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TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 12:02 PM
Started pouring a couple minutes after I pulled into the parking garage at work....whew just missed being a drowned rat.

somnambulant
06-01-06, 12:09 PM
ps. I <3 GoreTex

edit: sorry, what I meant to say was GORETEX FTW!!!!!!!!!1
jyossarian
06-01-06, 12:16 PM
If you do get pulled over, don't beak off. Yes sir, no sir, three bags full sir is the order of the day. I've been let off blowing two reds by being contrite and apologetic. Getting up the nose of Toronto's finest is never a good idea. I've found them almost always ready to cut slack, but getting surley will get you bent over.
Yeah, I do obey the traffic lights when I see cops and I immediately become the most polite person on the planet when I get pulled over. Learned my lesson w/ the recent spate of ticket blitzes in NYC.

jeremywhitehorn
06-01-06, 12:20 PM
seriously...it must be quite intimidating uncoiling that chain in front of offending motorist. I picked up the furget-about-it at Cycle Therapy, crazy heavy
Jeremy, what kinda of cheffing you specialize in? All the chefs I know all are wonderfully competent all around but they all have a zest or passion for something in particular.

honestly, i don't know yet and probably won't until i get my hands dirty. i do enjoy pastries and baking, but that's another area of study. if anything i would say, italian, such as tuscan/peasant fare. simple food with few ingredients but the freshest and best you can get. but who knows, we'll see.
TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 12:36 PM
yum... I love cooking. I'm so not the pastries and baking guy. The oven is almost a foreign land to me.
jyossarian
06-01-06, 12:39 PM
Jeremy, where you going to chef school? George Mason? A friend of mine went to culinary school and has the scars to prove it.

And I carry a fuhgeddaboudit and a mini-U. I wanna make sure my bike's still there when I come back.
TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 12:41 PM
Jeremy, where you going to chef school? George Mason? A friend of mine went to culinary school and has the scars to prove it.

And I carry a fuhgeddaboudit and a mini-U. I wanna make sure my bike's still there when I come back.

How do you carry that boat anchor around?
jeremywhitehorn
06-01-06, 12:50 PM
Jeremy, where you going to chef school? George Mason? A friend of mine went to culinary school and has the scars to prove it.

hospitality department at george brown college. i'm sure i'll get my share of burns and cuts.
somnambulant
06-01-06, 01:03 PM
hospitality department at george brown college. i'm sure i'll get my share of burns and cuts.

Here's the real chef question: what kind of knives do you like? :)
somnambulant
06-01-06, 01:13 PM
Today's news, brought to you by the letter W and the number 42:

Chocolate power (http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=mg19025546.000&feedId=online-news_rss20)
126 IQ with virtually no brain? (http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/is_the_brain_really_necessary.htm)
Sinking the great Satan (http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1204) (had to use their Simpsons reference)
somnambulant
06-01-06, 01:14 PM
stupid double posts. I *definitely* only submitted that ^^^ post once.
jeremywhitehorn
06-01-06, 01:37 PM
Here's the real chef question: what kind of knives do you like? :)

Don't really have enough experience yet to comment but my feeling with knives is the same as tools: the heavier and more steel the better. although i hear there are some ceramic japanese knives out that are really nice. for cooking in the home you don't need anything spectacular though.
darkmother
06-01-06, 01:45 PM
*****in.
eyefloater
06-01-06, 01:51 PM
Somna, want to meet up at that bigass archway w/ the sculptures at the Ex? Victory Gate or whatever the hell Steeker told me this afternoon ... (Steeker, chime in and make some sense of my post please).
somnambulant
06-01-06, 01:57 PM
Somna, want to meet up at that bigass archway w/ the sculptures at the Ex? Victory Gate or whatever the hell Steeker told me this afternoon ... (Steeker, chime in and make some sense of my post please).

Sounds good. I'll be the one flexing.
somnambulant
06-01-06, 01:58 PM
Don't really have enough experience yet to comment but my feeling with knives is the same as tools: the heavier and more steel the better. although i hear there are some ceramic japanese knives out that are really nice. for cooking in the home you don't need anything spectacular though.

