So I'm going up to Vancouver on my little bicycle for my birthday next Wednesday and I don't know anything about the place. Beers, bikes, maybe sushi or something. Tips?
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Also the Seaside Greenway is a fantastic place to bike and to Lighthouse park is pretty.
walker
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 11:21 am
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Monie wrote:
Thats where I got my forearm tattoo!
Get a tattoo!
Also the Seaside Greenway is a fantastic place to bike and to Lighthouse park is pretty.
Awesome. Noted.
Maybe I'll get "fuk yr blackberriz" tattooed along my forearm scar
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ksep
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 9:08 pm
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Point your bicycle towards the seawall and then follow it "all the way." I mean, you can start from Crab Park, weave thru Canada Place, around Stanley Park (A++), thru False Creek, past Kits, and out to Spanish Banks.
MEC is REI on sale and has a rooftop bench with a view of the city. Dunsmuir and Hornby bikelanes are nice.
.83 Vancouver chapter is Bike Rides Society meets Thursdays in Dude Chilling Park 8pm.
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jimmythefly
Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2016 1:28 pm
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The area around MEC (W Broadway and Manitoba) has a bunch of outdoorsey and bike shops. Sports Junkies in particular is like Recycled Cycles X Second ascent. the other shops and outdoors stores are also intereesting, plus MEC of course.
Go to Granville Island. It's an intentionally touristy spot with a very a cool mix of food and good galleries and kitsch and so on. The "public market" building on the north end has a LOT of food options.
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 10:11 am
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Well, that was awesome. Thanks for tips all. Rode with the Bike Rides Society, they're incredibly nice. Really, really Canada nice. Rode a lot of the seawall, which was stunning, but about 3x as busy as the Burke on a nice day. Perfectly perfect for a slow spliffy roll though.
Did you know Canada has super PBR? It's like normal PBR, but 5.9%!
Three tips for anyone doing the train thing in the future:
-the Vancouver tourism board has some deal where if you book one of a certain few hotels, you'll get 30% off a roundtrip train ticket for you and guests. This made our hotel room (decent 3 star thing) effectively free.
-America's all "just get on the fucking train go go go," but in Canada you have to show up an hour early. I have no idea why, but they're total dicks about it.
-Despite the warnings about bringing meat across the border, Bahn Mi and Pepperoni sticks are apparently a-o-k.
And lastly, for all you reeferheads, there is a shop called "the farm" that does not require a medical card and will accept US ID.
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 1:55 pm
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i actually walked halfway around Stanley Park last weekend. recommended, but a bike would have been better.
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