An now ......THE STEP UP

Published: 2010-12-29
Author: Dobie

After numerous trips to the infamous Santa Cruz step-up, Graham, Ja'mie, Ben and I have kept our eyes pealed for zones to build a trick step-up in our backyard.

After some serious hours of landscaping and carpentry, this is the end product...

The lip

Dobie manicuring the lip

The take off and back-side of landing

The one problem with our zone was that the run in tended to flood in the wet season. We installed a 40 ft boardwalk to lead us into the lip.

The landing

The landing

Oh Baby!

Right as we finished building the lip, winter came. We got one solid session in and decided that it needed a few modifications and time to let the lip set. We are going to wait till the spring to fix up the run in and then she should be prime.

Do you recognize this from a recent Pinkbike video? Check out Jordie Lunn and his hombre's have a go at it in non-ideal conditions.

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/174163/

Cheers,

Dobie

-Photo Cred: K. Price

Dan likes wagons, he also loves horses. So its very fitting that this blog be titled: "The Horseless Wagon"

Published: 2011-01-02
Author: Dan Gronross




After the first time I rode a 29er back in Alaska many moons ago I have been trying get my hands on one to have a rip on the trails of the Pacific Northwest. Love em or hate em, 29er's are have earned their place in the mountain bike world and a place in my heart.

Seb Kemp, worldly traveling mountain bike dirt bag lent his quiver of bikes to friends while he globe trotted for the winter months. I guess the thought of not being able to ride in his quasi-hometown of Whistler was enough to make him head over to the sunny locations in Europe for the cold months.

Seb's Santa Cruz Tallboy 29er was left to Todd Hellinga, but it is winter here and Todd seldom rides when the snow is flying on the mountains. So it landed on my lap.

The Tallboy has seen the Shore, well a few laps of Fromme, and as of today a lap of the frozen tundra of Half Nelson, followed up with a nice helping of "Your Mom" in Squamish with Miranda Miller.

Hate me if you will, I feel a ground swell of love for the 29er. But more on that later.

Cheers!

Dan

Everytime Dan Speaks, somewhere in the world, a small puppy is born

New Year's Day Ride

Published: 2011-01-01
Author: Dan Gronross



Due to the fact that I am on some serious antibiotics I was warned to stay away from some notable things, booze being the major one.

So my girl and I decided that the best way to ring in the New Year was hike as far as we could up Whistler for the date change. We left Todd's house in Bayshores around 10 and hiked up the ski-out to just shy of the top of the Creekside Gondola.

We rung in the New Year and then headed back down arriving back at Todd's house just after 1:15 am. It was right back to the cabin and to bed.

New Year's Day was spent on bikes heading into the village to grab some items for dinner and to replenish some of the stuff we used up.

Now we are chillin in the cabin, waiting for someone to make dinner... anyone?

Happy New Year Everyone!

Dan

Justin in tight Jeans, berms explodding, Ben being rad, and did I mention Justin in tight jeans??

Published: 2010-12-14
Author: BenP

Went for a ride with Justin today, he recently came home from Victoria for the holidays and dusted off his old Iron Horse Sunday for some dh action. We hit up the local corners for a bit and then went to the skatepark for a quick shred. To finish the day off we duck taped some lights to our heads and bikes and hit the drift track Dobie, Rob, Adam, and Kevin for some rowdy madness!

Heres a lil lyrical hot fire being spit at ya from the big Man : Cam Porteous

Published: 2010-12-10
Author: Cameron Porteous

Took a well deserved break from studying for final exams for the winter term and went out to the newly refurbished UBC dirt jumps with Pat, Joe, and Aaron. The jumps were a bit wet but after a few minutes of touching them up before and after the session they were hittable and lots of fun.









Big thanks to Joe Sales for coming out to take pictures and to all the people involved in building and maintaining the jumps out there (Joey and others).

Check out the Dunbar Boys shredding some DJ's

Published: 2010-12-05
Author: BenP

UBC dirt jumps Dec. 4th from George Porteous on Vimeo.

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Schaweet Decal

Published: 2010-12-03
Author: BenP

Drew the wordsmith is about to drop some deep thoughts on you

So its snowing! I have not ridden a bike in 1 week. The only thing keeping me stoked is what's happening for the Dunbar race team next year, we are going to be unvaling this soon check back soon to find out what's happening...

Drew Spotting the 2011 Team Canada Champs Skin suit.