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operator
03-14-07, 10:31 AM
you're referring to the toptube of your bike right.

...

Got another entry in bikeforums greatest hits.

jeremywhitehorn
03-14-07, 10:39 AM
Wes, i sketched out my high park training route to the best of my abilities on gmaps (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=772242).

this route takes into account a nice switchback climb and a long steady climb north of the kingsway. it's hard to follow on the map, i'll have to show you some time.
cavit8
03-14-07, 11:13 AM
For to give away
1 - 26" XRim SZ by Alex. No axle or cones etc., rear thread-on hub and wheel only. Needs truing etc.
1 - 700 cc Weinmann 519 Rim - solid axle with thread-on hub, newish bearings, needs truing.

Either suitable for a SS beater etc.

somnambulant
03-14-07, 11:37 AM
Wes, i sketched out my high park training route to the best of my abilities on gmaps (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=772242).

this route takes into account a nice switchback climb and a long steady climb north of the kingsway. it's hard to follow on the map, i'll have to show you some time.

Cool, thanks! I'll have to give both of those routes a go sometime.

ps. Just went for a 30 minute spin around downtown and man it's sticky out. Now I'm back at my desk all swampy.
Sirrobinofcoxly
03-14-07, 02:15 PM
'Beat Kids' reporter kid: "What'd you do with the bowl?"
Pageant contestent: "What bowl?"
Kid: "The one you got free with that haircut"

Wow, someone else who has seen beat kids. That show disturbs me in many a way.
sweep242
03-14-07, 02:43 PM
I dislike Mr. White's random chicks on bike photos because they are contrived, pointless and totally self indulgent. I think its funny imagining him convincing them to pose for him though... kinda perv stylez


Well as of lately he has posted some amazing photos of great bikes, most of witch did not have females on them.
But the ones that do have females on them well all the better. So self contrived well yes, pointless um hell no & self indulgent um hell yes.
Kind of perv, um hell no.
All in good fun.
SamHouston
03-14-07, 02:48 PM
Anyone going to go to this? Open to all bikes

http://www.breadwinner.ca/global_warming_alley_cat.jpg

/steal image
somnambulant
03-14-07, 02:50 PM
Nadir was telling me about that the other day.. I might stop by with LaCamerra. :P
Offhoff
03-14-07, 02:59 PM
Anyone know how much it is to race?
cavit8
03-14-07, 03:00 PM
Is there a date on the GW alleycat or am I just too stupid to notice...
Offhoff
03-14-07, 03:02 PM
No there was no date I had to backtrack to the blog, March 21st
Danhalen
03-14-07, 04:29 PM
So they're going to get a bunch of stray cats and somehow convince them to race simultaneously in 4 different cities? Someone please explain this to me. :D
Sirrobinofcoxly
03-14-07, 04:55 PM
So they're going to get a bunch of stray cats and somehow convince them to race simultaneously in 4 different cities? Someone please explain this to me. :D

Hormones and mind control me thinks.
Sirrobinofcoxly
03-14-07, 09:41 PM
This guy might be looking at a world of trouble if he keeps running that tensioner...

http://fixedgeargallery.com/2004/g/tamas.htm
tovi
03-14-07, 09:45 PM
kind of random, but:
does anyone have a lead on a 1" threadless steel fork with a brake hole preferably straight blade?
muchas gracias
operator
03-14-07, 09:59 PM
That is definitley not safe...
shapelike
03-14-07, 10:03 PM
Last season at least you could get a 1" Steamroller fork from QBP. For the shops that deal with Marinoni (who stock EVO components), you should take a look at this site for possibilities: http://www.evo.com.tw/
cavit8
03-14-07, 10:37 PM
That is definitley not safe...

