Rides and Races - Toronto Fixed

I like fenders and I like the wood ones but they are pretty pricey; Curbside has them and I remember thinking they were very expensive, like close to 100$ or something crazy like that. I've always wondered about moustache bars and I think I will outfit them on the new ride, but more like this:

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j103/jetsanchEz/moustachio.jpg

just be careful to mount them high enough; they are made to be set up higher than a normal drop bar and can be quite uncomfortable on the hands if you have too much weight on them. also, don't forget they're something like 55cm wide.

also, don't forget they're something like 55cm wide.

Welp, that was a short-lived idea, 55cm is waaaaaaaaaay too wide for me.

55cm. We're not ruled by giants yet! I don't want to be a wet blanket, but that guys frame pump sucks.

I don't want to be a wet blanket, but that guys frame pump sucks.

It is very *****-esque, isn't it? My mind has been in the gutter all day, sorry.

One only needs to look at the thing rising out of the ground next to the skydome^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Rogers Centre

i would think a fixed hub built around a 135mm spaced rear would be the best bet; i believe that would give you a 52mm chainline as opposed to a 42 as per normal track hub specs. i forget who makes one (phil of course, surly, who else?). check 63xc.com for more of the fixed off road stuff.

as a side note, pyze: i managed to crack my 9" henkels pro about 1/2 way through the blade today (at least i noticed it today). what the hell!? it's a $140 blade! you ever cracked a knife like that?


Yeah, I'm like 99.9% sure a 135 would be perfect. I have this hub on now and it is 135 and where I have the cog gives a perfect line. Even a few mm shorter would work. Thanks for the idea on 63c, lots of 135 hubs out there. I have the axiom on a pristine mavic rim thats beggin to be changed.

I've busted a few nella knifes before, but never my good ones (Victorinox for me). I would consider sending it back. Don't henkils have warrenties? What were you doing to break it, and get a pic, would love to see the blade. I busted one trying to hack through veal bones, sheared right in half vertically in the middle. Freaked me out. Snapped one trying to pry some frozed demi out of a 20L pail. Not that funny as the blade kind of sprung across the room. Learned from that mistake to heat the blade first. Worked much better.

Welp, that was a short-lived idea, 55cm is waaaaaaaaaay too wide for me.

A friend gave me a moustache bar about 10 years ago and I tried on my7 speed. Was like driving a TTC bus. Even with the stem lowered a felt like a huge sail with my arms so wide apart. Looked like I was trying to hug the Staypuff Man.

Yeah:

http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/photos/features/earlybike.jpg

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2004/news/teampres04/usps_arizona/JDusps_az_6.jpg

Interesting photo from 2004.

Sr20det: I'm fully fixed now

My final school loan cheque has gone through as of this morning. It took ALOT of years to pay that sucker off, but I have officially put myself through school. Jeremy, two things.... Nice Clean Bike TM, wood fenders are too cool for words, and I'm almost positive you can get a replacement knife, they're a big name in the industry. OH OH to Jermey and Pyze-guy, have either of you been to that restaurant supply place across from George Brown? What are they like price wise, ...where can Daddy get himself a nicer set of knives? Or at least a few good ones.

also, don't forget they're something like 55cm wide.

That's what I like about those bars. Most of the time, you end up riding with your hands on the curves though, which are considerably narrower. The widest position really only gets used when you are climbing, or starting from a stop-and the extra leverage really helps in those situations.

Awww..

At least you had brought your fender.

I woke up this morning.. looked outside.. thought "it's going to rain", then continued to leave my apartment without my fender. Of course the second I'm outside it begins spitting.. and after work it was just a soppy mess..

I had to do the 10km/h ride all the way home and I still got juicy.

The only good thing about the rain and bikes is that your drivetrain is ultra smooth.

ya I guess it was good i put em on that morning...but now im gettin the racing stripe up my backside so it sux without the rear fender! RIP fender!:D

differnt stlye of bike http://www.lawnmowerbob.com/

I saw a mythbusters episode and they decided that a bike lawnmower was impossible. They couldn't even do it properly with an electric mower attached to the front. Maybe they were wrong though...

