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- Woo.
- He's gonna hit.
- Hi guys!
Woo!
- Perfect, that's the into done.
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We are back at it.
This time we're at Whistler bike park today
going to catch some daily driver bike checks.
And I know what you're thinking.
We were just here about a month ago, opening day,
grabbing some bike checks, but let's be honest.
Maybe some of those people were local. Maybe they weren't.
We don't know.
So I'm out here on a Thursday going to catch some people,
either skipping work,
maybe ditching out early to go for some laps,
going to catch some real hometown heroes hanging out at the
base today. So let's see what we can find rolling on by.
We got Tom here,
he rocked up with I'm going to go ahead and call it the most
custom bike at Whistler bike park.
This guy legitimately made this bike.
Can you tell us how you have a privilege of doing something
like that and your experience?
- Yeah, so I work at North Shore Billet
and the guys are kind enough to let me
use the machines after work.
So designed, manufactured,
everything down here in Whistler.
Welded, painted everything pretty much, yeah.
The only thing I didn't do was bend the tube because I
couldn't do that.
- Yeah.
Who bends tubes around here?
- There's someone in Vancouver.
- To the exact angle that you needed it?
- Yeah.
- That's pretty red. - Yup, all to my specs.
- Why don't you just run us through the bike.
Start to finish.
Tell us everything you want to tell us about it.
- It's a mallet, 63 and a half degree head angle, 200 front,
190 mil rear travel, uses normal standards like 73 mil
bottom bracket, 148 rear.
Just yeah most common stuff around.
It's all, all the bearings are all double
sealed on the pins and washers and everything, so.
- What are all the purple components you got there?
A lot of custom, little bits.
- Yeah all the hardware in the frame I made
and got that anodized.
- Wow.
- Yeah. So like everything on the frames all made.
The coil and the fork, I just spray painted at work.
The hubs, factor hubs, PDs valves, Nukeproof headset
bottom bracket.
And then all the pewter parts,
everything you see pewters or north shore billet.
- Oh, are theses the fresh pedals just came out?
- Yeah I've been riding it for like a year and a half.
- So what else can we talk about, Michelin tires?
You don't see a lot of Michelin tires around the bike park,
so.
- Yeah they're really nice.
I had the Enduros last year,
but the sidewalls weren't good enough, but these are mint.
Like I don't need to run Cushcore anymore, so.
- No need to run Cushcore.
Are you going downhill casing?
- Yeah its a full downhill.
- Yeah.
- Like wire bed.
- Thank you so much, Tom, for the time that was sick.
I'm glad I got to see it up close and personal.
- Yeah.
- Have some fun today. It looks like a session.
It's a session and Cass here is going to run us through his
custom trek session.
- I vinyl wrap this actually.
- This is for sure the sickest thing about the
whole bike in my humble opinion.
How did the vinyl wrap idea come around? Who designed it?
What's the story?
- Well I was I've I've I've always vinyl wrapped my bikes
and trying to come up with a new idea every time.
And I thought I should do something about my,
the music I've listened to the music that inspired me
throughout my life.
And so I just grabbed a bunch of images from Google,
slap them together and Photoshop sent it off into a car
vinyl print place.
- Sick.
And they gave me this like five by four piece of vinyl.
And so I had to chop it up into pieces
and wrap the whole bike.
- That is impressive.
You actually wrapped it up custom wrapped job.
What are some of your favorite music
items on there, bands, songs?
- Yeah, so many.
I love David Bowie. That was my first concert I went to.
So he got the spot here.
I've got some Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd.
Some classic rock like Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Dio.
Yeah.
- NWA
- Yeah NWA, some newer stuff too.
Like G-Eazy.
- Top gun that's impressive.
Yeah, that's a good,
that's a good soundtrack.
- Okay. I was like the movie?
What's the first lap of the day going to be?
- I Dunno. Hopefully a-line or joyride.
- Yeah. I can see the crew back there.
They definitely want an a-line and a joyride maybe.
