Rides and Races - Toronto Fixed

Yesterday evening I was riding to Yoga class with my girlfriend. She got caught behind me at bloor so I waited on the south side and when she passed me I hopped back on the pedals and tried to start going. But I ground to a halt when my toe got caught on my fender and then my fender bent and touched the tire and then the tire sucked in the fender bending the metal fictures and plastic part. I thought I was going to have to walk the bike but I managed to pry it out enough to ride to yoga and then to work today. Mighty annoying! If I didn't have a tiny 10mm box wrench on my multi tool I would have been screwed (LOL!!!!) I've also ripped my shorts several times on my fenders... its those damn metal spikes that shoot out of them but I didn't want to cut them down in case I wanted to swap them over to some other bike. But now its messed anyways! So are my shorts!

Lol Shiznaz. Anyways yeah

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Well I'm just about ready to flip a coin here. What do your guts say? Because god knows I don't have any! I suppose the novelty of having my mum give me pedals and cycling shoes soon after my birthday might be nice. I wish this was standardized or something. I hate gambling with anything except my life or future!

Who's going to Critical Mass on Friday?

I'll be there.

maybe just maybe.....daughter will be girlying on her 13th with youngest, my wife , and friends. I just may need a distraction.

Ronin ....makin' dinner, shout me later man, I'm speedy.
As it is if you call and ask for Traffic Jammer they will know who you are talking about :lol: ( I still get a kick outta that).... or Andrew

I wrote a random decision maker program for tough decisions like that Shiznaz. You ask it a yes or no question and it tells you the answer.

I wrote a random decision maker program for tough decisions like that Shiznaz. You ask it a yes or no question and it tells you the answer.

It's been done

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"la la ...la la la la la lalalalala la la la" *to the tune from Brazil*
Best movie ever.

I plan to use tomorrow's CM as a personal birthday parade, so anyone that wants to come out and grab a few drinks afterwards should probably do so.

it's my Bday ride too

Hooray!

:beer:

"la la ...la la la la la lalalalala la la la" *to the tune from Brazil*
Best movie ever.

My brother picked up Baron Munchausen this weekend...

I really like the Terry Gilliam movies, especially Time Bandits.

Looks like Floyd is in a bit of a bind:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=214340

If it turns out to be true, i'm going to laugh my ass off.

rob, you need a back-up bianchi. looks a bit small though.

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/186981152.html

Who's going to Critical Mass on Friday?

I hope to if it's not pouring maybe i should bring butter for the birthday boy's noses?
Cheers

Rain is now my b*tch, ever since I got these full fenders. Hellz yeah!

Fenders are the new black.

full fenders do rock, I'd like to CM but I'm scheduled to work til at least 9 tomorrow:(

I love fenders and nearly bought one of those Mercier TTs on eBay specifically because the frame has eyelets on the fork and rear stays for fenders. A winter-bike without fenders is useless to me. I have a snap-on fender on the GT and it is fine but I really think a bike looks great with full fenders.

Fenders add too much aero drag to my bike

Ronin ....makin' dinner, shout me later man, I'm speedy.
As it is if you call and ask for Traffic Jammer they will know who you are talking about :lol: ( I still get a kick outta that).... or Andrew


Thanks for the loaner wheel. It rides smoooooth... Mmm... Campy...

:D

Fenders add too much aero drag to my bike
hahahahaha. You get there 1 minute faster.....I will be dry.

Thanks for the loaner wheel. It rides smoooooth... Mmm... Campy...

:D
I can't remember the exact quote by Trafficjammer...but it was something like "Campy is lubricated with the tears of Unicorns". Priceless!

Who's going to Critical Mass on Friday?

one of my bosses messed up my schedule so I am working saturday when I asked for it off over a week ago...

Tomorrow I am scheduled from 9-8, but I am going to try and sneek out a bit early depending on how we are doing, there will still be two other mechanics working 'till close, so I think will be able to, and if my boss gives me any **** I'm not going to put up with it..

arggg... I missed last months CM because of asimilar situation :(

I can't remember the exact quote by Trafficjammer...but it was something like "Campy is lubricated with the tears of Unicorns". Priceless!

ahaha, mmmm I just repacked the campy hubs on the Rossin.

The front is buttery, rear is nice but not as good.

One thing you can do to get your cup and cone hubs feeling minty (as long as they're already in good shape) it is get tooth polish and repack you hubs with it instead of grease, ride like that for 100k or so and the bearing surfaces will be like mirrors.

Grease 'em up and your good to go. :D

Never "grease" Campy anything, they are lubed forever with the tears of angels. :p

Kaibot ... standin' up to the man. Word, props et al.

found it.:p Ronin glad it runs nice, super that it's holding a rider up, that's when Campy stuff is happiest. Did Keith have to do anything to it?

