Rides and Races - Toronto Fixed

I have Rubinos in the 20s.....do they wear out fast as well? I didn't have any problems putting them on but they are pretty thin. Love 'em so far ;)

I have Rubinos in the 20s.....do they wear out fast as well? I didn't have any problems putting them on but they are pretty thin. Love 'em so far ;)

i don't know about the narrower size; i used 23s becuase they were cheap and i wanted a good quality road tire. perhaps these were not made for all weather use by heavier riders. i'm probably close to 200lbs and carry a messenger bag full of stuff. those tires are probably made for racing or fast centuries. now i usually ride at least a 28.

oh man. i'm in love with gmap pedometer.
I just mapped out my 10km sprints around the community and also my lake simcoe route.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=86868
Aaaw on your Lake Simcoe route map you stoped before the lake and looped back :( you did'nt even dip the tire in the lake?

holy ballerina!
who is this SUPER SEXY MAN!?
http://robcaputi.blogspot.com/2005/06/becel-heart-stroke-ride-for-heart.html
woah. I feel accomplished as a stalker.

oh and pics of the marinoni tomorrow, huzzah.
got my algeo test to study for first.

which sexy man are you referring to? that's me grabbing ass on the sannino and it's my buddy's blog. he's down at digital domain in LA now but promises to be back for the ride for heart. a lesson i learned: it doesn't matter how early you wake up to ride, it's how late your riding buddies stayed up the previous night boozin'.
start hitting those algeo books!!

edit: is it just at my end or is bikeforums getting fubared... tons of "failed to open page" and timing out errors.... stupid computers......

indeed it's taken some big stupid pills it would seem
Goki, were you tardy in getting to Kensington yesterday (2ish), you all in black heading up off dundas, me in fullface heading onto dundas.

I vote for lunch at kensington tomorrow. Burritos?
1pm again meet moonbean?

indeed it's taken some big stupid pills it would seem
Goki, were you tardy in getting to Kensington yesterday (2ish), you all in black heading up off dundas, me in fullface heading onto dundas.

i wish it was. i haven't had time for a lunch ride in ages. BUT, i biked up to the market last thursday at 3pm for a haircut. everyone check out shampoo.. relaxed place & nice people. i normally wear a purple zip-up over a red mec microfiber, blue helmet, white bike. you may have spotted my ninja clone. wait, that's impossible...
i'm totally up for burritos tomorrow (wednesday) at 1pm. meet at moonbean. i'm eugene btw. i'll try to scoff a few beers.. if the weather's nice, we can eat in the park.

I hate it when my ninja clone escapes.

HEY FLOATER....Three guesses as to who blew a cleat on the way home, first two don't count.:p
15 minutes before work this morning and I'm searching for the flats....damn...... almost crashed, twisting off a pedal and strap....d'oh! New shoe time!!!!

I saw your bike outside urbane unlocked.

http://communitybicyclenetwork.org/?q=node/319

^^^bike swap.

My left cleat has been acting strange for the past few days.. requiring much more effort to twist out. Not sure if it's just wearing out or what. The (eggbeater) cleats are only like 6-8 weeks old, which seems somewhat premature... especially since I'm always clipping in and out on the right side, which seems to me like it would cause more wear.

I'm biking down since it's so nice outside.

is it loose?

I wish I could make it out for lunch tomorrow, but work's work.

- CM this Friday (I'll be late, but I'll be there)
- Excessive drinking post-CM

I'm down w/ some burrito action on Monday or Tuesday though ... I think that's my "weekend" for the next while.

- Mikhail, Lord of the Northlands

Edit: Man, it's the week for dying footwear. My pos trainers gave up the ghost three days after I threw some new cages on my pedals. The metal is a bit rough or sharp-ish I guess and frayed apart the stiching along the sides of both shoes. Fare thee well, Dunnits ... at least you were cheap.

LOOK AT THIS!

www.cyclemedia.ca

I think those things are going to be tipping all over the place.

( also: hi, haven't really posted too much here. i think i've met one or two of you guys around before.)