- A-line, joyride to a-line somehow.
- Hike back up.
- Yeah.
- Perfect.
- It's a bike park, you can hike.
- So we've got Katie here.
She's actually the Whistler bike park lift supervisor.
So if any of you have ever been on this chair lift this
year, maybe anyway, you can like, thank this lady for that.
She's got a Commencal Clash here,
and she's just going to tell us a bit about it and what
makes this bike rad for you?
- Perfect so the Commencal Clash is an Enduro,
so you can take it on the trails,
but it's got a lot of suspension,
180 in the front and 165 in the rear,
which makes it the perfect in between bike for bike park and
the trails around Westlake.
- So since you've had it,
have you done any like upgrades to it or changed out some
parts?
- I've changed the brakes from Guide T's to code RS.
I've added Cushcores in it.
- Front and rear? You shredder.
- Front and rear.
Recently I broke my derailleur and my shifters.
So I upgraded those from an NX to a GX.
And then I also changed the tires.
I put an Assegai on the front and a mini NDHF on the
rear, just so I have a bit more grip when I'm climbing.
- I noticed Katie,
your brake levers are quite parallel to the ground.
Can you tell us how you chose that combination there?
- I like having my hands a little more out. I find it.
I can get in a little bit more of a athletic position to
have my elbows more bent with them out rather than having my
hands angled down.
So I like to have them just straight out in front of me.
- Yeah.
- Also this one has a little bit of a bent lever from when I
went face first into berms.
So now she's going to be a little more flat.
- I did notice I touched him earlier and that one's got a
little like wapow going on.
- Yeah its a little cattywampus.
- Okay, well we won't hold you any longer because
it's the morning this girl's got to go shred.
She's got a day off, so she's going to make the most of it.
But thank you so much for your time.
- Thank you, Christina.
- Have fun.
Joining us up next. We've got Leo here.
He's over from Bowen island today, which is pretty rad.
Got up, got the ferry early and here at Whistler bike park.
So what bike did you bring with you today, Leo?
Oh, this is my specialized stunt jumper from 2010.
- Awesome. And how long have you had it?
Five months maybe, five six months.
- Can you tell us about your bike, Leo?
Like, what's your favorite thing on it?
The carbon fiber frame.
- Yeah.
- That's pretty fancy.
- Yeah, it's really light.
I like my dropper post, I got that recently.
- Nice, that's a little upgrade for, you put that one in?
- Me and my dad. Yeah.
- Sick.
- And the derailleurs new too.
- Nice. Got the Sram XS5 derailleur. Good for peddling.
Good for everything.
And sick thank you so much for your time.
- Thank you for having me. - That's a rad bike.
- Thank you.
- No probs.
Joining us now. We've got Arthur.
He's the bigger brother to Leo who was on screen earlier and
he's got this super sick custom painted bike,
but it's got a lot of stories to tell.
So you better tell them, not me.
- So this is a, B1 Wood Bumble from about 2005
and originally it was gray.
And so I, with the help of my dad,
I took apart the whole bike, all the parts,
just down to the frame.
Then I sandblasted it and painted it with the blue,
went to like staples or something,
bought some metallic like gold stickers, hole punched
all of them, stuck them on.
- These are custom hold punched.
These did not come off of a sheet like that.
That's that's love.
So you were telling me this used to be your brother's bike,
but then he got the upgrade. And so now it's yours.
So other than the paint job,
like what have you done to kind of make it yours?
- Well, some of the upgrades, like I got a dropper post.
- Oh, that's sick.
- Fixed up the brakes, got new brakes.
- Nice. What kind of brakes are you running there?
This is the Shimano. And this is the other one is Code 5.
- That's what we like to see. Who needs matching breaks?
You know, like they're two working breaks.
He's going to go shred the park. He stoked.
All right Arthur, I think that's good.
We touched on the important things,
which are obviously the paint job and yeah.
It's your bros, you and your bros first day in
the bike park.