Given that he has a front and rear brake, I suspect skidding and skipping or using his legs in backward action at all is not being done. Sort of begs the question, though.
jeremywhitehorn
03-14-07, 10:57 PM
kind of random, but:
does anyone have a lead on a 1" threadless steel fork with a brake hole preferably straight blade?
muchas gracias

urbane has em, i have one on my bike and it's fine. nothing fancy but it's steel and works well.
jeremywhitehorn
03-14-07, 10:58 PM
This guy might be looking at a world of trouble if he keeps running that tensioner...

http://fixedgeargallery.com/2004/g/tamas.htm

that is the second bike i've seen on the FGG that is running a tensioner. that man is in for a world of hurt.
Shiznaz
03-15-07, 06:28 AM
haha check it out!

http://toronto.craigslist.org/mis/294241836.html
somnambulant
03-15-07, 07:22 AM
bahahahahah.. awesome.
iherald
03-15-07, 08:12 AM
haha check it out!

http://toronto.craigslist.org/mis/294241836.html

I think this is my dream girl (assuming it's a girl...)
cavernmech
03-15-07, 08:20 AM
Is there a date on the GW alleycat or am I just too stupid to notice...
I would say that the flyer artist is gonna get a talking to.
TRaffic Jammer
03-15-07, 08:27 AM
I bet there is an organizer who ok'd the poster slapping his forehead too. :( :o :p
When print jobs go bad from the get go. Full suck points.
Shiznaz
03-15-07, 08:31 AM
I would say that the flyer artist is gonna get a talking to.

Actually, I figured out the date on my own. I think they are just trying to be clever, as spring starts on March 21st, and the flyer says "SEASONS CHANGE AND REARRANGE". Still it is awfully oblique for the multitudes of people less intelligent than myself.
tovi
03-15-07, 08:41 AM
thanks for the Urbane tip! They actually have in stock what I'm looking for. I'll go check it out today. It was either buying this http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=018&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=280092551308&rd=1&rd=1
or finding a cheaper local alternative. Seems the exact fork I'm looking for comes stock on Urbanites. Unless anyone has anything bad to say about those ones...
cavernmech
03-15-07, 09:17 AM
Still it is awfully oblique for the multitudes of people less intelligent than myself.
Most of the general populace shurely.
_iv
03-15-07, 09:37 AM
them cheap black campy mirage brakes, if anyone's interested:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=015&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=250093943009&rd=1&rd=1

mine will go on the nice bike, here's version 0.2
operator
03-15-07, 10:01 AM
them cheap black campy mirage brakes, if anyone's interested:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=015&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=250093943009&rd=1&rd=1

mine will go on the nice bike, here's version 0.2

Wow, great deal ! $40 shipped not including tax/brokerage (if there is any).
jet sanchEz
03-15-07, 10:26 AM
that is the second bike i've seen on the FGG that is running a tensioner. that man is in for a world of hurt.

Does he have that tensioner on upside down? It doesn't look right to me....
operator
03-15-07, 11:14 AM
Does he have that tensioner on upside down? It doesn't look right to me....

Yeah, the other guy who used a tensioner on FGG had it on the other side of the chain braced against the chainstay.
Sirrobinofcoxly
03-15-07, 11:15 AM
Does he have that tensioner on upside down? It doesn't look right to me....

It actually works better like that because it gives you more tooth grab...on a single speed. It doesn't always fit like that, but do it if you can. FG ya'll? I say nay!
zippered
03-15-07, 12:13 PM
so i got some bike cops to pull over an aggressive driver on my way home just now. i waited for them, and then rode over to see what happened. i should have gone back right away because she gave them some sob story and since i totally neglected to tell them a few more details which would have shown her to be full of $hit no tickets were given. i talked with two of the cops for a while, and asked them some questions. when i asked about how they defined "stopping" the veteran one said that as long as a cyclist slows down and at least looks both ways at stop signs, he'd consider it stopping, but that it was open to individual interpretation. they were very approachable (and jealous of my nice bike) but still cops.
canice
03-15-07, 12:35 PM
haha check it out!

http://toronto.craigslist.org/mis/294241836.html

hey, i saw that guy there. i am not the CL poster in question, however.
Shiznaz
03-15-07, 12:48 PM
hey, i saw that guy there. i am not the CL poster in question, however.