- CM this Friday (I'll be late, but I'll be there)
- Excessive drinking post-CM


word.

Anyone wanna meet up for coffee before CM? Of course, this is assuming it isn't pouring rain. I can deal with some light showers, but anything more than that sounds pretty miserable. The forecast is calling for showers right now, but who knows what we'll wind up with.

-w

Hey Goki - i'm going to be a bit late, around 1:30. Let me know if you get this otherwise i'll give you a call.

Floater....how is that gonna work late but there? You have a whip antennae with a flag? I'm off that day. PE day for the kids....but I want to make it down for CM. When and where boys? Does anyone know of mad crazy stupid bike shoes sales going on? This pedal thing is killing me, after 15+ years on clipless, to go back .....urgh Damn it's nice I'm riding at lunch. Hey.....has the server been fixed? Seems downright zippy.

eyefloater: if you want my cell # for hooking up with us on Frdiay, just PM me. I'm not sure if you have it already.

I'll do same same...PM me

Hey Goki - i'm going to be a bit late, around 1:30. Let me know if you get this otherwise i'll give you a call.

holy crap.. it's like pulling teeth trying to post a message here... rob, take your time. is that trafficjam-guy coming as well? 130 it is then... -eugene

Not today for lunch though I might ride. This new server is definitely wiggy , sometimes it's great and others forget-about-it

LOOK AT THIS!

www.cyclemedia.ca

I think those things are going to be tipping all over the place.

( also: hi, haven't really posted too much here. i think i've met one or two of you guys around before.)


The ad claims that they don't contribute to urban congestion...cept that the trailer version is the length of a sedan and can't share a lane. The tri version is somewhat better.

I think that they meant to say they don't contribute to urban air pollution. Certainly they contribute to congestion if they weren't there before and are introduced, glad to see pics of people interacting on the sidewalk and no one trying to catch drivers eyes.

just went for a ride at lunch.. such a heart break to have to come back to lunch.

man.. I'm in love with the Linux Caffe. It's on Harbord & Grace and has been fueling me up with coffee a couple mornings a week for the past 6 months. Free WiFi with an Antenna pointed at the park across the street, which also happens to be my favorite park in the city. And when I was there chatting with the owner this morning he said they have lots of plans for events in the park this summer including guerilla theatre nights where they screen movies for free down in the park. Apparently they showed 1922 Nosferatu on 16mm down there at the end of the Summer last year. That kicks ass.

Plus they have really fine coffee from Ideal... :D

http://linuxcaffe.com/

gorgeous day for riding outside. just got back from lunch with operator/rob. we had empanadas (only in kensington can you get a beef and kimchi empanadas) in the park. nice...back at work and i think rob's at mec and and giving uncle keith a visit later.
the linux cafe is great.. a bit too techy for me but i'm there for the awesome coffee. dig the view of the park from the front window.

I still haven't managed to have lunch so I'm not going to bother..... maybe if I wait an hour I can leave at 4....lol...hey it is my hour lunch no?

Splendid day outside. Hope I didn't make you late for work Goki. Heh, my empanada was great.

sweet.. my friend just invited me to his place for beer and steak.

if that ain't motivation get pedal my lazy ass up The One Hill on Yonge, than I don't know what is. :P

As I promised.
More pics @ http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/Keithipoo/
and the info is on the SS/Photos thread.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/Keithipoo/c7a61f78.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/Keithipoo/0b32f879.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/Keithipoo/bf051187.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/Keithipoo/e35ee369.jpg

Wow nice. Did you get my route maps sr20?

yea got em' all.
they make my eyes burn and shrivel trying to trace the fuzzy map. haha

Thanks to all of you guys here in the Toronto thread!
1 year ago, I didn't know **** about bikes and I learned so much just from reading all the stuff you guys write.
Thanks!
-Keith

mmmmmm...

Beautiful Marinoni

Well you get the general idea. Redraw the map in pedometer.
The route instructions are probably more useful than the map itself.

