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mine has the same sticker - you stop noticing it after you've ridden the bike for about 3 min - its that good.
LULZ - I re-built my OCR2-fixie with that ENO wheel I had kicking around. This thing is a monster - 6 inches of seatpost with a Brooks saddle, compact road geometry, super-short seat stays, and a positive rise stem. I'm thinking its time for a rack - mebbe some fenders? w/e - the bike is a total ****-kicker, and Giant just blows...
operator
08-05-08, 06:53 PM
That's kind of weird, the Cannondale 2008 pics on their site have nary a sign of downtube stickers etc...
Just get a roll of red fun-fur and wrape that downtube. It'll help avoid speed-traps as it will absorb the radar beams.
They've creatively positioned the bike so you don't see the downtube sticker. You'll also notice the velospace pictures of the bikes are all the same.
man :(
elTwitcho
08-05-08, 06:54 PM
ha ha...yo twitcho that was me...nice bike...nice to meet u.
hah, just had a feeling it'd be someone on here.
And thanks dude, bike is rad once I figured out how to get in and out of clips (tightening them made it alot easier surprisingly).
freecycle
08-05-08, 07:10 PM
I actually just taped over the IronHorse logo on my rig, I find tastefully cutting it and tapering it helped blend it into the other relatively cool designs on the frame. Slash I may have been high and found tape again.
Im running some faaat tirez now, 2.60, all knobbly and whatnot. I feel like a kid who found a monster truck in his driveway. Down side = I have to redish the wheel about a millimeter to get half a millimeter clearance for the back wheel.
This may end hilariously badly.
Flimflam
08-05-08, 07:15 PM
ps. wow, it's POURING.
Yep, I just got in from a blast out to Yonge & Bloor and back... rode out there around 5:30/45 and came back around 8:15, much wetter out after that 2 hour stop off :) Streetcar tracks on College collect an assload of water meaning spray comes from both oncoming and same-direction traffic... yay. Glad I made the call to remount the fenders before I went out as I'd been out to the Angry Immigrant Mall earlier without even a sign of dark cloud in the sky. Boo-urns to a craptacular weather season so far this summer.
freecycle
08-05-08, 07:31 PM
mine has the same sticker - you stop noticing it after you've ridden the bike for about 3 min - its that good.
LULZ - I re-built my OCR2-fixie with that ENO wheel I had kicking around. This thing is a monster - 6 inches of seatpost with a Brooks saddle, compact road geometry, super-short seat stays, and a positive rise stem. I'm thinking its time for a rack - mebbe some fenders? w/e - the bike is a total ****-kicker, and Giant just blows...
pics or it doesnt exist!!!
/I have some dirrrrrrty fenders and a grunge rack you can have.
I mean, drop the value of the bike two hundred bucks grungy =D. BYOHardware.
pyze-guy
08-05-08, 08:06 PM
hah, just had a feeling it'd be someone on here.
And thanks dude, bike is rad once I figured out how to get in and out of clips (tightening them made it alot easier surprisingly).
Was that your bike being tuned at urbane today I saw Operator with?
elTwitcho
08-05-08, 08:20 PM
Was that your bike being tuned at urbane today I saw Operator with?
Most likely. I picked it up at Urbane today stock except for a 17T cog on the fixed side so unless they were selling two today that'd have been mine. Kinda wishing I'd paid more attention to who else was there now, I was so stoked to be grabbing my first good bicycle that I don't think I paid attention to much else ;)
pyze-guy
08-05-08, 08:22 PM
Most likely. I picked it up at Urbane today stock except for a 17T cog on the fixed side so unless they were selling two today that'd have been mine.
That would be it. Be worried though, I saw Operator hit a street post whiler test riding it.
Just kidding.
freecycle
08-05-08, 08:25 PM
It looked more like a streetCAR, but I was drunk and using the cog as a shuriken...
(I wasnt even in the vicinity)
2wheelsgood
08-05-08, 08:29 PM
ps. wow, it's POURING.
and i had to work outside in that **** for the last 5 hours.
and i'm working all weekend so no Charlie ride for me :(
2wheelsgood
08-05-08, 08:30 PM
rennick: high fives!
MattRennick
08-05-08, 08:57 PM
rennick: high fives!