I just cleaned my rear rim I it was covered in road grease LOT"S of the sh*t even covering the spokes :mad: must have picked up the stuff during the later night run home, I am off today with no idea what to do

I bet someone with time & smarts on their hands could build one from an adult tricycle though. Space between the 2 rear wheels would be blammo for blades& you could have a lever to raise the blades & ride to the quickee mart....I want so much to be an eccentric (b)millionare & pay smart people obnoxious amounts of money to build stupid things for me...sigh

I saw a mythbusters episode and they decided that a bike lawnmower was impossible. They couldn't even do it properly with an electric mower attached to the front. Maybe they were wrong though...
A guy I know spent almost 2 years in Guatemala working with a program to use human power to do farm work. I am pretty sure they rigged up some kind of bike roto-tiller as well as cycle generators. The Mythbusters guys are pretty good at jury rigging stuff, but in a 3rd world country, necessity is the mother of invention.

Bah mythbusters. Just because they couldn't do something doesn't mean it actually wasn't possible. This isn't like a mathematical proof or anything.

^^

Maybe they were wrong though...

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Nice paint job on the store Kieth,

Nice paint job on the store *KEITH*. :D

I'm going riding tonight, anyone who wants to come there will be frequent discussion of safety along the way. PM is the key

My final school loan cheque has gone through as of this morning. It took ALOT of years to pay that sucker off, but I have officially put myself through school. Jeremy, two things.... Nice Clean Bike TM, wood fenders are too cool for words, and I'm almost positive you can get a replacement knife, they're a big name in the industry. OH OH to Jermey and Pyze-guy, have either of you been to that restaurant supply place across from George Brown? What are they like price wise, ...where can Daddy get himself a nicer set of knives? Or at least a few good ones.

Tap Phong sells top notch stuff for cheap. the same henkels i've got, much cheaper at TP.

My final school loan cheque has gone through as of this morning. It took ALOT of years to pay that sucker off, but I have officially put myself through school. Jeremy, two things.... Nice Clean Bike TM, wood fenders are too cool for words, and I'm almost positive you can get a replacement knife, they're a big name in the industry. OH OH to Jermey and Pyze-guy, have either of you been to that restaurant supply place across from George Brown? What are they like price wise, ...where can Daddy get himself a nicer set of knives? Or at least a few good ones.

Funny you mentioned that. I just paid mine off last night.

although rare, toronto does have its share of handguns being pulled out in cases of road rage... and it's always once the altercation has escalated.
toronto star article:
http://tinyurl.com/yyl9tj

Goki did you read the article.

From the article: About a half hour later, police stopped a 34-year-old trucker from Detroit, Mi. in the Cambridge area.

Wow, an American trucker from Detroit pulled a gun. What a surprise.

Does the threat exist? Sure, but I used to live in the murder capital of the world I have no fear in toronto especially in the downtown core where I do 99% of my riding. Scare mongering is lame.

Ohio ?

Tap Phong sells top notch stuff for cheap. the same henkels i've got, much cheaper at TP.

Props to Tap Phong. They also carry Zyliss - makers of the best garlic press on the planet.

Washington D.C.

Its a good thing that you're so brave, we need a shepherd to lead all us fear-addicted sheep around.

I never seem to get bothered when downtown even when sitting out on break, I do get the hookers waving and blowing kiss's at me so it ain't to bad

In her new incarnation

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o148/pyze-guy/IMG_8712.jpg

Here is the chainline with the 135mm hub.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o148/pyze-guy/IMG_8713.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o148/pyze-guy/IMG_8714.jpg

And if any wants some nice wide bars

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o148/pyze-guy/IMG_8715.jpg

Tap Phong sells top notch stuff for cheap. the same henkels i've got, much cheaper at TP.