Holy effing crap. It's gorgeous outside. Does anyone want to go for a spin? (I know, I know, I'm the worst with last minute stuff).

yea, I'm def. going to retrace them onto gmaps.
and today was the most beautifulest day evar! so happy it was literacy test for the gr. 10s! no school for me , so I spent my day outside in the sunshine.

Well I rode down to campus today and lunched with Goki, blasted back home up Yonge st.

Ran my ass out the door at 7pm and hammered it all the way home. Good times.

SR20 very nice indeed did you pick it up whole or part it out.

I had a nice ride downtown today as well hit urbane and cycle therapy nice place go there & buy a bike or two they have some great stuff.

I have the week off. So i'll have time to get downtown if the weather holds up ON Friday (not looking good) to make it down to C.M. if not Sunday for sure 1 year! Same bat time same bat channel? Change it up? Lets here some chit chat on that.
Cheers

The ad claims that they don't contribute to urban congestion...cept that the trailer version is the length of a sedan and can't share a lane. The tri version is somewhat better.

I think that they meant to say they don't contribute to urban air pollution. Certainly they contribute to congestion if they weren't there before and are introduced, glad to see pics of people interacting on the sidewalk and no one trying to catch drivers eyes.

Yeah it seems they'd have to be pretty wide to be balanced which means they'd be taking up a lot of room on the road. We'll have to go around them and so will cars. Nobody wins.

Those pictures of the muscle men driving the ads for the muscle magazine are hilarious though.

Yeah it seems they'd have to be pretty wide to be balanced which means they'd be taking up a lot of room on the road. We'll have to go around them and so will cars. Nobody wins.

Those pictures of the muscle men driving the ads for the muscle magazine are hilarious though.


I have to go around most cyclists and cars sitting at the shoulder anyway. At least its better than those fifth wheel versions where they drive around with the big ass sign on the trailer. Props to them for using bikes to make $.

Get your conspiracy theory on (great documentary):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8260059923762628848

Man those bike billboards should be outlawed....our streets are congested enough.
The roadways in downtown should be for moving people, I love the fairing on the front at the handlebar level, like it's going to do anything, hilarious. I wouldn't mind getting my hand on a trike version to make a cargo bike. lol. Do I have to wear orange coveralls to ride one those. Even more useless than pedicabs. All for advertising, nothing actually gets moved on the street. BAN 'em.... too dangerous for the likes of our streets. I can see the pedicab trying to pass, or vice versa and then the road rage fist fight between them lol. :D

Man drivers hate us enough as it is, imagine how pissed they will be getting trapped behind one of those bad boys.

Things to not bode well for CM: http://www.theweathernetwork.ca/weather/cities/can/Pages/CAON0696.htm

Hey Traffic Jammer, what's your favourite version of the Time ATACS you've used over the years?

ugh.. I've had a bad bike karma 24 hours.

-when I tried to leave work I realized I had a flat rear tire. replace tube, inflate, yadda yadda
-start riding, hear a new jingly noise. pull over, jiggle bike around trying to locate the source. can't find it. give up, keep riding.
-get to St. Claire and notice back wheel now has a lot of play in the hub. Get off, take out 15mm wrench. Tighten down hub locknut(?)
-get to my friend's place.. decide to try and locate jingly noise again. notice that a metal "sleeve" (spacer?) on the axle between the locknut and the outside "nut" (the part that contacts the inside of the dropout). I never noticed it before, but I think it's causing the noise.
-decide to remove rear wheel again to try and fix things. Put Park 15mm wrench on drive-side nut, apply force, wrench goes through nut like butter totally shearing through one "corner" or the nut.
-give up again, go drink beer and eat steak.
-ride home
-sleep
-go to ride to work.. notice back wheel needs more air, but I've already left the house (and my floor pump). Try to get more air in with my frame pump. Hate life.
-riding along bloor, resist pedals to slow down, pedals slip backwards half a rotation. wtf? check locknut, totally loose. do my best to tighten it using a combination of my hands and the edge of my wrench. use brake (which I might add needs serious adjustment.. guess I don't use it much) the rest of the way.