Its funny because we have all seen and talked about that guy before, and he is always there, and I bet so many other people know of him too. I want to see a christmas tree with high end racing bikes hanging off it for ornaments like he always does to the pole outside ideal.
somnambulant
03-15-07, 01:04 PM
All I wants for xmas is a cervelo r3.
tovi
03-15-07, 01:31 PM
operator, check your email pronto
I_bRAD
03-15-07, 01:47 PM
Does anyone know if the snow and ice has melted off of the Martin goodman trail from Roncesvalles to Parklawn yet?
operator
03-15-07, 01:48 PM
operator, check your email pronto

HELL YEAH.
jeremywhitehorn
03-15-07, 02:00 PM
Dan, thanks for the tip on the black cycling cap - picked it up at racer sportif this afternoon. while i was there i spotted the object of my affections: baby blue lugged aquila track frame in columbus steel in my preferred size. unfortunately i don't have $790 right now...
jeremywhitehorn
03-15-07, 02:17 PM
Does anyone know if the snow and ice has melted off of the Martin goodman trail from Roncesvalles to Parklawn yet?

i've heard second hand that it's not. the city doesn't clear it either so even without the ice, all the sand and crud is still there.
I_bRAD
03-15-07, 02:20 PM
i've heard second hand that it's not. the city doesn't clear it either so even without the ice, all the sand and crud is still there.

My "commuter" is a converted mountain bike so sand and crud isn't a big deal. Darkness+Ice+drinking is another story however! Thanks for the info.
gokiburi
03-15-07, 03:10 PM
HELL YEAH.

please share with the rest of the class.
zippered
03-15-07, 03:19 PM
went to the car wash!
got rid of the crud!
wipe down and lube on the deck!
drying in the sunshine and the neighbour sawing wood next door = bike covered in sawdust!
:lol:
Shiznaz
03-15-07, 03:32 PM
Tonight I need to do a spring tune up on my flite 100 commuter and reassemble the cyclops to go to FCV on saturday, but I don't have a proper bar set up for riding in groups.. only bullhorns. Basically I have all these oddball stems and only 26.0 drop bars. maybe I can just borrow the stem and bars from one of the rentals.

If anyone has a 1" threaded quill stem in 26.0, preferably with a removable faceplate and preferably with some rise that I can borrow for the weekend I would be grateful. Or if you have cinelli drop bars I can borrow.. or nitto drop bars... Oh boy..
gokiburi
03-15-07, 03:33 PM
aren't cinelli drops an odd size as well?
canice
03-15-07, 03:45 PM
yes, older cinelli bars are 26.4mm

i learned this the hard way last weekend when i bought a new salsa stem, thinking my bars were post-switch to 26. and now i have a scratched up bar to show for it, and still my old, way-too-long stem.
Shiznaz
03-15-07, 03:48 PM
aren't cinelli drops an odd size as well?

Yeah, they are 26.4

I have a cinelli stem with no cinelli drop bars

Nittos are 25.4

I have a nitto stem with no nitto drop bars (except for some track drops that are too low for that bike)

standard road is 26.0

I have 26.0 drop bars no 26.0 threaded stem

So basically I'm screwed! Maybe I'll just shim the damn cinelli stem and hope my bars don't fall off...
Shiznaz
03-15-07, 03:49 PM
yes, older cinelli bars are 26.4mm

i learned this the hard way last weekend when i bought a new salsa stem, thinking my bars were post-switch to 26. and now i have a scratched up bar to show for it, and still my old, way-too-long stem.

Wanna trade your bars for my bars? Mine are just generic road drops wrapped in black cork that came on my flite 100. I have other goodies as well as monetary compensation... scratches bother me not.

I better doublecheck to see if my cinelli stem is actually 26.4. It came off a 1990 pinarello, so it could be either.