Rides and Races - Toronto Fixed

anyways, do you guys have anything planned for the long weekend yet?

maybe riding out to whitby (aka whiteby) to visit the parents for lunch on friday if the weather holds.

I'm gonna be in Ottawa Thurs - Sat. If anyone wants to go for a ride on Sunday I'll likely be down for that... especially since I'm missing a training ride on Saturday.

eyefloater: I assume you guys are open regular hours on Sunday?

Oui, I believe so.

PS. php message en route ...

maybe riding out to whitby (aka whiteby)

Haha... Oh.

my chain seems to have stretched all of a sudden.. what's up with that? :) Suddenly in the past week it doesn't seem to line up with the chainring teeth and it's gotten super noisy. I assume that == chain stretch.

Guess I'll pick up a new one!

how long have you had your current chain? do you mean "line up" from side to side or up and down (great language)? if it's not lined up horizontally then that's a chainline issue. have you changed the chain since installing chainrings/cogs? you can always measure the chain to see if it's worn. according to sheldon brown:

"The standard way to measure chain wear is with a ruler or steel tape measure. This can be done without removing the chain from the bicycle. The normal technique is to measure a one-foot length, placing an inch mark of the ruler exactly in the middle of one rivet, then looking at the corresponding rivet 12 complete links away. On a new, unworn chain, this rivet will also line up exactly with an inch mark. With a worn chain, the rivet will be past the inch mark."

I'm gonna be in Ottawa Thurs - Sat. If anyone wants to go for a ride on Sunday I'll likely be down for that... especially since I'm missing a training ride on Saturday.

eyefloater: I assume you guys are open regular hours on Sunday?

i'm not sure yet but i may be riding from mississauga (sp) to glen williams (to the bakery in glen williams) on sunday with some fellow fixie riders. about 100km round trip if you're interested.

how long have you had your current chain? do you mean "line up" from side to side or up and down (great language)? if it's not lined up horizontally then that's a chainline issue. have you changed the chain since installing chainrings/cogs? you can always measure the chain to see if it's worn. according to sheldon brown:

"The standard way to measure chain wear is with a ruler or steel tape measure. This can be done without removing the chain from the bicycle. The normal technique is to measure a one-foot length, placing an inch mark of the ruler exactly in the middle of one rivet, then looking at the corresponding rivet 12 complete links away. On a new, unworn chain, this rivet will also line up exactly with an inch mark. With a worn chain, the rivet will be past the inch mark."

no, not chainline.. that looks pretty good. It's more like the chain isn't sitting on the ring tight anymore. On the top of the chainring it sits pretty snug, but as the chain wraps around towards the bottom it winds up with a little gap since I think the space between the links is larger than the space between the teeth. Make sense? And yeah, I should just measure it. :)

i'm not sure yet but i may be riding from mississauga (sp) to glen williams (to the bakery in glen williams) on sunday with some fellow fixie riders. about 100km round trip if you're interested.

I'm still working up to the (likely psychological) 100km barrier. You make it sound casual enough to make me think "I don't want to be Mr LagBehind". :)

no, not chainline.. that looks pretty good. It's more like the chain isn't sitting on the ring tight anymore. On the top of the chainring it sits pretty snug, but as the chain wraps around towards the bottom it winds up with a little gap since I think the space between the links is larger than the space between the teeth. Make sense? And yeah, I should just measure it. :)

perfect sense and yeah that sounds like a stretched chain; best to change it soon else you can wear out the chainring teeth into a "wave" shape.

I'm still working up to the (likely psychological) 100km barrier. You make it sound casual enough to make me think "I don't want to be Mr LagBehind". :)

hardly. if i make it sound casual it's because the pace and the company is casual. if it's any consolation, this was the first longish ride i did out in the country on a fixed gear and i didn't think it was possible at the time but that turned out to be, as you say, entirely phsychological and it ended up being a great ride. i also wasn't using a bike computer at the time so that helped my not think of the distance.

I was going to ride to my friends place in St. Catharines on friday and then back on sat but not sure if i'll ever finish this ****ing c programming assignment in time.

i managed to get 2 flats while running errands at lunch today. 2! luckily one of those errands was to urbane so i could get a new tube. curse you glass ridden streets!

hardly. if i make it sound casual it's because the pace and the company is casual. if it's any consolation, this was the first longish ride i did out in the country on a fixed gear and i didn't think it was possible at the time but that turned out to be, as you say, entirely phsychological and it ended up being a great ride. i also wasn't using a bike computer at the time so that helped my not think of the distance.

