A little bit of irony in this ad for some new Hayes hydraulic levers spotted on NSMB. Looks like they've added an adjustment to the master cylinder to tweak brake action and modulation. I am more interested in brakes that do slow me down, however.



So if it wasn't obvious enough from my flickr page, I've been spending the majority of my two-wheeled time on the North Shore, attempting to conquer super technical trails on my Kona Chute hardtail and shooting a ton of photos. Here are some of my recent favourites (click for big!):

Jumped this massive stepdown gap on Cypress last week... that was a rush.



Our new riding buddy Roger likes to jump things too, like this log ride to dorp on Mt. Seymour.



Lyle is now loggin' miles on the freshly built Kona Unit single speeder.



We finally made our way to some of the lesser-traveled trails on the west side of Fromme, where Jodi hit this sketchy line.



The successful riding of the heron swamp section on our current favourite trail, Ladies Only, is a big highlight.



We miss our good bud Khaled, whose steezy jumps such as on Squamish's Half Nelson are now being forced on unsuspecting Europeans.



He did refer me to fellow forest lover, Ghostrider, who likes to take it easy down the hill - just the way I like it.



And even silent ProjB Brandon has been found back on a mountain bike, taking it to the Extreme on Burnaby Mountain.



Finally, while last week we threatened to kick Nick out of ProjB for parting out his dream bike, he is making huge progression on his BMX and has been given another chance. We spent the afternoon at Confed with a hipster briefcase and a picnic that the neighbourhood ants just loved. My camera battery had just died, but I will confirm that Nick got above coping on the mini bowl more than once. In lieu of that, check out this radical stunt by way of Alan.

Just saw this from Aran Cook @ Naked bikes. So hilarious. So rad to see that he lives in a van on the property! I want to bike back up there at the end of the summer.

Nakedbikes - Bike To Work Weak from aran cook on Vimeo.

Also.. check this mad max'd out rig:

Argh. Some massive OTB to falt yesterday afternoon has left me with bruised ribs, destroyed traps, and a splitting headache. That being said I'm listening to Kraftwerk, eating T3z, and attempting to record this in some useable format while enjoying the last day of my 3 day weekend. Timestretching is not a crime.

Last night I gave a talk at Vanhackspace and was completely out of it. I think I rambled on for possibly up to 20 minutes covering Tires, bearings, brakes, drivetrain, cable systems, and bike fit. Pretty sure the nerds were into it.

This guy named Aki made a sweet VR google maps java mashup to trainer bike in his garage. I was stoked to check out the glasses. He's tweaking the ping rate to the gmap server to make it look more fluid as well.

There was also a fellow electronic/fabrication guy showing off his 1100W electric tadpole trike. Full custom motor controller. Thing was sick. Looked stupid fast.


Also presenting was the guy who does Critical Mass radio. Its hard to describe, but he had an electric modded Kona, with a crazy custom class AB Op amplifier that ran off the 48V that the hub takes as well. The thing BOOMed... apparently he's just over CRTC wattage regulations with the transmitter as well. I <3 stereo bikes. The ride home at 11:30 was tough.

Related: bike fetish day just happened in Brooklyn last weekend, and the dirty jerz got some shots of something that just completely does it for my shaved ice bike stereo fetish.



OMG. look at that thing. Monitors in the side, leaf springs and all. daaaaang.
I want to roll that thing bumping sick wolf beats:


ugh. dizzy. There was other stuff I wanted to blog about. but its like a broke jpeg in here.

I got interviewed for the evening news yesterday after meeting a reporter on the commute in to work. Here's the video.