Rides and Races - Toronto Fixed

Oh JESUS ****ING CHRIST MAN - TWENTY SIX!!! TWENTY ****ING SIX!!!

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i sense a button = pushed thing coming soon.

26?
geezer.

I'm gonna give Biseagal a call tomorrow for details about replacing my dropouts with trackends.

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i sense a button = pushed thing coming soon.

I caught it before the edit, and I still want to go to prom with you.

you just want to hit it off with all the high school girls at the afterparty.
i'm mildly impressed.

Jail bait.

anyways, prom is next week and I wasn't planning to go... but how can you not, if she's paying. so I was wonderin' if anyone has a tandem I can rent/borrow for the night.


Spokes and Sports (my store) on Avenue Rd north of Lawrence has a brand new Trek tandem that's rentable. Not sure how much $$ the boss wants for renting it, but for one night I'd guess between $50 - $100.

Oh hey, I started using white lithium grease for my bike chain and it works tonnes better than the wet lube (especially in the rain), anybody have any thoughts?
Prolly works good but check out how much dirt and grime you accumulate on yer chain in a short period of time. Get out the cleaning supplies.
I have used tri-flow for years with good results. This season I started using Rock and Roll chain lubes and have to say that stuff is great. Nice and silent with no dirt attraction. And when you put it on it cleans the chain at the same time.

Oh sure, you make me compile an irc chat client and then you're not there!

my thoughts exactly. well, I didn't have to compile anything, but I did have to join an undernet server (*shudder*).

Girlfriend's List:
- Beck - Guero
- Broadcast - Tender Buttons
- Stereolab - Oscillations From the Anti-Sun
- Metric - Live it Out
- Boy Least Likely To - Best Party Ever
- Bjork - Family Tree Boxed Set
- Cake - Pressure Chief
- Tori Amos - The Bee Keeper
- Daft Punk - Homework
- Four Tet - Pause

My List:
- AFX - Analord Vol. 1-11
- Billie Holiday - Lady Day: Best Of -or- The Ultimate Collection
- Clipse & Clinton Sparks - We Got it 4 Cheap Vol. 2
- Ice-T - Home Invasion
- Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison
- Kronos Quartet - Kronos Quartet Performs Phillip Glass
- NIN - Broken EP
- Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
- Tool - Aenima
- Vitalic - Ok Cowboy

yeah. I'm coming by your place with my laptop sometime soon. :)

I'm gonna give Biseagal a call tomorrow for details about replacing my dropouts with trackends.

Give em a call i hear they do great work & are very nice to deal with. Another guy on here had them done & looked super sweet (custom)
Cheers

Oh JESUS ****ING CHRIST MAN - TWENTY SIX!!! TWENTY ****ING SIX!!!

Is that like a birthday scream of horror? Happy Birthday MAN!!!!!
Today is my youngest daughter's birthday as well, she's 9 today.

Enjoy your day buddy, gettin' loaded tonight?

Check the post before mine - that was a terror-induced use of all-caps. Happy birthday to your daughter though.

Unrelated note #1: enjoy tomorrow's ride. I'll be out of town but hopefully I'll see you all next weekend for that ride.
Unrelated note #2: I'm heading back to Sarnia for the weekend (hometown) and looking foward to the Saturday morning garage sale lightning round. Hopefully I can find myself some $15 old school goodness (come on chromed Ciocc).

:lol: oops ... have a good weekend.. good shopping, thanks for the bday wish for the littlest one.

I'm heading back to Sarnia for the weekend (hometown) and looking foward to the Saturday morning garage sale lightning round. ).
Sarnia huh? My girlfriend's from there as well. You down with that "puffio" action? That $hit is awesome!

n00b
Steeker you riding with us Sat.
naw my back is acting up again.................(n00b)???

is it a forum etiquette no-no to post pictures of one's self? i got to thinking this morning that i have met a few of you here and there but there's some forum names that have no faces for me. i could start with mine and everyone could post as they like no nudity (okay nudity, but only tasteful, on-a-bear-skin-rug kind of thing).

