Rides and Races - Toronto Fixed

Training rides sound fun. We can either make up our own, or we can hit the donut ride.

If you guys want to be doing like 90k - 150k a day, we can ride up to Richmond Hill and go north/east/west from there. There are some nice looking (but peel your eyes out boring type after 2 hours type riding here).

rock climbing would be swell. I miss doing that.

eyefloater: brake levers = woot! are we still meeting after I get outta prison today?

Oh ****, ya. I'd forgotten about that. I'll see if I can bring some leverage along.

update:

My daughter and i went to the track..... it's been flattened and there is a new padlock on the gate.

nuts,
the one off of bayview?

yup it's still accessable from the pillar, you can ride right in there but someone has been in there.
Still all sorts of crap lying around there, possibly a pre-liability cover our asses move? That way if someones in there they did it the hard way. As it is we just went down the staircase from the school. Definately a night time hangout back there.

mmm... sounds like. http://www.infiltration.org/
anyways, nothing happening today?

Getting ready for work. Hope everyone is having/had a good Easter.

mmm... sounds like. http://www.infiltration.org/

I'm sad I never got to meet Ninjalicious. I started reading infiltration a looooooong time ago and used to love visiting the places he wrote about when I first moved to Toronto.

I had a great long weekend, but I'm super crusty this morning. Mondays are bad enough. Mondays after long weekends are worse. Mondays after long weekends when you've already filed your letter of resignation and you're basically just running out the clock sanity-wise (but are buried under and even bigger pile of work) are torture.

yup it's still accessable from the pillar, you can ride right in there but someone has been in there.
Still all sorts of crap lying around there, possibly a pre-liability cover our asses move? That way if someones in there they did it the hard way. As it is we just went down the staircase from the school. Definately a night time hangout back there.

I'm wondering with all the gravel that eyefloater's photos showed, if someone is planning on reconditioning it.

Being an arts school I'd be very surprised to see students on it, and it's a bit late in the school year to be doing that, too much garbage all over the place as well. Unless they are going to get it ready for SEpt.
While riding 'round back of the school, they have a pool in there too! Arts students getting a pool and a tracked school? Someone was asleep when they were reconfiguring the district.

Interesting; I did not know it was an arts school but I certainly had my suspicions… I ride past Castle Frank station every morning right around 8:30, my guess is about %75 of the kids crossing the street are dressed in 'goth' attire… (I went to an arts school…. I know the signs).
Disappointing about the track on Bayview.
But you guys are interested East York Collegiate (Cosburne and Coxwell) has a proper asphalt oval track with painted lines and everything. It is also partially lit from the street lights at night, as far as I know anyone can use it anytime… it is always in use during daylight hours whenever I ride by… weekdays or weekends it get's a lot of use as the infield is also a soccer/football field. I've ripped around it by myself at nights when I'm riding home after being at a bar or something… for some reason I always end up doing a lap or two when drunk.
It's pretty clean though, fresh cut grass, no garbage... it doesn't have quite that ghetto feel like something you could call your own ya know?!

google-photo of said track
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=east+york+collegiate+toronto&ll=43.695447,-79.327008&spn=0.005259,0.006845&t=h

google-photo of said track
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=east+york+collegiate+toronto&ll=43.695447,-79.327008&spn=0.005259,0.006845&t=h
I forgot about that track , that would be a great place to race on during the night

has potential for a hardtop drag strip
was kinda hoping the other one would lend itself to being , um..... groomed for jumps(sweet ones:p) and other obstacles as it were, but it looks like somebody doesn't want that to happen.

yeah, I think you guys are talking about two very different types of track. :)

traffic jammer: have you ever been down to the dirt jumps down in the Don Valley? I saw them for the first time on st. paddy's day while a friend and I were hiking around (aka. filling our shoes with mud) down there. They're in pretty bad shape right now obviously after going through a winter.

yeah I know the ones your talking about, some of them are pretty poorly designed....I assume they were just built by kids.


like a couple I think launch you right into trees from what I remember:eek:

Hahahaha ... *mental image* :)

yeah I know the ones your talking about, some of them are pretty poorly designed....I assume they were just built by kids.


like a couple I think launch you right into trees from what I remember:eek:

hah.. nice. yeah, I didn't check them out too closely, design-wise. But whoever did it moved around a fair bit of dirt! It looked like someone was trying to destroy them though also as there was a lot more damage than I would expect from weather alone.

