jeremywhitehorn

trip to home depot in the near future?

duppy.conqueror

ha ha...yup!im ridin to mercury...well thts hardly a ride...around 8.30am...im gonna ride the cambio there anyways... the one on main...

duppy.conqueror

beautiful out there....hope everyone is pedalling they a55e5 off!

coffee spin was nice this am and that was at -1 can only imagine how it feels now...

jeremywhitehorn

no spin for me as i was with child but i did get out for a walk which was nice all the same.

aMull

It was pretty good, i was going north with 35km/h head wind, uphill, holy ****! I hauled ass back naturally

pyze-guy

Nice cupcakes dude.

2wheelsgood

when i first glanced at the thumbnails I thought you had piped icing directly onto your laptop!

elTwitcho

Went for a spin last night from 3 am to 5 am, late night rides are the absolute best. Nobody is on the road anywhere

shapelike

Those are the work of my ladyfriend. She's a cupcake-baking machine!

2wheelsgood

Alright, it's about time I put a helmet on my head. I know squat about them. I see and hear a lot of people with catlike helmets and they seem to like them a lot. Can you guys/gals give me some input on what to buy and where to buy it? Thanks!

kergin

Anyone down for some early morning don riding tomorrow? 9AM Pottery Rd?

shapelike

Catlikes are pretty Eurotrashy and they'll be hard to track down locally, especially at a good price. I would take a look at some different Giro and Bell helmets. They're designed for different head shapes so you might find that one brand fits you better than the other. $45-$85 should get you set up with a good helmet. You can spend up to ~$200 on one but that won't make it any safer (it will make it lighter with more ventilation and space-aged looks though).

kergin

well, I went for a short ride in the don on a trail that lead off of the trail head. At parts there were markers indicating the advanced and intermediate options. Being on a cross bike, I just took the intermediate and still had to walk some tricky sections with drops and rock/brick patches.

duppy.conqueror

anyone know what channel they show the paris-roubaix on?

shapelike

Take a look at the road forum and road racing sub-forum. There's some discussion going on there about networks w/ Paris-Roubaix coverage. I'll post any links to any live streams I come across as well tomorrow.

shapelike

I am totally useless when it comes to descriptions of the Don. Do you have a for realsies mountain bike as well? There's plans to start up weeknight ventures into the Don in the near future - probably Wednesday or Thursday evenings after work. Interested? Last year we stuck to the River Trail and the Ridge trail, which are both cyclocross bike-able.

kergin

I has no realzies mountain bike, which made trail riding extra tricky. You kind of have to judge what a cross bike can and can't take on a turn by turn basis. I worry most about that CF fork, to be honest; I just don't have any confidence in CF for MTB or hard single-track. I would be very interested in don ride sessions this spring/summer, but I need to look for a mountain bike. I might try to get a Cannondale Caffeine F4 or 3 before Dorel offshores production. Maybe I should check out some steel MTB rigs, too.

So, no one is down for tomorrow morning, then? Alright, sleepin time.

shapelike

https://www.cyclingfans.com/ <-- I'm watching the Eurosport feed in French.

shapelike

I'm going to ride today, but not until I finish watching Paris-Roubaix. Hopefully that gives the day some time to warm up as well.

duppy.conqueror

thanx mike...unbelievable that canadian cable isnt showing this...

shapelike

Last season I got comfortable riding the River Trail, the Ridge trail, and that bit that leads into the trails from the Pottery Road parking lot on my CX bike. I agree with you that you have to pick your lines based on the bike you're on to a certain extent, but once you get some of the tricker spots down you can ride them cleanly on pretty much whatever. At least, that's my experience on those trails ... and full disclosure, I did bend my aluminum steerer tube in there at some point over the season. That fork was nothing to write home about though. I'm a big subscriber of "ride what you've got" so if you want to join in we can always do a cx bike-friendly ride through that area.

shapelike

English text crawler (still no live audio/video feed in English): https://www.velonews.com/live/2009/paris-roubaix/

nerdsgirth

When a motorcycle went into the crowd at 64K?, the announcers yelled "oooo la la!" - Thanks for the stream

jeremywhitehorn

i think i actually heard them say "sacre bleu!"

shapelike

https://www.rojadirecta.com/freedocast/426A31DD2133109A <-- working