Little Gems: More Fortune Than Fame
Big often defines the riding stories we share. The multi-thousand foot uphill grind to get the long downhill descent. Twelve hour epics that finish in the dark. Multiple laps in Whistler Bike Park’s...
View ArticleOne Shot: When the Karma Bank withholds interest
If you’re a believer of ‘what goes around, comes around’, you probably make regular deposits to the Karma Bank. Doing trail maintenance with local bike clubs. Volunteering at mountain bike races....
View ArticleReaping the Rewards
There comes a time when you have to put the chainsaw down and go ride a bike. You’ve seen others benefit from your trail work and appreciate the smiles and thanks you get in return. But all work and no...
View ArticleSubbing for tire levers
Having not yet mastered the craft of changing a tube using the ‘hands-only’ method, tire levers come in handy when a tire goes flat. I never leave home without them…until a few weeks ago when on a...
View ArticleAny Ride Will Do
The echoes of summer rides have dimmed. Autumn clouds jostle the sun for room in the sky. The daily grind has taken over where road trips ruled the week. Spare time has become family time. One week...
View ArticleAnd so the rain begins
Showers. Drizzle. Cats and dogs. It doesn’t matter what you call it, rain is the Pacific Northwest’s favourite weather. The first big storm of fall arrived this week. Slippery roots, mud and water are...
View ArticleOf Grapes And Desert Singletrack
The rainy season saw us on the run recently. Away from the damp, grey box of our mountain-lined city towards sunny, wide open spaces. Weather forecasts pointed us southeast of the Cascade Range to the...
View ArticleTrail Trainer Videos Review
Riding indoors on a trainer or stationary/spin bike is par for the course if you live in a four-season postal code. While indoor spinning is good for maintaining fitness, it lacks the ‘joie de vivre’...
View ArticleGoing hut to hut in the Chilcotins
Sitting around camp the night before the start of our three-day backcountry riding trip, one of our friends exclaimed that they wanted to see a bear. Not too close, but close enough to get a good look....
View ArticleWhen Life Hands You Pineapples, Make Pina Coladas
This winter was supposed to be all about riding our new fat bikes in the snow. Wool socks, boots, pogies, insulated camelback bladders: we were ready to spend our weekends pedaling in the cold, white...
View ArticleAbercrombie Mountain: On to something good
When someone tells you that there’s a stellar, flowy trail worth exploring on a mountain you’ve never heard of and near a town you’ve never been to, you might be skeptical. Even more so when the trail...
View ArticleJoining the Quilomene Club
Driving through Vantage, Washington doesn’t inspire visions of biking adventures. Interstate 90 slams straight though this shrub infested wasteland, full of wind turbines and cow patties. The Columbia...
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