Alright, well I'll see how I feel on Sunday after several days of partying with friends in Ottawa. :D

Edit PSA: apparently "debauchery" which I initially used in place of "partying" has a sexual connotation, which I suspected but wasn't sure about until after I hit submit and THEN looked it up on dictionary.com. :P

alright, last post then i'm going to bed (for the shop rats among us):anyone know if push the envelope is still making their little hip pouches with the lock holster? stoopid me i somehow lost/got rid of mine in last year's spring cleaning and now i can't find them for sale anywhere.

Well I was going to quote it but you changed it too fast. My browser has it cached...!
Weird the Push the Envelope site used too list their accessories but it's a "come back later" message now.

Well I was going to quote it but you changed it too fast. My browser has it cached...!
Weird the Push the Envelope site used too list their accessories but it's a "come back later" message now.

yeah i see photos of the bag on the page but i think it has been that way for a while. they used to sell them at urbane and the last few times i've been in they don't have any. i wanted to pick one up at the bike show but the push people didn't make any for the show!

I could be up for a long ride on sunday to celebrate the end of classes. Undecided what bike I'll ride... I have no idea how good the cyclops is for long distances. Could be a real pain in the ass... chances are my spicer would be more appropriate. Why is life so difficult?

alright, last post then i'm going to bed (for the shop rats among us):anyone know if push the envelope is still making their little hip pouches with the lock holster? stoopid me i somehow lost/got rid of mine in last year's spring cleaning and now i can't find them for sale anywhere.

Just ask Reba (push the envelope) nicely to make you another one. I'm sure it could be done.
If you are lucky, you can catch her at Urbane sometimes or just call them up.

I could be up for a long ride on sunday to celebrate the end of classes. Undecided what bike I'll ride... I have no idea how good the cyclops is for long distances. Could be a real pain in the ass... chances are my spicer would be more appropriate. Why is life so difficult?

So did you skip all your classes this week?

Nope, been to every single one so far... even my art class yesterday when we met up at the gallery and drank champale for 3 hours while eating leftover carrot cake.. what a waste of time. I've got 3500 words of essay to do for tomorrow and I need to go and supervise the gallery from 2-5pm today. Hooray!

Reba's at Urbane today - might be a good time to call.

Reba's at Urbane today - might be a good time to call.

alright, i'll give them a ringey-ding.

Polly I like the idea of the curved tube as well as long as the drop out can let me mount a screw tire.
Road front end gets my vote. Long skinny feet love touchin' the front wheel.
Good luck to all the students finishing stuff up in the Easter crunch.

Operator: Just ordered some new "tyres" from probikekit. Got 2 rubino pro's and 2 michelin prorace 2.

no, not chainline.. that looks pretty good. It's more like the chain isn't sitting on the ring tight anymore. On the top of the chainring it sits pretty snug, but as the chain wraps around towards the bottom it winds up with a little gap since I think the space between the links is larger than the space between the teeth. Make sense? And yeah, I should just measure it. :)

Me being paranoid, but check your chainring bolts. If this happened suddenly (i.e. bam it's there), I'm not sure chain stretch would explain it.

I'm gonna be in Ottawa Thurs - Sat. If anyone wants to go for a ride on Sunday I'll likely be down for that... especially since I'm missing a training ride on Saturday.

eyefloater: I assume you guys are open regular hours on Sunday?


Hey I'll be in Brockville all weekend only a hour away,showing off our new bundle of joy.
If we get back somewhat early I'd love to get out for a ride
Cheers

Me being paranoid, but check your chainring bolts. If this happened suddenly (i.e. bam it's there), I'm not sure chain stretch would explain it.

Already checked. After my mishap with them a month or so ago it was the first thing I thought of.

Me being paranoid, but check your chainring bolts. If this happened suddenly (i.e. bam it's there), I'm not sure chain stretch would explain it.

yeah, what he said. i've actually had that happen; forgot to mention it.

for those of you who aren't already hip to cycling.tv:

It just keeps getting better at Cycling.tv!



Cycling.tv Launches New UCI Television Channel UCI Live.com

http://player.narrowstep.tv/?player=ucitv
You've had road, you've had MTB and Cross, what do you want?....Track racing!

