ReductiMat profile

Zee Germans for any tools you can buy that you can use.  Park Tools for truing stands and weird bike tools no one else makes.

The Wera hex set is a billion times better than any of the crap I've used to date.

Congrats Tim!  Way to persevere.  That was a great read...

I have no opinion on the topic at hand, but when I end up at the Whistler clinic and Clark walks in the room I feel a lot better.

Here's to hoping all of you who end up there see Clark as well.

Thank you, this might save me a lot of $$$ on those titanium wonders.

The question I'm left wondering, is the spindle on the crank 29.99mm?

Won't anyone think of the stiffness.

I look forward to reading these. 

As one of WBP's statistics I kept flaunting Darwin with my progression vs. (in)ability, (all while looking like a storm trooper with neck protection).  Reversion to the mean occurred and I was repeating my life story every 30 minutes to some poor paramedic in the ambulance on the drive to Lion's Gate hospital to fix a lot of things.

Healed up, went back and only rode trails I was comfortable with.  For about two years.  Eventually the skills came and the boredom crept in and progression occurred at a proper pace I'd say.  So much so that I now love Crabapple Hits and can't wait for the snow to melt.  There is a safe way to play this game, it just comes down to suppressing that feral need to ride as well as the pros we so commonly see here.

As a side note, I am very vocal with all my roadie friends that they are fucking nuts to be strapping 10-20 pounds on their crotch and going to war with inattentive drivers.  I'll take WBP over that risk any day.

That was a good read..

LOL skootch leg.

SO much gold here!

This is great!

Spec 2FO’s are for not-wide-foot, right?

Posted by: tungsten

Posted by: ReductiMat

I hate non-whites as much as you tungsten.  I hope we can put everyone in concentration camps who fails a whiteness-test.

Quoted for posterity. You're a racist? Wow.....

People who are for concentration camps are flat out pieces of shit.  Fuck you for defending them.

Posted by: ReductiMat

I hate non-whites as much as you tungsten.  I hope we can put everyone in concentration camps who fails a whiteness-test.

tungsten, under what circumstances have you allowed yourself to disavow critical thinking for a particular media company?

I hate non-whites as much as you tungsten.  I hope we can put everyone in concentration camps who fails a whiteness-test.

Posted by: xy9ine

Posted by: ReductiMat

Posted by: xy9ine

jesus. and i thought mountain biking was a serene oasis free of aggrosportsparents. the park certainly attracts a different crowd.

For what it's worth, for every one of the parents I see above, I see one hundred well-adjusted families being awesome and having a great time...

oh for sure. in my *many* years of riding both park & trail, i've never witnessed such a display of assholery; we're a pretty chill group as a whole.   

sp back to wbp - planning on heading up within the next few days, deliberating when; quite a bit quieter on weekdays?

If you have ever driven up on a bluebird 30CM powder day you’d understand the reason for that type of vehicle lineup on power line hill today.

Shits gonna be fucked.

Posted by: xy9ine

jesus. and i thought mountain biking was a serene oasis free of aggrosportsparents. the park certainly attracts a different crowd.

For what it's worth, for every one of the parents I see above, I see one hundred well-adjusted families being awesome and having a great time...

Posted by: flattire2

How the lineups in the park these days?  Thinking of heading up for the weekend but 45min waits at FITZ will be a deal breaker for me

It ebbs and flows.  Garbo is quiet, so if you like that zone you can pretty much ride direct-to-lift all day.

COVID has made Fitz a nightmare at times, no doubt.

Posted by: idle

Posted by: ReductiMat

Today my friend had to help down a 10? year old kid down to his father from mid to the shark fin. 

He was rightfully scared as fuck and the dad was an absolute piece of human garbage.

Fuck any of you who would do that for whatever reason.  I hope to meet you in person.

I've had a similar experience, but it was a few years back.  Young girl around that age crashed early into B-Line (I want to say just after where it now splits to Funshine) and her derailleur was jamming the rear wheel badly enough it would no longer turn.  Her entire family, father, mother, and a sibling, left her there and said they'd meet her at the village so they wouldn't miss their lap.

I couldn't free the wheel, so I carried her bike down to the service road while she rolled mine.  A patrol guy came by shortly and helped her down to the village.

Poor thing was apologizing for me having to 'ruin my lap' to help her.  Ugh.

Some people have such a weird mentality about riding in the park.

Holy hell, that poor kid... I just can't imagine how anyone can think this way.

Posted by: thaaad

Wait the dad just bailed and left him in the dust?

Yup.

Today my friend had to help down a 10? year old kid down to his father from mid to the shark fin. 

He was rightfully scared as fuck and the dad was an absolute piece of human garbage.

Fuck any of you who would do that for whatever reason.  I hope to meet you in person.