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Came down to the comments to point that out.

I can close my eyes and picture that trail day on PS with the mini-donut machine, so wet. Karen either brought or found a way to send backed goods to every trail day for many years, this was outside of her time building on Boundary.

We all have weak moments in life that we regret.

In rust we trust. Don't go talking bad about rust, it's a beautiful creature.

"There was more stress than I like and I'll be happy to get back to Fiver racing and high fiving with beers at the end of those. That's more my speed these days."

We're here for you buddy. Fair warning you might get some ribbing but you'll still get your beer and high fives at the end of the Fiver World Champs.

So.eone didn't sweat the small stuff trimming that zip tie on ALN dropper lever. Why a zip tie on there in the first place?

Curious how just the two races is enough to qualify for Masters Worlds? Doesn't one need to be a national champ ie win the whole Canada Cup series to qualify for Worlds? 

Good read, but hopefully this silly Masters Worlds stuff doesn't affect the more important FWS racing.

It's not up to the doctors to know, this was the NZ Enduro and not an EWS event. If I get a doctor to provide medical for the Fivers I am not expecting them to know the WADA list as it's not a UCI sanctioned event. IF you're the doctor doing medical for a UCI sanctioned BC Cup or Canada Cup I'd say they should be a bit more familiar with the WADA list. 

Maes the the GT Team should have checked the list between the NZ Enduro and the first round of the EWS. My take is this is what the UCI is slapping them for.

Don't forget it's not just the builders that make the trails awesome. There is a boat load of work that goes on behind the scenes in front of a computer screen that makes it possible for all that trail work. 

Regarding the climbing...have you thought about hitting the gym on the off season? You start hitting a routine of dead lifts and squats and you'll be climbing faster and more efficient than you did 20 years ago.

I guess they don't need tire clearance in Colorado.

Are you returning to life from the caveman era? A few too many concussions?

Share the road.

Wool tights or 3/4's under the lightest weight summer shorts you can find. If it's actually waterproof enough to keep you dry you'll sweat them out and end up wet inside anyway. The wool will keep you warm when wet, I'll take warm and wet any day over wet and cold because nothing short of a rubber suit is actually waterproof. The light summer weight shorts shouldn't hold much water when they are soaked. 

Unless you're just banging shuttle laps, then just take some cheap over pants and cut them off at the knees and pull them on overtop your regular riding gear.

I know. 

Always endless ideas and discussions but very few taking action (not aimed at you directly). If someone wants to see better connectivity they need to do more than just talk about it on a forum.

If there is one thing I learned in my 5 years on the board and 7 years now organizing the Fivers and events is that if someone doesn't step up themselves and push forward what they want, it's not going to happen. To get ANY project done it needs a single champion pushing it forward at every meeting, once the ball is rolling they also need to be involved in keeping it rolling. 

While I was still on the board I walked and marked a line with Digger to connect the BP to the 2nd. It was verbally presented to the DNV back then, but it really hasn't been pushed forward much since then. The current board has had their own projects to push forward and challenges to face, but my point is that if anyone really feels passionate about it they need to step up and take it on.

Posted by: syncro

Posted by: Brocklanders

Syncro, the yellow routes are the climb trail idea? Straight up the center, up the contour face with no switchbacks? That would be a huge cardio challenge, sign me up.

Yeah, the idea somewhat follows what craw mentioned. It's just a line scrawled in with Paint.

- the basic line gets you back up to the meat of the lower Fromme trails - Ladies, Expresos, etc and access to Leppard, Crinkum, Kirkford
- the offshoot to the east lets you get in a Skull loop or back towards the parking lot and a finish on Bobsled or Floppy Bunny instead of BP all the way
- the offshoot to the west gets you back up top with far less road riding and makes use of existing trailbed

The main line up the centre would have switch backs to deal with the grade, some would be tight and some would be more open. It would have tech sections and paved sections. Overall it would be a challenge, but something that most people who could do the road up from the yellow gate to 7th in 45 minutes or less could manage. Think of a nice combo of challenge sections and recovery sections. For fun there could be some switchback shortcut sections to help make your heart exlode if that's what your after. The nice thing is you then have three approaches to get up Fromme, road, this new climbing route and the current No Quarter route, part of which could be incorporated to get to the BP and the bottom of Expresso. A huge advantage for everyone - residents, hikers and bikers - is the ability to take advantage of parking opportunities along Dempsey including a lot under the power lines where no trees would need to be cut down. This would spread out traffic all across the bottom flank of Fromme instead of having most of it sequestered by the lot on Mtn Hwy.

ps - updated the map a bit

When do you start building? Got all the permits lined up? Environmental assessments? Must have taken a number of years to get that all lined up. Who will take over Salvation maintenance while you are building this?

Climb not hard enough for you? Follow Dave around, he's got the tech. 

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Posted by: LoamtoHome

the problem with the climbing trail is that there is too much downhill on it and it takes too much time to climb.  I'm sorry but it's poorly designed as a climbing trail and I'm not the only one who thinks this.

I agree with your statement. 

Approval for "new" trail is nightmare that takes a very very long time. If the board held out for an ideal route of all fresh newly built trail we might all still be climbing the road. 

What the climbing route as it is now isn't the route that might exist in 5+ years. Work is ongoing for permission to make it a better more direct route.

For starters it's a route not a trail. It wasn't built as a singular "new" trail top to bottom. It kinda evolved as permission was granted to work on things to upgrade them to being climbable. I was on the board of the NSMBA and pushed hard for the climbing route. My vision that was put forth was a blue level climbing trail and not a double black climbing trail. As very little of the work was fresh new build and put together piece by piece there were sections brought into the route that were known to be more challenging than the end goal but having something is better than nothing. As time has passed the builders have been addressing it bit by bit and bringing it up to grade and closer to the original vision. 

The "tricky" sections were never intended to be tricky. It was never intended to be an "if you can" clean it climber.

Posted by: tungsten

That tt/st junction reminds me of fugy Cdn tyre bikes...lol

You crazy, that seattube/toptube junction looks fine.

The bike looks great with a coil, especially in the raw.

Check the Cannon G7x, main competitor to the Rx100 but usually a few $$$ less.

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