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ya rode this weekend both mornings, down the lakefront.. so high park's all snowed out.. coudln't go..crashed on the snow on 28mm tires on the lakefront path.. then went on the road (very very few cars). beautiful days, good weather. it's too bad vacation's over now.
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cavernmech
01-09-06, 07:21 AM
[QUOTE=somnambulant]
Well, I guess someone else in TO has a dark grey spicer. I didn't think it was shiznaz, but I wasn't certain.QUOTE]
Thats Emilio and yes.......he is a newbie.
somnambulant
01-09-06, 07:30 AM
ahh.. cool. I was wondering if it was someone we knew or not!
I rode for the first time in over 3 weeks this morning. I figured I'd give myself nearly 3 weeks of healing since I broke my rib before I got back on again. Didn't bother me much (except for my lunch jabbing me right there from my bag), but man I feel like a sack of **** in the saddle after being away even for only a few weeks!
gokiburi
01-09-06, 09:57 AM
by the way...Did I read somewhere that Gokiburi is out of town? Different Country?
hola everyone! akema****e omedetou..happy belated new year from japan... haven't done ANYTHING bike-related over here..but been meaning to.. saw 2 fixies, one in osaka and one in shizuoka.. former was taped up and had some kyoto loco spoke cards and tennis balls.. the latter was a vivalo which belonged to my friend's boyfriend. it was locked up outside with the flimsiest of chains..only in japan. suntour superbe pro throughout..with rusting chain tugs, a rear brake plate and a lever on the drops.. pics soon. i'll hopefully have a nice miyata conversion waiting for me when i get back.. thanks cam and keith. can't wait to dig into some buns. ;)
How's the snow over there. BBC has shown some horrendous dumps.
somnambulant
01-09-06, 10:38 AM
I think I'm about to take a horrendous dump as well.. it might even make the BBC. ;)
darkmother
01-09-06, 11:47 AM
Hey, where do you guys get your buns? I was looking for this restaurant I heard about on the CBC a few months back, I believe it is called Mothers, or something like that-but I can't find it. I think it is around kensington mkt. somewhere. I've tried the place across from Swatow on spadina, what else is good?
somnambulant
01-09-06, 11:52 AM
darkmother: I've never been there, but this is what you're looking for:
Mother's Dumplings
79 Huron Street,
Toronto, ON M5T 2A8
Tel. : 416-217-2008
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-09-15/goods_foodfeature2.php
http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2005-10-27/cover_story9.php
somnambulant
01-09-06, 11:52 AM
also: http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/jan/JeremyWhitehorn.htm
darkmother
01-09-06, 02:09 PM
Cool, thanks man.
sr20det
01-09-06, 02:59 PM
somnambulant, is that your urbanite?
Mother's Dumplings is pretty damn cheap, pretty much the same prices for all hong kong styled cafe's. 5-6 bucks for a full meal and drink.
If your real stinge try going to most chinese bakeries and pick up 6 buns for 3 bucks.
also, you guys should try Korean BBQ if your not vegetarian.
I live in scarborough so I am absolutely CLUELESS about dt.
In the spring you guys should take me on a sightseeing tour of downtown.
I think I'm about to take a horrendous dump as well.. it might even make the BBC. ;)
See, there's some days you post something... look at it and think, "there's an easy lob, but who would be lowbrow enough to take it".... :D
DM - we often get our buns at Kim Moon bakery on Dundas.
operator
01-09-06, 03:51 PM
Bah, the only riding i've done lately is on the bus, to finch (lame).
gokiburi
01-09-06, 04:45 PM
How's the snow over there. BBC has shown some horrendous dumps.
i haven't been so regular myself lately.. as for snow, it's been really bad in parts of northern japan (we're talking about 2 meters of snow) like akita and niigata. lot of older houses collapsing under the weight and killing people, mostly seniors. a lot of train service disruptions too. but it hasn't been too bad in the rest of japan (tokyo, osaka, kyushu region). it's been chilly with only a few patches of sun. it was really warm in shizuoka (smack dab between osaka and tokyo) the other day though. they've got a nice keirin track there but everything has been closed the last 2 days for a national holiday.
somnambulant
01-09-06, 05:53 PM
See, there's some days you post something... look at it and think, "there's an easy lob, but who would be lowbrow enough to take it".... :D
Dude, I'll always be there for you. :P
sr20det: nope, not my urbanite. But just thought I'd post up a local.. especially since he also says:
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/articles/torontofixedgroup.htm
here's the group's url: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/torfix/
do you guys know anything about this?
eyefloater
01-09-06, 05:57 PM
Well, FedEx showed up today while I was at work. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be the proud owner of a brand spankin' new frame. *joy*
somnambulant
01-09-06, 06:05 PM
sweet. I'm looking forward to checking it out! The pictures I've seen look pretty nice.
eyefloater
01-09-06, 06:18 PM
Side note: I'm watching the debate (streamed off the CBC site) right now and if I hear "accountability" one more time I'm going to ****ing scream. It's Canada's "Now, more than ever ..."
