Schedule of Events

8am – 3pm Bike Swap
8:30-10am Equipment check-in
10.30am Sale Begins . Find that special bike or gear item at amazing prices!
10am -2pm Volunteers in Policing bike rodeo
1:00 pm Bike repair clinic – On the road repairs
1:30 pm Bike repair clinic – Home maintenence

Bring your old bike, your still good clothing, gear and componentry! Bring your items in the morning and take home a nice fat check in the afternoon!

Come and find a bargain, find a new best friend.

Bike Rodeo
Volunteers in Policing will hold a bike rodeo to emphasis bicycle
safety for kids. Kids learn skills to ride safely and ultimately build
confidence in their riding abilities while staying safe! This very fun
clinic allows kids to learn in an environment that promotes healthy,
safe kids, while having loads of fun at the same time!

Save Time – fill out the consignment form ahead of time.

Want to earn brownie points and the respect and loyalty of your peers?  Volunteer by showing up at 7am!

Call 455 6520 for more information!

Goldstream Sports is looking for customer service employees. Applicants must be available to work weekends and evenings. We need a full time employee or a couple part time employees that can work a minimum of 20 hour per week. Basic bike knowledge is needed. Please drop off resume at the store.

At Goldstream sports, we pride ourselves on our knowledge of skis.  With over 50 years of expert experience between the employees, you can trust us when looking for the right ski for you.  Our ski technicians take great pride in their work, and work hard to make sure your skis perform as well as possible to give you the best ski experience, every time!

But, if your skis are not fitting right, there is not a whole lot that ski preparation can do.  Some things to look for in a good fitting ski include the camber.  Performance skis are designed to have a specific camber based on the style of skiing, weight of skier, and even trail and snow conditions, and terrain. The camber of the ski is important in the performance of the ski, and your pleasure of skiing.

Camber too soft: In a classic ski if the camber is too soft, your glide will be minimal to none, and you will wear your kick wax off quickly leaving you with no real kick either.   Touring skis do not need a whole lot  of camber, and a soft camber in this instance is good, as you will get plenty of kick on uneven ground.

In skate skiing, a too soft camber will reduce your gliding and will even make your ski handling very squirrely.This is not fun when you are trying to ski in a particular direction and your tips have a

mind of their own.

Camber too stiff:  In classic skiing, camber is really important.  When you are standing evenly on your skis, the area that is not touching the ground (or fitting table in our case) is called the wax pocket.  This is an area measured using different thickness feeler gauges.  The different thickness gauges mark the limits for different kick wax such as binder, regular, and klister. Now, if your classic skis do not ‘close’ when standing on the ball of one foot, you can apply all the wax in the world and you might as well be doing the Looney Tunes run!  Your wax pocket will not engage with the snow and you will have no means to propel yourself forward.

In skate skiing a too stiff camber wont hurt you as much as in classic, though you may be thrown around when pushing off.

Bring your skis in for a free camber test!  We will use our professional fitting table and feeler gauges and let you know how well your current skis fit you.

Have fun on the trails!

Our monthly slide show presentation series continues!

In February (Friday 11th), Adventure musher, rock climber, and school teach Ron Koczaja will speak about travels in the wilderness – long, remote, beautiful and dangerous routes – mushing, climbing, hiking. Ron’s presentation titled “Adventures of a White-Collar Dirtbag” follow him into the Alaskan wilderness by all modes of transport.  Ron works as a math teacher teacher at Ryan Middle School (and has taught in remote Alaskan village schools as well), but as soon as school is out he takes off his teacher hat and puts on his vagabond hat, often venturing to the Alaskan Arctic, wilderness down by Denali, or as far south as South America for mushing and climbing trips and other grand adventures.

Don’t miss this great event!  Free food, great entertainment, and a chance to meet a real white collar vagabond!

Our monthly slide show presentation series is growing in popularity! Our first evening with Jeff Oatley attracted over 50 people, and Ed Plumb’s presentation attracted over 60 people! Thanks to everyone for coming out and showing your interest in this series. We are thrilled to be able to offer this event on a continuous basis, and are very happy to see it well received.

