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Having flashbacks of following the road scene in the 80's with the image with Sean Kelly. It has a couple of interesting hidden features. Right when Look clipless pedals had begun to creep into the road scene there were a couple of alternative takes. The R.M.O. rider in the background riding first gen. Look pedals but Adidas shoes who would later produce their own version of a clipless system.

And in a bit of unfortunate but I get the sentiment in phrasing of the description of the image. The Panasonic rider Robert Miller one of the great climbers in the day, on Kelly's right, now Phillipa York, great ride/interview here.

Pardon me for a bit of a tale but I am a Chris King fanboy for life.

I bought my first King hub in '99 at Mountain and Beach, Classic front. Followed it up with the rear in '99. At the time it was so easy to break down the hub with a couple of 5mm allen keys but I was dumbfounded as to how to service the driveshell bearings so I gave them a call (CK when they were still in Santa Barbara) They asked me first off what serial number I had and informed me that the Ringdrive was aluminum and that they would supply me with an upgraded steel version. They asked me where I lived and at the time they were pretty convinced that no-one in Vancouver had the tool and offered to lend it to me to do the service. When they told me how much it would cost to buy at the time I jumped on it. I still have the original printed service manual they sent with it but I have misplaced that original Ringdrive assembly but I do remember it was red. 

When disc brakes came around (2001?) I made another phone call. They were in Redding Cali. at that time. They offered me a good price on Universal Disc Hubshells and disc adaptors. I had the tool so it was a no brainer to convert. After cleaning and boiling the hell out of the original shells I turned them into salt and pepper shakers because they sold the base caps and shaker caps to cover the bearing holes as accessories.

Those original bearings had been in the Disc hubshells until 2014 when the ring drive side no longer needed the tool to extract it and would just fall out of the shell. I had already purchased a 20mm front Disc a few years previous but replaced the "wornout" rear with a new 135mm ISO. That old Unversal Disc Shell is now a chilli shaker because well... 

The next year my frame shits the bed and Boost was the only option. King had not yet produced their boost rear. The ISO hub was a bench warmer for over a year until they had developed new shells and axles. The 15yr+ bearings went into the "old" ISO hub and were sold to a very happy new to him owner and I have been running the Boost hub on the "old" ISO bearings for 4 years now.

King makes a ridiculously durable product and they follow that up with amazing product support. I can't see myself running anything but the Angry Bee in my lifetime.

Hillarious "Downfall" edit on Twitter regarding situtation

Thanks for bringing this to attention. The majority of the MTB trail users on Cypress are not aware of how fortunate we are to continue to use a network on which is essentially private property. Those very big signs in the middle of most of the high traffic trails really do mean something. More interactions of the same sort only portray us riders more negatively. Situational awareness and respect for other trail users is so important right now.

Was up in the lower Skull- Lower Dreamweaver area for a walk this afternoon and can say that its a slushy sloppy and slippery mess.

If you build it...

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... a fantastic new climbing route...

I will travel long distances for a riding area with a great climb. It's most of the reason Vedder is worthwhile.

Burns Lake is only a couple of hours west of PG; the Kager Lake system is awesome and Razorback is another great climb and not hard to make a 40k epic ride there with Pigasus and a few others. Camping right at the base of the trail system.

Central BC: The Hwy 97 corridor from 100 Mile to Prince George. There is at least 2-3 days worth of riding in Williams Lake area, a little gem of riding just north of W.L. at Xat'sull (Soda Creek) and new development in 100 Mile and Quesnel last year. Dragon mountain in Quesnel has a fantastic new climbing route and new flow trail in the Wonderland system too. PG has some solid riding too, Pidherny for more trail-enduro and Otway for fast flowy XC.

Burns Lake just keeps on adding to their amazing system. Looking to add the Star Lake trail to the Razorback- Pigasus and more loop I did a couple of years ago.

Naked Bikes on Quadra Island building up T47 BB frames.

Rideable to D'yer Make'r.  Off and on the bike to Mtn Hwy. Executioner/ Dreamweaver a laugh riot today. Caution is advised on anything below Baden Powell.