me on my alpine yesterday

here’s mine from 2000 onwards

i’m not so sure of that MTT, If it lets me lift the same weight for longer before muscle fatigue then surely it would let me push harder or longer on the bike, it might not make a difference on a easy XC loop where its mostly aerobic, but if you throw in a few big climbs where you have to stand up and put some power down I think it might help in that sort of situation.

I’ve def noticed a difference while lifting weights and stuff, lets you go longer before your muscles start to fail, not sure about recovery, never really thought about that the couple of times i’ve tried it. I guess if your doing the same amounts of weights or cycling but your muscles are more capable with the creatine then you aren’t going to wear them out as much thus recovering quicker or some bollocks like that.

It like watching some pish soap opera, you just read ton’s thread going FFS :roll: not again! How many bikes is that this year? Single handedly keeping the bike industry afloat though well done! :lol:

My Alpine felt slightly cramped and it felt like I was sitting forward in its first car park test after coming of a spesh enduro, after that first ride it was fine though.

i’ve seen the trailers for it which looked great, never got round to buying the full thing though.

it so that we can hold wet stuff then :D

well done mate, hopefully it gets back to the rightful owner.

it’ll prob be fine

My missus is 5’2″ at a push and has a 15″ (or maybe 15.5″) Kona Coiler, she put a 40mm stem on it and she loves it.

A lot of people are talking about getting out of here for the olympics, i applied for tickets in the ballot for the locals but missed out, we’ll see what happens nearer the time.

yes nightlife, beer and cheese is a problem but apart from that it’s all good :D

If your only used to UK cities I think Vancouver will blow anyone away and yes its what’s outside the downtown core that really makes it but so what. Downtown is nice enough, lots of tall glass buildings and stuff, you’ve got Stanley Park on the doorstep and when your out there or walking through the trails you could be anywhere, you’ve got big mountains a 10 minute drive away with easy access to pretty much the top, yes there’s more to see and do than just Vancouver but its still probably one of the nicest cities i’ve been to. To compare it with Birmingham or even London is so far off the mark its unreal.

a bit harsh walleater, but i think you could see most of the main attractions in 3-4 days, you could do a day-trip to whistler just to take it in then as your out in vernon spend a few days doing the icefields parkway. Sounds like the makings of a great trip.

ooOOoo I live and work in Burnaby just a few miles east of vancouver, I live on the top of burnaby mountain (pic from saturday evening, thats downtown in the distance from burnaby mountain park)

I have bike trails on my doorstep :D and i’m a short ride to work which is awesome compared to back home, I’m a transport planner for a consulting firm and and seem to have enough work just now but like everywhere in the world some places are struggling, it doesn’t seem anywhere near as bad as in the uk. When I was back at xmas all I bloody heard was credit crunch this credit crunch that, thoroughly depressing. I love it here. There is a bit of a gang war going on but never experienced any of it myself although there has been a couple of shootings a few miles away, they generally shoot each other and i wouldn’t be worried about being out anywhere because of it.

mtbmaff, vernon will be about a 5 hour drive from Vancouver, that’ll be a nice drive in itself, you can stop in hope, see the rambo bridge and the othello tunnels, head out to the relatives for the night, then you would be as well making the trip to the rockies its only another 4 hours to the start of the icefields parkway, you need a day to see them, stay in jasper for the night then head back down the next day, Peto Lake just off the icefields parkway.

I’ll fire you an email if you have any more questions.

Is this the new name for a schwalbe (sp?) tire, probably a big volume tire at that.

I would say if your blasting down a hill weight centred over the two wheels, then rolling resistance is similar but doesn’t really matter a hell of a lot cause your going downhill. Now if your grinding up hill, your in the saddle on an upslope so your weight will be more over the back of the bike and hence more weight will be going through the rear tire, so if your running a ST Maxxis your going to feel it a bit. I don’t think you’d notice it off-road much, more if your grinding your way up a road climb. Not sure that made any sense but there you go.

take both and ride each trail on both then come back and tell us all what you thought :D Have fun!

