And if you get into the habit of going to their site every Friday is Fridays Randoms! This is basically an excuse to scour the net for important and pointless material to keep content running smoothly!
The Yankees South of us just finished Thanksgiving yesterday and this video kind of ties into food with friends and our many brother’s from other Mothers over in Germany!
After the long day at the Tradeshow at Eurobike we all hit the Fish Bar and have drinks … many drinks.
Morewood Rider Cous Cous is a master of the Deep Sleep. Here he is giving all of us a demonstration of how to save your energy for Race day, only awaking to eat!
Doesn’t matter when or where… Cous Cous knows what's important!
Now here is Cous Cous again demonstrating his Jury Duty stance, this guy is full pro!
When we do our Show we hang with a pretty cool group of people in basically a massive party tent where the brands are peppered all around, free beer and tunes! SportsNut puts it on and all the brands gather once a year and Binge Drinking is fully endorsed and embraced.
So… first off a slight diss to the industry! WTF is up with all the collar sizes? Can’t we all get along and bring it down to two? Took us some time to figure out what to focus on but we are offering 4 sizes: 28.6/30.0/31.8/34.9 their weights are from 20 grams to 21.3grams. Then when we get time - soon… our seat post will arrive and your bike will thank you.
The seat collars utilize Straitline Components patent pending design where you turn a bolt and tighten it onto the frame holding the seat. Actually we did trick it out a bit and use a custom barrel nut and they look really sick for such a simple product.
Once you buy the collar the need to match up kicks in and you start thinking of Straitline before food.
Now you have to tie it all in with some sick pedals then get bored of that color and repeat the process all over again!
This we cannot help you with but if you play your cards right, who knows.
Anyone ever play on Bing? I just found a blog feature for maps and I found my Van but it wasn’t there earlier today when I was looking at our warehouse! I wonder how close they can really zoom in?
I admitted a few posts down that we now Tweet and I too can stalk and follow with you guys. And while I was stalking… stumbled onto Evolve on Jeff’s Lenosky’s Twitter account.
Jeff Claims this video is what pretty much Started it all for him and it definitely started it for me. I find it a trip that we now work with Lenosky because between him and Leech setting the standards we all went out to try and at least manual like them.
Jeff sent me a shot of Jack his son wearing some fresh threads! My grandma actually knitted Jeff some custom green slippers to match his older pedals and insisted that I get them to him, they are epic in hardwood floored homes!
Anyways here is the video that Jeff claims started it all-
Freeride BC in North Saanich simply needs you fingers for one minute!~
This is a bike community correct? Well I am here to tug at your heart strings and ask for your and help and launch a modern bike park North Saanich BC.
We have been working for years on a local project with the community to develop a world class training center- www.freeridbc.blogspot.com www.freeridebc.com Now we simply need you to vote online!
I was planning to shout out about this park next summer but we really need to ask a serious favor.... go to this site and vote for our local park: http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf4470
You could help us open up the last phases faster than you think. Slalom tracks, advanced pump tracks and pro DJ lines are coming and from there indoor facilities with foam pits and ramps much like Rays.
The leading project on AVIVA is at 2800 votes, the most votes by the community wins the grant money up for Grabs.
So please treat this like a early xmas gift from yourself to the riding community and vote on this park!
This park is winning awards for it's concept and opening up the doors for other communities to do the same. Voting takes two minutes max and you will not get spammed for voting.
Pump Tracks just sound so wimpy so the title ensures that you understand this will be a epic new addition to the Freeride BC course. http://www.freeridebc.com/
Chris Lamb is the man behind many of the best trails we love to shred in Whistler and last Summer he visited the park and got stoked on what we had planned. We were stoked just to have a guy like him build our slalom track!
So He has signed on to help future track development next Spring in http://www.freeridebc.com/ our local project of love!
The amazing people of Rotary have also agreed to help fundraise and in return we will have Chris make the Rotary Fitness section the place to be!
Man how many online societies will I have to join in the next 3 years? But twitter can be syndicated on the blog so now it is easy for me to do it.
Yes, we Twitter and yes you should follow us and peer into our minds.
Lets make it fun though!
4 links... one goes to the Twitter acount but 3 do not! One will make you smile, one may make you go kill yourself after, maybe one is a hidden passion you hide, one will erase all the previous bad things and make you giddy!
They are what I like to call little MAC Bi***s and there is no easy program for Mac to blog from. It is like they are that annoying guy in the coffee line up. You know, the guy who is soo fancy and advanced his coffee order has 32 words in it.
But we forgive them like we have almost forgiven America for buying our beer companies and Whistler!
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1 little run at the jumps
This was a rad way to start the day, Ryan sent us a link of his road trip to the infamous Okanogan Valley, my home turf!
Open and warm terrain with cactuses, rattlesnakes, badgers and the Ogopogo lurking… the Okanogan is a mans place!
That second mountain to the left is Summerland BC, that’s right it is called Summerland and the neighboring town is actually called Peachland. When I travel I just tell people that I am from Vancouver to avoid the questioning on a town named Summerland. It is retirement-ville, keep driving like Ryan did and hit up Penticton!
High alpine pecker poles… fast flowy trails…
Skaha valley Cliffs… miss this place!
Check out Ryans full article on Pinkbike for more pictures, it really is a rad place to ride everyone just thinks of Whistler and the Shore when planning a trip to BC but every valley is unique, it is well worth it.
Steve Romanuk just VOD today with Knox Mountain helmet cam, again a home town spot in the Valley. I’d ride it until the snow pushed me down the hill, then off to Victoria to ride Street in the Winter.
This Mountain is really simple to ride and just fast and fun as hell at the base of Kelowna City. Getting nostalgic, haven't been there in forever!
Check it out!
Oh and it is famous for the evil Ogopogo… look at the scary waves.
The title may sound dirty but they are British and taking a piss -AKA messing around- and posting it up for all to see is okay in the UK!
They say it is the shittiest video ever made by them but I actually think it is the best yet, more fun, less portrayal of being Number 1!
We decked their bikes in pedals and stems in a custom colour for cool kids only and soon we must make up a new scheme.
Next season I think we will make the pink brighter and lessen up the black, regardless they will be one off’s for MTBCUT only!
The gear was to compliment the bikes in the video below. In your face Pink.
You can see it better on this Pinkbike Video where Ben Cathro goes over his ride
“Ben Cathro is part of the MTB Cut DH team and is the only racer on the World Cup Circuit that is 7 feet tall. Ok maybe he's not 7 feet tall, but damn he's a giant. Ben is here with fellow team mate Joe Barnes and is sporting the all new prototype Orange 225 bike.”
Luis of XMS Imports, our Spanish Distributor sent me some shots… I kept it very Vague until I could label each shot with rider and credits… give me a day or two but enjoy the shots!
Admittedly until we launch our new website it will be hard for us to capitalize and manage all of our sponsorship efforts and I must say that for our size we have been blessed!
Trent Zoobkoff rocking our Flats with Team Devinci Pinkbike!
Admittedly this has nothing to do with anything but it sure is funny.. to me at least!
