For the
North Shore Bike Fest,
Endless Biking provided guided rides (with the assistance of
NSRide) through out the weekend.
Endless Biking (or EB/Endless) is basically a full-service company for mountain-biking trail riding offering "Camps: Clinics, Rentals, Training: Tours". Many first time visitors to the Shore don't know their way around the trails, don't have the time to really explore, are unfamiliar with riding in hyper-technical terrain, want to improve their skills or perhaps, a combination of all of the above. EB fills the niche of catering to people who might have those needs. Endless' two owners (Darren & Kelli) are also very community minded and leapt at the chance of having a presence at the North Shore Bike Fest - volunteering to put in the pump track and to hold guided rides.
Here are some highlights from those guided rides last weekend,
NSRide is the largest riding club in the Lower Mainland. Catering to all ages, they hold guided group rides for members on a weekly basis - basically a good way to get a flavour for trails. They helped a lot by providing guides for the group guided rides.
I tagged along on an "all-mountain" ride on Fromme and filmed/photoed the group on the Pipeline trail (thanks to G & S for all your hard work building), then Dempsey/Braemar. I was to go on a "DH" ride on Seymour, but a torrential downpour overcame my willingness; perhaps that'll be a later PB article.
Here are some more pictures of general North Shore Bike Fest activities (apologies to those exhibitors I missed from the earlier article):
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| Kelli of Endless, Danielle taking care of registration, Shannon photo-bombing |
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| Darren of Endless - when he wasn't working his tail off on the pump track |
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| From L to R in front of the NSRide booth - Brian, Bonnie (at rear), Bill, ??, Shirley |
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| Scott |
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| Marin |
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| James & Lauchlan with some quality time |
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First - here's a video from the ride that day:
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| Gwen loaded bikes for the drive to the trailhead at Fromme, guided and helped film. It's not all play working with Endless |
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| Fromme trailhead familiarization talk |
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| Pipeline to start the ride |
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| Shawn from Whistler was one of the guests on the ride |
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| Jason from Calgary on one of the EB demo Rocky bikes (Rocky Altitude) |
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| Kelli |
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| Gwen |
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| If you've never ridden rock roller coasters before ... |
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| ... don't grab too much front brake! (EB also provides coaching and guides have first-responder medical training) |
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| Pipeline has good variety - some flow |
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| Some rocks |
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| Some lush green |
