Well, here I am back at home in Melbourne, Australia.  I almost completely forgot to write this post which is why it's been so long since the time I got back and the time I'm posting this entry.  I'm sure you'll survive though.  :) &n...

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Well, here I am sitting, once again, in the Re-LAX lounge at LAX in Los Angeles.  This time I've got 2 hours to kill and what better way than to do some online rambling.  You know what's coming next ... today's MTB term!   Punter - a...

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It sucks to have to say that this trip is now pretty much over.  :(  However, I can't let that get me down so here's today's MTB slang term - you're all getting pretty good at this by now.   Owned - A term used when someone crashes ...

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Education time!  Today's MTB slang term is ...   Pinned/to have it pinned - A term borrowed from motocross, meaning to have the throttle pinned, or held all the way open.  Used in mountain biking to descibe people riding really hard,...

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So, are y'all learning heaps about MTB terms?  Ok, that's good.  Here's today's one then.   Case/casing/to case - To attempt a jump but land short of the downramp.  On double jumps if you land one wheel either side of the lip of...

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  After yesterday's comment about not taking a day off today I ended up doing exactly that.  It wasn't planned though - I just forgot to set my alarm in time to get up and have a full day riding ... oops.  Today's MTB term ...  ...

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Ok, let's get started.  Firstly, here is today's MTB slang term - all in the name of educating those who know nothing about mountain biking.   Cookie Cutter - This is what happens if you crash and don't have plugs on your handlebars. ...

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Ahhh yes, it's that time again.  Time for another completely random article title that won't make any sense until I explain it.  I'll get to that though.   Also, starting today, I'm going to put a random MTB slang term at the start o...

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Ok, don't get me wrong but the more time I spend in Canada the more I'm noticing the little differences between here and a lot of other English-speaking places I've been.   New Zealand is awesome (naturally I'd think that).  Australia, pa...

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Today I decided to get up early and head to trails before they got busy.  This turned out to be a very good idea as hundreds of riders turned up on an exceptionally hot and sunny day.  You'd think that going downhill isn't tiring or hard wo...

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This is going to be a post with pretty much only 2 purposes - to share a couple photos and a video that I shot with the Whistler Action Cams helmet camera.  This thing is seriously cool and it's great getting the reactions of other riders when t...

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So, what is up with that blog title anyway?  Let me explain.  :)   The first part is the name of a trail here, the second part is the sound I reckon a bear makes (coz I saw one today), the third part is the noise people make when the...

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I figured this was worth writing about because of the sheer beauty of the area I had to travel through on the shuttle ride from Vancouver to Whistler.   From the moment we left Vancouver International Airport it was impossible to deny that Can...

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Another uneventful flight from LA to Vancouver - I'm finally in Canada!  Other than Tim Hortons and some waiting around there wasn't much to do in Van.   The next part of the trip is the 3 hour shuttle up to Whistler, the end of the my tr...

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Haha man I'm clever with my blog titles.  :)   Ok so now that I've got that out of the way I thought I'd fire together a quick update for those who may be following this particular foray into the great semi unknown.  Had to get up at...

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It was only 9 days ago that I finally decided to bite the bullet and basically "just go" ... to Whistler (BC, Canada) for some mountain biking that I've always wanted to do.   When I bought the tickets my flatmate Adam, in his Canadian accent,...

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For the first post about living here in Melbourne I'm going to babble on about where I'm living for a bit.  Hope y'all don't mind.  :)   Over the last few days I've been busy packing my stuff in Brisbane and preparing for the move to...

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