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For some people (speaking from personal and secondary experiences) pot is definitely no cure-all. Effects vary widely, and many of the sleep, anxiety, and pain related benefits that some people enjoy do NOT transalte to everyone. Some people also just don't enjoy being high. I know people will argue indica/sativa, CBD/THC etc. but I think the main point is pretty well established fact. I think pot is also still illegal in the UK, which is also a factor for many people. Definitely a wild crash...makes me feel ill thinking about it. Most people would be off the bike for life after something like that! Gee's a beast!

insert puns here

Fernie used to be my favorite bike park to ride :( Shame that RCR decided not to open the timber chair for 3 consecutive years, which sadly eliminates the option to ride many of their best trails (...and yet they're still charging FULL lift ticket price) . Guess I'll go back one day when they change their minds! Awesome to see some of these tutorials helping riders figure out some of the tricky terrain though. I look forward to trying out some of those ideas next time I'm there (when the timber chair is back in action)!

It's an early prototype though, so we might all need to adjust our expectations

@jaroh24: depends to what degree you care about the performance of your bike

@rickybobby18: Nice of you to jump to conclusions about me, but I assure you, I do not. I recycle FAR more than I throw out (by about a factor of 5x, I would say). It's done my making a conscious effort to clean, and properly sort a lot of my waste (and occasionally, physically taking it to the appropriate location). In general, I put out one grocery bag (since I re-use them instead of buying new, black bags) of random unrecyclable plastics every 2 weeks. But that really is beside the point. In general, your argument is that since we all make SOME waste, we just shouldn't care about making as much as we want? Respectfully, I disagree strongly with that kind of mindset.

Good likelyhood I'll get downvoted into oblivion on this one, but I CRINGE when I see people buying one-off, disposable junk at dollarama / walmart, etc. We should all strive to avoid this kind of behavior. Waste, to some extent, is inevitable....but we don't need to be filling up landfills with plastic crap because we're too cheap and/or lazy to buy quality items that will last and can be reused. Keep in mind "quality" also doesn't need to be the latest/greatest, expensive, overhyped and overpriced gear. A lot of this stuff could be borrowed or found at a thrift shop (and then returned or passed forward after having served it's purpose). One day we're going to look back at this disposable mentality of our current society as the downfall of our time. We should all try to be more conscious of the footprint we're leaving.