Norco Bicycles Announces Rider Appreciation Day in Eastern Canada by norcobicycles

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shortcuttomoncton (Sep 17, 2018 at 21:08)

Barrie, Ontario is eastern Canada? In relation to what - Norco’s headquarters on the Pacific? It’s a 10+ hour drive to the Canadian Atlantic and there are five provinces east on Ontario. Whoever wrote this press release badly needs to look at a map.

pieboy314 (Sep 18, 2018 at 5:39)

for starters... it is in the Eastern Time Zone. where would you have it... Central Canada? Calgary is considered Western Canada and is 10+ hour drive to Pacific. It is a big country.

m1dg3t (Sep 18, 2018 at 6:40)

@shortcuttomoncton: Too much maple syrop maybe? LoL

shortcuttomoncton (Sep 18, 2018 at 16:54)

@pieboy314: oh stop it. It’s the “eastern” time zone because it’s north of most of the US Atlantic coastline, from where the name originates. By that logic, ON should be eastern because it’s east of Florida? Or BC shouldn’t be western because it’s east of Alaska? That’s all absurd.

You’d never hear anyone from the US calling Illinois the “eastern US”. ON is and always has been central Canada, which is how anyone who’s actually from eastern Canada refers to it.

And plus, if Norco actually wanted to get some real use out of their great bikes, they’d be better off in eastern Canada.

pieboy314 (Sep 19, 2018 at 10:15)

@shortcuttomoncton: The NFL, NBA, CFL and MLB are all absurd as well and see the area as 'Eastern'.

if I were to take a similarly antagonistic stance, I could say this is because nothing East of Montreal matters
...but I won't, I was vacationing in NB, PEI and NS this summer and it is awesome... but please don't slag the riding in the Barrie area, it rocks.

shortcuttomoncton (Sep 20, 2018 at 7:22)

@pieboy314: Good lord man, you're making the weirdest arguments. Why are you confusing "eastern Canada" with "eastern North America"? Leaving aside all the absurd things that sports leagues do when trying to structure their conferences, \the CFL and NHL have "East" and "West": obviously when you go binary and omit "Central", then any city that's east of the middle of the continent is still going to be in "the east", even though it's a 17-hour drive from Halifax - hell, Detroit is in the Atlantic division when it is nowhere near the Atlantic. The NFL is US-only and the AFC teams are all....on the US east coast. The MLB has the AFC East and all the teams are also near the east coast...except for Toronto. Again, just because Toronto is directly north of Tampa Bay doesn't mean it is in eastern Canada.

I have no idea what you mean by nothing east of Montreal mattering. I rode 3 Stage last week and ride near Barrie all the time and it's solid, but it doesn't hold a candle to what's going on east of Montreal.

m1dg3t (Sep 18, 2018 at 6:39)

Maybe someone there can finally fix the god awful chainline on my 2x Revolver?

mtnrush666 (Sep 17, 2018 at 16:32)

Sounds like a great event. Would love to try yhe Aurum HSP!