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Incredible story! Awesome to see Andrew walk and shred again.

Can so relate to post-concussion haze; in my case it was coupled with episodic depression and lasted about 3 years. Saw a therapist a few times but didn't stick with it. Really should have.

That accident and injury forever altered my riding and my relationship to risk in MTB. I ride bigger, scarier stuff now, but with improved skills and a much more honest risk assessment.

[posts the triangular soil texture chart and wins 1000 science points]

2x on X-Fusion. I got an OEM-spec 1-1/8" Velvet, 120mm travel, 15mm axle a few years ago on eBay, but I bet if you called them or talked to a savvy dealer, they could put together any of their 32mm stanchion forks with a straight steer tube.

Edit: non-boost. There's sooo many perfectly fine non-boost hubs/wheels still out there.

I'll be MTB touristing in North Van next Monday. This east coast yankee <3's BC

Thanks! Looking closer at your setup, I think the matchmaker is gonna be fine. Wouldn't be right if I wasn't dithering over millimeters on a fancy plaything :-p

How do you like the position of the Light Action lever with the Matchmaker set up? Do you find it to be too far to the outside/left? I'm debating between Matchmaker and 22.2 clamp. (Nick of time, just about to order one of these)

Not having watched the Padloc video yet, I imagine to go something like this: "Want to use Padloc grips and need to cut your bars down? Easy! Just run three-phase power to your shop, purchase a vintage Bridgeport vertical milling machine, level and lubricate it, make a mitering jig, set up your arbor and hole saw, and bingo! File off the burs and your bars are cut."

up-vote for use of the word 'skookum' 🙂

Huh, wasn't aware of the CT-6, I'll have to seek one out to try. I have a CT-5 in my [hip] pack and it's totally saved the day a couple times.

Another American here. Thanks for bringing attention to this issue among the MTB community in Canada. I support this boycott in concert with other actions against Vista Outdoor, and #NRAboycott as a whole.

It's a tough spot to be in for bike shops, Bell/Giro/Blackburn/Camelbak employees, and sponsored athletes for sure. Taking a guess that many of those that will be affected don't share the positions and politics of Vista Outdoor, and a fair point can be made that boycotting Vista's cycling holdings won't sway their support of the NRA. Bike Portland and Red Kite Prayer have covered this in detail. 

A sad reality of the gun regulation debate in the US is that motivation spikes after every tragedy, then fades. So the time is now to send any message we can, keep up the pressure, and hopefully-beyond-hope get action from government. It's the NRA in particular that callously and repeatedly stands in the way of the most basic reforms. For example, since 1996 our Center for Disease Control has been barred by NRA-backed legislation (the Dickey Amendment) from researching gun violence as a public health crisis; we don't even know the full extent of the crisis.