Rides and Races - Toronto Fixed

Brakes? Wimp! He has two good feet.

haha no solidarity!

Cavern I won't be by tonight, long day on the bike. But I'll come down tomorrow sometime, hopefully, with my buddy to get his MTB fixed for the race.

I'd be down (though I'd suck) but I'd need a Mac version.

It's okay, we all suck compared to those punk kids that play on the public servers...

I can hook you up with the Mac version. The game requires at least a G5 2GHz or faster.

Hey good stuff use a lock & stay away from shuter st!

My online gaming days are over with this confuser!

Aw come on, let's get you out of gaming retirement. It'll give you a chance to snipe operator!

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/310197569.html

"about the coolest looking pedals I've ever seen."
hahaha.. if "cool" means looking like your pedal has fallen off.
$100 is "cheap" compared with retail though...

Aw come on, let's get you out of gaming retirement. It'll give you a chance to snipe operator!

Minimum Requirements
1, 4 GHz Prozessor (Celeron / Duron)

512 MB RAM

ATi Radeon 9200 / GeForce 4


Optimum Requirements

2, 5 GHz Prozessor (Athlon XP / Pentium 4)

1 GB RAM

ATi Radeon 9800XT / GeForce FX 5900


I gots p4,1.60ghz,384ram 5 years old. I'm a little under.

To all those racing/chillling out on Friday there will be a carberific feeding frenzy attended by atleast me, but most likely a few others, at The Dumpling House at 328 Spadina. Which is Spadina on the west side just south of St. Andrew. I'm gonna get there for 6-6:15. Everyone is welcome, its super cheap and delicious so I hope to see everyone out. After that we can get safe and then race for the gold. I'm bringing all my camera gear so if anyone thinks it would be wicked to ride with a camera track me down on the street or post and we'll figure something out.

PS: If anyone has a left side cross lever they'd be willing to part with I'd take it off your hands...

on the hills note, I'll add:
1) Twin Rivers Drive - this is what Sheppard turns into at the Zoo
2) Beechwood Drive - also climbs out of the Don Valley, except the road is basically permanently closed to traffic, so it's great for endless repeats without disturbance.

just missed the last seats for the movie :( but they offered to send us tickets when it officially opens :)

went to the spit instead. so windy! gosh darned nearly blowded me over!

To all those racing/chillling out on Friday there will be a carberific feeding frenzy attended by atleast me, but most likely a few others, at The Dumpling House at 328 Spadina. Which is Spadina on the west side just south of St. Andrew. I'm gonna get there for 6-6:15.

i'm gonna try my best to make it but i'll be on set that day and i never know when we'll wrap until they actually say the words. i'll text you if i'm attending. and if you're riding by the park behind the flatiron building (church & wellington/front) on friday stop by and say hello. or ring your bell. or something.

did anyone make it to the movie? i was stuck at work until now.

re: Call of Duty 2 mac version where?
Mike bon voyage mon ami et merci pour les pnues.

Zippered did you come east to go to the spit? It would have made for a quick trip home if you are going west. :)

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/

A friend is doing the RAAM and I was asking him how he was training for the hills, and he gave me this list of the best hills in his opinion in Toronto.

In the city, the best hill I have found is at Bluffer's Park in Scarborough - the bottom of Brimley. If you start right at the bottom in the parking lot and take the hill all the way up to Kingston Rd., it's almost 1500m. There are other steeper hills in the city (though Bluffers is pretty steep for the first half), but not nearly as long . Among the hardest ones are: (i) the hill climbing up to the Redway Rd. Loblaws (off of Millwood) from the sewage treatment plant in the valley; (ii) where Lawrence runs east from Bayview (starts down under the Bayview bridge and run up to the Bridlepath area); and (iii) the hills just west of High Park (Ellis Ave, Ellis Park Rd. and the switchbacks up Harcroft Rd.) If you pick the wrong gearing (especially on the Loblaws hill) these are fall-over-sideways steep - a taste of what you'll get on the switchbacks in France.

I've done the hill that runs up into the Bridlepath area, and it's a good one. Not crazy long, but pretty damn steep.

i can attest to severity of the high park hills. i organized a group ride for the fixie club a few years back and they were all groaning at me when i led them up that switchback. it'll get you in shape though.