Agree on the knife issue. I also like Kitchen Stuff Plus for home needs. Good prices and good knives. If I had money to burn
http://justknives101.com/images/kershaw/DMS200CMb.jpg

Only $165 right now, a savings of $120.

jeremywhitehorn: do you put any time in at Siegfrieds? I'm there next Wednesday night for some Tech school thing. Let me know if you're around and I'll swing by early.

that looks sweet and thats what I want a nice straight chain line without a tensioner ::::::::::::::: I was in Urbanes today looking at the Bianchi Bikes $800 for a chrome Pista

Nice pyze looks like quite the winter warrior you have there. I'm thinking about switching over to cruiser bars on my singulated MTB for the winter. You sure its not the boyz whistling at your steeker??? ;-)

that looks sweet and thats what I want a nice straight chain line without a tensioner ::::::::::::::: I was in Urbanes today looking at the Bianchi Bikes $800 for a chrome Pista

Horizontal dropouts with a half link. Its a IRO cog and I was able to thread a b/b lockring on before the cog. give a perfect line and makes it easier to remove the cog.

Goki did you read the article.

From the article: About a half hour later, police stopped a 34-year-old trucker from Detroit, Mi. in the Cambridge area.

Wow, an American trucker from Detroit pulled a gun. What a surprise.

Does the threat exist? Sure, but I used to live in the murder capital of the world I have no fear in toronto especially in the downtown core where I do 99% of my riding. Scare mongering is lame.


hey meng, wasn't trying to point fingers at anyone and definitely wasn't trying to scare monger. i just don't want the 0.00001% of the time that a gun is pulled, is on someone on this board.. or heck, is on anyone on a bike. dude, i don't care about telling you what to do. just be careful out there is all.
gonna pick me up a zyliss now...

Sorry Goki I jumped on that hard. Work is being...frustrating today. Zyliss garlic presses are great though. No one wants to ride tonight? Last warm night it looks like come on someone's gotta want to fly through downtown...

Tomorrow is 15 deg high full sunshine, same with Friday high 12.

I rode around all day looking for bike parts my *ss is to sore for another ride Bro sorry, now making Kraft/Tuna dinner with a movie with my Da

Sorry Goki I jumped on that hard. Work is being...frustrating today. Zyliss garlic presses are great though. No one wants to ride tonight? Last warm night it looks like come on someone's gotta want to fly through downtown...


Time and place? I might be free.

Whats the big thing with garlic presses? I've never owned one and never use one in a kitchen. I just smash the garlic with a meat tenderizer and then chop it as needed. Usually I leave the whole crushed clove as is.

I love slow cooked garlic cloves in a wine sauce hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Ops nice good to see the weather good for the next two days, Good night riding. I'm heading from the annex and returning too the annex but I'm not sure when I'm leaving I'm off work at 8 but I have to get home eat something, prepare for discussion on the topic of safety and then leave so I'd say 9:30 would be the earliest. I'm not doing anything hardcore probably just a run across to woodbine down the queen and back across or something. Not sure up to suggestions

I have been party to an incident involving a raging motorist, a cyclist and a firearm. Here in Toronto. With the driver being a Toronto citizen. It happens. You can't dictate your emotions/responses based on the possibility. However being aware that it does happen cant hurt.

Ops nice good to see the weather good for the next two days, Good night riding. I'm heading from the annex and returning too the annex but I'm not sure when I'm leaving I'm off work at 8 but I have to get home eat something, prepare for discussion on the topic of safety and then leave so I'd say 9:30 would be the earliest. I'm not doing anything hardcore probably just a run across to woodbine down the queen and back across or something. Not sure up to suggestions

I could be inticed to go. I'm at Danforth and Pape so maybe meet and then continue.

Cv Tomorrow ?

CV tomorrow is also a good idea.

Agree on the knife issue. I also like Kitchen Stuff Plus for home needs. Good prices and good knives. If I had money to burn
http://justknives101.com/images/kershaw/DMS200CMb.jpg

Only $165 right now, a savings of $120.

jeremywhitehorn: do you put any time in at Siegfrieds? I'm there next Wednesday night for some Tech school thing. Let me know if you're around and I'll swing by early.

no, sigfrieds is the domain of the "culinary management" students. i'm at school on wednesdays until about 2. i never took you for a santoku knife man; i actually just bought one to try (cheap PC model); not sure how i like it yet.

CV tomorrow is also a good idea.

Meet at bikechain.

P.S The Game - this is the most manipulative text i've seen in a while.

You think that's manipulative? You should read grinder, there are serious flaws that are left in for those who don't do other reading. Him and mystery are hilarious together, we should try the pez dispensers on bikes, its *so much fun* and the cube is the single greatest invention ever.