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Shiznaz
11-01-06, 09:18 AM
"Get on the sidewalk where you belong!"

"Okay! Thanks for the advice, I knew I was doing something wrong!"


STEEKER
11-01-06, 09:40 AM
geezz the bike messengers seem soo stuck up lately , I wave or nod when I can as I pass them and normaly get the same back but now they just stare ( except a dude with a red bike with red rims he alway's waves back )

gokiburi
11-01-06, 10:05 AM
Danhalen, might as well take this to PM

why? the rest of us want to hear about this near-eviction as well. it helps to pass the time y'know.


operator
11-01-06, 10:10 AM
Evicting someone is not a fast process. It takes a long time and a court order and a cool policeman.

pyze-guy
11-01-06, 10:12 AM
why? the rest of us want to hear about this near-eviction as well. it helps to pass the time y'know.

Exactly. I have a term paper to write and would love an exuce to procratinate more.

By the way, anyone know Sunshine Sketches of a Small Town at all, and say, how well it represents urban Ontario in a rural setting at the beginning of the 1900"s?

For curiosity sake alone.

gokiburi
11-01-06, 10:25 AM
Then in the late afternoon I got a courier delivery that changed my mind. I am now officially single!

"congratulations" keith.. and i'm sure the rest of us are also wondering what's was in the box.

Shiznaz
11-01-06, 10:32 AM
Evicting someone is not a fast process. It takes a long time and a court order and a cool policeman.

Not when you are living in residence my friend. You are as they say, permanently stuck on the business end of a back alley glory hole .


"congratulations" keith.. and i'm sure the rest of us are also wondering what's was in the box.

Haha crazy, I watched that movie on VHS with some friends last night but had to go to bed right after that scene because it was late. "Vincent, are we good?" "......we good"

gokiburi
11-01-06, 10:58 AM
in a similiar vein, i was watching godfather 3 last night and had to stop half-way because it was also past my bed time.

Offhoff
11-01-06, 11:01 AM
Don't you mean you had to stop because it was hurting your will to live Goki?

1+2= Some of the greatest film ever
3=shiat

pyze-guy
11-01-06, 11:08 AM
Don't you mean you had to stop because it was hurting your will to live Goki?

1+2= Some of the greatest film ever
3=shiat

Oh come on, Sofia Coppalla was awesome in #3.

operator
11-01-06, 11:11 AM
It was gold people

gokiburi
11-01-06, 11:16 AM
howabout andy garcia? bang-bang..JOEY ZAZA!! hahahaah....

Offhoff
11-01-06, 11:29 AM
Cavern do you still have that 52cm Track Pro or did it get snatched up?

gokiburi
11-01-06, 11:30 AM
And it always seems that the drivers who have shiny pearls of wisdom to share with me about public roadway use are the same ones that f*ck with me in the first place. SO you put my life in danger, and THEN you have the nerve to lecture me about it? Seriously!

i have no idea why riding a bike downtown should not be part of the driving portion of getting a license. they should rig the course with things like fake door-prizes, cabbies cutting you off to pick up a fare, and of course, pedestrians jumping out on the street. nothing like real life to learn ya.

TRaffic Jammer
11-01-06, 11:50 AM
^^^ and some of those crazy-assed sociopath cyclists!!!!^^^ :lol:

lymbzero
11-01-06, 11:54 AM
Thats right..the ex is now officially the ex.

ALRIGHT! break free of the bonds that hold you!

gokiburi
11-01-06, 11:55 AM
^^^ and some of those crazy-assed sociopath cyclists!!!!^^^ :lol:
that too. not sure how i forgot that.

TRaffic Jammer
11-01-06, 11:57 AM
It would seem licensing assumes everything around you happens in a nice orderly fashion, whereas we all know that chaos is what rules the universe and that any semblance of order they perceive is merely a figment of their imaginations.

jet sanchEz
11-01-06, 12:13 PM
^^^ and some of those crazy-assed sociopath cyclists!!!!^^^ :lol:

Heheh, seriously, all of the things goki mentioned are true but I think the thing that is the most dangerous riding a bike downtown are dangerous cyclists. The ones who don't check their six, the ones who don't look around, the ones who ride on the sidewalk, they give the rest of us a bad name.

