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Oh man! That's brutal!

Dude needs suspenders

Where's the bike?

It looks like the frog is coming out of the sock!

I'll try to track you down on Sun AM.

Came to Hornby and didn't call me. You people suck! ;-)

I describe loam as the forest floor that remains after you scrape away the moss and leaves. What is left is a nice mixture of rotten bark, bugs, the odd pebble… stuff that doesn't hurt too badly when you wash out on it.

Great vid, although the transition from the log drop on "4 Dead" to the ferns on "Logging Railroad" was a bit like that scene in "Lethal Weapon" where Danny Glover takes the left turn under BC Place and ends up at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal.

f I wasn't so busy house building, I woulda prolly run into you guys.

I'd be happy to show you around Hornby

Pics?

thebigchin, that was Jeremy [HTML_REMOVED] Ira that did No Horses? How is the wind damage this year? I usually go over in the spring for a rake up sticks tour. The boat costs so much that I can't get over as often as I'd like.

Jer, Sasha, Tig, and Yanna did most of it. I think Ira's been in Mexico for a while.

Na, I can't take any credit for that. I just rode it the other day and was pretty impressed with what was being done to it.

The trail faeries have been hard at work over the last few weeks and have worked some magic on No Horses. All the braking bumps are gone, the last berm is now HUGE, and there is an amazing step-up in progress.

Here's a quick pic of an area of trail that used to cross the creek bed. It was slightly relined to line up with the new cedar bridge, and the turn after the bridge was re-worked as well. You can see the old line on the creek bed side of the new trail.

With a bit of tuning, the new "No Horses" will be a super fast rip with some amazing options.

The fool keeps putting up a photo of mine on his website with text saying that "mountain bikers destroy rainforest illegally to build play structures". The sad irony is that the structure that I photo'd is a totally legal one.

I keep complaining to his ISP that he's infringing on my copyright, they tell him to take it down and he does… for a while. It doesn't take long until it's back up, tho.

It IS somewhat satisfying that every time he puts it up I can have it taken down. If we could track down the people who took some of the other photos on his site, then we could probably send enough email to his ISP that they would get tired of him pretty quickly.

On the other hand, the more we talk about it, the more press he gets.

Except for a few ladder bridges I've built, loam is about all I can get here on Hornby Island.