C L A I M

[mattj]

I'm gonna do three (3) full (from above the 6th to below the BP) Fromme laps tomorrow.

Place your bets!


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[kperras]

Pffff...that's it? ;)

[connor]

that's waaay less than the triple crown.. Shit we even tried to find JetBoy..

[SammyJ]

What are we betting on?

How many liters of sweat you can wring out of your shorts?

Doing a little epic of my own tomorrow, over on an unshuttleable west van trail...

PS: Doing epic rides is harder when you have a 3 week old baby at home.

[mattj]

Any doubters, haters, fans, hecklers, etc welcome to join any or all of the laps btw...


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[SIDESHOW]

this should be under ride planning.

[kperras]

Any doubters, haters, fans, hecklers, etc welcome to join any or all of the laps btw...


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If only I lived in Van

[Stuminator]

See you at the 7th trailhead!

[freerider guy]

Big bike or little bike?

[mattj]

Big bike


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[enduramil]

PS: Doing epic rides is harder when you have a 3 week old baby at home.


Memo: To new Dad.

Puleeze Harden The Fuck Up

From a Dad

[Chef]

My friend who hasn't ridden in over 15 years rented a dh bike today and did a 7th- leopard- crinkum and then back up to pipeline and out the baden. I say you had better do at least 3 or it might be a little embarassing there mr. bike shop owner!!!

... waits for retaliation...

[theweev]

Memo: To new Dad.

Puleeze Harden The Fuck Up

From a Dad

+1
;)

[Wayne P]

PS: Doing epic rides is harder when you have a 3 week old baby at home.

One kid? How do you cope?

[dawnchairy]

Doing epic rides aren't so easy when it's 10PM and you're just about to go out drinking. We all have our crosses to bear here.

[big ben]

One kid? How do you cope?

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Wayne P again."

[truvativ21]

Big bike


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Go big or go home! :rocker:

[enduramil]

One kid? How do you cope?

Prozac?

[mattj]

If one constantly derails threads, does that make him/her a derailleur? Just asking...

About to leave for the ride! Wahoo this should help get me caught up for the 2 weeks of no riding...


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[synchro]

this should be under ride planning.


http://www3.telus.net/marks_stuff/failsdfg.jpg

[Mike.T]

I was pedalling up Fromme this morning and there was a guy between the 5th and 6th coming down on a road bike.:|

[synchro]

I was pedalling up Fromme this morning and there was a guy between the 5th and 6th coming down on a road bike.:|

so that's what mattj meant by "big bike"

tsk tsk

[Stuminator]

Ya, & what was up with that big, pot-bellied, grouchy guy walking down? With his size, I doubt he walked up.

[mattj]

Cool. Well it went. Late start and a long first lap almost messed up my plan but I'm sitting happy on the couch right now after my biggest Fromme day ever.

The point of this thread was basically to motivate myself to actually do this much vert. I've tried before and just not done it because I didn't feel like it. Today, after the second, I certainly didn't go up with much enthusiasm for the third but because I claimed it here I felt driven to complete my goal. Thanks NSMB!

Stats:

start: 11:15 am, first climb to UOC - over 2 hours (ouch! Damn you unfit cheeseburger-eaters!!), rode UOC, Air Supply x 2, Pipeline, BP, some unnamed old-school trail that feeds into the crater drop. Finish was 2 pm for this lap.

second lap: start at 2ish, climb up to B******, rode B******, Ladies, Lower Ladies. Back at the water tower by 3:15. Hung out for almost half an hour.

third lap: start from water tower at 3:45ish, climbed to 7th switchback in an hour and 10 minutes, rode 7th, Leopard, Krickem Crankem, Cedar, Roadside Attraction, Natural High, Lower Griffen. Back at home by 5:20.

Awesome day! Great to see SO MANY people on Fromme. Usually you can pull an entire day up there and only see like 1 or 2 other riders...

Thanks again for the motivation NSMB! I think I'll go for the quad in September...


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[FullMonty]

make sure you eat your wheaties...

[connor]

I like how you guys were team NSBS/Spectrum Techwear..

Dude Bookwus is on the map.. :rolleyes: it is pretty fun though..

[Sketchy Flanders]

I saw 3 guys standing around some bikes, and smoking, at the spot where the Baden Powell dumps out onto Old Mountain Highway. One of them looked wasted. Was that your support team?

[PT-Colin]

Nice to see you so stoked Matt!

I just had the most epic day of Kiting down here in the Gorge...big down winder in the sunshine....yeehaa!

[SammyJ]

Sounds like a good ride mattj.

Did my own little epic today and feels good to get back on the bike for more than a single fromme lap. First time I got out for more than that since the baby was born.

Speaking of that, I guess you other dad's didn't take any time off when your first kids came along? Good for you!