On a funny note, I ran into that guy with the lightning tatoo on his forehead again last week, I think I mentioned him once before, this crazy guy with long hair who started talking to me as we rode along Queen. When we came to Bathurst, instead of stopping at the red, he just said "K, see ya!" and went straight through the red causing lots of screeching and honking and swearing. Kind of hilarious because he just didn't give a ****.

So yeah, last week, again on Queen west, I was between cars due to idiocy (not my own, cab or something was pulled over) and I was hustling along when I see Lightning riding in front of me, between two cars, keeping pace with them and riding without hands. Fine, no biggie, no hands is fun, even on a ****tty mountain beater, which he was on but it is a little dangerous between two moving cars but whatevs, I already know he doesn't give an eff. He then proceeded to cut the car on his left off by turning into its lane and going across the streetcar tracks to avoid a big tour bus, all of this no-hands. Pretty impressive, I thought. The guy in the car was pissed but I think he was a bit amazed that this guy had cut him off so boldly and without hands. He stayed in the middle of the lane and kept going at a pretty good clip and then cut back into the lane right of the tracks and cut off a tour bus, again, no-hands. All along I was thinking, k, I hope I can remember all of my CPR training because this guy is going to be street paste any second but he just kept going and going. He was alongside another bus and then a truck came up along his left and he still didn't put his hands on the bars until we got to Bay and he turned off.

Deathwish? High? Needs insurance money? He isn't a courier because he had nothing with him, just his clothes. Very weird, whatever the case may be, keep your eyes peeled for him, I think he is a riot but very dangerous. Talk about giving cyclists a bad name, heheh

TRaffic Jammer
11-01-06, 12:15 PM
No hands cutting back and forth across the tracks?..... I'll pass thanks

cavernmech
11-01-06, 12:51 PM
Cavern do you still have that 52cm Track Pro or did it get snatched up?
Still on the hook. You can have er right now for $500 taxes in.

jeremywhitehorn
11-01-06, 01:35 PM
Exactly. I have a term paper to write and would love an exuce to procratinate more.

By the way, anyone know Sunshine Sketches of a Small Town at all, and say, how well it represents urban Ontario in a rural setting at the beginning of the 1900"s?

For curiosity sake alone.

i'd say if nothing else it idealizes the the pastoral ideal of rural ontario. after all, it's called "Sunshine" sketches, on the whimsical side, mentioning nothing of the physical and financial harships these people faced.
yeah, i read it in university; english professors everywhere get a huge ***** for stephen leacock; i know he's supposed to be funny but i'd call it more whimsy than anything.

jeremywhitehorn
11-01-06, 01:40 PM
congrats keith; when you mentioned getting a suprise box in the mail here i was thinking it would be some hip set of vintage campy pedals or some such thing, but divorce papers will do i suppose. when are we going to take you out to get drunk and go howling at the moon?

Offhoff
11-01-06, 01:58 PM
Ooooh 500 for it....thats very tempting...its frame and fork, does it have a headset, stem or BB? So many decisions so little time.

Shiznaz
11-01-06, 02:35 PM
congrats keith; when you mentioned getting a suprise box in the mail here i was thinking it would be some hip set of vintage campy pedals or some such thing, but divorce papers will do i suppose. when are we going to take you out to get drunk and go howling at the moon?

Keith, when you're done with the divorce papers get the signing page copied shrunk down to playing card size and get it laminated. Cool spoke card or what?

pyze-guy
11-01-06, 03:16 PM
i'd say if nothing else it idealizes the the pastoral ideal of rural ontario. after all, it's called "Sunshine" sketches, on the whimsical side, mentioning nothing of the physical and financial harships these people faced.
yeah, i read it in university; english professors everywhere get a huge ***** for stephen leacock; i know he's supposed to be funny but i'd call it more whimsy than anything.

Except this is a friggin Geography paper. I think the prof went to school with Leacock.

edit: Ohhhhh, excellent point about the hardship issues. Never occured to me to examine that aspect. I'll save a few apple turnovers for you if I can. Yes another tough day of teaching tomorrow. Apple and cranberry turnovers. Next week is tougher. Test for the little angles and then double stuffed potaotos.

