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Interesting; I am wondering when city councils will wake up and start banning ebike sales on the safety grounds. If not in use then charging, and at some point insurance companies are going to wake up. Just look at house insurance; if the battery charging is a risk (and insurance companies abhor risk) they could either make your rates sky high, or you could lie and if there is a fire and they find out it was a battery fire due to an ebike your insurance is void, or put disclosure of contents as mandatory for coverage (just like with health insurance they check you BP, body weight, current meds etc..). Here in North Vancouver the fire department goes to bike shops to check up on batteries and chargers. Until ebikes they never had a reason unless it was a yearly safety inspection routine for any business. But hey, ebikes are a good thing....

Cypress has advantages in most every way: better access, parking and lift access. Grouse needs you to arrive, find parking, go up in a gondola, then get to the park. Although, in both cases, if one were REALLY committed, they could then ride the REAL trails on both hills (Cypress and Fromme) to the bottom for a full experience.

@samhillseyebrows: No. The word on the street is that in order to get Olympic events they were in an agreement with WBP to get events in exchange for kiboshing its bike park. Obviously there must of been term limits to that as you would be insane to NOT want a bike park on Cypress so close to the riding here and they already started it up. I have it under good info that this is the case. Trust me: Cypress will go gang-busters to catch up and it is all for the better.

I remember when they started up the park many years ago, 2003 IIRC. I went for the first 2 years and it was new but had huge potential. Then they canned it. I can only image how awesome it would be today had they not killed it and had the intervening time to develop it. And compared to Grouse the access is better, parking is better and better options. I still cannot fathom how, at the time, they put in all the work to make the startup only to let it die considering how big biking was at the time. And no competition other than WBP. A lot of catching up to do.

@BenLow2019: They are mostly used for impeding horses, but on bike trails there must be something else going on.

I liked it better when mountain biking was about mountain bikes and not ebikes or wannabe motocrossers.

Fucking heartbreaking. I have been there many times and the listing for the 5 frames on the wall are vintage Knolly frames that essentially show the evolution of the company. I almost want to bid on something (a warden frame comes to mind) but as someone whom already has 2 Knolly bikes it feels like being a parasite. But the deal........ I hope someone gets those 5 Knolly evolution frames whom can preserve them.

UDH Half Mount. Interesting. I have a photo of a 2001 Ellsworth Dare that had that invention on my bike in 2001 as a "fix" for the fact the derailleur mount was not replaceable. I found out the hard way and had to pay $750 to get a new rear end to replace the broken derailleur mount. Tony Ellsworth told me: "I didn't think they would break as they were so thick". I still have the broken stay as a door stop. Nice to know I beat SRAM by 24 years and have proof.

Canadian manufacturing is no better, don't kidd yourself. Chromag makes some models with Canadian builders and it shows in the price. But difference in quality? I had two Chromag Ti frames each made in Taiwan and the build quality was superb. And I have had many high end frames over the years to compare to (Foes and Ellsworth when the company was of any worth) and the Taiwan frames (especially the welds) were top notch. To get a Ti frame in such quality from a Canadian manufacturer would have been much higher in cost. Hard to see how paying the higher wages for locals for the same quality equals anything the buyer would be able to justify.

That Kona Score is a nice frame, they didn't sell many as it was expensive and suspension really took off. But the asking price is retarded. Old geo and only fits a 26" wheel, which is not the worst thing as 26" is fine, but try finding rims to build a good wheel. Rims are not as plentiful as when the frame was new. It was built by Lynskey IIRC and was just as well made as any Lynskey, Dean or any other boutique Ti maker at the time.