*sigh*

The very first ones.... the cleat was monster.... you could slide on it on a foot down hard turn if you had to it was designed to function well AND to last forever which is exactly what it did. Now I need new shoes because it's not compatible with the new ATAC cleats. When I bought mine Time and Shimano were gettin ready for their big head to head in this market. Time must have realized that having a proprietary cleat/bolt pattern would not do. I did however get the first pair of Sierra pedals and shoes as a combo for .....wait for it.....200$ from Racer Sportif. Now, designed to wear out and fail faster, the new one I bought is totally wimpy in comparison, designed for obsolescence...BUT it bidness so no surprises there. I'm just bummed the design changed so much I need to drop 200-300 bucks on new shoes. That wasn't in the plan at all.

Even with my old cleat being 12 years old it still had more metal than these new ones.
He asked me if it was ATAC road or MTN ....what's the difference? Are ATACs different for the road vs mtn? Ultimately the plan is for Times on all bikes and one pair of shoes.

Man those bike billboards should be outlawed....our streets are congested enough.
The roadways in downtown should be for moving people, I love the fairing on the front at the handlebar level, like it's going to do anything, hilarious. I wouldn't mind getting my hand on a trike version to make a cargo bike. lol. Do I have to wear orange coveralls to ride one those. Even more useless than pedicabs. All for advertising, nothing actually gets moved on the street. BAN 'em.... too dangerous for the likes of our streets. I can see the pedicab trying to pass, or vice versa and then the road rage fist fight between them lol. :D

Man drivers hate us enough as it is, imagine how pissed they will be getting trapped behind one of those bad boys.

i have to agree; those things just seem like a waste of energy. almost worse than the car-based ones though as they just save the advertiser more money and still get in everyone else's way. it just seems to me to be a reflection of a society of abundance and waste. i don't know who here's been to vegas (i know, it was a "family" vacation, not my choice), but there are guys there who are paid to be out on the street handing out catalogues / flyers for stippers and as they hand them out they scatter them on the ground to people will see them as they walk by. it's just such indugence. rant mode: off.

I still want one for a cargo bike though. That baby'll carry at least a keg or two. I'm gonna email them. lol A larger fork and 26er's please. Well, I was thinkin' not just the other day.... 'You know... I simply don't see enough advertising here in the core. I need more....':p I wish people would put as much thought into making this place a better city as they do figuring out new garbage can and bike designs to hold billboards.

TrafficJammer - i have an old set of ATACs (alium) if you're interested in trading / purchasing / whatever. did i mention this before?

If you did I missed it..... thanks but no, I've managed to wreck the mini screw holes on the bottom of the one shoe so now it's ****ed. Besides I can't keep running around looking for antique gear, old school or not. Besides if I'm running on all ancient gear it'll be far too embarrassing for you lot being left behind. I'm only thinkin' of you guys.....:p

If you did I missed it..... thanks but no, I've managed to wreck the mini screw holes on the bottom of the one shoe so now it's ****ed. Besides I can't keep running around looking for antique gear, old school or not. Besides if I'm running on all ancient gear it'll be far too embarrassing for you lot being left behind. I'm only thinkin' of you guys.....:p

you should be able to replace the mounting plates on spd compatible shoes. can you not remove the plate from the inside and pop in a new one? my LBS guy told me that even with some models of shoes where the plates are buried beneath the insoles, he has taken a router or whatever and was able to cut enough of the insole away to be able to get at the mounting plate. just a thought; i'm all about fixing what you've already got.

road shoes are a different story as the cleat bolts right to the bottom of the sole...

and if you're hyped on schooling us with your antique gear, we'll just have to show up in clips n' straps (or a high-wheeler) and take YOU to school!

wooohooo that would be fun..... you know of course i'm blowin smoke and having fun...:p
Never even thought about going into the shoe.
Mine has this separator that runs done the middle of the sole, if you've got the old atacs you know what I mean.... It might just be time for a new set O shoes.