And I get paid to do this.

duppy.conqueror
11-01-06, 03:28 PM
Keith, when you're done with the divorce papers get the signing page copied shrunk down to playing card size and get it laminated. Cool spoke card or what?

nice one

TRaffic Jammer
11-01-06, 03:29 PM
jees.... took you long enough to get home. :lol:

With my family being from rural Quebec going back forever, there is NOTHING easy about that kind of living, no matter what period.
I've had relatives have to get off the farm for mining.

duppy.conqueror
11-01-06, 03:42 PM
jees.... took you long enough to get home. :lol:

With my family being from rural Quebec going back forever, there is NOTHING easy about that kind of living, no matter what period.
I've had relatives have to get off the farm for mining.

hahahahahaha noooooooooo Ive been home a while!! just was taking care of baby all this time ;)

hahahahaha ya man if i took that long I would sell this bike and just walk..woulda been faster!!

TRaffic Jammer
11-01-06, 03:44 PM
It's OK ......................we understand. :rolleyes:
You should not have showed me those frames dude. I hate you.

duppy.conqueror
11-01-06, 06:15 PM
It's OK ......................we understand. :rolleyes:
You should not have showed me those frames dude. I hate you.

hahahaha

operator
11-01-06, 06:56 PM
Keith, when you're done with the divorce papers get the signing page copied shrunk down to playing card size and get it laminated. Cool spoke card or what?

Either that's card pluralized or it's going to be about as thick as a phone book.

cavit8
11-01-06, 07:30 PM
Congrat's Keith

ps and if anyone wants an NAD PE3220 Integrated amp for nada, pm me.

Shiznaz
11-01-06, 07:43 PM
Either that's card pluralized or it's going to be about as thick as a phone book.
Thats why I said signing page yo

Ill Mitch
11-01-06, 09:41 PM
Heading to Arizona on Friday, gonna be sweeeet.

We're renting some of these (http://www.titusti.com/moto_al.html), gonna rip the trails!

it will be purdy like this
http://www.discovergrandcanyon.com/gallery/dramatic%20view.jpg

operator
11-01-06, 10:52 PM
Thats why I said signing page yo

Hooked on phonics

Ill Mitch
11-02-06, 01:51 AM
monkey phonics
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/7/7d/313_cartman_monkey.gif

cavernmech
11-02-06, 06:21 AM
Keith, when you're done with the divorce papers get the signing page copied shrunk down to playing card size and get it laminated. Cool spoke card or what?
Your brilliance is only exceeded by your creativity.Thank you, thank you very much.

cavernmech
11-02-06, 06:22 AM
congrats keith; when you mentioned getting a suprise box in the mail here i was thinking it would be some hip set of vintage campy pedals or some such thing, but divorce papers will do i suppose. when are we going to take you out to get drunk and go howling at the moon?
I will take this over Campy pedals anyday. Perhaps a night this weekend for some revelry?

cavernmech
11-02-06, 06:26 AM
Ooooh 500 for it....thats very tempting...its frame and fork, does it have a headset, stem or BB? So many decisions so little time.
Price given is for frame, fork, headset. B.B. and stem would be $20 a piece and up.

Offhoff
11-02-06, 06:39 AM
Thanks for the info Keith, night of revelry sounds good too. I might just have to snag that frame before someone else does <starts to crunch his accounting numbers>

darkmother
11-02-06, 07:53 AM
ps and if anyone wants an NAD PE3220 Integrated amp for nada, pm me.


Seriously? Ummmmmm....yeah. I'll definately give you something for it though.

cavernmech
11-02-06, 08:30 AM
Seriously? Ummmmmm....yeah. I'll definately give you something for it though.
NAD stuff is sweet. A freebie? Even sweeter.

TRaffic Jammer
11-02-06, 09:26 AM
NAD stuff is sweet. A freebie? Even sweeter.


Says the boss of BOOM!

jeremywhitehorn
11-02-06, 09:32 AM
aw crap, it's snowing out. hello winterbike, hello booties!

cavernmech
11-02-06, 09:54 AM
aw crap, it's snowing out. hello winterbike, hello booties!
*Slaps self in forehead at procrastination of putting together winter bike*

Shiznaz
11-02-06, 10:01 AM
I guess its time to toss the winter tires onto the commuter. I wonder if it would be a good idea to do it while I'm waiting at the laundromat... I'd end up with dirty hands (not great for folding!) Also, I hate that I need a light for the commute home now.

operator
11-02-06, 10:07 AM
Alrighty then, time to put the road pedals back on.

duppy.conqueror
11-02-06, 10:10 AM
/me has no money and therefore no changes are necessary ;)

darkmother
11-02-06, 10:12 AM
Stop talking about snow or I will kick you in the nuts.