07-30-2017, 08:50 PM
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#5481
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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I haven't done a real mountain bike ride in so long, I don't know if I'll still have the skill to do one. I'll have to get my old 26" bike ride ready and get my ass out there.
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07-31-2017, 07:47 AM
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#5482
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Foxy Climb is all paved up as of Friday afternoon, the paving crew was still there on Friday so I didn't cruise down it. Took it coming to work today, got to love that fresh asphalt over the old frost heaved path!
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07-31-2017, 07:48 AM
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#5483
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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They finally finished the path under McKnight for Nose Creek late last week. At least one of the crappy detours is finished.
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07-31-2017, 08:38 AM
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#5484
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Behind enemy lines!
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Did the Legacy Trail on Saturday. Pretty nice ride into Banff for lunch, then back. It's noticeably easier on the way back from Banff to Canmore.
Bear signs all around the path around the Banff East Park gates. Bear 148 must be roaming around...
Note that the parking lot at the Canmore Visitor Information Centre is pretty small for such a popular trail. It was full by 10am and people were already circling. We pretty much got the last spot. I'm sure there is other parking elsewhere though.
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07-31-2017, 08:45 AM
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#5485
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dubc80
Did the Legacy Trail on Saturday. Pretty nice ride into Banff for lunch, then back. It's noticeably easier on the way back from Banff to Canmore.
Bear signs all around the path around the Banff East Park gates. Bear 148 must be roaming around...
Note that the parking lot at the Canmore Visitor Information Centre is pretty small for such a popular trail. It was full by 10am and people were already circling. We pretty much got the last spot. I'm sure there is other parking elsewhere though.
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The bear has been mostly hanging out by the golf course across the tracks, but I guess wanders over to the trail occasionally. It is almost always easier coming back due to the prevailing wind direction, it's usually more noticeable in the afternoon as that is when the wind picks up.
For parking, you can go into town and park at the rec centre/curling rink/golf course. Ideally one day they will have a crossing at the tracks, as it is just across from the info centre. As a kid we used to cut across there all the time, but CP put up fences a few years ago. So for now you have to go back to the crossing by BP's.
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07-31-2017, 10:34 AM
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#5486
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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We need to upgrade my daughter's bike in the next couple weeks before she starts Pedalheads camp at the end of the month. She's 5 1/2 and is quite tall, she's outgrown her 16" Spawn bike and we were thinking of going up to a 20". We want a good bike for her again (she loved the Spawn bike) - something that is lightweight, cable brakes, etc. One of my husband's friends (who is an avid cyclist) got their daughter a Trek Superfly - does anyone else have other suggestions for us to look at?
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07-31-2017, 10:43 AM
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#5487
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by dubc80
Bear signs all around the path around the Banff East Park gates. Bear 148 must be roaming around....
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totally unrelated to biking, but I hope the day does not come where the CO's decide bear 148 has to be put down
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07-31-2017, 10:45 AM
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#5488
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Wasn't Bear 148 the one that chased that cyclist on highway 93 going up the hill towards Radium about a week or so ago?
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07-31-2017, 10:48 AM
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#5489
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Franchise Player
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Nope, that looked like a much smaller one. 148 has been relocated before, but not that far from Canmore, I don't think.
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07-31-2017, 11:14 AM
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#5490
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by tete
We need to upgrade my daughter's bike in the next couple weeks before she starts Pedalheads camp at the end of the month. She's 5 1/2 and is quite tall, she's outgrown her 16" Spawn bike and we were thinking of going up to a 20". We want a good bike for her again (she loved the Spawn bike) - something that is lightweight, cable brakes, etc. One of my husband's friends (who is an avid cyclist) got their daughter a Trek Superfly - does anyone else have other suggestions for us to look at?
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Take a look at Frog bikes, a guy in Canmore does the distribution for them. They get rid of all the unecessary weight like suspension have have a really paired down frame as well. Really nice bikes.
Most of the brand name bikes are all pretty heavy relative to the Spawn and Frog.
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07-31-2017, 11:17 AM
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#5491
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Just stay away from dept store bikes with ####ty, heavy unneeded suspension systems.
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07-31-2017, 11:35 AM
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#5492
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by habernac
Just stay away from dept store bikes with ####ty, heavy unneeded suspension systems.
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Does that include MEC bikes? I haven't looked at their bikes in too much detail.
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07-31-2017, 11:41 AM
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#5493
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Northendzone
totally unrelated to biking, but I hope the day does not come where the CO's decide bear 148 has to be put down
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Relocated Bear 148 again:
http://www.rmoutlook.com/article/Bea...again-20170731
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07-31-2017, 11:42 AM
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#5494
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Somebody at work was mentioning getting steel belted tire for their bike. I tried to google them and can't find any. Was he making them up? Or are they just that hard to find?
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07-31-2017, 11:44 AM
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#5495
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If it was relocated Friday, why was the Legacy trail covered in warning signs all weekend?
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07-31-2017, 11:49 AM
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#5496
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ken0042
Somebody at work was mentioning getting steel belted tire for their bike. I tried to google them and can't find any. Was he making them up? Or are they just that hard to find?
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Steel bead maybe? Or a motorbike...
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07-31-2017, 12:21 PM
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#5497
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ken0042
Somebody at work was mentioning getting steel belted tire for their bike. I tried to google them and can't find any. Was he making them up? Or are they just that hard to find?
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I know wire bead vs kevlar bead, that's kind of the bike version of steel belted
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07-31-2017, 05:57 PM
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#5499
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^ I want to do this loop; however, you would sure want to pick the right as it would be painful to be stuck on the far side of the city during a classic Calgary thunder and wind storm
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08-01-2017, 07:47 AM
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#5500
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tete
Does that include MEC bikes? I haven't looked at their bikes in too much detail.
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MECs are probably half decent.
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