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This sounds like my life for most any big planned ride or event. Like 2019 Crankworx EWS80, the afternoon before the event on a shake down ride of a frame I had just finished days before I found the rear end wasn't braced well enough. So up till 2am in the workshop brazing in new gussets then 4 hours sleep to get up and drive up to Whistler and race the event.

There is a guy in the UK doing a pretty good job of trying to keep / get those motors running. 

https://www.performancelinebearings.com/

I recall him getting skids of motors from Brose to cannibalize for parts as Specalized / Brose don't make the individual parts available and offer little to no service outside of warranty.

Trailforks auto hides rides that have sensitive / unsanctioned trails. With that said there are ways to "find" these with some of the tools on the site. So uh if you REALLY want it secret don't log it with ANY app.

I did the first 16 years exclusively on clips. My first 3-4 years on the Shore on clips, then wanted to get better at jumping so in 2009 decided that bike park and shuttles were for flats and pedaling was for clips. Did the back n forth for a couple seasons then it was just back to all clips for everything. 

The last two seasons have seen a return to flats when riding with the kiddos. Track stand skills on flats are currently at an all time high. 

I don't feel like I gained any "newer betterer" skills with the time on flats, but I did fail at more tech climbs. I find when clipped in I'll grunt it out further up a gnarly climb while on flats it's "meh walk it, no rush dude" as soon a climb gets challenging.

Beautiful work guys. The contrast of the CNC work with the steel front end works great aesthetically. The rear end work is the hardest to do in steel so doing it all via CNC was a smart move.

Agree.

I've ordered the individual bits in stainless online from a spot in the US called KC Tool. Agree that rusty tools in the bike kit suck.

Beautiful bike with lots of innovation there. Paul's part of the inspiration that kicked off building my own frames in the garage. I didn't do his frame building class but did attend one of his open house nights and it's the first time I handled a brazing torch to stack little blobs of brazing rod.

You need some flush cutters in your camera bag.

Can I not pick the zip ties on the chainstay guard?

https://nsmb.com/media/images/DSC01823-denizmerdano-dreadnaught-dreamrides.original.jpg

Flush cutters needed here.

Great looking bike regardless.

Posted by: SixZeroSixOne

Who would choose to work in Downtown and live in Lonsdale if their commute involved going via Second Narrows??

This is currently well serviced by bus and seabus. The bus up and down Lonsdale runs consistent and on time from my experience, same for the Seabus.

Posted by: SixZeroSixOne

One fly in the ointment is the imminent replacement of the Cotton St/Main St bridge (adjacent to MEC).

So as soon as Hwy 1 traffic starts flowing nicely, 3rd & Low Level Rd/Cotton/Main are going to be jammed up again 🤨

I'm looking forward to the new Spirit Trail bridge over Lynn Crk between Bridgeman Park and Seylynn village...but I've no idea of the timetable for that. 

That bridge should make East-West travel a lot more pleasant and hopefully there'll be a better connection under Hwy 1 to Dollarton for bike traffic...

I hope the delays from that project cure the rat runners of their bad habits. The ones that ditch off the highway at Lonsdale trying to get around the Hwy 1 back up and get back on the Hwy ar 2nd Narrows.

The work isn't finished yet so I don't think we can make a fair comment on it's effectiveness.

That south bound merge lane from Dollarton is a nightmare and all it take is a few bodged merges to back up traffic. Once the two south bound merges to 2n Narrows are completed it hopefully helps.

I should correct that.

Never travel east of Lonsdale before 10am or after 2pm and life is fine.

What traffic?

Never venture east of Lonsdale after 2pm and life is fine.

Posted by: mudhoney

Posted by: syncro

Posted by: heckler

Engaged members get it.

https://nsmba.ca/national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation/

That's not bad, but honestly I'd like to see more.

Agree on seeing more. Actions, not just words.

PORCA partnered with Indigenous Women Outdoors to support an Indigenous woman interested in becoming a PMBIA Level 1 certified mountain bike coach and funded an Introduction to Mountain Biking Program for women and girls from Líl̓wat Nation.

SORCA supports a Squamish Nation driven mountain bike mentorship program, and I believe they also hire Squamish Nation youth as part of their summer trail crew (or have done so in the past).

Chilliwack Park Society supports a youth mtb and trail building program with Sto:lo Youth

Did your statement "actions, not just words" mean to imply the NSMBA has done nothing? 

The 2019 NSMBA Twenty Fiver donated $20 of each registration to the Indigenous Youth Mountain Bike Program. 

In 2017 there was partnership the Tseil-Waututh to do some kids bike nights for their youth along with walk throughs to look at helping them upgrade trails on their land for the kids to have trails. 

Can more be done? Always.

Posted by: kavurider

The implosion in the comment section is something to behold right now.

At least here in the US it is definitely not a fringe sport. Mountain biking has been assimilated into the group of "lifestyle" sports.

I lost interest in PB's articles a while ago, I just hope their buy/sell doesn't go away, although I am pretty sure it can't keep existing in it's current form after this acquisition.

Anything that generates clicks and views will survive. So long as enough people are viewing the ads on the site while using the buy/sell it would likely stay. 

Sad that they are already talking about paywall content. The last 5-ish years I've turned to PB more and more for the daily update on product releases. Back in the day I was an avid Outside reader (print not online) but the quality of content dropped off at some point. 

Bright side is that it wasn't bought by a Men's Health magazine type conglomerate that killed off the Surfer Publications of Bike/Surfer/Powder?

You can copy ANY patent you want for personal use. As long as you don't sell anything you are fine.

Posted by: DanL

I was having a little buyer's concern in the 3 days it took them to ship to me (3 days!).

OMG 3....like 3 WHOLE days???? 

Uh you know it's not pizza delivery right? 

Amazon prime has ruined the world for shipping expectations for small/medium sized businesses.

Posted by: SixZeroSixOne

Will people stop publicising Parkgate Park!!!! I won't be able to find my usual parking place there once all the rabble descend on it...🙄🙄🙄

pffft 200+ people at each of the four Fivers per season we had there...so lots of exposure already. Just seems maybe some of them just aren't bright enough to remember so I don't think you need to worry.