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that's freakin badass

> Is Ollie playing GrabAss?

why do you think I'm smiling?

rat

nice shot, you can feel the focus in the rider's eyes

meh

that's just spooky looking

that looks amazing in the pictures and even more incredible in person.

did the wheel survive?

That's one big-ass stunt.

awesome!

But what will you do now??

Posted by: Endur-Bro

Bd.de not shipping to NA due to the Rona or other reasons?

yes, that's it. This is the response I got

Dear Dave,
due to corona-related delivery problems of our logistics partner DHL, we have temporarily deactivated Canada as an option. As soon as the shipping is possible again, we will activate the option in our shop again.

Thank you for your understanding!

Best Regards
Olaf Wendelken

_H&S Bike-Discount GmbH
Wernher-von-Braun-Str. 15 - 53501 Grafschaft
Tel. 02225-8888-0 - Fax 02225-8888-199__

aside from the howl, is the power still there?

I had a similar problem with xt's, although they were down on power too. I did all the things you did in the original post with no success. I thought I had bled them well, but did it again and I swear I flicked the level a 100 times in all different positions at the end of the bleed and wouldn't you know, a wee little bubble came out and they were all good again.

I ordered from CRC July 17 and received August 11. Like someone else said, I had no expectations of a speedy delivery.

Posted by: DaveM

Just to avoid confusion on the day of, I can pre-purchase a lift ticket online? But do I still have to wait in a ticket line to get the pass?

For anyone else wondering. I pre-purchased a lift ticket online. Unfortunately the weather was a bit iffy so I didn't do it until the morning so I still had to wait in the line for the ticket window to get my pass (about 15 minutes). If I would have done it the night before I could have just picked up my pass at the red tent where there was no wait at all, and got into the lift line.

I rode on Thursday, the Fitz chair was down so all traffic was on the Gondola. The first couple of runs there was only about a 15 minute wait, by about 2pm it was around 30 minutes or so. Doing peak to village runs made it not so bad and the nice long runs were good for getting acquainted with the new bike. I got off mid-station and took the Garbo chair up one run, I think I was the only one doing that as I didn't see another person on the garbo chair all day.

I didn't ride Friday (took a bit of a spill and tweaked my ankle/knee at the end of Thursday) but the Fitz was still down and the gondola lines were substantial from what I saw wandering around the village in the afternoon.

Conditions were really, really good though. I don't think I've ever seen such a lack of braking bumps ever.

Posted by: Pizza-Diavola

Posted by: DaveM

I picked up a new (to me) dh bike

Return of the Jedi?

I really liked that bike but no.

Pretty similar design though, Commencal Supreme V4

After a few years of not riding WBP, I'm looking forward to getting a day or 2 in next week. I picked up a new (to me) dh bike, we'll see how it goes.

Just to avoid confusion on the day of, I can pre-purchase a lift ticket online? But do I still have to wait in a ticket line to get the pass?

Posted by: syncro

There's this new invention called tubes that saves you having to deal with all this rim tape and sealant bs. I've had good luck with them so far.

keep talkin...

Posted by: Kieran

How are people feeling about the possibility of things opening up? Nervous / Anxious / Can't Wait / Neither?

I'm pretty anxious about it, but I have no solutions either. I just feel that we have gotten to this stage of slowing down the spread by doing the measures that we've been doing. All it seems to take is one sick worker at a poultry facility and now 80 more are infected. What is going to happen when restrictions are loosened up and people get complacent. That 80 could be much more pretty easily.

Posted by: Brocklanders

Posted by: Stuminator

I think that was Heather Thomas in Fall Guy, not Heather Locklear.

Oh yes I stand corrected. Think Pheobe Cates in Fast Times stands out. And that guy who plays bass in Kiss's wife who was in Hotdog... Schwing! .....What were we talking about?

Shannon Tweed. She was in a bunch of B-rated made for cable movies showing her best features.

Posted by: syncro

No Nelson? Duuuuuude.....

How about William's Lake, Kelowna, Kamloops, Golden, Fernie, Kimberley, Yukon and tons more. You could easily put together an epic trip through the Kootenays and maybe even dip down into Montana. There are so many options that are within driving distance of the Lower Mainland that there's basically no need to fly somewhere.

We're ticking off a few of those boxes this summer. 10 day tour in BC (Valemont, PG, Terrace, Smithers, Williams Lake) and another trip to Yukon.