No i haven't been to the Don jumps...
though I would be suspect of anything Dirt jumpish that locals built..... launching into trees sounds par for the course. I was looking more for some speedy air, nothing sick and vertical. Woop-di-doos maybe a lap bump, nothing sick that could kill. I'm far too old for that action.....lol

What attention would beers and/or blunts and a bunch of jackasses on bikes get in the night at the nice track?

What attention would beers and/or blunts and a bunch of jackasses on bikes get in the night at the nice track?

The prison **** kind.

now you're just being paranoid......
I can hardly see a six pack session leading to prison, unless of course you can't handle the drink and you pee into the window of a police car at a light of something, then you're Turkish Delight.:p

Jjjjoke. :D

I agree; I doub't anyone would care that we are ever there, no signs are posted that prohibit night time use anyways. at either track... paved or the dirt one beside bayview

I can scatter pretty fast at night if I need to anyways ha.

Jjjjoke. :D

Sorry if it seemed I was jumpin'...I'm at work
Forgive me Operator-san
....osu:p

With the new lock we either have up the stairs or onto bayview..... so not a good scatter spot but it is hard to get to as well so either way there. I imagine the police have much nastier bidness about. Anyone familiar with crew tags around the city? Might wanna see if we might be biting off some trouble at the dirt track. At night, it could be a completely different place, as it's literally nowhere. I'd be more worried about other night life around there, no problemo during the day though.

The other one is lit too no?

The other one is lit too no?

the paved track is not specifically lit, but it's big enough that the street lighting from both Cosburn and the next street north of it illuminate the ends of the track just enough that you can make out the curve and pick a line

hmm it's near a buddy's house I may just have ta go have a peek

Worst case scenario, we just need to find a soccer field, etc. somewhere and we can mark out a course w/ a stake, length of rope and a can of spraypaint.

Eye....you're so DIY, my hero. I'm sure we will find some sort of mayhem, to occupy our meager attention spans for a little while, :lol: dang was just hoping for someplace derelict that could be turned into something cool , with a few shovels and some hard work. How's that Lemond treatin' ya?

I ride by that track (school) every day. Looks nice, smooth pretty much busy till dark every day. I’ll take a look at the light situation. Like the other guy said I think it’s just the lights off cosburn

t.jam is your intention to rally the troops & hit there for some fun around the track wobbly pops ect.

Is there any truth to the rumor you got a new bike as well?
Cheers

t.jam is your intention to rally the troops & hit there for some fun around the track wobbly pops ect.

not to take this on a tangent, but i was riding on kingston rd on the way to oshawa on sunday and i spotted a bar called "wobbly pops"; i thought of you, TJ. prerry funny sign too: a 'father' cartoon character holding a beer with the hiccup lines around him...

there's a relitavely unused track in the west end here as well, indian rd south of anette. don't think it's lit, but it does have that ghetto feel and the gate is usually unlocked. used to walk my dog in there...

The Lemond is doing well. I'm out the door first thing tomorrow morning to see how many laps I can put in at Leslie spit before bad things happen in my legs. Then in the afternoon I have finish a wheel build and start hauling Pake parts to the shop for "The Build." I figured out how I'm going to do the headbadge: drill out a wooden block w/ a hole the same diameter as the head tube. Saw that block in half, fit the coin in (coin face against the wood) w/ a reasonable facsimile of a head tube on the other side (ie. scrap steel pipe). Press that setup w/ a vice and the coin should be bent to the shape of the head tube while retaining the detail on the face.

