XXX_er profile

Back in the day I met a certain local character at a demo so i asked buddy where he was making his bikes and it was Taiwan so why not Canada?

He told me Taiwan is where its at cuz the best welders are there the best factories are there, he can hop on a bike and ride up the street a few KM to find components or tubing factories or anything he needs ... its all right there  

and the beach was at the other end of the street

the guy who told me this^^ was a bike tourer who had done 8000km in AK & northern BC  he was on a bike with a der and his partner was on a Roloff ... said you tell coasting down hills

looks great but I wonder what compromises in chainstay length/placement there would be in the BB area that were eliminated by going with 1x ?  Also someone mentioned drag going down hill, I've been told a Roloff hub will have noticable drag coasting downhill compared to a traditional der setup?

yeah I looked at the Switch infinity path of movement on line and then the R3ACT thinking i had the answer but while it is a moving pivot I'm thinking so do the other VPP  ... another thing I don't understand along with religion 

yeah I read about the water bottle thing all the time and I think its just one guy making many posts

It looks to me like a single pivot with a main pivot that moves which reminds me of the Yeti Switch Infinity system SO its an obvious comparison ?

are the lakes uniformly wide everywhere ? I need a wide forefoot but a narrow heel & instep which has been up till now specialized shoes

I should say I was holding the bike up by the pedal when i gave it a tap with the hammer and it came easy but a  self extracting kit sounds like a good idea so where do you get them ?

Just like derailleurs and derailleur hangers there is no way to quantify how hard you hit something before it broke ... anecdotal

Yeti put that crank on their cheapest (a relative term) 5.5 sb and I like them, I went to a 28T ring so I had to pull the crank, my old crank puller was broken so I put an 11mm socket in the hole gave it a tap with the hammer and  bob's yer uncle

I would gladly trade you for the snow, its -22 and blue bird up here,  have to break out the hard pack skis

https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/canada-the-show/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3Z7Q7B1-rWxUGQicGzZ1i49MkG7WetFIF2QQjHmacomgEbBYcyMLMe97c#Echobox=1550008822

some pretty good nuts and bolts in here^^ but all that is known for sure is JWR got moved sideways & resigned

time to make some popcorn, sit back and watch the show

I don't think Sheer or Singh stand a snowballs chance in hell of being elected to PM

he isn't likely to be driving during rush hr

Just work from home if you can cuz it doesn't matter if you drive a snow cat you will only get as far as the guy in front of you with no snow tires

my most memorable snow moment in Vangroovy was driving up the hill on the Lions gate bridge, a guy in an old nova was driving down into NVan, buddy had made it up over the crest of the bridge where the car got away on him, I could see where he had cranked the steering  wheel into the curb  but it was so slippery the back wheels at idle were still pushing him all the way down the hill into north van and he looked terrifyed

he could have just put it in neutral

a lot of money for something that will not keep anyone out

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/delgamuukw-case

Its already been decided the area ^^ in question belongs to the Wetsueten

Delgamuukw and later the Tsilcotin decisions are both watershed decisions in BC law involving the FN, for a judge to look at this situation in a vacuum or say they didn't know about the ruling would be BS cuz anybody can google it, you can even read the whole decision if you want but here^^ is the coles notes version of Delgamuukw

this situation is really about " A land claim " which just happens to involve a pipeline

Settling for " Beads and blankets " involved parties making deals who shouldn't have been making deals, pulling a not very fast one on somebody, all the band chiefs are supposed to do is run the res period, the territory is up to the Hereditary chiefs, but dealing with a band chief is always easier,

but there are so many chiefs, so what is a real chief, if the guy is a chief he must be the right person and even better wait for someone to die and blow into town when the real chiefs are holding a death feast

I think your ideas about what goes on might be simplistic

which Chiefs?

the hereditary chiefs or the band council chiefs ?

Everybody from Horgan to Trudeau to the pipeline company are confused as to who does what and who has the say

which is all bulshit cuz they could easily hire a consultant to tell them WTF is up, instead they went for the low hanging fruit

but what I hear you saying is this is the average wetsueten band members fault because they voted in a Band council who was not authorized to make the deal ?

As for band councils here is a band council in every Band in Canada where they run the res cuz its part of the Indian act, so the pipeline company asks whom to deal with and were told by government to deal with the band council, they offer the band council blankets and beads to get a deal, the bands in the middle of nowhere with nothing to lose sign on, the bands who have something to lose like the Wetsueten and Gixtsan are harder to deal with

the gas line yo Kitimat has looked like a non-starter for years due to the market price of LNG, Petronnas gave up on lelu and last week a moratorium was placed on Lelu island development

This project has been ignored until this judge granted an injunction in favor of the pipeline co and they decided to go ahead

The big question in my mind is why did the Judge rule for the pipeline company when there are precedents in law that don't jive with her ruling ?

It would look like the impartial judiciary ain't so impartial, could be the fix is in at least until that ruling gets struck down, maybe not  war, actualy not really about a pipeline, definatley about land claims ... think Delga muukw 2

I have a wide forefoot narrow heel & ankle  and 3 pair of specialized xc shoes have worked for me, you would probably need to go to a spesh dealer to try on their shoes

a couple pair of shimano have just been too sloppy in the mid foot & heel

Good questions

beyond the obvious court action which would have given the reason for the implementation of the court decision, who sicked the RCMP on the Wetsueten, was it the BC gov or the feds by proxy or WTF ?

according to a bud who is very close to the action, this is not playing well with the Wetsueten people, this is like an act of war for the wetsueten, they feel this is bad for the land (they really feel this) and I would say this whole thing is not over

to answer your question why put up with band councils, back in the day the band councils were foisted on the FN BY THE GOVERNMENT to run the band which is basicaly the res

so  the band council has zero to do with how the Wetsueten actualy run their territories, if you are talking to a band chief whatever deal you got signed means SHIT, cuz only hereditary chiefs have any say in running 122000 square kms of territory

but industry makes the deal with band council cuz its way easier and cheaper so historicaly Industry will thro around a little money (beads and blankets so to speak) make a deal with a band council instead of the real consultation with the hereditary chiefs,  industry can then say they got a deal

In this case the courts enforced an injunction on a deal which the band councils had no business signing

Consider the present situation is not really about a pipeline, its about a landclaim that was settled 20 yars ago so there is already precident in law

guess who will win ... again ?

"Like many Canadians, we’ve been extremely troubled by the use of aggressive RCMP force to remove Wet’suwet’en land defenders from peacefully occupying their territory."

Then who sicked the RCMP Swat team with assault rifles wearing the fatigues on the Unistolten ? Trudeau wants the pipelines and so does Horgan so they chose to ignore the big NO from the hereditary chiefs and claim an agreement signed with band councils who have no say in the territories is lawful, anyone can read the ruling on-line welcome to Delga muuk II  ... so much bulshit