highlights of the soon to be passed year. [Archive] - North Shore Mountain Biking Forums

NooNer

12-21-2005, 11:17 AM

so whats your guys highlights from this past season?

for me:
first days at whistler in the 6" deep mud, riding goats gully and in deep.
4 days on van isle riding mt washington and forbidden plateau
new bike
1 week in gloden riding mt 7 and kicking horse
lots of local riding
pinnin it at whistler and feeling good at highspeed hitting jumps
so many days in squamish
a day in the woodlot
getting destroyed by wade at ping pong
decenbers kick ass weather
lots of new friends and people to ride with
i survived

and what are you looking for out of next season?

to do it all over again with more confidence skill and speed.

steve

hooli

12-21-2005, 11:50 AM

hitting drops and not crashing
watching you fall off the log on the neds nite ride(not really)
hitting the neds gap for the first, second ,third time(yahoo)
going faster

Silk

12-21-2005, 01:31 PM

Highlights of this year... wow

New daughter and one more on the way

This will complete the first year "give or take a few months" I have been on a mountain bike. I did not know what the NSMBA was or what North Shore riding was.

being able to put hundreds of hours on trail work on Fromme with some of the best builders is also a huge deal for me as well.

Learning through the NSMBA how the district works by going to almost every district meeting that had NSMBA issues on the table.

And riding... I was on Fromme at least 3 times a week this year and have not killed myself :)

Meeting a lot of new people this year and making some new friends thanks to Team Shuttlewhore!

Sure am glad I moved to Lynn Valley as my whole outlook on life has done a 180

aShogunNamedMarcus

12-21-2005, 01:53 PM

The gongshow known as the Crankworx weekend. Such fun :rocker:

Death Lens

12-21-2005, 01:55 PM

The gongshow known as the Crankworx weekend. Such fun :rocker:

my feelings exactly!

umbullit

12-21-2005, 03:56 PM

My first trips to whistler, and the shore.

Meeting some awesome board folk, and experincing hospitality unlike any other.

My new bike.

just riding, and continuing to be stoked on it.

parksvilleguy

12-21-2005, 04:13 PM

cypress for one day not enough
so we went again for another day
VPS FEST unforgettable....eryn....fireball....riding....pic tures
new fork though air sucks never again
my fav shop opens second store in nanaimo
lonely riding days on local trails
1 day on fromme ridin
1 day on fromme @ trail day in rain

Zedbra

12-21-2005, 04:22 PM

Team ShuttleWhore creation - at first I thought I was becoming a bad influence on the guys by drinking and riding. The Ripper confirmed I was.

Road trip with Rat to the Kootenays and chilling with trout. I'm glad I have met him, super cool guy/rider.

Also riding with Loopie in kamloops again - always a blast.

Looking forward to next season:

ripping Oasis in Rossland on a tandem with trout. If we survive, then doing it again at night.

Danny K

12-21-2005, 04:48 PM

whistler trip... unbeliveable as usual

stillgoing

12-21-2005, 05:29 PM

Silverstar with my two boys.
Sumas with 10 others I met because of NSMB.
Almost 100 rides on local mountains, including Seymour, Fromme, Burke, Woodlot, Vedder, Sumas, Ledgeview, Cypress (bikepark).
Finally finished the Ledgeviewmap enought to release it.
Did some trail work finally. (being a rock bitch qualifies, don't it?)

No major injuries!!

Downsides:
Became disconnected from a good riding bud.
After 3 years on this board, still haven't met Lady Gravity.

old_school_n00b

12-21-2005, 06:25 PM

Getting back on a bike for the first time since 1998.

That same project bike.

Resto-overhauling a vintage Raleigh roadster.

Velomutations.

The Little 100.

The Commercial Drive car-free festival.

8am weekend coffee/herb/skatepark cruises with my BMX buddies.

Nailing my first sprocket grind on my first try.

Achieving a 30% fakie/rollback success ratio.

Discovering the fine collective that is PedalPower/PedalPlay/OCB/etc.

The ghetto spot on the south shore of False Creek.

mattj

12-21-2005, 06:31 PM

I'm super-stoked about having been injury-free for 2005. 7 days per week riding from February to October, tonnes of personal progression and improvement, can't even count all the new trails (just moved here Oct 2004), rediscovering everything all over again in July when I got on my Demo 9.

But by far the biggest point is the injury-free thing. That one stokes me every time I think about it.

