kergin

wow, riding yesterday, I felt like I was going to throw up at a few points. This weather is making a great case for shirtless riding.

cavit8

Although I must say that the people who seem to ride shirtless probably score lowest on my "I want to see you shirtless" meter.

TRaffic Jammer

You know, of course, there's something terribly snappy to be said here. It simply fails me now.

vainglorious

couldn't have been as bad as this..

https://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/mis/1316530980.html

To the naked dude riding his bike along the spit this afternoon
Date: 2009-08-10, 8:02PM EDT
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Well done sir. Well done.

Was it a childlike desire to feel the wind against your balls that made you do it? Or was it just the humidity? Curious minds want to know.



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trueno92

that path downtown to the cne must be full of half nekkid ladies and cyclists crashing into each other!

actually, my commute down yonge the morning of the 1st garbage pick-up since the strike made for some serious throw-up in the mouth........

CAM - thanks for the tires! i tossed the wolber but i tested the vittoria and it is now riding on the front of my weekend Donut-burning bianchi.

operator

So in other news, I only hit 780 watts the other night on this:



I guess it wasn't zeroed properly

zippered

this is not the kind of news i like to pass on: https://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/sto...-homicide.html

trueno92

b@stard...........

btw, u need to take more pics of the scenery out there.

TRaffic Jammer

but ... but..... that's got brakes an' gears an' everything!!!

Martin Grove and Finch, 11pm ... upto a dozen shots for one cyclist? Something tells me the fact this guy was on a bike was incidental. Not that it makes it alright by any stretch, but I don't think he was some cyclist gunned down for being in the road. Not with that many shots... they wanted to make sure he was dead.

iherald

That was my thought when I heard it. Has anyone heard an update on that cyclist who got run over by the cab and lost his leg?

zippered

likely, i agree.

i just noticed this too: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/678257

(or https://www.torontosun.com/news/colum...21651-sun.html if you want the hyper-sensationalised version...)

first time i've heard of a cyclist riding on the sidewalk killing a pedestrian.

poor lady, but also poor kid that has to live with the guilt.



i'm really not full of doom and gloom today, really!

jet sanchEz

I dropped by the newly-renovated Bloor-Gladstone library and there isn't a single bike rack on the property. There aren't even any of those crappy bike-rings on the sidewalk. It looks to me like millions of dollars was spent on the renos and having absolutely nowhere to lock your bike up is a huge oversight.

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^^WORD^^ but how's the parking situation?

iherald

Listen, you commie, buy an SUV and go to Chapters. Stop being a whiner!

TRaffic Jammer

While in NYC I fell in love with the big boy BMX.

kergin

There's some messenger that's *always* riding something that looks like this. I can't imagine it's very comfortable to use all day long.

There's another guy that rides a baby-blue marinoni cross bike, and the thing looks sooo sweet. I need to ask him more about it one day.

kergin

Filthy roadie scum.

tdot-miele

So heads up guys to anyone lockin up in the annex!!!! I ran up on some piece of $h!t trying to jack a bunch of stuff off my bike last night in front of the Timmies near bathurst on the south side of bloor.

Stupid bastard had my seat more than half out of the frame... the front wheel nuts loose... stem bolt loose...

I started screaming at his ass from almost half a block away so i didn't get to dish out any U-lock justice this time, but i'm hunting for his @$$ !!! I would have chased him on the bike but as soon as i grabbed my bars they pretty much spun sideways into my top tube leaving a nice dent/chip.

He's about 5'9" fat as **** with a wannabe courier bag and balding shaved head... He claimed to be a courier; when i started calling him a stupid **** for screwing with a "work" bike... Bull $h!t... no courier is that fat! If you see this stay the hell outta the annex fat man... cuz one day you'll catch a U-lock tommahawk chop!!!!!!!!

I_bRAD

It's not worth getting an assault charge over. Or perhaps manslaughter if you're unlucky.

pyze-guy

That poor saddle having naked sweaty balls on it.

jet sanchEz

That sucks that no one was stopping the guy, what time was this at? I saw a stripped IRO a few weeks back, right in front of that big used CD place near Bathurst. You'd think that a busy strip like Bloor would be safe...bummers.

_K.

No, though I'm interested. A fellow by the name of Kyle Brown submitted an essay to the Globe and Mail which was published yesterday, the first time I've seen a cyclist's perspective on this topic in the major media (perhaps I've missed a few others).

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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/...rticle1247159/

iherald

degloving is a terrible injury!

TRaffic Jammer

*shudders*