[freerider guy]

nice stuff. that is a fair amount of climbing. I did one lap this morning of oilcan (nice recent work, thanks trail knomes) then to lower crippler. A quick reload and off to whis to close out the day in the park. I have only managed to get 3 days up whis so far this year (its sad with a seasons especially) and i have ridden each day on a different bike.

[J0SH]

Do you live just at the end of natural high? Every time I ride NH and start to climb up again I see a "North Shore Bike Shop" truck and think, "is that where Matt lives?"

But that does not beat my Fromme climbing. Rode from my house (Lonsdale) to the bottom of Fromme and then up to grouse (to the chalet) and then back down, then down Upper Oilcan, Oilcan, and then down DB trail. And all without a back brake and without being able to see (didn't have my contacts in)! One of the most painful rides ever :P

[SammyJ]

Do you live just at the end of natural high? Every time I ride NH and start to climb up again I see a "North Shore Bike Shop" truck and think, "is that where Matt lives?"

But that does not beat my Fromme climbing. Rode from my house (Lonsdale) to the bottom of Fromme and then up to grouse (to the chalet) and then back down, then down Upper Oilcan, Oilcan, and then down DB trail. And all without a back brake and without being able to see (didn't have my contacts in)! One of the most painful rides ever :P

Holy cow, what happened to your contacts, and back brake?

[J0SH]

Holy cow, what happened to your contacts, and back brake?

I just forgot to put my contacts in in and only realized at the 5th switchback. And my brake was fine when I first went out, but fluid cam out of a kink in the pipe so the caliper wouldn't even move. But I had climbed that high, so I was not just going to go home.

[Jerry-Rig]

nice work Matt.... we were doing 2 laps of GMG last year in just over 3 hrs with a Bobsled to end it off with. 3 would be nuts.

[Wayne P]

Speaking of that, I guess you other dad's didn't take any time off when your first kids came along? Good for you!

We know what you mean, just givin' you a little rib shot. ;) I took time off and it eventually lead to me doing this full time. When my first was born, I rode a lot because my wife wanted me out of the house. haha... No epics, just lots of short rides, for no more than an hour or so.

[SammyJ]

We know what you mean, just givin' you a little rib shot. ;) I took time off and it eventually lead to me doing this full time. When my first was born, I rode a lot because my wife wanted me out of the house. haha... No epics, just lots of short rides, for no more than an hour or so.

All in good fun. I think my wife would like to boot me for an hour or two sometimes as well. Maybe I will tell her you guys suggested it...

[enduramil]

We know what you mean, just givin' you a little rib shot. ;) I took time off and it eventually lead to me doing this full time. When my first was born, I rode a lot because my wife wanted me out of the house. haha... No epics, just lots of short rides, for no more than an hour or so.

Plus it helps control those homicidal urges towards the in laws.

[brian]

i thought this was going to be about the new matchstick ski flick.

http://www.mspfilms.com/theatre/

[mattj]

I definitely borrowed their title for the thread...

Anything for more views, ya know?

The greatest thread this year.... uhhh EVER!


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[mattj]

Oh and Josh yeah I live just at the end of that driveway where you see the truck. That giant monstrosity of a vehicle is nowhere near a daily driver, more like a monthly driver, so it sits around a lot! In autumn it's gonna be all covered in leaves and look like one of the abandoned vehicles in I Am Legend... Don't steal my rack you bums!


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[J0SH]

Oh and Josh yeah I live just at the end of that driveway where you see the truck. That giant monstrosity of a vehicle is nowhere near a daily driver, more like a monthly driver, so it sits around a lot! In autumn it's gonna be all covered in leaves and look like one of the abandoned vehicles in I Am Legend... Don't steal my rack you bums!


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Haha. I saw it out a week or 2 ago, but thats it. I like stickers :P

[heckler]

here's a better C L A I M for Matt and North Shore Bike Shop...

http://www.nsmba.bc.ca/images/stories/traildays/traildayposter_08_24_08.jpg

[wizardB]

One kid? How do you cope?Duct Tape!!

[heckler's better 1/2]

Duct Tape!!


I hear that's what you wife uses on you.

[wizardB]

I hear that's what you wife uses on you.Yeah but only on my mouth

[FlipFantasia]

I hear you were doing practice laps for garbo dh the other day....add another one to my list of nemisi......masters = battle royale, although my money's on smokie if he doesn't have any mechanicals.....

[mattj]

I'm 19-29 old man. But we can still compare times... I thought there weren't categories - just open men...


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[FlipFantasia]

I'm 19-29 old man. But we can still compare times... I thought there weren't categories - just open men...


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I thought you were younger, but someone told me you were olde man too.... :) I still have way to many old guys to worry about though!

[biggles604]

After a week of bike park riding, I'm due for another epic. The last was Wade's Excellent adventure (LOC, BP... 7th, crinkum... Bobsled NH, Expresso, BP... and a lap of NH, Griffin to finish). Climbing is fun.