Looking forward to another amazing season of the same; lots of progression, lots of new trails, NO INJURIES IN 2006!

-m

Hip Hop!

12-21-2005, 06:55 PM

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y275/jsmithhh/frontangleank.jpg

BrianPark

12-21-2005, 07:09 PM

Discovering the fine collective that is PedalPower/PedalPlay/OCB/etc.
That IS a fine collective.

My highlites are uh, I'm pretty sure Riley McMaster highfived me....
My lowlights were breaking my shoulder blade, and smashing my hip.

Mr Ripper

12-21-2005, 07:13 PM

definatly moving to Kelowna

Riding Silverstar and Whislter

A trip to Cumberland

ahhh what a year.....

Dan CH

12-21-2005, 07:34 PM

riding almost everyday in the summer
being able to still walk
ridng Sun Peaks and kamloops for 2 weeks
Whistler
riding at home

Tom

12-21-2005, 07:43 PM

Being introduced to Vedder Mountain by some of the builders was a highlight for me...as well as being injury free (knock wood)

Next year I'm hoping to step my riding up a notch, and hoping to make my first MTB road trip

Rat

12-21-2005, 08:09 PM

slang

12-21-2005, 08:28 PM

Crankworx was a def. highlight, and the highlight of crankworx was darren's 360 over the road gap. i nearly died. the noise was incredible.

Red Bull Elevation was another highlight. seeing the best bmxers ride in real life after watching endless videos of them was so surreal. the highlight of elevation was having my pic taken with and meeting chris doyle (swoon). that and having 3/5 red bull girls choose to look at my camera when there was a media whorage of a thousand cameras around them. woot.

riding whistler for a few days was also another highlight. my fav times were doing solo sessions from the top of garbanzo to the village and talking to nature the entire time (not kidding. i scare myself sometimes). popping out of a berm in the dark woods to golden light glowing off the dust and trees and bushes is so amazing.

above all though, the best times of this year were spent shooting pics and riding with my buddies.

goal for next year:
ride more, shoot more.

ES-OH-ES

12-21-2005, 08:37 PM

There ain't no cure for the summertime blues. I can't wait till spring, In the past year, I enjoyed Crankworx, riding everyday while living in squamish. Trips up to whistler for extended play. The Curved wall in the bone yard, best thing whistler has built. GK Ripper was awesome as usual. Riding in Kamloops in the fall, I forgot how completely different it is compared to coastal riding. I would also like to acknowledge a trip I took to Osoyoos, which was awesome.

2bit

12-21-2005, 08:57 PM

Racing in Duncan and Parksville, that was great!

myster chron

12-21-2005, 11:04 PM

--- fuck i dont even know where to start---

i guess the begining- new bike in feb to replace the ratty old letoy
race season and the many a road trip--- oh theres a race there in 2 weeks? i guess that means this weekend we r going there to practice haha
shaums " norco buys the beer here" march, and the vps fest party's
getting 2nd place in the first anual port alberni fear factor dh
crankworx= rediculous... haha while everyone was watching the contest i got 4 runs down aline in what seemed like 15 minutes lol- also the 2 runs during the same weekend where i was tailgating cedric garcia down no joke and aline... i have never learnt so much in such a short period of time jsut by following sumone down the hill
the many days and nights spent in my own cloud of smoke pining it with my team mates+ friends
all the cool people i met along the way
enjoying to b riding my bike again- there was a time where i thought i was done with this 2 wheel foolery- boy was i wrong
- looking forward-
race season is gonna kick ass- i need a seasons pass to whisla!!when does my frame get back from warrenty? right i gotta send er in forst lol

Highrider

12-21-2005, 11:19 PM

I moved to North Van
Rode Fromme and Seymour for the first time
After first ride on Seymour I went out and bought a Brodie Diablo (first squishy)
Rode Whistler for the first time(the most fun I ever had on a bike)!

Next year's goals:
Ride other mountains
Aquire friends to show me other mountains!

KHansen

12-22-2005, 02:14 AM

I'm super-stoked about having been injury-free for 2005.

But by far the biggest point is the injury-free thing.