This week LIVE on UCI TV watch the Track World Championships from April 15 - 17 in Bordeaux

Transmissions Schedule (Timings in GMT)

13/04/06 - 1530-1600 - Highlights Qualifying: Womens Ind. Pursuit, Men Points race 15 km

13/04/06 - 1600-1915 - LIVE: Men Team Sprint Finals, Women 500 M TT Final, Womens Ind. Pursuit Finals, Men Points Race 40 Km-

14/04/06 - 1530-1600 - Highlights Qualifying: Womens Sprint 200m TT, Men ind. Pursuit, Men Keirin, Women Points Race 10 Km

14/04/06 - 1600-1930 - LIVE: Womens. Sprint, Men Keirin Finals, Womens. Points Race 25 Km Final, Men Ind. Pursuit Finals Men Km T

15/04/06 - 0800-1110 - LIVE: Men Sprint 200m TT, Men Team Pursuit, Men Scratch 7.5 Km


15/04/06 - 1315-1625 - LIVE: Men Scratch 15km Final, Womens Sprint, Men Team Pursuit Final

16/04/06 - 1200-1600 - LIVE: Womens 10 km Scratch, Men 50 Km Madison, Women Keirin, Men Sprint

Throughout the year we will travel the globe to bring you:

BMX World Championships - 28 - 30 July - Rio, Brazil

Marathon World Championships - 13 August - Oisans, France

MTB World Championships - 22 - 27 August - Rotura, New Zealand

Road World Championships - 19 - 24 September - Salzburg, Austria

Cyclo Cross World Championships - 28 - 29 January - Zeddam, The Netherlands

Track World Cup - November 05 - February 06

Tour of Flanders ladies race 15 minute highlights & World Cup Mountain Bike from Curascao in the Dutch Antilles.

Sign up now for a one off annual subscription at a special Introductory Offer of only 24 Euros for the Year!

Unfortunately due to contractual reasons the channel is not available in the USA but you guys got Paris - Roubaix so don't complain :-)

http://cycling.tv

Operator: Just ordered some new "tyres" from probikekit. Got 2 rubino pro's and 2 michelin prorace 2.

Oooooooooh. I still haven't gotten my order yet, placed it last, last sunday. Hoping it'll get here soon.
"Tyres" Aha.

And uh, I need a streamripper that will pwn that drm off the cycling.tv broadcasts. WMRecorder won't. :/

P.S Your bike has 4 wheels somnambulant? ;)

Road angles, that is the way I was leaning.

Small size frames. I been thinking about that and maybe a range made for women, that would depend on demand though.

I do have few of the original frames left in small, c to c 44?. They have sloping top tubes. The new batch wont.

Again this is all based on demand.
32 flavours, what size top tube are you running?

My frame is 43 cm c-t with a 50 cm slightly sloped top tube. I'm not sure a women's specific line would be necessary, maybe just some smaller frames. Most adjustments can be made with stem length and such anyway, no? By the way, Paul, it is way neat-o that you're asking us for input.

I always thought that the WSD moniker was kind of bogus.

I'll give you something with a WSD.

p.s. no, but after adding the red rubino's to my cart I saw the light blue prorace's and thought that they would work well for my next colour scheme. ;)

32 flavours, you could give my girlfriend's bike a spin. Its really just too small for her so I have been keeping my eyes out for a new one. Anyways, the frame is a 48 cm (c-t I think) urbanite with a 50 cm top tube in navy blue, Tig welded 4130 cromoly steel. 74cm standover height. let me know if you're interested... or if you have any 54-56 steel road frames lying around:D


Edit: Oh yeah, I took out this lady turning onto hoskin from queen's park crescent today. Traffic was moving really slowly on the bend and I was going by them at a moderate pace. All of a sudden some well-dressed lady with a bright orange coat darted thorugh the space between the moving cars directely in front of where I was going to be in about a half of a second. At this stage I pretty much knew I was going into her as there was curb on one side of me and car on thge other side, so I bust out a polite skid on the wet slippery road and crunch into her real good. She didn't even see me coming, so she hit the ground pretty quick and I landed with a nice soft thump right on top of her. She luckily covered up the puddle with he ass so I didn't get too wet. She gets up with a wet, dirty ass and coat and a scraped looking hand and pretty much disappears into one of the campus buildings after I and a few other people asked if she was alright. Then one of the dudes standing there said "I totally saw that coming for so long... I don't know why I didn't yell something!" and another dude said "Awesome! Nice shot!" and another dude said "That totally wasn't your fault dude" and yet another guy (who kind of looked like Albert from La Carrerra but younger) said "The peds have been acting crazy today!" All in all a fun experience!\

Edit: for those of you with TV is was just like that Moore's men's clothing comercial where the guy gets taken out with a bike but less serious and I landed right on top of her.

