Number of comments: 0 How about this for a great idea?Make your own bike lane, wherever you are. Do you think this would actually deter cars from travelling too close?Maybe it's worth a shot.' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Are there enough bike lanes on the North Shore? The North Shore Outlook has an online poll to find out what residents think. Here is the link:North Shore Outlook [...]
Number of comments: 0 Well it seems to be official. The North Shore Ripper series is here again. The NSMBA and James Wilson at Obsession Bikes always do a great job of this fun series of mountain bike events.Here is this years schedule:7th Ripper April 12th 2008 Fromme MountainSuper DH May 3rd 2008 Mt [...]
Number of comments: 4 In the past month, two Tour de France "stars" have come out publicly in favour of bike commuting. Lance Armstrong has decided that cycling with traffic is too dangerous for the average cyclist and the answer to making the bike more prevalent in North American society is to give it [...]
Number of comments: 0 This is my best memory of the North American Handbuilt Bicycle Show. Stacks and stacks of trendy bikes piled high for all to see.My son and I made the pilgrimage to Portland this weekend to see both family and the Shrine that was the NAHBS. It was a spectacle to [...]
Number of comments: 10 It has been a couple of months now since we purchased the Rocky Mountain Solo CXD -- Rocky's cyclocross bike with disk brakes. I blogged about the bike right after we got it. We have made some changes to the bike since then. Now when I say "we" I mean [...]
Number of comments: 0 This just in! Google Maps has announced that it has teamed up with Translink and added Vancouver to it's transit map. Vancouver is the first Canadian city to be added to this service.I just checked it out. It looks great. Here is a route from Grouse Mountain to Simon Fraser' [...]
Number of comments: 0 A few weeks ago it was "take your kid mountain biking day." I believe it was October 6th. I was planning to take a few kids from the neighbourhood, but it was a really ugly day, rainy and windy. My son was keen though, and at seven, has no real [...]
Number of comments: 9 This has been on my "todo" list for a while now. I purchased this backpack in July, but I haven't used it consistently until recently.Disclaimer: I paid full pop for this pack, so I can say what I want.I have been looking for a waterproof pack for quite some time [...]
Number of comments: 0 There have been many other tributes to Richard. And to be truthful I didn't really know Richard. I had met him when he ran the North Shore Mountain Bike Festival and Conference and then the following year when the conference turned into the World Mountain Bike Conference and I used [...]
Number of comments: 1 I have been planning for a while now a review of wines with a link to cycling.Last night I was reading Momentum Magazine, a BC based bike culture periodical that is really quite good. Anyway there was an article about wine, more specifically wine with some sort of link to [...]
Number of comments: 2 Well it is cross season, whatever that means. Anyway, we decided we needed another bike in the house. I have been thinking for a while about a more road like commuter bike, my wife wants a bike she can get some exercise on so we opted for a "shared" cyclocross [...]
Number of comments: 0 Well the summer seemed to get away from me. I had a few weeks away in August and never seemed to get back into the swing of things when I got back. Then there was school starting -- I have 2 kids in school now (well one in kindergarten, so [...]
Number of comments: 0 Thankfully I'm going on vacation. I can't take it anymore. ex and would be politicians on the North Shore want mountain bikers off the trails. I hope it is a small NIMBY group that has little or no political clout, but you never know.It's bad enough that these people want' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Last night I went for a ride with "the boys". This generally is a weekly event. Like most Wednesdays I rode home from work on my commuter bike and then did the quick change to my freeride bike. This week we were riding on Mt. Fromme so I can just [...]
Number of comments: 1 A few weeks ago I was riding to work and noticed my bike computer was going wild. I was stopped. The computer was telling me I was going 99.9 km/h. This, of course, was doing wonders for my average speed. I started looking around and noticed that there was a [...]
Number of comments: 3 Recently we started a small reno to our house. My wife wanted a hot tub to ease her back problems and acquaintances of ours were getting rid of theirs, so I thought we were in luck. An inexpensive hot tub, all we had to do was get it home. Well [...]
Number of comments: 1 Ripper -- Triple Crown-- Ripper DadsWell it was the final Ripper of the season. This "event" is a poker challenge where the best hand wins -- not the fastest team, as I found out last year. This year me and the Guys went as the Ripper Dads. Being the Triple [...]
Number of comments: 5 Well it has been a long time since I started this project. I posted about it last April, but it seems as though the "project" has been on the back burner since then. The idea was to get my old Chas Roberts frame back up and running. The frame was [...]
Number of comments: 0 I've been listening to Grant Lawrence's podcast on CBC Radio3 for a couple of years now. It has opened my eyes to some of the great music that is produced in Canada that we never get to listen to on the radio here. I must admit some of the stuff [...]
Number of comments: 0 I am about to recount a story that I am only now able to tell, two weeks after it occurred.It all happened over the Victoria Day long weekend (the week before Memorial Day). I had decided to take the kids to visit my parents at our cabin in the Okanangan. [...]
Number of comments: 2 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the all sponsors trail day on Mount Seymour. Most of these trail days put on by the NSMBA have a shop sponsor the day. The shop will supply lunch, maybe some draw prizes and help to organise the day's events. What was' [...]
Number of comments: 0 Today my son and I went to our first "Father Son" trail day. These trail days are organised by the NSMBA and are usually sponsored by one bike shop or another. This one was a bit different though, it was a group effort by a number of bike shops and [...]
Number of comments: 0 Well it was the first NSMBA Ripper of the season today and in true Ripper form "it was an experience." The theme today was "what is up is down, what is forwards is backwards" according to Race Director James Wilson of Obsession Bikes. The race had two categories, the team [...]
Number of comments: 0 This post is a response to a piece on the "North Van politics" blog where Ernie Crist, a former councillor in North Vancouver District, makes accusations that mountain biking on Mt. Fromme is environmentally damaging and unsustainable, and that North Van taxpayers are footing the bill for trail maintenance to [...]
Number of comments: 0 In my last entry I talked about the essential tools for commuting in the rain. I mentioned the mudflap, not this kind of mudflap, as an essential part of the fender. This is a follow up to that post.I recently bought a new pair of fenders for my commuter. My [...]
Recently my brother-in-law asked me what it takes to become a bike commuter in Vancouver. Now there are many "guides" out there that help with this, but Vancouver is a bit different, it rains here -- it rains A LOT here.
So I thought I would put up my own list [...]
This week in Vancouver we had a bit of snow. OK we had a lot of snow, even by the rest of Canada's standards. We probably had 50 cm or more. That's a lot of snow! Especially when Vancouver is in no way prepared for anything but rain -- which [...]