So I don't want to hold you up anymore.
We're going to let you go.
Kass, how long have you been riding the bike park?
- I've been riding the bike park for one and a half years.
- Sick.
- Yeah. I started out last year with, with my homeys.
Willy Nellys, she was one of them and yeah,
I've just been loving it, absolutely enjoying it.
- Did you pick this back up last year? This year?
- I picked it up last year.
There was a X demo from the year prior.
So I think that's 2018, 19.
- Yeah. It's that, that season.
Anyway, since you got the bike,
have you changed anything on it? Upgraded?
- I got a heavier spring put on it cause
I was buzzing out on my seat.
So yeah, I just put a 600 pound on there.
- And what's your, what's your favorite
run in the bike park with this little whip?
- Favorite run on the bike park with
this little whip is probably Seymour at the moment.
I'm absolutely loving it.
I've gotten to a point now where me and Demy are clearing
and all the jumps and I've started doing my
little tweaks and my little whoops.
So I'm just really working on that and hopefully trying to
get sideways by the end of the season.
- Um sick. I think, I think we're good here.
That was about the excitement that we needed.
So thank you.
We got some more radical ladies joining us on set here today
at the bike park.
Sarah's up and she's swapped with Kass.
Kass is now the emotional support and physical support,
but this bike, this is about as classic as it gets
for a bike park.
This is you can't really tell it's a V10,
but why don't you run us through the rest?
- So this is my baby.
I just got her this season off a really good friend who held
it for me over winter. So super stoked about that.
So she's a Santa Cruz V 10 wrapped in oil slick rapper,
I guess we've got a single speed chain on her with the chain
stay, which is perfect for always like keeping speed.
I'm never like jumping down gears or like having to jump up
gears. I'm always exactly where I want to be, air shock.
My baby Fox Forties on the front.
I could not do anything without these.
Love them. Then I've got Saint breaks with matching,
Saint cranks as well.
And obviously my amazing boyfriend gave me the matching.
One Up pedals are to the, to the frame.
- Big ups to the boyfriend.
Where is he today?
- Where is he today? He's injured.
The poor thing. He, so he's out.
- Someone's got a shred.
- Favorite. Well, we, my favorite thing is my mallet.
I got at 26 wheel and I put a 27.5 on the front run a 26 on
the back. So I can still whip around them corners, sick.
- Whipping around corners of what's your favorite trail
at the bike park.
- My favorite trail, my favorite warmup
trail I love Oriental Express all the way down.
We just did it then so fast.
And I love a train Seymour to a heart of darkness with all
the girls.
That's probably the most stoke that we can all get together.
- And so you got this bike.
It was obviously like pretty sick and pimped out.
But have you changed anything on it, Sarah?
- I have, yes. So I've changed my wheels.
I, like I said, I bought it with 26.
I trucked a 27.5 on the front.
I ran my last billet, had a track session.
That was a mallet as well. I've put on the new pedals.
I've done new grips. I love a big chunky handle grip.
And also my Willie and Ollie's cap at the top.
They're my little additions to my little black.
- This is a sick custom bike for a sick Whistler girl.
What kind of tires are you running in the bike park?
- I have the, Assegai, a saggy, a sag, you know,
you know what I'm trying to say, a sag Polonaise.
That's what I'm running on my front and I'm running a Minion
on my back, but this, she, this baby is brand new.
So there's like great for days on this one grip for days.
- Extra grip.
- Yeah.
All right. Thanks babes.
- Awesome thank you.
- Yet another reason I just love Whistler.
The vibes are always high here. And as far as bikes go,
people just rock what they got. I mean,
who needs the latest ingredients, carbon fiber,
and a derailleur. When you can just hop on the chairlift.
Cause it's all downhill from there.
My favorite bike of the day is definitely got to go to those
bow and boys that blue bike that the younger brother
actually gifted to the older brother that they then put gold
stickers on. I mean, come on.
Like I just took my heart right there.
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