Whistler Day 19

Alan styling it up, originally uploaded by kendyck1.

Picture = Alan styling it up
Thursday July 31
Bear Sightings = 0
Replacement parts = 4 (Forks, brakes x 2, pedals- James)
Kms= 0 on Thursday
Rain= lots and lots 

Thursday started dry and we watched the guys at the dirt jumps – Alan impressed everyone with his bag of trips. Spike on the other hand took a face plant and broke his nose- but I did nor get that one on camera.

My bike was at Fanatykco where I had a chain device fitted and James had a good upgrade shop- some new Marzocchi 888s, Avid Code brakes and 5050 pedals- so we spent ages just rebuilding his bike outside the shop then it started to rain.

Unfortunately it rained a lot and instead of riding we went climbing at the Core climbing wall. It’s a good little set of walls, a bit short but plenty of variety and I was very rusty having not climbed for ages indoors. There were also 4 self belays so after we had belayed each other for a while and James went to do some horizontal bouldering I tried the self belay. It was rather disconcerying just letting go and hoiping it would slowly lower me but it did nindeeed do that and after a while that was fun in itself! We ended up doing loads of self belay til our forearms were starting to ache.

We wanted to keep fresh for riding tomorrow so called it a day.

Tom was playing pool at Longhorns and getting lightheaded and we joined him at Merlins later and had a bit of a night out but never caught him up in the inebriation stakes! James ordered pizza delivery at midnight and fell asleep before it came!