EDIT: I have done the bluffer's park hill on my fixie; when i was first training for the hairshirt it was one of my regulars. first time up it was some insane gearing like 46x16, but most of the times up it's been something more sensible. i'm so out of shape now though, i can't imagine trying it. i don't want to have to get off and walk, becuase walking means you've been defeated!

re: Call of Duty 2 mac version where?
Mike bon voyage mon ami et merci pour les pnues.

Zippered did you come east to go to the spit? It would have made for a quick trip home if you are going west. :)

here's the torrent that im downloading http://torrentspy.com/torrent/905134/Call_Of_Duty_2_MAC_ENG_By_TnTVillage

going slow because it's a big file, mine will probably take 2 days or so.

Ronin said something about supplying copies of it.

here's the torrent that im downloading http://torrentspy.com/torrent/905134/Call_Of_Duty_2_MAC_ENG_By_TnTVillage

going slow because it's a big file, mine will probably take 2 days or so.

Ronin said something about supplying copies of it.


You could try this link:

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3614522/Call_Of_Duty_2_1.3_Including_%5Bk%5D_And_SN

Otherwise, I can supply u guys with a copy. :)

You could try this link:

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3614522/Call_Of_Duty_2_1.3_Including_%5Bk%5D_And_SN

Otherwise, I can supply u guys with a copy. :)

arghhhhhhhhhh ye old pirate bay mateys!! ;)

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/310197569.html

"about the coolest looking pedals I've ever seen."
hahaha.. if "cool" means looking like your pedal has fallen off.
$100 is "cheap" compared with retail though...

you need those pedals and an old huret RD if you want a silly light bike. At least pretty much every crazy light bike I have seen has had those 2 components on them. They must be light!

for all you track bike tricksters.......some inspiration
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=tom19036

arghhhhhhhhhh ye old pirate bay mateys!! ;)
What do you call a pirate robot?


Yarrrrrr 2D2.
Thank yew thank yew....be here all week. Tip your server.

:lol: try the veal

What do you call a pedophile pirate?

Yarrrrrrr Kelly.

*cue the crickets*

Zippered did you come east to go to the spit? It would have made for a quick trip home if you are going west. :)

ooohhh yesss

tic-tacked east down to cherry street and across the marsh. only made it to the bridge before turning back into the brutal wind. the headwind wasn't so bad, it was the cross wind pushing me sideways and freezing my ear canal that was unpleasant. some of the biggest waves i've seen out there. i was dressed for the rain, but not really for a 40 km ride.

anyway, yes, it was a brilliantly fast ride back west. i was spinning out with no effort. would have considered going even farther west but the wetness was begining to seep into my shoes and my fingers were starting to pass the painful point toward numbness.

as a side-note: whereas i am amused by my funky-looking new bar tape, the cinelli stuff is not nearly as nicely padded as the silva kind.

What do you call a pedophile pirate?

Yarrrrrrr Kelly.

*cue the crickets*

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2112/left036qk.jpg
EXCELLENT!!!!!

I rode home east last night, stopped halfway and went back to my 18 from 16 just for 2 teeth of relief

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/2112/left036qk.jpg
EXCELLENT!!!!!

I rode home east last night, stopped halfway and went back to my 18 from 16 just for 2 teeth of relief
You have 2 gears?! This is a single speed forum buddy...move along, nothing to see here.
That was a brutal wind tho. Loving the 44 x 17 I am running at the moment...69.9 gear inches....Alll right.

yup .... stop and go

one dozen...will drop off later

KEITH!!!!
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http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/

"Rant: The Dog Ate What?"

i'm laughing so hard i'm crying!

Anyone seen this: http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/310502477.html? What are people's opinion on this? Assuming you sell a bike and don't know it's cracked, would you refund the money?

Fetish Cycle front fork. This might be Cavernmech's buddies:

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/310387786.html

Assuming you sell a bike and don't know it's cracked, would you refund the money?
Yes. At the same time when you buy used stuff you take your chances. He would be a ******bag to not refund the guys $.

Fetish Cycle front fork. This might be Cavernmech's buddies:

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/310387786.html
Hahahahahahaha...yeah, he already posted that fork a week or so ago. Pete was over there like a shot. Not the one tho.