-m

haha didn't you blow up yer knee and need surgery on er? :shhh:

Carbuncle

12-22-2005, 11:14 AM

Dialing in some confidence, hitting Whistler and the Cypress Park, dropping my biggest hit yet and getting to see the Falls City, OR trails last weekend. Breaking the SGS and using that as an excuse to buy two bikes to replace it (and my wife actually going for it), NWD 6, buying body armor right before a crash that would have broken my shoulder without the armor. Good year, can't wait for '06!

Rampager

12-22-2005, 11:49 AM

Pros:
-Crankworx. No explanation needed.
-All those times at Mt Washington. Esepecially VPS fest. Too bad i cant remember much of it.
-All those riding days with the Duncan crew.
-Getting my new bike as a result of a wicked deal from my insurance
-The one single moment that i remember the best was right after i did the C-wall for the first time. It was the last day of a 3 day trip to Whistler and i had been eyeing it up the whole time, then once i finally decided to go for it, i stuck it perfectly! After a few more tries, I would X-up from big box to small box tranny, then almost air off the end of the C-wall. That was just unbelievable. Never going to forget it.

Cons:
-Shattering my kneecap, missing Whister and Washington open. TONS of recurring pains.
-Having my bike stolen.

synchro

12-22-2005, 12:06 PM

finishing the wall ride and hitting it up

MiKeY

12-22-2005, 03:01 PM

Highlights.
3 days in whistler with some great friends at the end of September.
Finally getting quarter pipe airs.
finally landing a 360
Riding nearly everyday in the summer.
Helping to build some new dirtjumps.
Working towards getting a dirt jump park built in this damned city.
Lots of good times at millenium.

cons.
Dislocating my shoulder for the first time ever over Easter and having it come out 5 times since.

This next season's looking good, put my down payment on a new bike for this season, going to be switching up the setup on my hardtail as well so that I have essentially two new bikes. Can't freaking wait.

thedude

12-22-2005, 03:47 PM

Getting on the podium at the Bear Mtn. DH.

Whistler - Last day up there covering 36,000 vertical feet in a day non stop from the opening of the lifts to the closing of the lifts.

Cypress bike park on the Hard Tail.

Early morning building with Tim and Rob.

TheGiggler

12-22-2005, 03:53 PM

way too many to count!

but mostly, just being in the forest with good people and having good times.

and of course the shuttle whore crew for always pushing the boundaries...

like Matt said, staying injury free is also a personal highlight for me. i injured myself more building on trails this year than riding on them ...

for next year most of my goals are actually trail building goals. sure i want to continue to ride lots, but there's a few pieces of trail work i'm dying to get on ...

Paul Powers

12-22-2005, 04:09 PM

Late Bloomer

12-22-2005, 04:42 PM

Highlights:
TONS of riding with alot of good people/awesome riders.
Getting more trailwork done, kind of "giving up" on trailwork only to see others pick up the torch and do some top-shelf work.
My new ride.
Acquiring some form of style which previously did not exist...I guess we can call that the continuance of my progression.
Taking some awesome photos of places/people I've ridden with.
Getting a job at a LBS (if you consider 10 mi/16k away LOCAL).
I still have a ride or two left this year, so I won't mention an injury-free-year...yet.:shhh:

Lowlights:
Riding 0 (zero, nil, zip, zilch, none, nada) days north of the border...or in Oregon, Idaho or Montana (Hi, Chris!!).
Not getting a contract (wait, I wasn't striving for one - would have been nice all the same).

All-in-all I have to say it was an awesome year. Very looking forward to '06 and what lies in waiting for me and everybody else!!!:D

Knight-Rider

12-22-2005, 04:55 PM

Ians Mountain bike wedding,Epic Kootney/Kamloops trip. the triple crown , 2AM Apres ride Korean bbq in the mushroom lot. Super shuttlwhorefest on the Sunshnine Coast, Droping into some wicked riding via Helicopter. Roasting hotdogs over the fire before dropping into Massage therepy. Theres more but those really stand out.