Alright i just got my shipment from probikekit. Let me go get it.
Oh and uh, no extra charges on it. So it was $50 shipped for
Look cleats
PC48 chain
Rubino pro
deda bar tape

Edit: Shiznaz, HAHA.

Here is a diagram:
http://www.wwmovers-africa.com/haro/untitled.gif

Shiznaz, that diagram is ghetto fabulous.

Re: the bike frame... I am tempted, but cannot afford a superfluous frame right now. Perhaps if you still have it in a few months...

map completely to scale ... lol!
I just took my cdn tire mtb for a spin. most comfortable ride ever
It had a large red basket on the back as well. And fenders.

I'm surprised that type of collision doesn't happen more often. I've had a number of close calls and am probably due for a full force one myself.

P.S. Forgive my manners for not asking straight away... How's the bike?

hah.. yeah, I take that turn on my way home every day and I've had a few close calls. In fact, I've taken to going around the other side of the turning traffic because I've been nearly squeezed into the curb a few times as cars take their 5km/h "racing line".

Shiznaz you should submit that & the other piece, pic(art)? Holding the kripto & bike to old school track.
Great site
http://www.oldskooltrack.com/files/home.frame.html

http://www.vejpark.kk.dk/byenstrafik/cyklernesby/uk/index.htm

Does anyone know a guy who rides a lavender panasonic track? looked like a messenger and was in his 30's... he was riding behind me on harbord for a little while and had a sweet ass NJS ride.

Shiznaz you should submit that & the other piece, pic(art)? Holding the kripto & bike to old school track.
Great site
http://www.oldskooltrack.com/files/home.frame.html

That has some majorly broken web design there.


http://www.vejpark.kk.dk/byenstrafik/cyklernesby/uk/index.htm

And the relevant hotlink http://www.vejpark.kk.dk/byenstrafik/cyklernesby/uk/City%20of%20Cyclists%20Windows%20Media%20512kb.wmv

nice Shiznaz,
I too can confirm hitting a ped on the Queens Park Cres. as it bends down towards college. Back in January a woman was running from the center park across 4 lanes to the west side of the street. Just 'clipped' her arm though and neither of us hit pavement... but she was swearing a blue streak at me as it happend. Made me kind of wish afterwards that I would have totally taken the fall for the reward of plowing directly into her...probably better it didn't happen that way though...
that whole area is a bad spot for people running across with or without looking


is there a cv happening again?

*looks outside*

Gonna shoot a weatherman

T'was the full mooooon Shiz. Good to hear you didn't get wet and melt away.....lol
The diagram almost made me blow coffee out my nose. Glad to see the Visual Communications training hasn't been wasted. :p I swear that diagram is my desktop for a bit.

Shiz you have a 48.....my Cramerotti is a 48 as well..... I'm not liking our odds at tradin' up. How many bikes you want 32flavours?:D

quick question..... years ago when I bought my monster Krypto lock it came with a 2500$ guarantee.
NOw that it could be possible to open it with a 5cent bic pen does the guarantee still hold? I see the new ones have the flat key.

You're pretty much screwed ... for a few reasons:

- You have to hold an existing insurance policy on your bike (Kryptonite pays above and beyond the deductable)
- You have to get your bike appraised and send in that paperwork (+ lock receipt) within 15 days of purchasing the lock.
- There was the whole lock-exchange thing that went on for a year or so. I'm guessing part of that process involved voiding any guarantee w/ the older style of lock.

Also (vaguely related), I have a question about the Kryptonite guarantee fine print that I found confusing. It states that you need to have pre-existing insurance coverage for your bike. Buuut ... if your bike was already insured (ie. home owners insurance, etc.) why would you need the extra Krypto insurance? I've never had actual insurance, but could you save some cash by insuring your bike for $500 ($250 deductable or something) even when it's been appraised at $1000 (and have Kryptonite's policy cover the rest)? Either that, or the whole guarantee thing seems completely redundant. *shrug*

Here is a diagram:

I love it! Reminds me of the Flying Spaghetti Moster creation drawing.

I can totally relate, I've pasted a few pedestrians that way. They are soft and supple-a nice crash pad.

quick question..... years ago when I bought my monster Krypto lock it came with a 2500$ guarantee.
NOw that it could be possible to open it with a 5cent bic pen does the guarantee still hold? I see the new ones have the flat key.


Go to the Kryptonite web site and sign up for the lock replacement program. All you need is the number off the key, and you get a brand new lock. I got two new locks this way.