Kurt Vonnegut died last night. So it goes.

does an accessable trip bath for a bike frame exist?

does an accessable trip bath for a bike frame exist?
??...elaborate please?

oops strip bath I meant..media blast,....super duper frame-to-metalizer

anybody read the now this week? the bike issue. they do a car vs. ttc vs. bike commuter challenge. guess who wins.

anybody read the now this week? the bike issue. they do a car vs. ttc vs. bike commuter challenge. guess who wins.

The TTC!!!;)

All of a sudden a bunch of people from my old high school are adding me to Facebook. I don't use the site very often, but it's interesting to see pictures of people 9 years later.

All of a sudden a bunch of people from my old high school are adding me to Facebook. I don't use the site very often, but it's interesting to see pictures of people 9 years later.

Facebook is like herpes. It spreads real fast and occasionally has an outbreak of rashes and lesions etc. Join facebook, invite friend who doesn't have facebook, who invites other friend, who etc. I generally get like 5 friend requests during one day, and then none for a few weeks.

Anyone seen this: http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/310502477.html? What are people's opinion on this? Assuming you sell a bike and don't know it's cracked, would you refund the money?

Absolutely. But buddy who sold it knew it was cracked. The photos are pretty explicit. And too, the buyer should have checked it out. I don't care if you were on your lunch break or not. It takes two minutes to run your hands down the tubes and wrap a string to eyeball if the frame is bent.

And yes, facebook is similar to herpes, but without the pain and social stigma. At least not yet... Maybe I don't have enough friends, as Rob so kindly pointed out :(

facebook is now officially bad for being able to see whether ex girlfriends turned out hot or not.

I'll take to mean ...oh man ..look at her now... if only I'd known

I'll take to mean ...oh man ..look at her now... if only I'd known

Well one I was like "phew" the other I was like "holy cow, I'm an idiot!"

The TTC!!!;)

Gah, does that ttc guy want his own private subway car or something? When I was commuting to Richmond/John from St Clair/Dufferin it only took 30 minutes (only 20 minutes by bike).

I've got to lay off those vitamins....http://cavit8.clawz.com/images/crank.jpg

Thats totally user error. You must screwed on your pedals wrong.


Welcome to the mangled crank club.
http://www.wwmovers-africa.com/haro/crank2.jpg
It must have been fun having half a crank and a pedal attached to your shoe!

I thought of you once I figured out what had happened. Luckily I had a bag of buns from the Pheonix bakery so I'm solacing mysefl as we speak. They are new pedals though, so it's Shapelike's fault for selling them to me. Boy, when he gets back from Paris he'll get a talking to.

Maybe its because your saddle didn't match your bar tape? Good to know you didn't crash and burn.. that looks like it could have been a bad one!

PS. I have some campy alloy dustcaps screwed into my old shimano cranks, and the 5mm allen key hole has totally stripped, its almost flush with the crank arm, and its in there pretty tight. Suggestions? The reason I want to remove it is so I can tighten my BB which has been slipping slightly. All I can think to do is drill some little holes for a pin spanner which I don't own, or jam a 6mm torx key in there which I also don't own, or laboriously file out a slot and take it out with a flathead screw driver which I do own.

Oh yeah, Robin, when you rode up the Pacific Coast were the headwinds brutal? like, a deal maker or breaker? Keeping in mind I'll be loaded up to the brim and not on a racing bike.

It would be more convenient for me to go from LA to vancouver, but the benefit of doing vancouver to LA is:
prevailing winds come from north to south
wider shoulders on west side of 101
more touring cyclists heading south
better view heading south
not wedged between traffic and a rock wall heading south
I will be able to choose whether to do the trans canada or southern tier route once I get to LA

The cons are:
Pacific northwest weather in june can be sketchy
Pacific southwest weatehr in july can be brutally hot
I will have to take more than one flight (LA to Vancouver ~$110CAD)

Decisions, decisions...

You may be able to drill the holes, thread in some screws of some kind and put a screwdriver in between them and lever it aroundhttp://cavit8.clawz.com/images/Diagram1.png

Oh and my bartape does match my saddle which is likely why I only barked my knee a bit. Not even worth a photo.