What he said plus a couple of late night build sessions. only one killer day at whistler. Hit my biggest drop this year, and generally rode well. a few minor scrapes and bangs, but injury free.Signed on to NSMB and met tons of good people. Too many to mention. You know who you are.

freerider guy

12-22-2005, 05:34 PM

Pros:
-New bike, gave me confidence and ability to push my boundries even more but in a cool way I never once this season felt out of control while riding my bike.
-Riding Freight Train which was wayyyyyy too much fun
-Crankworks and the three days of consecutive riding that I got to experience in Whistler on the mountain where I progressed and did so many new things while going bigger and faster than ever
-Riding with my buddie Kyle, I had so much fun riding with him and it seems like a progress sooo much when riding with him.

cons:
-not riding enough

Uncle Duke

12-22-2005, 05:34 PM

my hi lites were getting to know all the SSC locals. good bunch of riders and dudes..I think we almost have more builders than riders!

hitting the ski jump..hit it and you will understand.

also of course meeting the s.whores was damn good and the 5 laps we did that day here on the coast were too damn good. the s.whores are just good dudes.

narrowly avoiding death on the 5th horseman whilst rat chatted on his cellie and nose manualed all the chutes was also a hi-lite for me. my ribs are almost entirely painfree now and its only been what 4 months?

looking forward to 06!

freerider guy

12-22-2005, 07:19 PM

oh and meeting you steve, I've had fun riding with u and I need to get off my ass and do it more.

Knnn

12-23-2005, 12:01 AM

Sure am glad I moved to Lynn Valley as my whole outlook on life has done a 180

Ditto.

Just over a year ago I was riding a fully rigid, the highlight this year will be unwraping the full body armour that Santa is bringing me ....

How

12-23-2005, 08:19 AM

1)Doing a road trip from So Ca. to Whistler and back on Veg Oil in my super rig! Saved $1500 in fuel cost.
2) Started building some sick trails in my local mountains.
3) Meeting some great people on a bike.

dude that's sweet, one of my friends has a veggie car old skool mercedes and a biodiesel powerstroke ford, stoked to see some more people dedicated.

Hmm, well I had a lot of vicious wrecks this year and destroyed several bikes, but other than that it was pretty sweet.

1.) Sessioning the Shore... the first time I came up I couldn't do anything, now we come up and just start hitting up the biggest stunts as they come at us, fun fun.

2.) Whistler trip... did it for hell cheap and had a hoot of a time

3.) Learned a bunch of new tricks

4.) Got hella faster, getting comfortable on a maxed out bike up on Silver Mountain, and then almost hitting a full size bull moose, and a bear on the same run lol.

5.) Dinner table flatties off of anything that is a jump on the DH bike... my highlight of the year,

Can't wait for next year, it's on!

synchro

12-23-2005, 11:40 AM

raping rossco for a set of sherman sliders and hayes mags for 400 bones

Uncle Duke

12-23-2005, 11:43 AM

raping rossco for a set of sherman sliders and hayes mags for 400 bones

I recall that deal..that did seem unlubed.lol

the voyeur

12-23-2005, 12:29 PM

Highlilghts:
Cypress bike park
whistler twice
hitting neds gap for the first time
watching my riding buds hit neds gap for the first time
reinstating evening rides
riding neds in the snow at night and all of us in the group hitting the snake drop
discovering morning rides (life at 8am on a saturday - who knew)
somewhat injury free

Lows:
not riding enough
whistler only twice

kdechka

12-23-2005, 02:56 PM

Highlights:
2 trips to Whistler, The extended play in the summer was great.
Hitting Seymour and Cypress for the first time, the first chute on Wild Cherry is one of my alltime favourite lines, I still have to go to Fromme
Woodlot for the first time
Harper for the first time
Cleaning some of the stunts on Daisy Dukes

I can't wait for next year, there's still lots I have to cross off my list

_kyle_

12-23-2005, 03:00 PM

pros:
first full year of riding
learned alot
made alot of friends
learned alot towards filming and what not
early morning rides till late at night

cons:
didnt get up to whistler, or any mountain

C.C.

12-24-2005, 02:04 AM

Making full use of my season's pass at Whistler this summer.

Feeling comfortable in the air. Much attributed to riding with good buddies and hitting up the Schley camp.

Riding with minimal injury time.

Having the opportunity to ride and enjoying every single moment of it:)

2005-best riding season so far!

baloom

12-24-2005, 01:00 PM

Surviving the worst crash of my life

Walking

Riding again

Enjoying road rides and xc again for the first time in a while

My one and only ride at Whistler post-injury

Beginning to get a feel for the big bike again.

Battlecat

12-24-2005, 01:16 PM

Whistler, All the days I had up there this yera were so much fun.