Here is me:
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/5747/thenandnow0es.th.jpg (http://img346.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thenandnow0es.jpg)

see if you can link your images, lest the pages take forever and we inadvertently kill off the server.

is it a forum etiquette no-no to post pictures of one's self? i got to thinking this morning that i have met a few of you here and there but there's some forum names that have no faces for me. i could start with mine and everyone could post as they like no nudity (okay nudity, but only tasteful, on-a-bear-skin-rug kind of thing).

a bunch of us posted pics awhile back.. plus there are lots of pics of group rides with bf people. add a roaring fireplace and some mulled wine to that bear-skin scenario and you got a deal.

hey, did anyone catch the final episode of amazing race? the final 3 teams were in japan, and one of the tasks they had to do was zip around tokyo on this sweet folding bike delivery crap! it was pretty damn funny and i'm glad at least one of the teams had the balls to pick that task. damn, I WANT THAT BIKE. i'll grab some video stills and post when i get home.

Here is me:
http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/5747/thenandnow0es.th.jpg (http://img346.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thenandnow0es.jpg)

see if you can link your images, lest the pages take forever and we inadvertently kill off the server.

OMFG that young pic is awesome. *hops in rental car and gets the rock out of here*

hey, did anyone catch the final episode of amazing race? the final 3 teams were in japan, and one of the tasks they had to do was zip around tokyo on this sweet folding bike delivery crap! it was pretty damn funny and i'm glad at least one of the teams had the balls to pick that task. damn, I WANT THAT BIKE. i'll grab some video stills and post when i get home.

my gf was watching it.. I saw a couple bits. Looked like a blast. It killed me when the one guy yelled out in Japanese "watch out! crazy foreigners coming through!" (or something along those lines).

is it a forum etiquette no-no to post pictures of one's self? i got to thinking this morning that i have met a few of you here and there but there's some forum names that have no faces for me. i could start with mine and everyone could post as they like no nudity (okay nudity, but only tasteful, on-a-bear-skin-rug kind of thing).

my avatar IS a picture of me! :)

http://static.flickr.com/6/5666452_36b3e67244.jpg

ps. http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/51725

is it a forum etiquette no-no to post pictures of one's self? i got to thinking this morning that i have met a few of you here and there but there's some forum names that have no faces for me. i could start with mine and everyone could post as they like no nudity (okay nudity, but only tasteful, on-a-bear-skin-rug kind of thing).

We have met but don’t think you seen my right hip naked. HA
Check my flickr sig below. As well as two little guys are there.
I still have not met all either.
Cheers

http://file009.bebo.com/large/2006/04/19/03/72990362a638944310b158727315l.jpg

We have met but don’t think you seen my right hip naked. HA
Check my flickr sig below. As well as two little guys are there.
I still have not met all either.
Cheers

harsh! how did you manage that injury? man, both you and your son, battered and bruised; that's one tough family!

ps. http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/51725

I've seen that guy around a few times too funny especially when he’s in front of city TV while they are doing the B.T. show dancing around.

Great pic Jeremy...
Were those speedo swimmers AND argyle?

Sweep - what's with the Red Cape Ale in your profile? is that your favourite? pretty old-school considering it still comes in stubbies...

Great pic Jeremy...
Were those speedo swimmers AND argyle?

thanks. those speedo goggles belong to a friend of mine; that pic was taken at a new years party a while back so it's safe to say i had my beer goggles on beneath the tinted ones...

That Zanta guy was running down Spadina with us at the last CM he was also running down Yonge with us during the ride of silence.

i read about him somewhere; i think it was in Now.

Sweep - what's with the Red Cape Ale in your profile? is that your favourite? pretty old-school considering it still comes in stubbies...

When i'm not feeling rich thats my fix.Ale from a stubby, old school
Good stuff

ps. http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/51725


HAHA YES! I seen that guy on the subway and on Spadina once. That guy rocks. Any of you gusy want to ride around after your work? 5pm? F#$89 bored.

I think you all know me, but that's me 2nd from the left: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/reciprocity/Scarborough20Bluffs202005-05-20.jpg

Biseagal is wicked to deal with. They did great work for me, follow the link at the bottom for a pic.

http://static.flickr.com/53/144661421_5265911437_b.jpg

HAHA YES! I seen that guy on the subway and on Spadina once. That guy rocks. Any of you gusy want to ride around after your work? 5pm? F#$89 bored.

