bosch gets 5 stars and LG gets 4.5 so it was gona be one of those 2 brands, the local store had a 100 $ off sale which put them only 50$ > Costco so entirely within the range of supporting the local...

you must be talking about Roger when he was the green guy

I also voted rhino for Richard the troll, buddy said his platform was made out of wood

So I got tired of the BS cuz I hate pulling it out to jury rig and so today I broke up with my dishwasher,

I dropped that old Kitchenaid off at the dump and instaled a new Bosch,

cuz in "...

don't heat pumps not work very well at some point when its gets COLD ??

we could get 2 weeks of -40C up here so Junior has an aging so its forced air wood stove like in the basement where a...

The guide/ the weather/ the snow/ your group could all contribute to your opinion of a BC lodge in BC but the big one is the weather/ snow cuz its hard to forecast a year ahead of time

I got a buddy who had planned to do clearing/ roto tilling with a small Kubota s a retiremnt gig but he doesnt do it any more cuz it was such a fucking pain dealing with the customers

I went up...

its the breakfast beer eh

Are shoes still good just becuz they don't fit ?

They look good but yeah I gave one pair of Shimano's to the last GF and the other pair to the GF before that, they were pretty cheap on the ...

I recently read an artical where the writer said that all the ridings that really count are in Ontario / Quebec and nothing out west really matters ?

So ol PP breath wates his time by flying last...

btw this is a good time to re-glue before ski season when you wana ski

cuz its a job best done out side when it not too cold as opposed to the minus a bunch temps

you can probably source the...

people wana put em on mtn bikes, even 52 lb full power E bikes where it probably doesnt matter

i did scan it, made an assumption but tell me do you read every link you see ?

Yeah I took a local older somewhat atheletic guy (has done a lot of sking/ ski coursework) with his throttle bike from Amazon ( no pads no helmet and half dead battery) to the bluff system, we...

just like ski boots you need to try bike shoes on in person unless you have had enough shoes you know how a brand fits

I've had 3 pair of the spesh cuz they all fit narrow heel/ wide toe, I will...

I never thot a crank arm was a good place for CF and even less so smacking crank arms on rocks cuz of lower BB's

yeah I got the same one ^^ I kept putting off buying a 3 ton floor jack waiting for the deal but they would slip away, so every time I needed to get it done at Kal cost me 68$ so just pay the list...

That looks like a weapon from some movie about a dystopian world

DD is a tool but not really very exotic

are they ^^ good for hunting and riding around with his kid ?

he picked up a 5yr old and trailer for 16K

For the haters at about 10 " its too much snow to ride an E-bike

junior just bought 5 acres and a side by side for the snow removal/ hunting/ general yucks

https://electrek.co/2023/09/21/how-to-choose-the-right-electric-bike-for-your-teenager/

Isnt America wonderful ! ( in Borat voice ) how to chose the right E-bike for your teenager !

get a tube of gold label with the 70 $ skins, my G3 skins were redone with gold label so they have BD glue

I see them come up on the local FB for sale but I never managed to snare one

exactly ^^ and the decerning bike thief will steal one so he can steal your bike

hey its just something I vaguely remember reading, check it out carefuly before you put any flavor of loctite on spokes

up here the gov park guys are using the cheapest Giant hardtails ( cost 3K )to get into the park on the jeep trail, the parkie I know said he thot is was a bad idea until he did it once and then he...

When I had loose spokes I would turn them all an extra amount while tensioning ( might have been 1/2 turn or might have been 1/4 ) and then I would back off that amount which unwound the spoke
...

yes exactly ^^ I also thot they were Canadian but I checked & goggle sez otherwise

Cuz I had dinner with some pinkbiker back in the day when I was Chauffeuring Lee Lau in an epic pow event

I...

I've read good E-bike on pinkbike, its American so of course the hate

but there are the haters on NSMB,

does anybody in Canada really vote for the leader or do they vote for local representaion ?

we had people demonstrating against Trudeau last election on the Bulkley bridge, OK so you don't like...

the SS loop with the skin folded over & stuck to itself is the best IME becuz it gives any skin a huge range of adjustment SO with a simple tip loop I can make a set of skins fit a 190 or a 159 cm...

Hate is so American eh, they probably read something on an american site that tells them to hate e-bikes

I asked the paid association guy and the builders on their E-bikes if it was ok and...

Kal tire quit doing the free tire swaps so I had to do my own changeovers

IME a bottle jack is a hassle not much better than the jack that comes with the car

you need the 3 ton floor jack...

So in case anyone wonders how are belt drives my son just broke one after 5 yrs on a cannondale commuter, he is guessing it broke after 5000kms said the belt looked fine, he was just riding along...

yeah at the local area the govy guy/ girl walks the area with the paid association rep who is also the paid rep at the XC ski area.
All design is done to the whistler bike park standard which then ...

32$ for a steel ring/ 156$ for a 12spd NX cluster/ 93 $ for an X01 chain is 281$CAN for a new drive train

perhaps a northern BC perspective cuz they run a huge shwack of NW BC out of here from a building 3 blocks away so everyone knows everyone, sometimes you are going ski/ bike/ paddling in a truck...

you can go smaller with a direct mount like the Race Face Aeffect cuz there is no spider to get in the way, a good product IME

I tried the oval absolute black on the 5.5, also dropped 2 teeth at the same time (30 to 28) so I can't say I could really feel the oval difference other than the climbing was easier cuz of less...

well in any case a bike is a bike so you are stuck with them

localy we are waiting for the hikers who are 70+ to die off so the mtnbikers can take over their tenure

anything with 2 wheels looks very similarish to a raving enviromentalist who wants to get rid of anything with wheels in the BC, they don't know/ don't care what the difference is cuz anything...

cool, a rant on the anti-E-bike ranters, so this ^^ is pretty accurate IME

You gotta have the mtnbike skills on singletrack, the throttle bikes are just too big/ too heavy which just magnifys a...

Yup, ol PP breath has been taking up all the air in the room by accusing JT of everything from killing kittens to the price of RE and it shows in the polls but he has to stay silent on this file
...

The ONE/ Mercury/ Vulcan series came out 10 yrs ago and btw the Paulau liner that came with those boots sucked dead goats, I never had the ONE but the Mercury & Vulcan work very well for me with a...

Its been pretty good but after 2 yrs/ 3500kms my SDG Tellis dropper seat post is somewhat flacid and not really staying up very well

the good news is the cartridge is easily replaceable for only...

it means technicaly you really are a family so your really do owe her $$$$$$$ in a split up

JT needed to look good/ strong when pierre polievere acuses him of ... everything

I don't think everyone is ready for Jagmeet to run Canada

My tire was not as worn as the pict in #3881 above but it was the mostly torn side knobs that were more worrisome than worn out center knobs cuz they would fold on some rock slabs I often ride and I...

I had never heard that one ^^ but the Koots always had lots of cash from drug money which is not there post legalization ,

people are getting old and so they will age out or more likely get an...

well thank you for sharing your feelings but wouldn't that basicly shoot down your entire post ?
i think there aren't many in fernie & nelson just cuz they can't afford them

I seen E-bikes in...

well in case someone sez " use the green "

I used a Green to glue my cranks on the advice of a Locomotive mechanic who said they used the stuff to retain wheel bearings on Trains

I have seen...