I was also really stoked to learn no foot cans and get my whips they way they are.

hard_core_biker

12-24-2005, 04:13 PM

getting 8th overall in beginner mens DH on the island
getting 5th in beginner mens at fall brawl in p-ville
bc/alberta roadtrip in august:
-hit up cop for a day- got new shifter and rotor
-hit up whizzler for 2 days- got new grips and brake pads lol
-got home in time for the island cup DH final
-hit up Mt Washington once plus VPS fest and won a shirt:)
gettin some bike shit for x-mas-shall post my findings tomorrow

NooNer

12-24-2005, 05:10 PM

Late Bloomer

12-24-2005, 05:21 PM

HIBuLlitT

12-25-2005, 10:01 PM

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y275/jsmithhh/frontangleank.jpg
Happy I didn't do that ^^ THIS year
Glad I only broke ONE bone this year:hurt:
And of course WHISTLER!!!

slang

12-25-2005, 11:01 PM

wow, just reading the amount of times whistler pops up is amazing..

props to the whistler guys for giving everyone such a fucking awsome season!!

Stuminator

12-26-2005, 12:11 AM

Highlight for me was...finally hitting all 3 jumps on Ned's without any tappage. Next on the hit list is the power line drop after them.

freerider guy

12-26-2005, 11:36 AM

^^go slow and be prepared for a harder landing. The two things I wish I knew before I did that one, but mabe the first one affected the second.

Smoke

12-26-2005, 12:52 PM

Highlights.....

Hmmm....so many to choose from.

Jan. 7th deep pow at Valhalla Powder Cats.
4:20 in Williams Lake ( I have pics so I know I was there)
Seeing Germans with smiles on their faces
Watching the Jedi Council pour so much booze into Gulevich that he had to call his mommy to rescue him.
EAGLE RIDGE!!!!
helibiking with Team Shuttlewhore (I have someone's jersey i you're missing it)
singlespeeding the triple crown
POWERS CREEK!!!! especially with the Wade Tour. That Shenanigans Gap is the biggest thing I've done yet.
The whole Wade Tour. Damn that was fun. My liver will never fogive me, but I'm doing it again this year.
Taking a 67 year old down the hardest trail in the world, then swilling beers at the bottom.
Still finding seret trails on the Shore, and pissing off Ned about it.
Reviving the love of XC riding after all these years.

2006 is ging to be even better......my silver season is here.

heckler

12-26-2005, 01:09 PM

Finding new X-treeme trails on Seymour and Cypress.
Riding new more difficult trails on Fromme and cleaning most of them
Finally cleaning a couple gap jumps on the SSC
Starting an addiction to trail building
Having a wife that's more bike crazy than me
Riding Four Lost Souls with (behind) Smoke and Wade and doing my first ever wall ride
Skiing Baker Opening Day on November 8

NooNer

12-26-2005, 03:42 PM

http://bb.nsmb.com/showthread.php?t=70383

jedi

12-30-2005, 02:37 PM

spending 2 weeks of my life with smokie and barb for starters!
hitting my first road gap in rose hill and my first wall ride in powers creek.................god we have boring holidays ;O)

.Robinson

12-30-2005, 09:15 PM

umm lets see,whsitler with buddies,and just riding all year was sweet

ShoreIH

12-31-2005, 01:51 AM

Biking the KVR.
Good times at Whistler!
Getting to know Stacy Kohut, and have him do a presentation at my school.

spookymilk

12-31-2005, 08:16 PM

eating shit on the Rose Hill road gap.
riding with people from NSMB
Silverstar
cleaning all of Steam Shovel at Sun Peaks

Solar_mtb

01-02-2006, 06:31 AM

new bike : demo 9
riding in kicking horse and banff was all unforgettable
discovering kananaskis backcountry lines (four hours of climbing and pushing CAN be worth it!)
first trips to calgary and victoria this year, both cool places
boarding at sunshine and lake louise (nutty!)
snow droppin' (just lately) shovelled run in/outs for my two favourite drops in the snow... good times!
shaving seconds off my run times on local dh trails... getting faster!
here comes 2k6... could it be any better!?

eryn

01-02-2006, 10:19 AM

moving away from squamish :P
whistler
riding all around new zealand (omg talk about epic)
touring around new zealand with a secret service agent and a lawyer (that was fun times)
Edmonton with Sprinkles and water wrestling! (yay for 2nd place)
mt. washington (working, riding and living)
emerald_eyesbc - specailly vps fest and the adventure games
ripping my glute to sh*t (its still healing.. joy - o -joy)
any the best part... getting engaged!!! :)