Awhile back I got a nice deal on some Formula hubs (fixed/fixed). Dude that sent them to me did a crappy job with the packing and the threads (left and right-hand threaded) on one side were partially crushed. Not a pretty sight. Soo ... to Malcolm I took this beat up hub. Turns out he's going to chase the threads back into shape by hand. My small infantile brain thought that was rather impressive and thus, I spread the word.

I've got before pics ... I'll post the afters once I pick up the hub from him tomorrow.

- eyefloater

Eye....you're so DIY, my hero. I'm sure we will find some sort of mayhem, to occupy our meager attention spans for a little while, :lol: dang was just hoping for someplace derelict that could be turned into something cool , with a few shovels and some hard work. How's that Lemond treatin' ya?
BIG smooth track! dim light at night buzzed on whatever floats your boat ,raceing on ss or fixed that would be very cool indeed.:D

yea. the threads on my primato's were crunched when I took them out of storage. nothing your teeth can't fix.
anyone have an old bag they want to put up for barter?

Got one my cat **** in:

http://www.crywolf.ca/images/miscellaneous/lola.jpg

alright! count me in!
and I'm starting on my next build :)

Lol cat.

If you guys want a flat 400m paved track, central tech has a pretty nice one... not too much light at night but enough to see... mere steps away from my house too!

yea I went to that art school across the street from castelfrank station last year

they use the track during the nicer months of the school year for soccer and baseball and whatnot for gym class

I was one of the few people in that school who actually took gym class.

I knew we'd find one! Sweeper, no I haven't gotten a new ride yet. I'm not giving up though.
Yea I think some wobbly track action could be a blast, lol, a whole new bend on track riding.
I was kinda stoked about the derelict track in maybe being able to make that one a dirt jumpin' bermed turn kinda action, but that seems to have wbeen kiaboshed with this latest attention to it. Soooooooo a smoothy with a bunch a folks at night could be darned fun too. I mean it's all in what you make of it right? Niiiice to the rethreading save.

Floater, what lapping do you do in the Spit, I'm right up from there, I may be aqble to meet you one morning when I'm on the late shift.

Basically this: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=129528 (I may go down to the SW tip, but I avoid that section in the middle).

If you guys want a flat 400m paved track, central tech has a pretty nice one... not too much light at night but enough to see... mere steps away from my house too!

I was thinking about that one too.

ps. flowers are blooming, leaves are coming out. REAL Spring has officially begun!

flowers are blooming, leaves are coming out. REAL Spring has officially begun!

how very poetic. i have to agree with those sentiments though. it's nice to be woken by the sounds of bird calls rather than the snow plow. being able to ride in normal clothes is nice too. i was glad to shed the winter layers, rain gear (well not completely yet, it's still april) and gloves and just hop on the bike and go for a ride!

how very poetic. i have to agree with those sentiments though. it's nice to be woken by the sounds of bird calls rather than the snow plow. being able to ride in normal clothes is nice too. i was glad to shed the winter layers, rain gear (well not completely yet, it's still april) and gloves and just hop on the bike and go for a ride!

What can I say, Spring *really* affects my mood. I was riding home from work yesterday and was going through that little section of Queen's Park Circle where Shiz smoked that lady and I suddenly got this really powerful floral smell. I looked and just inside the fence there was a million little blue flowers (forget-me-nots?). Then I glanced up and realized there were leaves on the shrubs/etc along there too. I had an awful day at work yesterday, but I wound up with a big grin on my face all the way home.

Also, I don't want to sound like a queer or nothin', but unicorns kick ass.

(a free beer to whoever first gets that reference)

I think Depeche Mode is a really sweet band.

I think Depeche Mode is a really sweet band.

Hot dog! We have a weiner!

I don't know how to respond to that Shiz.... you caught me flatfooted.... :beer:
It's awesome to be able to start shedding layers. Pretty soon you'll simply bolt out the door....bike, cash, keys, lock *click* Wooohoooo biker tan!!!!!!

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