Oh, but a nice knife can make a huge difference! I just need to learn how to sharpen the damn things properly.
Offhoff
06-01-06, 02:02 PM
I use a set of left-handed japanese cooking knives made by this guy (http://watanabeblade.com/english/standard/index.htm). They blow my parents henkels out of the water and can't be beat for the price in my experience. Just remeber japanese steel is only sharpened on one edge so if your left handed make sure you get left handed knives.
TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 02:05 PM
I like them tall enough so you can can a good groove goin' on with doing ones sous-chef responsibilities at the veggie station without skinning the knuckles. I prefer German or nice Japanese, but it's all in the balance and how the handle feels. That is just me though, the way a knife feels is a very individual thing.
STEEKER
06-01-06, 02:15 PM
Somna, want to meet up at that bigass archway w/ the sculptures at the Ex? Victory Gate or whatever the hell Steeker told me this afternoon ... (Steeker, chime in and make some sense of my post please).
Just rode in on my new Brooks saddle, okies the big giant gates on the east side of the X (princes gates) we could all meet there , I haveto come along the lake from the east anyway's so I could meet Eyefloater out side the shop and ride down with him.
somnambulant
06-01-06, 02:17 PM
it's all in the balance and how the handle feels.

exactly. Any straight-blade knife can be sharp as long as you keep it sharpened. That's for home use anyway... a cheaper quality blade will dull faster, but I think that would only be a problem in a professional kitchen. But it's totally a totally different ballgame when you use a knife that has a bit of heft AND is well balanced.

Of course, I nearly sliced the top of my index finger off a couple years ago while coring a cabbage, so perhaps I shouldn't be talking about knives. :P
TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 02:20 PM
talking about OR using? :lol:
somnambulant
06-01-06, 02:25 PM
talking about OR using? :lol:

Well, I am the chef at Chez Wes, so I have to use. But talking about them is probably just jinxing myself. :P
somnambulant
06-01-06, 02:56 PM
big difference today:
http://www.airqualityontario.com/reports/aqisearch.cfm?stationid=31103&startmonth=24hour

yay rain! :)
TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 03:00 PM
I too am Iron Chef Andrew at home. Now I wanna cook .... mmm shnitzel...
STEEKER
06-01-06, 03:07 PM
We are going to eat down at the X right tonight /
Ill Mitch
06-01-06, 03:11 PM
Just rode in on my new Brooks saddle, okies the big giant gates on the east side of the X (princes gates) we could all meet there , I haveto come along the lake from the east anyway's so I could meet Eyefloater out side the shop and ride down with him.

What time are you guys meeting at the giant gates? maybe I'll head down there

Eyefloater: do you have these at your shop? http://www.adidas.com/verticals/cycling/com/S2.asp?ArticleNum=863252&Country=COM&Sport=CY&Category=3

if so do you have any in sizes 42-45?
STEEKER
06-01-06, 03:14 PM
What time are you guys meeting at the giant gates? maybe I'll head down there

Eyefloater: do you have these at your shop? http://www.adidas.com/verticals/cycling/com/S2.asp?ArticleNum=863252&Country=COM&Sport=CY&Category=3

if so do you have any in sizes 42-45?
You live just North of me we could meet at the shoppers drugmart( near Queen and Main Street) then head over to meet eyefloater? , I think we are meeting at the gate for about 7:30/8:00
Ill Mitch
06-01-06, 03:25 PM
alright what time would you want to meet at the shoppers?
32flavours
06-01-06, 03:26 PM
I definitely just bought some hot pink grips for the Gardin. Sweeeet.

Edit: aw, I have to work so I can't go to the Ex. Make sure you guys pick up some hot chicks for me.
STEEKER
06-01-06, 03:26 PM
alright what time would you want to meet at the shoppers?
I'll phone eyfloater now then tell ya and bring yourself some coin too .Edit we can go on the rides there
Shiznaz
06-01-06, 03:32 PM
How do you carry that boat anchor around?

I've been carrying the same lock combo (huge chain/padlock, mini U) on my back (and on rides with you guys) for the past few years. You just have to be strong and burly and break the filters off of cigarettes before you smoke them.

