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Primo 90+km slab of land ride before work starting in darkness suffering from unseasonable cold conditions, a headlight that goes p00f and finishing up in warm n sunny bluebird with perhaps even getting a bit of sunburn and the kicker... a plateful of breakfast hot off the stove a couple minutes after arrival.  It doesn't get much better than that... at least for me

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Posted by: Ned

Picture the very first ride or two down the Dustbin. I have that movie and many more on the shelf :D

Trust me, from a guy who has sampled that trail at every stage of its existence, it's changed quite a lot.

Probably something like this

Think moss carpet rideable in both directions if you had the legs/inclination, minus the rocky chunder in fine stretchy pants tube socks feathered hair style... eye bleach JFC

Posted by: Ned

Picture the very first ride or two down the Dustbin. I have that movie and many more on the shelf :D

Trust me, from a guy who has sampled that trail at every stage of its existence, it's changed quite a lot.

Strong opinions are curiously strong...  I liked CBC before it was ever known as CBC, before it was exposed in a bike Mag article. I still ride, hope the cast of characters from this thread's era do too LOL

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Posted by: chupacabra

And here I thought I was crazy having a kid at 39.

No your not. We had twin girls at 37. Add that to our other two boys and I’m pretty sure that I will have children around my home for the rest of my life. Turns out that makes me happy.

The beautiful part of that (the around for perpetuity thing) is all the help you get. "son, can you pull the engine out of the buggy", "can you install the new tire on my moto", "I'm going riding, can you pls cut the lawn today", "pls pick me up a box of Pacifico at the store", "I'm feeling like shite and 2hrs to the closest road so pick me up at his spot" and on and on.  I gave up worrying about the grocery, insurance and other bills a long time ago... it's futile

Just getting back on the bike after taking a slammer a few weeks ago on some ice and cracking some ribs that'd been broken previously. Hurts more and more to slam as I get older but the phrase pay-to-play comes to mind so you just have to laugh when it happens and carefully ride your road bike til you heal.

First morning ride in a few weeks. Sure helped beat back that salty feeling I've been getting lately even if the trails are pretty tame.

Liking this boating theme.  Still got a boat I drag into the waters around here on sunny days to make wife happy.  That shot looking up the Arm brings back a lot of fond thoughts from living on Panorama and paddling up to the WigWam.  Thanks for the good energy dudes, helps dilute the toxicity of some of this NBR sub

yes indeed.  the floorpan and transmission are as old as me, the rest isn't too far behind :-)

Classic.  I was thinking human-powered trials bike as well.

Bikes are so long now...

amongst many things, taco truck hot pursuit ranks right up there... especially when it's close to home

+1 on that old Cove bike. Had a couple Hummers from that period of time.

Mic is onto the scent of blood in the water aka spring time. I dialed it down for a couple weeks after slamming pretty on the ice. Can sleep finally and got back on the old Colnago roadie and dirty drop bar bike for some high qual sunshine time over the past few days. I'll top it off with skipping school (work) for a trail ride later this afternoon in the local trails... so lucky to have such a spread of ride options around here...