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Bucket list.

I want skinwalls for all my bikes. And I remember when I wanted to ditch my skinwalls for blackwalls.

Oh man that is badass. Rheeder has great smooth style. Some huge moves. And it's cool to know a few of those spots - which helps me appreciate how insane the riding is.

Agree on the Laphroaig except with those stacks, ought to be the 25 year.

Would 16.6″ chainstays allow me to manual like Nico Vink?

Sweet, I was the Hope hub tone-check guy. Hahah

This makes me want to have an A-Line Zoobomb. That would be amazing.

Nice spec. The 2-bolt clamp sure does seem dumb! A common problem with droppers is over-torquing of the collar bolt, which binds up the stanchion. The two bolts may spread the load over a larger area better, though it looks easy to over-torque still.

Holy smokes. That was epic. I shy away from using the word epic usually, because I was saving it for this video.

One more: That 3M clear protective tape. Too lazy to buy it myself, but would totally stick it on my bike if I had it.

Molson Coors profit misses estimates as beer sales fall
http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/02/10/molson-coors-results-idINL4N0VK59320150210

People are still buying beer, just not the beer M/C makes.

Why don't they try making the beer people want to drink? :beer:

Haha, yeah it's comical to watch these macros react to the falling sales. They truly believe that it all comes down to marketing, not the product itself. What a bizarre way to view the world.

Paving over a couple acres isn't a big deal to local residents, but a trail that redirects some water flow and lightly damages tree roots is an abomination.

Also, there are some killer saisons out of Quebec. That claim just can't hold water I'm afraid.

If it hasn't been mentioned, Moon brewery (Vic) has a Saison that may very well be the best Saison brewed in Canada

Not in bottles though; look for it on tap.

I would be very surprised if it beats out Four Winds saison brett or sovereign saison! But if you're talking standard, non-BA and non-soured saison, then the competition reduces

Picked up a few of the Persephone Barleywine that hit shelves this week, looking forward to cracking one open to see how it is fresh. Being that they are consistently among the best beers BC produces, I have high hopes. Really hoping it's a UK recipe.

Brassneck DIXmas IPA is good but not as good as last year. Worth a growler, though.

Drank some nice beers last night - 2013 Bourbon County Barleywine, 2013 Java Eclipse, 2014 Hill Farmstead Sue, 2014 Hill Farmstead Peleg, and others. Was a very good time. Like all BCB variants, the BCBBW was crazy sweet but crazy boozy, and it just worked like a charm.

There are hundreds of amazing sour beers out there. There are hundreds of pretty bad ones too, though. Definitely an important sector of good beer.

Last year's Advent calender sucked so there was no way I was buying another. A Nogne beer to start is a vast improvement over last year already.

Four Winds Saison Brett (Batch 2) and Sovereign Super Saison are quite likely the best saisons that Canada has produced to date. They are easily in the top tier of saisons internationally too, they aren't even put to shame against a Hill Farmstead.

Speaking of best in Canada, LTM barrel aged Porter Baltique hitting stores this week.

Driftwood's Entangled is very tasty. A great white IPA.

I have been pretty disappointed with all the north van breweries… Black Kettle stuff is borderline gross, Deep Cove is totally meh, Green Leaf is not very good, and Bridge is decent but not noteworthy.

But between Brassneck, Four Winds, and Yellow Dog I couldn't ask for more great local beer anyway.

I have had my daily life impacted quite significantly by the changes made in Vancouver under Gregor's hand (and most of them good things) so I definitely consider voting to be extremely important to me. If you really don't want to have any say in matters then I guess that's fine, but to not vote because you don't like the system is just dumb. Using no system is not better than using a flawed system. I feel like municipal government has much more effect on my life than provincial and federal governments (good thing too, since the ones in power are the ones I'd never vote for)