My mini krpto is about the bust its last key though... its getting pretty bent and its only a matter of time until I'm left stranded with a broken piece of key stuck in my lock
TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 03:45 PM
Why getting all bendy on the keys? I may switch to Export 'A' greens for the extra strength and endurance they offer. Or maybe Gauloise
STEEKER
06-01-06, 03:47 PM
alright what time would you want to meet at the shoppers?
Ill Mich I just talked to Eyefloater he said to meet him about 7:15 out side the shop so I could meet you at shoppers for 6:40ish I am not riding to fast lately ,
TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 03:48 PM
still running with fire steeker?
STEEKER
06-01-06, 03:50 PM
still running with fire steeker?
:roflmao: Damstraight plus breaking in a leather saddle to, you comming tonight????
Ill Mitch
06-01-06, 03:51 PM
Ill Mich I just talked to Eyefloater he said to meet him about 7:15 out side the shop so I could meet you at shoppers for 6:40ish I am not riding to fast lately ,

Sweeeeeeeet, I'll see you then.
operator
06-01-06, 03:51 PM
noobs.


Edit: aw, I have to work so I can't go to the Ex. Make sure you guys pick up some hot chicks for me.

?!?1!!!!!one
STEEKER
06-01-06, 03:51 PM
noobs.



?!?1!!!!!one
Boob
Ill Mitch
06-01-06, 03:53 PM
yo Operaror liek wtf 'n stuf yer teh tol n00b around heer lawel

yeeeeaa Pure Pwnage episode 11 premier june 18th at Bloor cinema http://www.purepwnage.com/
TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 03:54 PM
:roflmao: Damstraight plus breaking in a leather saddle to, you comming tonight????

My eldest daughter has a concert at school tonight, then I'm messing some jewelry to The Beach I believe. So unfortunately I won't be. Seems all my riding these days is my commute, and the occasional trip waitin' for my man. (a la Lou Reed, but yet different)
operator
06-01-06, 03:58 PM
yo Operaror liek wtf 'n stuf yer teh tol n00b around heer lawel

yeeeeaa Pure Pwnage episode 11 premier june 18th at Bloor cinema http://www.purepwnage.com/

Lolollololol pure pwnage premiere at cinema. Teh funnay.
STEEKER
06-01-06, 03:58 PM
My eldest daughter has a concert at school tonight, then I'm messing some jewelry to The Beach I believe. So unfortunately I won't be. Seems all my riding these days is my commute, and the occasional trip waitin' for my man. (a la Lou Reed, but yet different)
whoooo your a chick dam I am sorry I alway's thought you were a dude I owe ya Guieness
operator
06-01-06, 03:59 PM
whoooo your a chick dam I am sorry I alway's thought you were a dude I owe ya Guieness

Steeker is coming on to ya watch out!!
TRaffic Jammer
06-01-06, 04:01 PM
whoooo your a chick dam I am sorry I alway's thought you were a dude I owe ya Guieness

the waiting for my man is obscure music reference to buying controlled substances
STEEKER
06-01-06, 04:04 PM
the waiting for my man is obscure music reference to buying controlled substances
well for scaring me like that you can buy me a Guiness:p
operator
06-01-06, 04:08 PM
ps. I <3 GoreTex

edit: sorry, what I meant to say was GORETEX FTW!!!!!!!!!1

Lawel size = 4. GG.

Goretex isn't that l33t, my skin works better oo0h.

Beer FTFW!
sr20det
06-01-06, 06:06 PM
dang, all this crazy talk is making my head hurt.

anyways, I just picked up 4 of them Ride for heart passes for the 75km starting at 6:45.
We only have 3 in our group, which means we have one extra.
Help us split the 70 registration fee and you can pick up the extra ticket :)
eyefloater
06-01-06, 07:16 PM
What time are you guys meeting at the giant gates? maybe I'll head down there

Eyefloater: do you have these at your shop? http://www.adidas.com/verticals/cycling/com/S2.asp?ArticleNum=863252&Country=COM&Sport=CY&Category=3

if so do you have any in sizes 42-45?

Not that model, unfortunately. We can do orders for them but that's it (few days to get them in).

Somna, I change my mind - don't come out to the ride this weekend and then I won't feel guilty about taking the Lemond out for a day.
operator
06-01-06, 07:17 PM
So you guys want to meet up on Sunday, you guys going down for the 7:30 start time?
somnambulant
06-01-06, 07:33 PM
Not that model, unfortunately. We can do orders for them but that's it (few days to get them in).

Somna, I change my mind - don't come out to the ride this weekend and then I won't feel guilty about taking the Lemond out for a day.

hah.. dude, go for it. But only if there's one waiting for me too.. hehehe.. maybe soon!