Taking Old-School KOMs on a Modern Bike

[@satn3345]

Hahah it was nice seeing you flyby Team Average on Recycle! The ding over the creek gap was classic! Love your videos!

[@DaleStone]

As you see, it took a few corners before it registered! Something about dedicating a lack of computing power to the task at hand haha.

[@roryennis96943]

Gotta love that old school tight jank! Trails that challenge your riding mentally as well as physically and force you to look ahead and keep you on your toes. Modern bikes struggle on these kind of trails and honestly I enjoy that. Burke on average is quite challenging from a technical stand point and while jumps and flow trails are fun, I hope we never lose these types of trails.

[@DaleStone]

100% agreed, there is no replacement for good ol' techy awesomeness.

[@danielsaloka5739]

Good job on lower nescafe that trail is insane to follow!

[@cracingauto]

I have always enjoyed your video. So glad saw myself and team average appears in the bonus clip, and to watch "live" jump from another side of the Creek, nice work.

[@DaleStone]

Heck yeah Freddy, always glad to see Team Average out there shredding the gnar!

[@markw7332]

That was Team Average on Recycled. Love the bell ding as you jumped the creek.

[@knordberg]

Classic bell ring in the air! Love it. Recycle looked like fun.

[@DaleStone]

Can confirm, there's a reason it's popular haha.

[@rebeccasimms5294]

I love watching u ride trails. It really chills me out for some reason, even when u ride really gnarly stuff. I think as much to do with ur surroundings as u just breezing down them like a bloody mountain goat

[@DaleStone]

Haha thanks Rebecca!

[@aliikane]

Bonus points for the mid-air bell ring off the kicker.

[@CornellHarris]

I'm amazed at the speed you're riding and not getting lost! 10/10

[@DaleStone]

Only slightly lost once. 🤫

[@dank3823]

Sweet stuff. You know your good when you do two kom's in a row. 🤙

[@DaleStone]

Nescafé was a bit of a cheap shot haha, but thanks!

[@BCursed2012]

Wow Dale- great technical riding. Fantastic videos, as always.

[@Milkdudsandpancakes]

Bonus clips FTW 🤘 so jealous that this is your local riding spot!

[@slowspoke1027]

Dale! how is it that every one of your videos can be soo good to watch! I love it, my eyes are stuck to the screen watching what line you pick, and the sneaky lines I wouldn't see normally! I love it, keep up the good work dude!

[@DaleStone]

I aspire to keep up that kind of quality, thanks a bunch!

[@slowspoke1027]

@@DaleStone I always await Sunday mornings ;)

[@thepedalsadvocate7389]

I often post your videos to Facebook and Twitter as examples of the absolute BEST riding in BC. To my friends and family (notably on the East Coast).

[@DaleStone]

Thanks, that's awesome!

[@thepedalsadvocate7389]

@@DaleStone They see my silly videos.... They think I am a reckless old man. Haha. And I am like pfffttt..... Your videos show the beauty of BC. The BEST of BC riding. And you are a great biker. Good for them to see how it is done. 🕯👍

[@Roxay05]

Just found your channel. Love it man! So envious of you!

[@duncanwright301]

There's something really spectacular to me about a trail like that just being called "bean".

[@ronanM-L]

Such cool trails and riding!

[@TheTrueOutDoors]

Nescafe looks like an awesome trail I might have to check it out! Awesome video as per usual, keep shredding!! 🤘

[@DaleStone]

Definitely give it a gander, upper half is super tech and the lower half is super loamy!

[@dkone1746]

One of my favorite laps. Keep the jank!!

[@DaleStone]

The jank must live on!!

[@HeyBaumeister]

LMAO that bell ring in the air. What a flex!

[@MrCrazeDawg]

Man these trails are epic!

[@matthewrobinson3154]

Congrats on 7K Dale!!