Hahaha, oh man, you have no idea how much I love a good high five on the street... The "ride-by" high five is second ONLY to the "unsuspecting cab hailer" high five.
operator
08-05-08, 09:10 PM
Most likely. I picked it up at Urbane today stock except for a 17T cog on the fixed side so unless they were selling two today that'd have been mine. Kinda wishing I'd paid more attention to who else was there now, I was so stoked to be grabbing my first good bicycle that I don't think I paid attention to much else ;)
Lol... I built your bike.
haha
freecycle
08-05-08, 09:36 PM
so I just finished truing the rear wheel (as true as it gets with its bent spocks) and now I have realised that my frame is precisely, and I mean within 0.5 mm, large enough to accomodate a 2.6 knobbly tire.
the little rubber strings that come with new tires? yeah those cause it to stick ever so slightly as they bend when the tire rotates.
im going to ride it for a little bit, but its being replaced with a 2.5, soontimes.
:bday: Happy Birthday Shamil :bday:
elTwitcho
08-05-08, 10:10 PM
That would be it. Be worried though, I saw Operator hit a street post whiler test riding it.
Just kidding.
Oh that's what that was? Not a worry though, the bike turns really good to the left now...
elTwitcho
08-05-08, 10:12 PM
Lol... I built your bike.
haha
Small world, that's wild.
<deleting thread complaining about how my bike was assembled> ;)
~Stuart~
08-05-08, 10:27 PM
Oh that's what that was? Not a worry though, the bike turns really good to the left now...
now its a true track bike :D
or atleast perfect for the velodrome
~Stuart~
08-05-08, 11:16 PM
would someone who is planning on doing the dsr ride tomorrow night mind pming my there phone number? i get off work at 9, and i dont wanna miss the ride :D
ps: nohanded skid = bad idea, everytime i tried it i almost crashed... who da thunk it?
jeremywhitehorn
08-05-08, 11:33 PM
I just put a Wald 157 on my Urbanite. Good times. Pictures later.
http://www.waldsports.com/index.cfm/wald157basket.html
Tempted to put CX tires back on my Planet-X and go for a rip in the rain/slop later.
welcome to the wonderful world of baskets...
actually i have the same one of the front of my red "paperboy" bike.
Flimflam
08-06-08, 05:21 AM
'appy Birthday Sham dude, have a good one :beer: :thumb:
:bday: :cheers:
Yay smilies! :D
Herbie_Glick
08-06-08, 06:30 AM
Stuart, ride starts at same place/time. Call me at the shop and we'll figure something out.
welcome to the wonderful world of baskets...
Totally. I have to post pics of mine. It's an abominable contraption but it's great...
duppy.conqueror
08-06-08, 07:44 AM
'appy Birthday Sham dude, have a good one :beer: :thumb:
:bday: :cheers:
Yay smilies! :D
:bday: Happy Birthday Shamil :bday:
ha ha...well its actually tomorrowz! but thanx homies!!
hmmmmmmmm if payday = tomorrow
then present_to_self == scotch?
else itsjustanotherdayinthahood.
duppy.conqueror
08-06-08, 08:08 AM
***** rob...that capo frame looks sweet!
shapelike
08-06-08, 08:49 AM
Happy pre-birthday, Shamil!
Danhalen
08-06-08, 09:23 AM
Happy Birthday Eve Shamil!!! (from Montreal)
duppy.conqueror
08-06-08, 09:29 AM
Happy Birthday Eve Shamil!!! (from Montreal)
Happy pre-birthday, Shamil!
thanx guys...:o
sniff sniff so much love :love: from my t.dot fixed gear fam!
im all verklempt...Talk amongst yourselves.
shapelike
08-06-08, 10:48 AM
OMG, Igor's a total hottie!!!
http://multimedia.thestar.com/images/78/e6/f1d4029c48b4b90f81840b100216.jpeg
:love::love::love:
duppy.conqueror
08-06-08, 10:52 AM
OMG, Igor's a total hottie!!!
:love::love::love:
:roflmao2:
iherald
08-06-08, 11:05 AM
This is the problem with Lavalife. You see someone that posts their picture looking like:
http://multimedia.thestar.com/images/78/e6/f1d4029c48b4b90f81840b100216.jpeg
and you meet up and you see:
http://www.citynews.ca/images/2008-08/aug0108-kenk.jpg
TRaffic Jammer
08-06-08, 11:12 AM
Wow his lawyer sure cleaned him up nice. He shaved it looks like about 20 minutes before that bail hearing. A friend of mine here at work found her bike that she had virtually forgotten about. We got to talking and the question came up..... What the hell was he going to do with so many bikes, most of which had bits off them and such? Was it a fetish, is he a packrat that COULDN'T get rid of anything? He certainly wasn't making any money off all those bikes they found on him/in his garages. An odd duck most certain, Igor you fool.
bob_fixed
08-06-08, 11:33 AM
what about a $1250 pista concept?
http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/784010584.html
people love their tarck bikes. *coming from a kid with a bright pink frame*
Are we talking about the same bike?
http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/bik/784531991.html
the one in seattle is an '06. Given the price difference you could fly to Seattle. bring it back and re-sell it for cheaper...