CM update: I will be at home with my youngest this evening laughing our asses off watching 'Benchwarmers' as her older sister, my now teenaged daughter:eek: , goes out with her gf's and her mom.

Have fun with it tonight.
I LOVE the tooth paste idea, we used to use crest in the Army to shine brass, and yes i HAVE cleaned large things witha tooth brush.

Operator, if the rear fender comes up the seat tube and then straight back (moto sytle) it won't be a contributor to drag and it will keep the stripe off. I've been DIY'ing fenders for years. AS for the front well you can add a down tube version but it won't give you all the protection a full frontal fender will give you. You can exfoliate as you ride. :)

FYI That movie looks pretty terrible :D

It depends on how your comedy gene is structured. I love all forms of comedy (I love stupid goofy physical humour)..I caught a bit of it last night and it was making me laugh. If you think less of me then *pokes you in both eyes at the same time Stooges Style* nuk nuk nuk woo woo woo woo :lol:

It depends on how your comedy gene is structured. I love all forms of comedy (I love stupid goofy physical humour)..I caught a bit of it last night and it was making me laugh. If you think less of me then *pokes you in both eyes at the same time Stooges Style* nuk nuk nuk woo woo woo woo :lol:
* blocks eye poke with edge of hand...follows up with windmill co-co bonk*

I fall from the co-co bonk onto that 2x8 that always seems to be lying about. Up it swings on it's randomly perfect fulcrum and thwap! Oh the comedy of errors that is this kooky life..:lol:

Lymbzero you still want my syntace stratos bullhorns? $20!

We made it! Not much time to write (gotta shower/change/eat/abuse recreational drugs), but all is well. I've got the most horrifying roadie tan lines now and Wes' Rabobank cap has slowly rotted off his head over the course of the week. More stories next week.

Oh, last I heard $660000 has been raised. Woot.

Congrats :D

BTW my biking tans could tolly pwn yours.

Congrats, fellas.

Neato, do you have to ride back or do you get to ride in a car? Nice work, was it a fixed ride for you?

Congrats on the ride Som/Eye.....................................nice CM ride last night

Wtf!?

Man killed in bizarre hit-run (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1154123418018&call_pageid=968350130169&col=969483202845)


A woman has been arrested after a 22-year-old pedestrian was killed when a car knocked him over the side of a bridge in Etobicoke...

The driver stopped for a moment, looked back in the victim’s direction and drove north on Islington Ave., police said.


What's wrong with people these days?

I hope she gets at least 10 years!

Well done guys. We'll have to get together at some point so as to regale us with tales of the trip.

Off topic... does anyone have an M8 x 1.25 die and handle I could borrow? I've tried to locate one at Canadian Tire, Home Depot, and Rona with no luck. Ya they sell individual ones, but not metric in this size. I've chopped down a stem and need to extend the bolt threads in order to tighten up the quill.

Wtf!?

Man killed in bizarre hit-run (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1154123418018&call_pageid=968350130169&col=969483202845)



What's wrong with people these days?

I hope she gets at least 10 years!
All she will get is a small slap on the wrist,

Rats, double post.

What's wrong with people these days?

I hope she gets at least 10 years!

"a car heading northbound veered across two lanes of oncoming traffic, mounted the curb and struck the man"

Sounds pretty intentional to me, maybe it was her husband or ex-husband or cheating lover or whatever. Had he been on a bicycle, he could have dodged the attack.

Wow what a crazy *****. I hope they lock her up for murder.

Well done guys. We'll have to get together at some point so as to regale us with tales of the trip.

Off topic... does anyone have an M8 x 1.25 die and handle I could borrow? I've tried to locate one at Canadian Tire, Home Depot, and Rona with no luck. Ya they sell individual ones, but not metric in this size. I've chopped down a stem and need to extend the bolt threads in order to tighten up the quill.
I have one. You can get one from Atlas Machinery, Queen West just a smidge west of Simcoe St. The last one I got was $14 I think.

Thanks for the good time last night, CM kids.

Hey Steeker, were you riding home along the Esplanade? I think I saw you as I was riding down Berkeley, you were riding through that park that comes out on Parliament.

It looked like you, but then I saw a mountain bike... but then I remembered that you were on your MTB at CM :)

Thanks for the good time last night, CM kids.

Yes yes not to long, not to short, sign a car, drink some beers that i never heard of (but good)oh & the big question that i answered in various different ways "What are you people doing?"

Happy to hear the two road warriors made it back safe & didn’t get eaten by bears, wolfs, or beavers!
Cheers