[@DaleStone]

Thanks Matthew, pretty stoked! 🍻

[@matthewrobinson3154]

@@DaleStone You should be that's a great accomplishment!

[@DaleStone]

Tonight is spontaneous pizza night, haha.

[@lynxg4641]

Man, what sick trails. Props to you for sticking to the trails, especially lower Nescafe, I was watching and looking hard and a lo t of the time couldn't see where it went. Yeah, memorization of those sorts of trails is a definite must if you want to have fun and be fast, like walk it the first time, then walk ride :-D Those trails are exactly how I'd build them. Now, to the topic of, which would have been faster, the Optic or Revolver? Personally for that slower, tighter stuff and with the much less weight and nimbleness, I think the Revolver would have killed it. Think you KOMd so much faster for the 2 combined because most just don't have the fitness you do. Weird with that large group of people just mingling at the side of the trail in the bonus clip :-\

[@DaleStone]

Counter intuitively I think Bean is probably a Sight trail, as it's pretty easy to get hung up on a lot of the roughness. Nescafe probably is a Revolver trail overall, should you be able to get through the first minute or two of pretty aggressive rock rolls. Good questions making me think haha.

[@cogetoergo]

Pure tallent there Dale. And you're KOM'ing them all... on 650B's still? One can still argue for the smaller wheel. I ride both sizes, myself.

[@DaleStone]

Small wheels can still go pretty quickly! 🤫

[@thepedalsadvocate7389]

Friday Fails. 😍 Saturday Sends. 😍 Sunday Dale Stone. 😍

[@jeffward6338]

Sooooo good!

[@darkbird1651]

Awesome riding! Don’t know how you can see the trail when everything looks the same.

[@DaleStone]

Years of riding questionably marked trails helps train you well. Only almost got lost here once. 😅

[@barathmuthusamy]

Dale the KOM King 🤴

[@justind5262]

Lower nescafe either needs to get some lovin or be sacrificed to the forest as god intended haha.

[@DaleStone]

Haha no way, it's awesome right now! Where else is there loamXC? 😃

[@nicks2716]

King of Stone Mountain

[@tylermccomb1925]

Shout out to the builders for building options other than the Bean jankiness lol

[@DaleStone]

Haha, agreed for sure!

[@rockyoreo3322]

Thats a nice trail. How many times you ride your MTB in a week?

[@DaleStone]

If the weather is nice then at least 5!

[@ZestyLife]

Nice!

[@Davian45]

When you hit your bike computer right before bean, were you hitting the lap button? Or do you have a work around for strava not allowing live tracking of downhill segments

[@DaleStone]

Manually resetting the lap timer to work around just that. Silly that they don't allow it for mountain bikes!

[@Davian45]

@@DaleStone Yeah. Some shmuck looked down on a DH run and got hurt i guess. Now we all get screwed because of it. Solid vids. Keep them coming!

[@DaleStone]

It's all road bike related actually, people in SF (I believe) were hill bombing at insane speeds and literally killing pedestrians. Makes sense to ban road ride DHs for safety, but surely they can distinguish between a mountain bike trail too!

[@Davian45]

@@DaleStone Oh i didn't know that. Damn. Yeah i don't think there's any harm in allowing mountain bike trails on it. Quite easy to distinguish i'd think. Did strava get in legal trouble because of it? Or they saw what was happening and was proactive on it?

[@DaleStone]

Legal trouble it seems, circa 2012: bikerumor.com/2012/06/28/use-strava-get-sued/

[@nicks2716]

3 KOMs strung together including a significant hill climb after Bean with no rest taken. Remarkable. So, in relation to your extreme fitness, I gotta ask: was it always so? I recall you saying you led spin class for a stretch. Any other athletic accomplishments outside of cycling? Track? Swimming? Gymnastics? Are your parents athletes? I like to consider myself a fit-ish (emphasis on “ish”) 50-year old that could hold my own against most representative samples of my age group. But you sir are a one percenter. Probably in some upper fraction of that one percent. So again, is there an athletic background to explain it? Or are you just a mountain biking savant who (as you said once) would rather “whole-ass one thing than half-ass several things”? P.S. Care to divulge your Grouse Grind time? If the first digit isn’t a 2, I bet you’re not far off.