In February (Friday February 11th), Adventure musher, rock climber, and school teach Ron Koczaja will speak about travels in the wilderness – long, remote, beautiful and dangerous routes – mushing, climbing, hiking. Ron’s presentation titled “Adventures of a White-Collar Dirtbag” follows him into the Alaskan wilderness by all modes of transport. Ron, when not venturing in the wilderness, works as a math teacher teacher at Ryan Middle School (and has also taught in remote Alaskan village schools). But, as soon as school is out he takes off his teacher hat and puts on his vagabond hat, often venturing far north to the North Slope, and far south to South America for climbing trips and other grand adventures.

Our March show (Thursday March 10th) brings us to the granite walls of Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic. Pete and his team spent nearly a month in 2005 working to make the first ascent of the Wilson Wall — a 2000 foot overhanging granite spire in a remote valley near Sam Ford Fjord. The story will bring us into the world of big wall climbing in a surreal yet hash landscape, and explore the motivations behind such irrational endeavors. As the team learns, anything can happen!

As usual, there will be delicious food and beverages available at no charge. Come and be fed and be entertained! Who could ask for more. If there is someone you are really interested in seeing here, please let us know and we will try to arrange it!

Rockfall sucks. Pete Dronkers photo

Scoping lines on mostly unclimbed walls. Pete Dronkers photo

Life on the wall. Pete Dronkers photo

After the pitches were led, I re-fixed the lines through this notch. Pete Dronkers photo

Ed Plumb is an avid adventurer who has raced in the Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classic, the Iditarod Invitational 350 mile race, and many other adventure races.  Last year Ed started the White Mountains 100, a 100 mile race traveling through the White Mountains by foot, bike, or by ski.

Ed has a wealth of knowledge of what Alaska has to offer avid adventurers.  Watch his presentation, and have the chance to ask all of those burning secret hot springs route questions you have always wanted to know but were too shy to ask!  Want to know how to pack for such adventures? This will be the place to find out.

There will be free food and beverages!  This event will be held at Goldstream Sports, at the foot of Ester Dome!  Plenty of parking for cars and bikes!

Madshus  has all new web site. It is filled with great product information about their great products. Madshus produces the best quality skis I have ever sold. We consistently get properly matched skis with great flex patterns and workmanship. Their quality is why we have made there skis our number one line of skis, boots and poles. It is also why Tyson and I have chosen to make them our personal skis, boots and poles of choice.

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Fat Bike Slideshow and Discussion with Jeff Oatley

December 17th, 6.30pm!

Join us for an evening with Jeff Oatley and a little Fat Bike Mania!

Come and see how Jeff packs for his adventures and races!  He will be riding his bike to the store fully loaded as if he were going on the Iditarod Invitational.

Jeff was the Champion of the 2009 350-mile Iditarod Invitational Bike race, 2nd place finisher in 2010.

This is your chance to see how a pro packs for an unsupported bike race across the toughest conditions in Alaska’s bitter winter! Check out the race website!The race website says “Winning or even finishing in the extremes of Alaskan winter weather depends on how comfortable the racers are with their abilities, level of experience and amount of risk they are willing to take.“ And take a look at the video! And, look out for Jeff in the 2011 race in February!  He is first on the roster, and is in very good company with a very accomplished field of riders, skiers and runners.

Jeff has been racing bikes since he was a kid.  He has extensive knowledge of endurance bike riding and racing, and will have a slideshow of some of his winter racing and adventures.  He will have some great stories to tell about winter biking, and, what a better time to ask for tips on food, camping gear, clothing – but most of all – how do you fit it all on to your bike!

I must say, the nicest thing about Jeff is how humble he is.  I guess it is all that time on the bike gives one perspective on life.  We are looking forward to this great evening.  Tell your friends, and why not ride your fat bikes!!!  We will have some bikes on hand for test-riding.

Enjoy home-made chili to warm you in these cold temperatures, and some other delicious food and beverages.

For more information call 455 6520.