnett Hwy. I guess there's always the SkyTrain if I drink too much...😉

Unless you are on a skinny tire bike, gravel paths can be followed all the way to Fraser Mills Fermentation co, who have confirmed they have a bike rack out front their large windows.

From 2nd Narrows, ride the TCT trail through Montrose Park, Penzance Dr, Scenic Park, neighbourhood over to Drummonds Walk Urban trail.

Cross Barnet at Velodrome, and find the Velodrome trail behind the drome. Trail to Mountain Air, keep going along the powerline to Suncor, then cross Barnet to the north. From there, single track trail leads you past Reed Point Marina and comes out on Short St. just a few blocks from the breweries! All trail, with two lighted intersections to cross the hwy.

Doing this ride today from North Van. May go do a lap of Buntzen before having a beer. Looks like on trailforks there is a bunch of trails that link up to the lake. Any advice on best route to Buntzen?

i only know the trails in the opposite direction, starting at Mountain Ayre lane, the go down to the water from there. You probably want to ride up Bert Flynn gravel loop.  East Rd and Sunnyside are nice backroads, but might be heavy traffic on the weekend.

Posted by: Hepcat

Tricky stuff building a sustainable fall line trail though eh, even for the pro builders it doesn't always work out. Upper Tall Cans is a master class, but Lower Tall Cans for example is a nightmare of runaway erosion.

Yeah IMBA's specific trail grade rules are kind of impossibly conservative to implement, but I agree with them on the point that bench cut trails should always be standard practice as it makes for fool-proof erosion resistant trail building.

upper TC was recently (<10years) built new trail as old man serpentine (aka IMBA std), while lower was a cleanup and refurb of an existing proper old school fall line trail, complete with a 25 year old log ride.   The differences in sustainability (it's all about water not flowing instead of the conventional perception of "flow") are quite appearant.

A perfect day.  Trails were empty, Alice lake was warm an the beer was cold.  #goodtimesonbikes

Posted by: rip78

anyone know why the ramp on wutang was taken out?

Wutang on Trailforks

https://www.trailforks.com/trails/wutang/

See the reports section.  And feel free to sign up and add new reports of your own, its a great resource!

https://nssm.ca/testimonials/

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Posted by: switch

Trump said 800K people wanted tickets to his Tulsa event.  6200 people attended.

Rumor is that a bunch of "youths" spammed the ticket requests to inflate the demand.

I heard it was the Tik tok & k pop crowd

You heard?  As in you're in the loop? Or you just saw the CBC article and also think its the funniest thing ever.   

Brilliant move, even if its 20% truth

Posted by: andy-eunson. 

What do others think of this?

Bikepark opening always takes a huge load off the shore