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My wife and I were there From the 10th to the 18th for the first time in about 4 years. It was our first trip back since having kids. My hot take was that it's actually a really fun place to take the whole family. Family Stuff: Axis bike camps are sick, they have drop in and weekly options. We took our Toddler who just turned 3 in June and when we picked him up he was riding his pedal bike on his own. He could pedal prior to our trip but needed help starting. He was fully independent on...

Not that it matters much but why would someone downvote you? 🤷‍♂️

For what it's worth your experience with the new TR11 and the new RS suspension tracks pretty well with what I've seen. I got my wife a TR11 in the S size and she's a good rider, but wanted a couch with some wheels attached over a lap time hunting machine. I wasn't sure she would ever find bottom on the new boxxer without having to run a stupid amount of sag, but to RS credit she's able to use full travel when appropriate and run the recommended PSI. As for my fox 40. I love the thing but it...

DH bike all day any day Enduro bikes are good but not that good

Oh I agree about two diffirent things and whistler locals should absolutely do both. I’d also argue a lot of people who travel to Whistler would probably actually get more of an experience outside of the bike park. Mostly depending on their access to bike parks and the quality of their pedal trails at home. And while Whistler is by far the largest and most diverse mtb park in North America and arguably the world. I’d say a lot of bike parks come fairly close in quality of experience and in fact there is a couple I’d much rather visit...

I’ve got a v10 this summer, coming from a session last season, and I 100% agree with your write up. The v10 is very supportive. It lets you pump the trail and pick up speed quickly. It gives you feedback and it wants to go fast. It’s not a magic carpet ride that erases every bump in the trail like some other DH rigs. The v10 feels more playful than other DH bikes on jump trails where you are popping off lips and trying to boost stuff. Hearing how much you liked the tr11 shred sled ride, I’d recommend you...

Respectfully, were you able to change rear spring rate on both bikes? I can see that the V10 has a coil, but I can't tell on the TR11 because the shock is behind your leg. I ask because one of the worst days of bike riding in my life was when I rented a V10 from a shop in Creekside (maybe Coastal Culture Sports? I can't remember) that had a coil rear shock. I hadn't ridden a DH bike in years at that point and had been loving my XL 29" Megatower, so I was excited to see what a...

Huge missed opportunity to actually ride a bike set up for you. EVO sucks ass and doesn’t set up the bike at all for you and is the most expensive place. EVOLUTION will get you set up for less money on bikes they take care off. V10 BLOWS the tr-11 out of the water

Double fuck that right hand turn on delayed fuse. That one section is harder than anything on missfire or sabre tooth horse, and somehow delayed fuse is still single black. +1 for del bocca vista

I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in Whistler for a over ten summers. I unfortunately haven’t been in ~12 years. Maybe next summer. I’m just happy to hear that Del Boca still rips and things generally sound like they’ve stayed the same. I miss Original Sin > Goat’s Gully > In Deep laps soooo bad.

O-Sin -> Shale Master ->O-Sin->Marty Master->Filthy Ape middle gap ->In-Between->In Deep->Duffman->No Duff ->Renegade->???->???? finishing in Brio was my all time favourite T to B gnar lap. Great memories.

I think the park is overrated compared to the valley trails, unless you love flow and hate tech that’s for sure, next time I’ll venture myself more on the black/double black tech in the park and I’ll probably like it more, but the valley trails are just 100% Totw also heavily overrated as a trail itself but it’s an experience worth doing for the view and for what comes next, million dollar, Kashmir and kush are some of the best trails for my liking, overall, I’d say Whistler is the best place in the world I’ve ridden so far

Two Mushroom is best trail in the park Unsure why Goats Gully has been closed for weeks.. I think I wouldn’t just cut and dry compare valley trails to bike park trails. First off, they are all amazing and freaking sweet. Second of all, I’m in the bike park to do tech laps on a DH bike at pace over and over and over again. You’re not doing that in the valley. I leave the bike park for huge pedals, loamers, wilder slabs, etc etc Two different ball games and both worth it.