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Oh god, I was just about to post some dumb sarcastic question about Ergons on drop bars as that's the only time I get discomfort and you go and post this.

Something I recently discovered when Specialized suspension calculator started working for my bike and suggesting I run 255psi (30 more than I had!) in my DPX2 is that there are negative volume spacers in there. I had to pull one out to get back to the correct sag point with that much pressure but now it bottoms out far less often while still being supple at the top.

Also, having watched that can we get rid of the teeter totter and put a custard pond on Ladies? That would secure my vote next AGM.

Good to know. Guess I'm off to Costco.

I believe it's the corn flour in there. With custards known explosive nature maybe try not to set fire to your knee pads just in case, the opposite of protection.

Custard is a non newtonian fluid. I've often hoped to find that my D30 products are filled with custard. In a somewhat related theme if I happened upon a swimming pool filled with custard (insdutrial accident at Kits beach for example) would I be able to walk across it?

For an alternate use WD-40 is the best solvent I have found for getting sticker/decal residue off your frame and other bits.

I noticed they were shipping from Germany which made me question why it took two years to set up a .ca website if they have absolutely sod all physical presence in Canada.

Hi Pete, I can add a few things to the history of the area having been involved there from the very early days building trails and hosting events that Chris and Andy would race as juniors. First thing though tweed fabric was named after the Tweed Valley which is named after the river Tweed which runs through it and had done for a few thousand years before textile factories arrived! When you crossed from the village to Traquair that was the river Tweed beneath the bridge. A few years ago it flooded and washed away all the huts in the parking lot there which is why they are up on the side of the hill now...

The first trails cut in the area were approved and signed off on by the forestry and not rogue trails. I have no doubt they began to exist not long after but those first ones were cut explicitly for organised DH racing with forestry approval, we may have not strictly stuck to the remit of what was allowed to be constructed but the courses were checked and signed off on while they turned a blind eye to the chainsaws. At the time Forrestry Commision of Scotland were under pressure to sell their interests to private hands unless they could prove that the land was being used and of value to the public and so were keen to encourage recreation to protect their holdings. The golfie, Traquair and Cardrona consequently had trails built and held some of the earliest DH in Scotland. Glentress was already well used for hiking and xc at this time and later became the main focus of development by the forestry investing their own time and money into the trails. A publicly funded trail network inspired by the success of the UKs first trail center on the Welsh coast at Coed y Brenin!

The prize for actual first DH however goes to an event held in Innerleithen on the glofie side by John and Andrew of The Bicycleworks in around '94, more of a Mammoth mountain fire road descender style event won by Jonathan Mcbain.

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Why is a 2 foot wide path in the woods such a bad thing?

There’s a real answer for that.

I'm completely ignorant of why that is, can you shed some light on that?

Considering our forest is all urban the answer has to be an environmental proxy argument for money. Establishing a right of way could be a legal irrritation come construction or clear felling time.

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Posted by: taprider

This is what I saw in the 2018 plan

"Dale’s Trail Improvements:
Consider upgrading lower sections to flow better with
section 1 of Dale’s to provide a cohesive user experience
from top to bottom."

I think upgrading Section 1 to flow better with lower sections of Dales to provide a cohesive user experience from top to bottom would be a lot easier and more cost effective.

Riders can get a more consistent experience by exiting Upper Dale's to Dale's connector and then head anywhere else in the network, but it wasn't really a good option in 2018 when Metro published their plan.

Since then, Dale's "Connector Connector" was properly built and Dale's Connector rerouted to make it a friendlier climb for those who wanted to ride Upper Dale's but not continue down the rest of Dale's. Metro didn't permit the Connector Connector work until NSMBA had an agreement with RST for the CMHC lands because Metro felt they couldn't have a trail of theirs connect to a trail (Dale's Connector) managed by another land manager.

I'm a little lost here. Dales connector as I know it is the trail from just above power lines that lets you avoid Upper Dales (I joke but honestly could not figure out why it got worked on until I realised people might want to ride it in the other direction) yes? But what are you calling "connector connector"?

Posted by: taprider

This is what I saw in the 2018 plan

"Dale’s Trail Improvements:
Consider upgrading lower sections to flow better with
section 1 of Dale’s to provide a cohesive user experience
from top to bottom."

I think upgrading Section 1 to flow better with lower sections of Dales to provide a cohesive user experience from top to bottom would be a lot easier and more cost effective.

Posted by: LoamtoHome

Upper Dales is how not to build or maintain a trail.... the flat rocky corners are downright treacherous at speed. They should have fixed up the upper part and the tax payers would have been way better off. Epic fail on Metro and Joyride.

I'm glad it's not just me. I could never get to grips with that trail, the berms don't seem to do what berms are supposed to do so I find myself just sitting down and not bothering until Dales proper starts. Maybe a bit of bike-parkesque trail isn't a bad idea for diversity but that one just doesn't work on any level IMO.

Climbing up top would be nice. It would tempt me to ride a new CBC now and again even if it wasn't to my liking. It does seem a bit of an omission to not connect mushroom to the road though, somehow I can't quite clean that incline climbing route. Surely I remember we were promised upper Dales was as far as the "flow" was going down that side or am I dreaming?

CBC Update from Metro Vancouver

As part of Phase 1 of their 2018 Trails Strategic Plan, Metro Vancouver will be revitalizing the CBC trail on Seymour "with the assistance of LEES+Associates and IMBA (International Mountain Biking Association) Canada". Work will be starting this summer and the NSMBA will be assisting with certain projects.

I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad about this. On the one hand I never ride CBC as it's a little too janky even for my taste (C-buster & Neds forever! Don't you touch them!) but on the other hand isn't IMBAs mandate to flatten pretty much everything?

So I checked out the lot, pretty sure you'd be fine to park there but it's only open at times Old Buck wouldn't be busy. Mon-Fri 8-4

Looking at google maps there appears to be around 15 spaces along the south side road without even parking near any of the buildings which all have their own dedicated parking. It must be prohibited surely or someone would have noticed before now.

I noticed the other day that there's a few areas and spaces at BC Parks yards at 1610 Mt Seymour road. The sign at the entrance has gate opening times along with other signs that make it seem like a public use area and nothing to say no cars or no parking I could see. What's the deal there?

I'm trying to have a look at the lot in google maps and seeing a giant nonsensical privacy blur from the Indian River Dr end. Is there a particularly bashful tree that lives there?