There is tons to do and see, i’ve been here a year and still got a lot of things to tick off the list.

The weather should still be good and pretty hot (compared to the UK) in September. There are the usual things like Stanley Park, Granville Island, Gastown, Chinatown, East Hastings Street (its a slum but you sort of have to see it, don’t stay there though), Canada Place.

If you feeling fit and want awesome views of the city do the grouse grind, basically a hike up grouse mountain which will take you around an hour or so if your reasonably fit, $5 to get the skyride back down, otherwise get the skyride up (around $35 each), you also have the option of doing the new zip lines up there and theres the captive grizzly bears which are cool to see up close. You can also get good views of the city from the road up cypress mountain

Another good hike would be the chief in squamish which is also next to shanon falls.

A night or two in whistler is a must even if you weren’t riding but as you may be interested in riding you might as well do it there. lots of little trails around lost lake if the bike park isn’t your thing and its just cool to hang about the village watch the bikers or go for a wander round the trails.

You could take the ferry over to victoria for a day or two.

for shopping, Robson Street is the main one downtown, if huge malls are your thing then metrotown in burnaby is worth a visit, its accessible by skytrain from downtown.

Maybe pushing it a bit but I did a four day road trip out to the rockies and back, it was almost all driving with the highlight being the icefields parkway, we covered about 2100k in the four days but it was so worth it. stayed in a few different places along the way which i could recommend if your interested. you’d obviously need to hire a car and fill it up quite often.

I’ve probably missed a ton of things of that list but its a start.

holy shit thats expensive for a hostel, not sure where you’ll cheap accommodation though, most hotel rooms will be over a 100 per night and thats for 2 so more likely higher for 4 of you. Are you all fairly active in terms of the things you like to do?

restart of thread :roll: Did i say you needed a full sus, no! I said a hardtail will beat you up way more, not saying the hardtail isn’t fun but if you can’t also have fun there on a heckler your doing something wrong!

I’ve ridden GT on my 06 Enduro, a Cove Stiffee and a Genesis Alpitude, the hardtail will beat you up way more, anyone that says full sus is ridiculous is being ridiculous themsleves.

got to rememeber its a cross country bike too, most people want an all-mountain/freeride lite :roll: bike.

chromag, but no layback and not sure if it comes in the right diameter for you.

yeah but that doesn’t really affect the quality of suspension, just allows full seat post movement and keeps the shock out of the way of the mud, it may also allow the designers to play with leverage rates and stuff but i know **** all about that.

I think you may have had more luck selling it here then on pinkbike, that place is full of kids with a preference for freeride type things.

They’re ok bikes but nothing special i would say, I had a 2004 kikapu, it was ok but when i changed that to a specialized FSR I could feel a big difference in the quality of suspension.

They’ve tried to get innovative with this magic link thing, not to sure about that though.

so can you wheelie on it? :D

Is that what they call a virtual pivot floating suspension design :D

rs – in terms of angles, no. But the sizing may be slightly different depending on the feedback I get from my test riders.

Cool, i’m still loving mine, put a good month of riding in on it and should get it over to the north shore this weekend for the first time, see how it goes there.

Mike, just out of interest, will the next batch be any different?

if your keeping the hardtail and can’t get a pitch, then go for the stumpy.

ok, you made me look, orange crush is max 150, there older beefier ones would take a bigger fork, yep NS surge, thats the one. you could also looks at the likes of chromag or lumberjack if you’ve got the cash.

orange something or other, on-one 456, NS bikes something or other.

this is quite easy, if you prefer uphills go for an epic, bit of everything go for the stumpy or really just happy to make it to the top so you can play on the downhills go for the pitch.

I would have thought the remedy is a pretty burly ride, what were you doing on it?

well think yourself lucky, i’m sitting in the office getting my head around a new RFP, and its nice and sunny outside :(

:lol: never noticed that :lol:

Tried it without chainguide and chain came off frequently over the bumpy stuff, its fine now though.

why did you decide to change or feel the need for both very similar bikes? Not that you need a reason when it comes to new bikes, just interested if there is a reason behind it.

i can’t see anything