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Hahaha! I bought a convertible and a new bike!!! :)

I will be in the market too.  Nice looking gear

That's full on trail at the best of times!

It would be a great bike to actually be able to buy.

So nice! Makes me want to upgrade the Wide angle!

Nice bike.

I want this!

The V10 comments will be coming…. But, this is one very nice rig!

I had the pleasure of testing one a year or so ago during Crankworx. It was the 26inch version, but I was highly impressed by how fun and poppy the ride was. It immediately went on my "to consider" list when the time comes to get rid of my V10. It is not a plower as you mentioned in the article, but it is an immensely fun park bike. The value can't be ignored.

Clearly I only know the shitty trails in Squamish… Sick video and riding.

Big ticket increase :(   If the rumour is true that there is limited black trails opening, this will be the first year since 2006 I won't have a season's pass.

Posted by: ReductiMat

Posted by: ken-leggatt

Posted by: ReductiMat

Great!

Seeing as that you're new to riding a mountain bike, just know that accidents happen to everyone at some point for seemingly random reasons.

Just know, that at some point in the near future our medical professionals will be tasked with playing god and deciding who gets a ventilator and who doesn't.  Their lives are going to be beyond stressful.

So when that random event hits you, please, do everyone a favour and just bleed out on the trail.

So, this never happened....  You pedaling yet, or sitting at the bottom of Fitz with your gear waiting for the park to open?  :-P

How amazing is it to live in a society where we all say, "OK, yeah that's fucked.  Let's not make this worse."

https://apnews.com/cd1106ed962c0de70332f4561046003f

The bike rack is out and it is being rebuilt... here's to hoping I've remembered how to ride a bike!

I can't wait!!!

Posted by: ReductiMat

Great!

Seeing as that you're new to riding a mountain bike, just know that accidents happen to everyone at some point for seemingly random reasons.

Just know, that at some point in the near future our medical professionals will be tasked with playing god and deciding who gets a ventilator and who doesn't.  Their lives are going to be beyond stressful.

So when that random event hits you, please, do everyone a favour and just bleed out on the trail.

So, this never happened....  You pedaling yet, or sitting at the bottom of Fitz with your gear waiting for the park to open?  :-P

Posted by: Endurimil

Posted by: ken-leggatt

Not the best picture, but this is the original Wideangle.  Nothing but fun on this.

Hmm...that is? Made here or overseas?

The Wideangle of all vintages is a Taiwan made frame.

Posted by: heathen

Posted by: Vikb

Question for folks on Chromags...I've been looking at a Rootdown and I can get past the PF BB, but my one concern is that I can't figure out a way to mount a taco bash guard on the frame since there are no ISCG tabs and no threaded BB which allows you to mount a ISCG adapter. Our trails are really rocky so I have a taco bash on all my bikes. My cranks are all the splined variety so no crank mounted bashguards either.

Any solutions I am missing other than buy non-splined crank and mount a chainring style bash guard to it?

My Wideangle has a BSA BB but no ISCG05 tabs. I have no idea when Chromag stopped putting tabs on their Taiwanese frames but it was a stupid cost savings measure if you ask me. Good news they are steel frames so you can just get a local frame builder to slap some on.

Side note, anyone here have a connection to Chromag they should ask then to fix this error and start specing with tabs again.

Interesting.... Mine has tabs for a removable ISCG05 adapter.  Chromag used to supply that with the frames. However, I am not running a guard on the HT and I ride some pretty rocky stuff.  I haven't bashed the chainring too often.

Not the best picture, but this is the original Wideangle.  Nothing but fun on this.

Reductimat, you must hit that line on In Deep?!? That is the fun one to take. Not the lame chute.

Posted by: ReductiMat

I was a bit concerned when I first came across that whoop section... thinking it's going to be a long time until I'll be able to manual through it.  A few laps later I went jello and just monster-trucked through it and it worked just fine and was fun as hell.

The step down before the s-turn and EZ bridge.. the bigger option is so nice now.  Before it felt as if the landing zone was the size of a postage stamp.  Now we have a nice new lip on it and the landing seems huge.

Just saw the whoops for the first time today. What a mess... Park was in mint shape though.  Too bad I didn't ride enough this year. :-(

Just point and hang on!  They fit.  Just barely!