I've got to say I'm staggered by the amount of *front page* press this is getting. And a publication ban?
Odd duck is right. However I think the packrat/psych defence would have went off better if he looked like a shmo. Now he looks like he just leared in from Columbia.
And iherald, sorry to hear you've had bad experiences on LL
32flavours
08-06-08, 12:01 PM
He's kind of hot. Weeeeeird.
TRaffic Jammer
08-06-08, 12:10 PM
He gutted bikes for spare parts to fix others' bikes with, and made his money that way never having spent money on the parts, but rather 20 bucks worth of crack to the thief? Ohhh and those piercing grey eyes, *swoon*
And damnit is he or is he not responsible for the white van messenger thefts, I GOTTA know.
LordFoo
08-06-08, 12:20 PM
...and you meet up and you see:
http://www.citynews.ca/images/2008-08/aug0108-kenk.jpg
I don't know if it's a mugshot thing, but that pic really reminds me of "gold paint huffing guy", especially from the nose down. Anyone with better PS skillz than me -- please do the honours :)
http://bayimg.com/image/makobaabb.jpg
He's kind of hot. Weeeeeird.
seriously... he's kind of attractive, in the ultimate badass kind of way.
oh and shamil: happy early birthday! i see you around the financial district all the time, now that i work at king/york. you're always on bike though, can't catch up in my business casual, haha.
duppy.conqueror
08-06-08, 12:33 PM
seriously... he's kind of attractive, in the ultimate badass kind of way.
oh and shamil: happy early birthday! i see you around the financial district all the time, now that i work at king/york. you're always on bike though, can't catch up in my business casual, haha.
Thanx Canice!
oh cool...working in exchange tower?
shout me out when ya see me! :D
32flavours
08-06-08, 12:42 PM
Balls, I'm always late to the party- happy birthday Shamil!
iherald
08-06-08, 12:52 PM
Publication bans are normal in criminal trials. All you have to do is stand up and say "I'd like a publication ban" and the judge will say "ok". I'm surprised that there isn't one in the beheading case in Manitoba.
Thanx Canice!
oh cool...working in exchange tower?
shout me out when ya see me! :D
nah on the opposite corner... 145 king. it's soul-destroying. :(
attn: operator!
the new york times wrote a story on ya. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?ref=magazine
MattRennick
08-06-08, 01:28 PM
Attn: aging punksters that are turning to folk music...
Chuck Ragan & Austin Lucas (http://www.sendspace.com/file/l87ejz)
Simple Life & Darling Corey are the standout tracks if you ask me... I know you didn't ask, but if you did that's what I'd tell you.
PS Happy Birthday Tomorrow, Shamil! Jah bless!
iherald
08-06-08, 01:37 PM
attn: operator!
the new york times wrote a story on ya. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?ref=magazine
Burn! :)
i burn for the lulz, as they say.
duppy.conqueror
08-06-08, 01:51 PM
PS Happy Birthday Tomorrow, Shamil! Jah bless!
wah wah...thanx bredz...
nah on the opposite corner... 145 king. it's soul-destroying. :(
yup...thats the word...soul-destroying...bun it down and build a velodrome? :D
Balls, I'm always late to the party- happy birthday Shamil!
thanx Dom!
freecycle
08-06-08, 02:02 PM
I will reserve my birthday greeting for tomorrow, Im not so generous.
He does clean up nice, doesnt he? Ooo and hes built like an Adonis! The bike-collector and coke dealer, of...*snif* .. my heart...
Anyone up for the don? Kinda tired so short day for me, but I wanna bounce around on these monstertruck tirez.
somnambulant
08-06-08, 04:57 PM
I will reserve my birthday greeting for tomorrow, Im not so generous.
He does clean up nice, doesnt he? Ooo and hes built like an Adonis! The bike-collector and coke dealer, of...*snif* .. my heart...
Anyone up for the don? Kinda tired so short day for me, but I wanna bounce around on these monstertruck tirez.
Probably too late, but I'm heading in there now.
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