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How do they compare to the Shimano ME7?

Yeah I came across the Indy recently and they looked like the perfect knee pads for North Shore pedally rides - light but still with real knee protection. The charge seemed more like beefed up leg warmers to me (not saying that in a bad way, just serve a different purpose…much more on the XC side of things).

For someone who isnt a weight weenie - are these an obvious choice over the more expensive XT & XTR versions, or are there other things to consider as well (someone mentioned durability above)?

Posted by: Stuminator

Maybe your seat is too high.

I do have short legs (short inseam) so perhaps that is a big factor.

Thanks for the useful input...

I seem to constantly have bruising on my inner thighs after riding. Seems to be coming from my legs making contact with the seat while riding. Seems like it is happening regardless of whether I have a crash. If I crash (and my legs ram into the seat) then I get a big bruise, but even when i don't have a big crash I often still get smaller bruises. 

Anyone else have this too? Any solutions? Not sure if they make padded shorts with padding on the inner thigh? and not sure that it would even help that much.

Posted by: nortonwhis

You can eat your bagged lunch at any restaurant on the mountain. They have a microwave in the seating section at Glacier Creek. I regularly microwave uncle bens rice bags and add tuna, then poach their Sriracha, soy sauce, maybe even a dollop of free mayo. they do discourage from bagged lunches inside at Crystal and horstman just cos they are small, though if im hanging around the Horstman hut late in the day ill always eat snacks there and never get hassled.

My point is that I think it's a little weird that Whistler doesn't have any sort of base lodge when most other ski hills I've been to have one. I'm not super worried about finding a spot to eat a bagged lunch, that was just an example of something a lodge would be used for. 

Another recent example - I was riding the bike park this summer and it started raining quite heavily, so I just ended up hanging out under an awning in a random part of the village for 30 mins. 

It's just weird that nothing like this exists because I think it would be quite functional.

Posted by: nickel

isn't the point of a bagged lunch that you can eat it anywhere? i mean aside from saving money...

just eat wherever, plenty of places with a view and not a million people.

I'm thinking more about the winter than the summer. Like if a parent is bringing their kid up for a ski lesson for the day from Vancouver and isn't skiing that day what do they do... sit in Longhorns for 8 hours?

Posted by: Endur-Bro

Isn’t Blackcomb Base just that?

Do they have a base lodge there? I've walked through that area and stayed at the Fairmont before but didn't realize there was something like that there. If so, that would be great.

Posted by: thaaad

We rode Sabertooth the day I was there, we heard that they just opened it that afternoon and it was fucking amazing.

Really glad they added that trail in as a much better way to access the Creekside trails. Great trail but parts of it were very muddy/slippery when I rode it on Saturday. Delayed Fuse also seems to get quite muddy/slippery with a bit of rain.

Random question about Whistler in general... why is there no day lodge type thing at the base? Don't most other ski hills have this at the base for people to congregate in, get their gear together, get cafeteria style food, etc? Weird that your only two options for getting changed into your ski gear are either in your car or in your hotel room. Is it designed like this on purpose so that there is no where for someone to hang out and eat a bagged lunch (aka. not spending $$)... only option is to do something similar, but inside an expensive restaurant in the village? Overheard a tourist asking where the base lodge was and it made me think about it... and it's weird that Whistler doesn't have one.

I like the idea of taking some sort of lesson/camp type thing once in a while to work on technique. Just checked the prices on the WBP website and it says a full day private lesson at the bike park is $629.... wtf?

Nukeproof ARD is quite affordable ($75 CAD for the set). I bought some but haven't been able to try them out yet. Will be curious to see how they work. Not a ton of info/reviews available online.

Am I the only one who seriously sucks at jump trails and has given up on attempting to get good at them? I really like C-More but anything bigger than that, I just can't get comfortable with the amount of speed that it takes to clear the jump. When you are going that fast it wouldn't take much for you to take-off or land slightly off balance and then find yourself headed for the trees going 50kmph. I've never even attempted A-line and don't plan to... but it seems like everyone else at the bike park is able to ride that stuff easily.