shoreboy1866
- Member since Mar 6, 2007 O+
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Vancouver , British Columbia - 7 Followers
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shoreboy1866 ethirteen's article
May 18, 2023 at 11:55
May 18, 2023
E*thirteen Announces New Close Range & Wide Range Cassettes
Ill stick with my Shimano XT 12 speed thanks. As good if not better ratios that either of these, same weight, less than half the cost. Granted, the pimp factor will be lower as I cannot get the anodized colors! I also feel the need to boycott any marketing that refers to normal bikes as 'bio' or 'analog'.
shoreboy1866 WhistlerMountainBikePark's article
May 17, 2023 at 13:57
May 17, 2023
Whistler Bike Park To Open This Weekend, Garbanzo Zone Slated For June 10
I was looking for this info, as I also had nothing better to do. :) I get slightly different numbers from you? It shows the Whistler VG to have a capacity of 2640-2800 ppl/hr based on 8 ppl per gondola. If you cut that in half for 4 ppl and bike per gondola, we are at 1320-1400 ppl/hr. This is also based on 5 - 5.5m/s speed. Fitz claims 1800 ppl/hr at full capacity, which would be 925 ppl/hr at half capacity (4 ppl every other chair). So by these numbers the gondola will actually be better? Im sure I am missing something on how the Fitz chair is actually less than half capacity when they switch over to bike trays in the summer?
https://riseandalpine.com/2022/01/23/how-long-are-the-lifts-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-whistlers-chairlifts/#Whistler_Chairlifts_Gondolas
shoreboy1866 WhistlerMountainBikePark's article
May 17, 2023 at 11:26
May 17, 2023
Whistler Bike Park To Open This Weekend, Garbanzo Zone Slated For June 10
@asur90: Ah! That makes sense. Foot traffic goes up via Blackcomb then? I guess that will get them a lot more Peak 2 Peak tickets sold as well.
shoreboy1866 WhistlerMountainBikePark's article
May 17, 2023 at 11:09
May 17, 2023
Whistler Bike Park To Open This Weekend, Garbanzo Zone Slated For June 10
That might be true in theory, but what about all the hikers and sight seers who take the gondola up each day? Capacity will have to be shared with that crowd as well.
shoreboy1866 pinkbikeaudience's article
May 11, 2023 at 8:14
May 11, 2023
Win It Wednesday: Enter to Win a SCOR 4060 Frameset & Shock
@joezv: A winner wasn't announced. They never are. That is the issue with the transparency surrounding this contest. It would be very simple for PB to announce the winners, yet they continually refuse to do so. Makes the whole contest just feel like a ruse to gain subscribers to the email list of the involved manufacturer.
shoreboy1866 squamishenduro's article
May 5, 2023 at 8:30
May 5, 2023
Race Preview: Squamish Enduro
Agreed! That is going to be a long and very very challenging course (especially in the wet!). Good luck to all the riders, stay safe out there!
shoreboy1866 mikekazimer's article
May 4, 2023 at 14:45
May 4, 2023
Throwback Thursday: Kranked 5 Turns 20
2002 Norco Shore with Super Ts!
shoreboy1866 squamishenduro's article
May 4, 2023 at 8:33
May 4, 2023
Race Preview: Squamish Enduro
Not to mention the almost inevitable accidents that happen on the S2S every weekend. Inexperienced motorcycles and inattentive vehicle drivers don't mix well. We were unfortunate enough to get stuck for 5 hours last Saturday trying to get to Squamish. No information as to what was happening, and no way to turn around. At least it was a sunny day!
shoreboy1866 mikekazimer's article
Apr 20, 2023 at 22:21
Apr 20, 2023
Pole's New 'Onni' DH Bike - Sea Otter 2023
The looks of this one surprisingly don't make me want to Voima-it.
shoreboy1866 Polygonbikes's article
Apr 20, 2023 at 18:04
Apr 20, 2023
Polygon Launches the Collosus N8E eMTB
@blackwidow: How about "bikes" like it has always been? No need to differentiate it further when e-bike already does that.
