safety gear

General
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> helmet, leg armour (combo knee and shin pads), cordura pants with foam pads in
> the hip and tailbone areas, arm armour (combo forearm and elbow pads), helmet,
> and I also wear gloves that contain rollerblading wrist-guards, and shin-pads
> worn backwards to protect the back of my legs and my ankle bones. It is also
> fairly common for people to wear full-face helmets, and (less commonly)
> motorcross chest, shoulder and spine protectors.

Yeah but most of us only ride on Earth…

Hey Kris, how about some group riding on Vancouver Island after the NUC? There
might be a few people who can take a day or two to go up there and get dirty. I
was planning some extra days to be a tourist in Seattle or Vancouver, and Roger
Davies will be in the area as well…

Stay on top,

John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone http://www.unicycling.com

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In Vancouver, most North Shore mountainbikers (and also me) wear the following
safety gear:

helmet, leg armour (combo knee and shin pads), cordura pants with foam pads in
the hip and tailbone areas, arm armour (combo forearm and elbow pads), helmet,
and I also wear gloves that contain rollerblading wrist-guards, and shin-pads
worn backwards to protect the back of my legs and my ankle bones.

It is also fairly common for people to wear full-face helmets, and (less
commonly) motorcross chest, shoulder and spine protectors.

-Kris.

At 03:58 PM 3/30/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> Hoping that nothing worse will happen since I have no plans of wearing safty
>> gear in the future.
>
>The Bloodman way.
>
>I hope I’ll never crash my car, but with that in mind I wear my seatbelt every
>single time I’m in one, law or no law.
>
>Stay on top,
>
>John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone http://www.unicycling.com
>

Kris Holm, B.Sc. Geologist, Forestry Group, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.
Suite 550, Sun Life Plaza, 1100 Melville Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4A6
Tel:(604) 685-0275 Fax:(604) 684-6241 Email: kholm@eba.ca

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RE: safety gear

> Sounds Great, but Vancouver city would be better than Vancouver Island. I have
> all of August off so the more days the better!

Excellent. This is something I’d really like to persue, and hopefully invite
whoever can go. Some questions: How far is Vancouver from Seattle? Approx.
driving time? What’s in Vancouver city that’s cool for riding? Why not Island?
Too much further? Too remote? I was wanting to see some of the trails and toys I
saw in the North Shore Extreme video. Do you have room for guests at your house?

I don’t know how long I’ll have after NUC, but it would be great to at least
come up and ride on one of the days after the convention. Anyone else
interested? You’ve seen Kris ride, or read about him. No? Check out:
http://www.unicycling.com/unifoss/muni/muni98sat.htm Wouldn’t you like to see
and experience some of the trails that made him what he is?

Stay on top,

John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone http://www.unicycling.com

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RE: safety gear

Sounds Great, but Vancouver city would be better than Vancouver Island. I have
all of August off so the more days the better!

-Kris.

>Hey Kris, how about some group riding on Vancouver Island after the NUC? There
>might be a few people who can take a day or two to go up there and get dirty. I
>was planning some extra days to be a tourist in Seattle or Vancouver, and Roger
>Davies will be in the area as well…
>

>Stay on top,
>
>John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone http://www.unicycling.com
>

Kris Holm, B.Sc. Geologist, Forestry Group, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.
Suite 550, Sun Life Plaza, 1100 Melville Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4A6
Tel:(604) 685-0275 Fax:(604) 684-6241 Email: kholm@eba.ca

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RE: safety gear

At 09:55 AM 3/31/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> Sounds Great, but Vancouver city would be better than Vancouver Island. I
>> have all of August off so the more days the better!
>
>Excellent. This is something I’d really like to persue, and hopefully invite
>whoever can go. Some questions: How far is Vancouver from Seattle? Approx.
>driving time?

Vancouver is about 2.5 hours drive north of Seattle

>What’s in Vancouver city that’s cool for riding? Why not Island? Too much
>further? Too remote? I was wanting to see some of the trails and toys I saw in
>the North Shore Extreme video.

The NSX video was filmed in Vancouver, not on Vancouver Island, and all the cool
technical trails are just North of Vancouver. Vancouver Island is beautiful too,
though, and has some fun cross-country riding.

>Do you have room for guests at your house?

Unfortunately since I’m not working for most of the summer I will be moving out
of my place and will probably camp at a rock climbing area north of Vancouver,
at Squamish. There’s great camping and riding here, though, and it’s about 45
min from the area filmed in the video. Also, my parents have a cabin at
Whistler. It may be rented out, but there is a decent chance we could stay
there. It’s a bit of a drive from the North Shore trails (2 hours), but there is
good cross-country riding around here, too, and it is spectacularly beautiful.
>
>I don’t know how long I’ll have after NUC, but it would be great to at least
>come up and ride on one of the days after the convention. Anyone else
>interested? You’ve seen Kris ride, or read about him. No? Check out:
>http://www.unicycling.com/unifoss/muni/muni98sat.htm Wouldn’t you like to see
>and experience some of the trails that made him what he is?
>
>Stay on top,
>
>John Foss, the Uni-Cyclone http://www.unicycling.com
>

Kris Holm, B.Sc. Geologist, Forestry Group, EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.
Suite 550, Sun Life Plaza, 1100 Melville Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6E 4A6
Tel:(604) 685-0275 Fax:(604) 684-6241 Email: kholm@eba.ca