I think you all know me, but that's me 2nd from the left: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/reciprocity/Scarborough20Bluffs202005-05-20.jpg

i'm pretty sure i read about zanty having at least a mild case of schizophrenia (sp?), i kind of feel bad for him but he's one of those quirks that makes living in the city worthwhile.

i can't ride after work; i'm going home for meat grillin' and beer drinkin'. got some fat t-bones with my name on it.

Someone must want to ride...
Steeker, somnambu?? eyefloater?? sweep? Jammer?

sorry. I have a similar plan to Jeremy. :) Eyefloater's already left for Sarnia

Fine be that way

Fine be that way

don't get mad at us, friday night is BBQ night, son. sunday mornings are for riding.

speaking of which, for those of you who aren't too tuckered out from your training rides on saturday, i'm heading out for a 100km or sunday morning (probably up and aroung the holland marsh) starting at 10am from Jet Fuel (519 Parliament).

okay i'm killing time at work now that it's late on a fri afternoon and i've just tendered my resignation; so i'll throw this one out there for all you carnivores: what's your favourite cut of steak?

For economic purposes you can't beat skirt steak. Its similiar to the flank steak in that it needs a good marinating and to be cooked and cut correctly but the flavour is superb. As for the standard high end steaks I like a good new york strip personally but only if I can cook it I find 90% of the restaurants, (except the stupidly expensive high end places) don't understand how to cook a steak properly.

I cook skirt steak all the time using this (http://www.foodtv.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_24088,00.html) Alton Brown method and it works incredibly well. Plus you get to cook on pure charcoal.

Just make sure you cook it from room temperature, use a little bit of good high temperature oil to help conduct heat and have a heat source that is blazing hot.

Oh and make sure the meat rests before you eat it.

PS: I've been street luging hills in and around Toronto recently, for anyone who loves to go fast you don't get to have much more fun.

my avatar IS a picture of me! :)

http://static.flickr.com/6/5666452_36b3e67244.jpg

dude, are those your real eyes?

Someone must want to ride...
Steeker, somnambu?? eyefloater?? sweep? Jammer?

Jamming at work right now then Daughters Bday.....
Sorry man.

For economic purposes you can't beat skirt steak. Its similiar to the flank steak in that it needs a good marinating and to be cooked and cut correctly but the flavour is superb. As for the standard high end steaks I like a good new york strip personally but only if I can cook it I find 90% of the restaurants, (except the stupidly expensive high end places) don't understand how to cook a steak properly.

I cook skirt steak all the time using this (http://www.foodtv.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_24088,00.html) Alton Brown method and it works incredibly well. Plus you get to cook on pure charcoal.

Just make sure you cook it from room temperature, use a little bit of good high temperature oil to help conduct heat and have a heat source that is blazing hot.

Oh and make sure the meat rests before you eat it.

PS: I've been street luging hills in and around Toronto recently, for anyone who loves to go fast you don't get to have much more fun.


oh Alton Brown.. he's so dreamy. Although I think I've got a bigger man-crush on the guys from Food Jammers lately. ;)

ps. street luging? are you serious?

okay i'm killing time at work now that it's late on a fri afternoon and i've just tendered my resignation; so i'll throw this one out there for all you carnivores: what's your favourite cut of steak?

that depends. are we talking standard meat? or special occasion meat? :)

I think the best steaks I've ever had have tended to be tenderloin --- at least on the tenderness scale of things. But I think the cut has less to do with things than the other variables like meat quality, and preparation technique.

eg. it's really easy to make an exceptionally nasty flank steak. :D

PS: I've been street luging hills in and around Toronto recently, for anyone who loves to go fast you don't get to have much more fun.
I'm actually just getting into Steak. I was never a big hunk of meat kinda guy so I'll be keeping my eye on the replies. Only just went down to med/med-well
you got a luger? sweeeeeeeet and so much safer than trying to bomb on your street stick

Ok, now you guys have me thinking it is time for some carnivorous BBQ action!



As for the standard high end steaks I like a good new york strip personally but only if I can cook it I find 90% of the restaurants, (except the stupidly expensive high end places) don't understand how to cook a steak properly.

Any tips? The skirt steak recipe looks interesting too. I'll have to remember to try that sometime.