And even better they are charging to park at Lake Louise now. Next up Johnston Canyon and Lake Minniwanka
The challenge with the Moraine lake will be when they start shuttles running as you want to be off mount Temple by about 2pm at the latest and ideally before Lunch
Don't get me wrong I love this weather but I am dreading Monday commute after the melt today and tomorrow creating a bunch of new ice, just memorized where all the ice is recently.
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Winter cycling comparison from Tom Babin here in Calgary and Pekka Tahkola in Oulu, Finland. Oulu is regarded as probably the best winter biking city in the world. Watch as Pekka scores each 10.5km ride to a hardware store in the +1, -2 style.
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I am sure I saw a post on social media about a mtn bike race in crowsnest. I recall reading the race had 30 and 60k options among others and the 60k option was two laps of the 30k which was made up of green and blue trails. I feel the race was in the crowsnest
I tried some googling and all I could find was the crowsnest100 which does not sound what I read about.
Anyone have any knowledge of such a race?
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I am sure I saw a post on social media about a mtn bike race in crowsnest. I recall reading the race had 30 and 60k options among others and the 60k option was two laps of the 30k which was made up of green and blue trails. I feel the race was in the crowsnest
I tried some googling and all I could find was the crowsnest100 which does not sound what I read about.
^ thanks wwkayaker - i looked at a brief description of the race on my phone last night and discounted it as being the one i read about; however, with the luxury of my regular PC and some time I dug a little deeper into the website and it would seem to be the race i read about.
i am sort of considering the 30k ride; however, that is traditionally when i take vacation and the wife was really hankering for a trip to vancouver island this year
as an aside, only one more week until registration for ride the range opens
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^ thanks wwkayaker - i looked at a brief description of the race on my phone last night and discounted it as being the one i read about; however, with the luxury of my regular PC and some time I dug a little deeper into the website and it would seem to be the race i read about.
i am sort of considering the 30k ride; however, that is traditionally when i take vacation and the wife was really hankering for a trip to vancouver island this year
as an aside, only one more week until registration for ride the range opens
So... 11 days till it's sold out
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Got to see a brand new bike-parking room at a downtown office building. Folks there all proud of themselves. Very nice (and pricey) gesture of goodwill. Fairly obvious to me they were sold something and didn't do their own consultation with "real" riders or all-season riders.
Issues:
- normal size entry/exit door to the room
- nice slick shiny floor... zero drainage
- entry/exit route goes through 4 normal size doors, and partially through a lobby. Makes for fun if you've got a mountain bike and panniers.
- No plans for a mat through above entry/exit route... should be fun with all that muddy water on marble-like flooring.
- hard steel upside-down-"U"-shape frames to lock ones bike to, all placed about 18" apart. That'll be fun playing bike-jenga getting bikes in/out, not to mention scratched. Bikes stay on their two wheels, instead of hanging by a wheel.
- no bike lock bar; no garbages
- single small change room, no drain, no hooks, no garbage bin.
The worst you can do is ask for changes and nothing happens. I say this because at one point in my career the company I worked for moved to a brand new building. The bike storage was terrible and they got lots of comments. They didn't fix everything but to their credit they actually put some effort into addressing the issues.
Got to see a brand new bike-parking room at a downtown office building. Folks there all proud of themselves. Very nice (and pricey) gesture of goodwill. Fairly obvious to me they were sold something and didn't do their own consultation with "real" riders or all-season riders.
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It was an effort at least. whaddaya do?
Give feedback if you can, but probably not worth losing your job over ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Give feedback if you can, but probably not worth losing your job over ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I provided pretty much this list (and a bit more) to the property manager in a better-phrased email and offered to have a conversation regarding these items. I’ve done this now at several buildings over the last 10+ years. Sometimes the ideas are adopted immediately as they are value and other times they fight the requests for years (and wonder why people leave their daily-use locks on the racks instead of taking to/from home each day).
Just another “great” example where the primary stakeholders aren’t invited to the table and instead some “design company” sells a bad idea for too much and has no consequences.
The last year or so the quality of cycling related magazines and online presence has really faded. Most recently so the CyclingTips. Excellent timing then finding this extensive article that reviews what’s happened in the cycling-reporting niche. Yeah it’s long, very long, but overall pretty solid. Enjoy… https://pezcyclingnews.com/features/...opportunities/
Got to see a brand new bike-parking room at a downtown office building. Folks there all proud of themselves. Very nice (and pricey) gesture of goodwill. Fairly obvious to me they were sold something and didn't do their own consultation with "real" riders or all-season riders.
Issues:
- normal size entry/exit door to the room
- nice slick shiny floor... zero drainage
- entry/exit route goes through 4 normal size doors, and partially through a lobby. Makes for fun if you've got a mountain bike and panniers.
- No plans for a mat through above entry/exit route... should be fun with all that muddy water on marble-like flooring.
- hard steel upside-down-"U"-shape frames to lock ones bike to, all placed about 18" apart. That'll be fun playing bike-jenga getting bikes in/out, not to mention scratched. Bikes stay on their two wheels, instead of hanging by a wheel.
- no bike lock bar; no garbages
- single small change room, no drain, no hooks, no garbage bin.
