Rides and Races - Toronto Fixed

Anyone have a broken handicam they can give me? Sounds like an excellent deterrent if this gets a bunch more air time (which I assume it will). Plus if they take it from me and break it, I might be able to get a free working replacement for you if you're lucky.

Yellow light sprints/interval training.....is go!

Anyone have a broken handicam they can give me? Sounds like an excellent deterrent if this gets a bunch more air time (which I assume it will). Plus if they take it from me and break it, I might be able to get a free working replacement for you if you're lucky.

Just get a shirt made "Caution: Currently Filming Documentary" on the back. That will scare them.

A good technique to deal with aggressive drivers is to take out your cell phone with camera and calmly take pictures of there license plates. It usually gets them to be quiet quite quickly.

As well the new habanero flavoured bbq sauce from loblaws, PC brand is really good even if it has enough sodium to give me high blood pressure.

A good technique to deal with aggressive drivers is to take out your cell phone with camera and calmly take pictures of there license plates.

Does anyone have a broken cellphone they want to give me? This sounds like an awesome deterrent... or a motivator for them to kick your ass in even harder.

I point right at the plate, and then tap the side of my head...then give them the thumbs up as if to say "thank-you for identifying yourself"

Its like you guys are the same as us guys. we should just trade cities or something.

you guys have a traitor in your midst

Shiznaz? We just keep him around so that cabbies don't punch the rest of us.

Naw he's just helping your thread out a bit so you guys don't feel too too badly. He's a helpful sociopath like that.

i want to be the first post on page 1000!!!

get outta here max!

That was posted a while ago, I guess I didn't sell - cavit8's still interested?


Nope. I spent some time helping him identify the bike (it's a repro that's been acting as decoration) and then he said "Oh, there's a typo in the ad, I want $1500 not $500." So no. I wouldn't spend $1500 on a new bike and a reach-around let alone a curiosity type bike I'd rarely ride.

Ha ha! Three free posts from the Phillies! Well done Shiz

i want to be the first post on page 1000!!!

Will the philly boys ever see a page 1000?
stay tuned.....for another 50 years!!!!!

Nope. I spent some time helping him identify the bike (it's a repro that's been acting as decoration) and then he said "Oh, there's a typo in the ad, I want $1500 not $500." So no. I wouldn't spend $1500 on a new bike and a reach-around let alone a curiosity type bike I'd rarely ride.

Ha ha! Three free posts from the Phillies! Well done Shiz


speaking of the Phillies, im going to see them destroy the blue jays next week.

I wonder if Philly has cops that attack cyclists for following the law. I bet they don't. We rule!

Philly cops don't do anything. its awesome. when I was in Florida a few weeks ago, we got pulled over for going to wrong way, running lights and not yielding to peds, and he said, what would a Philly cop do? we said they wouldn't of done anything. he didn't believe us.

speaking of the Phillies, im going to see them destroy the blue jays next week.

:lol: the way the Jays have been playin'... we could beat them collectively without getting off our bikes.
Philly....serious cops for serious crime.

:lol: the way the Jays have been playin'... we could beat them collectively without getting off our bikes.
haha, the first MLB game I went to was in Toronto 2 summers ago. it was them vs the Yankees. it was really awesome, some random guy outside the stadium gave us free tickets. people are a lot nicer up there.

you guys should have never won in 1993

people are alot nicer up there.

We also all know that 'alot' is two words! ;)

Edit: Looks like I'm 1000! HA HA! I don't even have a fixed gear bike. Suckers!

ha, I was just about to edit it and fix that. oh well.

It's the Canadian way...
Road trip in the summer.... we'll greet you with cold beer.... real beer, .... goooood beer


you guys should have never won in 1993

Hey we bought the talent fair and square! :lol:

I usually point at their license plate too, although on my way home I had to point at the solidly red traffic light. I start riding after waiting at MY red light and this woman in a benz suv comes through the intersection and jams on her brakes/horn. I pointed at her red light and she yelled at me. Awesome.

Reminds me of when I nearly creamed a pedestrian who walked out into traffic and proceeded to tell me to watch where I'm going. Riiiiight.

25,000 Here I Come!

:lol: it makes them feel good about themselves.
I've become an advance of the green jumper..... when I see a driver without a hope in hell of getting into the intersection before the yellow runs out, I sly forward blocking them, saying...HEY it's f*&^%n' red!!! Sooo may folks just look sheepish, like a kid caught with a pre-dinner cookie. If the drivers are to take advantage of the 3sec common red, we're gonna have words. That's my go time that gets me in front of the curb lane draggers. hahahahaha I DO love leaving the occasional motorist stranded in the intersection....

I wonder if Philly has cops that attack cyclists for following the law. I bet they don't. We rule!

I bet Rob Ford would agree...

hi everyone!


Does anyone have a broken cellphone they want to give me? This sounds like an awesome deterrent... or a motivator for them to kick your ass in even harder.

d'oh i had one kicking around for a couple years (found it, called the person and they never picked it up) until just last week i turned it into a phone donation box...

in other news, i just replaced my very old cell phone with a schmancy new phone (with camera!!) this afternoon and i'm quite amused.

