calm down or your head will

In retrospect I have decided to impose a donation to the Bike Messenger Emergency Fund to gain entrance into the free stuff room. Everybody wins.

what up Keith...what up TO-fixed massive

Duppy....

King Tubby? :D!!!

Bob Marley (PBUH)

Who dat?

one of my favorites, after Mr. Brown.

<----shamil

wtf. I just body checked a mini-van that pulled an unexpected u-turn going through an intersection on campus. Bike is ok save for ripped bar tape.. I have a scrape on my arm and busted knuckles. Dude was very apologetic.. I left a dent and a scrape, he didn't want to exchange info. Fine by me. I think I got him worse than he got me.

I thought karma was set to rain it's love down upon me?!

You are alive and well, good to hear? Sounds like Karma has already has my friend.

Wes, if there is any justice, the cycling gods will now rain massive karma down upon you and smite all your enemies.

Yer frame is here....I will have it ready in a couple of hours

Was it a QR or did the bum have an allen key? I've noticed a lot of bikes locked up with missing wheels, front or back, lately. It is that time of the year; Toronto gets inundated with vagrants and things go missing. My co-worker bought a Canadian Tire bike (against my advice, but whatevs) and his front brakes were stolen. Those things are 12bucks a pair! Crazy.

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet I cant wait man...

Yes, this is depressing. I may have to got some more lockage instead of my mini-brute through the rear triangle. I have a locking front skewer which, frankly, anyone with two vice grips could rip off. :mad:

Keith, I'll be by saturday morning. I still think we should have a bike swap. We could join the guys across from your shop :D

hockey tape makes great rim tape. what kind of Canadians are you?

um..... the non-hockey playin' variety? :lol: I ride in the snow and ice instead.

Yeah, I have lockrings on everything I own but still use a U-lock and a cable to secure everything just in case there is a forward-thinking bum around.

I was eating some pho the other day and I rode the Roubaix down and locked it up (within eyesite) and sure enough, a guy stopped to check it out. I like to think he was just admiring it but he was there for about 3 minutes, which made me a bit nervous but then he continued on. He then came back about 15 minutes later and stood looking at it for another 3 minutes or so. I was with 4 friends and I am not a small guy anyways, so I continued to give the guy the benefit of the doubt that he was just checking out the neat bike and yeah, he didn't touch it but it is still a bit nerve-wracking having nice things in this city sometimes.

If you want a cheap saddle and post, those are your guys...sketchy scammers one and all.
You think the bike theft is bad? I had a customer the other day that had his tube stolen...not the wheel or tire...just the tube. How much crack does a tube get on the street these days anyway?

hahahahaha

I had my snowshovel stolen by a crackhead...wonder how much crack he got for that.

I had a guy in a few weeks back whose wheel got ripped off while he was standing next to the bike. He came out to unlock it, look a call on his cell and while he was turned the other way talking, someone just flipped his QR, grabbed the wheel and took off. He turned back around and was like - 'tF?! - didn't even see who did it.

Up here you would've gotten kicked off the bus/train or got a $120 ticket :P

That's probably not going to hold. I had to walk home the other week because my electrical rim tape moved and exposed the spoke holes. It doesn't flat immediately but any sort of bump and it will puncture. I usually carry 2x spare tubes and a full park tool patch kit, so you can deduce how many flats it took to empty me out before I called it quits.

Not to mention the bike shop charged me $6 for rim tape for one wheel.

allen key

ooohhhh noooooooooooooooooooo I hear the beat of little wings:eek:

Dude that so sucks