[@DaleStone]

Truthfully only the Bean segment is competitive of the three I listed, but thanks! haha Although I'm definitely pretty fit, the ceiling of cycling is absurdly high. The only number I can really give for scale is a ~4.8W/kg FTP (end of last summer), which just about cracks the top 5% of road racers. [source: s3.amazonaws.com/cyclinganalytics/static/cycling-power-table-overlayed.png ] As you mentioned, I'm definitely a whole-ass one thing kinda guy, so I don't even have a Grouse Grind time to share from the past couple of years, or anything else worth noting!

[@nicks2716]

You’re modest. The top 5% of “competitive” cyclists. An elite group in itself. Anyway, your combination of fitness and skill is exceptional. The ever expanding list of KOMs is testament. Congrats.! 👍

[@lynxg4641]

Nick, you do realise that Dale was a very competitive XC racer before he moved out to BC, right? Also, as another 50er, you know he's only like 25 or something like that right, so youth also plays a big part of the equation :-D

[@nicks2716]

Actually no, I didn’t know he raced competitively, though that doesn’t surprise me in the least. Sadly, yes, I did know he was half my age. But damn it if I’m not going to try and close the fitness gap between he and I (stop trying so hard Dale!)!

[@DaleStone]

That's because I was only an internet-warrior-speedy-XC-dude (still have a bunch of KOMs out East!) and not a proper competitive racer. :)

[@warrenfosterphoto]

Are you using the Lap function as a timer?

[@DaleStone]

Exactly, works well as a rough gauge.

[@warrenfosterphoto]

Good to know I’m not the only nerd.

[@dyremtb27.5]

Hey man what's your go pro settings and how do you do your color grading? Thanks

[@DaleStone]

2.7k60, and tons of practice. 😊

[@siglinde_raw199]

i love it, when the lower part of a trail is 80% pedaling [/irony]

[@DaleStone]

"why is there a climb on my downhill trail" is a common sentence around here

[@masonrudolph7249]

it looks like you picked up a downhill segment? also do you any ninja gps formatting with your wahoo? I've seen it done in some software blogs

[@DaleStone]

Not sure what you mean by any of that! The beep towards the end of Bean was a text coming to my phone and displaying on the Wahoo, not the end of a downhill segment registering sadly.

[@masonrudolph7249]

@@DaleStone sorry! to clarify at top of bean a segment started. And I've heard about some people who have flipped GPS data so they can get downhill segments on there wahoo! (As they are read as uphill)

[@DaleStone]

That is genius!! The noise was me manually starting a lap timer, but I like this a lot more. To the internet we go...

[@dunin.majewski]

tough riding: it's like a pump track. gym and trail riding in 1.

[@DaleStone]

True! The full body workout haha.

[@mattgies]

So that was a "trail", eh? Most of the time it looked like you were just making random turns! I'd definitely get lost. Or is "lost" just another word for "freeride"?

[@DaleStone]

Let's go with freeride! 🍻🤘

[@mtbwithtfb]

Dale, I know you are young but an ebike would allow you to climb faster and have fun doing it. 🙂 just saying...

[@DaleStone]

I already have fun climbing! 😁

[@mtbwithtfb]

@@DaleStone I knew you'd say that. And, Nic and Dave would rib you constantly. lol

[@lynnstone8958]

I could do that :)

[@RobJMTB]

..... I almost disliked due to the no "BOONUSSSSSSSSSSSSS CLIP." Dale, I thought we talked about this man? It's not that I'm upset at you, I'm just really disappointed. :'(

[@DaleStone]

I swear it was in there... 🙈