Dude, I'll always be there for you. :P
sr20det: nope, not my urbanite. But just thought I'd post up a local.. especially since he also says:
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/articles/torontofixedgroup.htm
here's the group's url: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/torfix/
do you guys know anything about this?
They were on the board for a bit and had a website with some of their group rides before, apparently, one of them bought a smart car. His handle was Aerofix and the group used to do monthly fixed rides. I was going to go to one and decided to sleep in instead.
Some of the names that I recall were Jeremy Whitehorn, Alan Thwaits and I think Phil Piltch.
operator
01-09-06, 06:59 PM
Shiznaz rode with that group, ask him.
jeremywhitehorn
01-09-06, 09:10 PM
also: http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2006/jan/JeremyWhitehorn.htm
hey you guys found my bike! i'm new to this list but not to fixed riding. yes the toronto fixed group exists and does monthly rides and such so there are people in the t-dot riding fixed as a group. nothing crazy, no alley cats, no one handed trackstands holding a beer just riding i guess. i'm glad to have tapped another source for fixed riders in the city. who's interested in riding on the weekends?
yes shiznaz did ride with us once i think last year but i think i scared him off with a crazy pace; we should take 2 on that one...
Hey, where do you guys get your buns? I was looking for this restaurant I heard about on the CBC a few months back, I believe it is called Mothers, or something like that-but I can't find it. I think it is around kensington mkt. somewhere. I've tried the place across from Swatow on spadina, what else is good?
you can get buns in the buns/bakery shop on spadina between queen st and dundas/college.
also a very good buns/dimsum place, all they do is takeout/standing room only, on baldwin st. east of beverley, just south of u of toronto.
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darkmother
01-10-06, 08:43 AM
[QUOTE=jeremywhitehorn] who's interested in riding on the weekends?
QUOTE]
For sure, I'd love to. Keep us posted.
somnambulant
01-10-06, 08:47 AM
For sure, I'd love to. Keep us posted.
moi aussi. I'm out of town this weekend though.
somnambulant
01-10-06, 02:47 PM
Well, FedEx showed up today while I was at work. Hopefully tomorrow I'll be the proud owner of a brand spankin' new frame. *joy*
Somebody is quiet! I bet a new ride is being built as I type this. :)
darkmother
01-10-06, 02:57 PM
Somebody is quiet! I bet a new ride is being built as I type this. :)
Nice weather for it too. Post pictures.
somnambulant
01-10-06, 03:00 PM
mmm.. bike pr0n.
eyefloater
01-10-06, 03:33 PM
*sigh*
My frustration level is currently right up there. FedEx fubared my delivery rather nicely. Instead of delivering the frame this morning (as per my phone call w/ them last night), they left the frame off the truck today and sent out a letter in the mail informing me it was going to be returned back to the sender since I hadn't been there to pick it up on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd attempts. Here's the funny thing, there were no 2nd, 3rd attempts ... and apparently I was talking to someone who doesn't even work for FedEx last night because that conversation did absolutely ****-all. Now they're saying it will show up at my work sometime tomorrow between the hours of 10am and ... oh, let's say 6pm.
At least it will end up at the shop so I can start working on it as soon as the rest of the parts come in.
- eyefloater
somnambulant
01-10-06, 03:35 PM
ugh.. fedex is the ****ing worst man. They always find a way to bungle things. Actually, I think all mail delivery type services are pretty craptacular. I mean, it isn't rocket science damnit!
sr20det
01-10-06, 03:44 PM
holy... I'm pretty pissed off about USPS rite now...
I've been waiting 3 weeks for 5 different things to come. NONE of it has arrived from the states yet.
something better get to my house tomorrow or I'm going to go insane.
somnambulant
01-10-06, 03:50 PM
The worst is when you order something that could be damaged in the mail. Every extra day it's out there it's more likely to get borked.