I just want to post on page 1000, so yes bikes rule especially those with a single gear, even more so if its a fixed sort of gear.

You,...page 1000 hanger on... :lol:

Yes! Down with plastic bags! I like it when stuff that I think should happen actually happens.

Uh... fixed gear is cool.

I'm personally only on page 833...

Ha ha.

For some reason I couldn't watch the video on the city site, but I found the news cast footage on youtube

if yer using Safari on CityNews you need to make sure your browser is set to accept 3rd party cookies and it should work fine...

in other news, i just replaced my very old cell phone with a schmancy new phone (with camera!!) this afternoon and i'm quite amused.

I just did the same as Rogers is going to drop their analog service, so I pretty much had to switch. I got a simple phone (yay) but it took me a while to get a ring tone I like. Damn, there's some annoying ones out there. And no single ring option on this phone. So I had to make my own with a ten second pause....

And I had fun trucking my new Sumolounge omni home on my back today. As an aside, anyone want a Queen size futon with two covers and/or a four drawer filing cabinet?

And to keep it fixie related, I was unlocking my bike today when a guy walked up with his wife and kids and started asking me about my "crazy bike". After he invited his wife to feel my thighs, we chatted for a few minutes before they went on their way. Fixies provide an interesting way to meet people. This is now my favourite fixie encounter pre-empting the one with IBrad and Zippered where a women was showing her grandson how fixed gears worked (she rode at Forest Hill velodrome).

Oh, and here's the police news release on our raging boy in blue: http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/pdfs/11855.pdf

You're analog. Go page 1000

Damn i wish i worked at Cannondale and could create my own custom frames and project bikes...

http://fixedgeargallery.com/2007/may/JeremiahJohnson.htm

1000!!! :eek: :D :) :D :) :D

Bikes are neat.

Oh, and here's the police news release on our raging boy in blue: http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/pdfs/11855.pdf

"Constable Darius Tierman was scheduled to appear in court at Old City Hall, on Wednesday,
May 9, 2007, at 2 p.m"

Nicely timed. I would have gone down on my lunch break and yelled at the ****er.

Rofls

I point right at the plate, and then tap the side of my head...then give them the thumbs up as if to say "thank-you for identifying yourself"

I usually point to my huge guns; by which I mean muscles of course.

Today I met a guy riding a Cervelo Soloist Carbon along Harbord. Nice guy, said he used to work at Cervelo and got the bike for free(!) I told him I thought they just got a really good discount and he said he just asked his boss if it made sense for him to be riding a beat-up old Bianchi (which he said is still a fantastic riding bike btw) and not advertising for Cervelo and then held his breath. It would appear his angle worked. Sounds like an interesting idea to me...

I usually point to my huge guns; by which I mean muscles of course.

Today I met a guy riding a Cervelo Soloist Carbon along Harbord. Nice guy, said he used to work at Cervelo and got the bike for free(!) I told him I thought they just got a really good discount and he said he just asked his boss if it made sense for him to be riding a beat-up old Bianchi (which he said is still a fantastic riding bike btw) and not advertising for Cervelo and then held his breath. It would appear his angle worked. Sounds like an interesting idea to me...

Keith mentioned this guy to me before

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woo. 25,000.

woo. 25,000.

Ha Ha! You have bad cats!

I <3 having a bunch of new music to pick through.

What ya got?
I’m liking these guys. http://myspace.com/shotgunandjaybird
**** bikes!

woo. 25,000.

Dude wtf you're not even from Toronto

Down with you!


"If you get a chance, talk to him," he concludes. "Tell him this from my heart. I'm telling you this from my heart. I feel sorry for him and ... tell him I said God bless him. God bless us all."

i had a great time tonight hanging out in the alley after work watching our drunk sous-chef trying to ride my fixie; i tried to explain it to him that it is a no-coastie kind of deal "yeah, sure" then he rides away and i hear yelling "this bike is broken or something - i crushed my nuts! where's the brake on this thing! only one!". i was amused...

This just in from Spacing.ca http://spacing.ca/wire/?p=1861

The Driver Was a Cop!!!


UPDATE: a news release came across our desks just a moment ago: the driver is a police officer! (albeit, an officer on leave). “On Wednesday, May 9, 2007, an off?duty Toronto Police Service officer was charged with Assault Causing Bodily Harm. Constable Darius Tierman, 44, with 21 years’ service, has been on leave since October 2004….On Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at 11:16 a.m., the driver turned himself in to police at 52 Division. Constable Darius Tierman was scheduled to appear in court at Old City Hall, on Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at 2 p.m.”

More info on the incident: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_10838.aspx

i had a great time tonight hanging out in the alley after work watching our drunk sous-chef trying to ride my fixie; i tried to explain it to him that it is a no-coastie kind of deal "yeah, sure" then he rides away and i hear yelling "this bike is broken or something - i crushed my nuts! where's the brake on this thing! only one!". i was amused...

Imagine a drunk chef at a restaurant. Next you'll be telling us cops break the law...