Yeah, does anyone want to play bikes tonight? I stopped riding a week and a half ago so's I'd have excess energy for my test-thingy. Now that that's done I plan to be in the saddle for the next four days as much as humanly possible.

I would guys but I'll be mapping my route for La Clavera tonight, doing laundry and getting ready for my 7am bus ride into NYC from Prov. Have fun tonight get plenty drunk and I'll see youz guyz next week!

No can, it's the wife's birthday. We're going to a fancy restaurant. People in sneakers don't even go to this place!

im up for some MIT track racing tonight if anyone is down

meatball, i feel you on the snydeness of BBB, i work there and sometimes i can't even stand it. yesterday for instance i wanted to fight everyone in the shop. i came in to work as a favor for the manager who's cool, but the guy chris and the service manager dave are complete a$$holes. and the student discount thing, you have to mention it to get it, since they try to sell everything for retail, so if they don't have to, they don't like to give out discounts. (yeah, its rediculous) the best time to go there is weekends, especially sunday when i'm working, generally the cooler, nicer people tend to work on the weekends.

Hey, how did that Copley Square crit turn out? I was too pooped from 80 miles and excessive partying the day before to make it.

I'm down for riding tonight, but I might be late.

go4broke: glad to learn not everyone there is down with that attitude, I feel you man. There are definitely a couple cool people who work there but they people who are jerky have pretty much turned me off completely and I usually just go to Boston Bicycles if I can't make it to Cambridge now. Sorry to ****-talk your place of employment... seems like you have similar feelings tho so I don't feel too bad

Alright, guys, I'll probably try to hit up the track at 10:30 tonight. No promises, though, I may get involved in a prolonged pie eating contest.

Besides biking, I've abstained from eating baked goods for the last two weeks.

Alexi says he'll be there at 10:30.

just got back from BBB, took the bianchi back and picked up my IRO for tonight. **** never changes there... i took the bianchi out for a brief 16 mile jaunt over summit ave, and out through newton, just to get on the bike again, since i've been sitting inside for so long due to all the rain. of course, the mountain biker mechanic is all like "thats not even long enough to be worth riding, you guys only did 17.5mph? i could do better than that, and i'm not even a road biker. you should start shaving your legs too, etc, etc". the day he decides to put a road bike between his legs and come on a ride with me, will be a very sorry day for him... sorry for my rant

Crap. I really need to get those tires for my GT, so I can put a "proper" (re: gearing, among other things) bike out on the track.

Oh yeah, I just got back this afternoon from a few days in Denver, including some hiking up at 10000 feet and mountain biking at 7000 feet (that was awesome). Anyone want to do the Charlie Baker TT route (in Concord) with me tomorrow morning? The motivation being the nicely increased red blood cell count...

heh, i wonder if other BBB employees are on here.

Dear, Boston.

WTF?

No, really.

I just put together my Litespeed this morning, go to give it an inaugural ride, and saw this.

Gonna be 60 tommorow though.

Wow, a Litespeed. What's up, big spender?

I seriously miss this kind of random weather. Dublin is a lock at this point and the weather there is pretty predictable and frankly not so awesome.

I saw that about tomorrow and was sort of laughing to myself. When I went to Broadway earlier today it was about 10 degrees warmer.

I got it so cheap it'd make you whimper.

Wait a minute...are you living in Dublin?

I'm confused.

Is Trevor abandoning Boston for Dublin? Find out on next week's "Tales Of Boston Bike Geeks"

Indeed.

It looks like I'll leaving my warm little nest in the hub of the universe around the 1st of December. I'll spend some time in Dublin, then some time in Mountain View, then back to Dublin for good to work for a well-known search engine and general Internet company.

It makes me sad. My hope is that they'll one day open a Boston office and I can move back.

Until then, I'll be taking advantage of 20 euro last minute air fares to Madrid.

Damn you.

By the way, were you (Trevor) in Central Square around 1:30 today?

I was, in fact. Did I see you? I thought I might have. I was inbound, you were outbound, our eyes met across the yellow divider line...

I had to wander over to Broadway to grab an 18t cog for my 3 month Bay Area excursion which accompanies this little adventure. I'm going 3/32" while I'm at it, scandalous, I know!

Actually, I was walking on the sidewalk (inbound side) down to school to play some (intramural) football. The snow made it more fun, of course.

Before you leave for good, we should have a proper send-off. Maybe the Thursday before Thanksgiving?

My GT is 3/32" - does that make it a fake track bike? Oh yeah, finally ordered tires for it...they'll be here next Friday. Expect to see it at the Ghettodrome soon enough.

3/32 doesnt make it a fake track bike, but if you're running no brakes, i'd want as much chain strength as i could get, so thats why most run 1/8 over 3/32. i once saw a kid in the muddy river park that had one of those KMC 3/16 BMX chains, his reasoning was that if anything got caught the chain would be able to tear right rhrough it. i can vouch for that chain's strength, i was once grinding things on my bmx bike down at gov't center, and noticed one of the sideplates had bent off the pin, rendering most chains useless and prone to snapping in the next pedal stroke. this chain lasted some more sessioning and a ride all the way back to/up mission hill.

3/32" is just fine for nearly all applications. 1/8" is about as important as inch-pitch chain, it's a throwback for anything other than BMX street freestyle.

That's funny that I thought I saw you on a bike when you were there but walking.

We should definitely have a little do before I leave. I'll also be back with some idle time in mid-December before I see the fam for the holidays and then do my 3-month indoctrination in CA.

Psst - I was just joking. My GT will kick your track bikes' asses any day. Suckas.

Note that I have yet to claim that I actually have the legs to back that statement up.

So unless there is a lot of disagreement, I say we make Thursday, November 17, the Thursday Tribute to Trevor. That was a lot of t's. We'll have dinner/drinks at the joint of Trevor's choosing (provided it isn't completely nauseating) and throw down (weather permitting) at the Ghettodrome one last time for the old fart. Oh, and you all can tell me about how cool Chitown was. Sound like a plan?

Oh ****s! Plans?!

Ok, Thurs, Nov 17 it is. Someone will have to help me remember. My old fogey memory ain't so hot.

As for venue, All Asia is obviously among the closest, though maybe not my favoritest place. Triple D's is pretty swell for me, but I understand that's an acquired taste. Let's say the Squealing Pig. I feel like I should go there more. It's a ride to the track from there, but I'm sure you're not scared of a few extra miles.

Who knows, maybe we'll get distractedon the way and end up riding downtown instead of going to the track.

Maybe plan on something earlyish, say around 8:00, so that I can eat and then digest and not be yakking on the ride.

Of course in typical waffling fashion, I can be talked out of any of the above.