My current laptop took forever and a day to get to me (it was a custom build so it had to come from Apple in California). Thankfully it was totally unharmed!
eyefloater
01-10-06, 03:55 PM
Okay, on a brighter note - anyone catch the info from the Steve Jobs' keynote today at Macworld? The new iMac's look great ... hopefully they'll be able to dual boot Windows and OSX. That would be the perfect setup for me.
somnambulant
01-10-06, 05:24 PM
yeah, I saw some of the coverage after the fact. Good to know they're ahead of schedule. My powerbook is about a year old, which is good as far as I'm concerned. I'd prefer to give it another year or so for software companies to put out universal binaries and such. I'm also interested to see some objective reviews (say from arstechnica.com, or some other fairly objective / non-fanboy site) of the new intel platform. Just because Steve says the iMacs are 2x faster doesn't mean it's true... I mean, that's kind of a BS / subjective measurement in itself.
But yeah, dual-booting would be great. Also, if game companies could easily port to MacOS (or run in a dual-booting windows enviro) I would be ultra happy. It's the only thing the Mac lacks as far as I'm concerned. Although I got an xbox360, which is covering those bases quite well! :D
Anyhoo.. </nerdtalk>
eyefloater
01-10-06, 05:41 PM
*opens nerdtalk tag back up*
After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. "That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They probably will," he said. "We won't do anything to preclude that."
http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-5733756-2.html
eyefloater
01-10-06, 05:43 PM
Two Toronto-based videos ... I believe I saw a familiar face or two:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=chipmessiah
operator
01-10-06, 06:54 PM
Pfft mac.
sr20det
01-10-06, 07:15 PM
Pfft mac.
haha I feel exactly the same. :p
Man, you have an xbox 360! Invite us over to play!
Times like this, I feel I should have kept mine.
operator
01-11-06, 06:07 AM
haha I feel exactly the same. :p
Man, you have an xbox 360! Invite us over to play!
Times like this, I feel I should have kept mine.
That was eyefloater.
I depsise all consoles.
somnambulant
01-11-06, 06:14 AM
no, it was me.. pay attention! :)
operator
01-11-06, 08:11 AM
You just made me spend 5 minutes looking for the post, which I did not find. Heh.
somnambulant
01-11-06, 08:24 AM
yeah, I saw some of the coverage after the fact. Good to know they're ahead of schedule. My powerbook is about a year old, which is good as far as I'm concerned. I'd prefer to give it another year or so for software companies to put out universal binaries and such. I'm also interested to see some objective reviews (say from arstechnica.com, or some other fairly objective / non-fanboy site) of the new intel platform. Just because Steve says the iMacs are 2x faster doesn't mean it's true... I mean, that's kind of a BS / subjective measurement in itself.
But yeah, dual-booting would be great. Also, if game companies could easily port to MacOS (or run in a dual-booting windows enviro) I would be ultra happy. It's the only thing the Mac lacks as far as I'm concerned. Although I got an xbox360, which is covering those bases quite well! :D
Anyhoo.. </nerdtalk>
It's like 6 posts back! :) (see bolded text)
sr20det
01-11-06, 01:19 PM
haha,
think some of us need new glasses.
or take a break from the computer.
and as for consoles,
dang, I want to get a PS2 so bad just to play some GT4!
somnambulant
01-11-06, 01:24 PM
Hey kid! I'm a computer!
sr20det
01-11-06, 01:47 PM
hey somnambulant,
I've always been wondering, is that avatar a picture of you?
somnambulant
01-11-06, 02:10 PM
hah.. I'm afraid so:
http://static.flickr.com/6/5666452_36b3e67244_m.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wes/5666452/in/set-88236
sr20det
01-11-06, 02:47 PM
maby I should set as desktop.
arg, my eyes burn like hell, I just spent the last 1/2 hour clicking through your flikr account trying to find a picture of your bike. :(
and nah, i'm not a stalker.... :)
somnambulant
01-11-06, 02:55 PM
hahah.. yeah, no pics of my bike online. In fact, the only pics I have of it are on undeveloped film from my Holga. It's really not that exciting though. It looks like every other debadged urbanite -> Black with a chrome straight-blade fork.
eyefloater
01-11-06, 05:29 PM
It's here!
Edit: Not like anyone cares, but I'll post a pic or two tomorrow.
sr20det
01-11-06, 05:31 PM
PICTURES!
man.. I don't think i'm ever going order anything near the christmas season again. nothing's here yet :(
Offhoff
01-11-06, 06:12 PM
Hey folks, any of you guys know of a Toronto powder coater who would be willing to do a bike. I'm looking for a nice custom paint job, the bike will need to be stripped etc.
If anyone has names, addresses, experiences, websites or prices I'd love any of them.
Thx.
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