yeah, i saw them there and they were upwards of $60. i was hoping to find something a little more winter bike friendly...

CONGRATS!!!! Brad and Tam!! enjoy. Hope you are all doing well.

--sham

Watch out folks, I noticed a little ice on the sidewalk today when I was walking to the store. First ice I've seen, so be careful if you ride in the mornings.

yup - the martin goodman had patches of it this morning too. i can't believe it's actually getting cold this year...

Yeah we took those off on new builds because masi doubled up on them, there was a chainguard on the crankset then a plastic full run chainguard that we removed. These were on the Masi commuters. They should still be hanging around there.

i've got to check that out then - if it's the one i am thinking of then they look light and simple enough for my humble winter bike...

yeah that would be this chainguard here - the brown one

yeah - that's the one i wanted. i asked one of the sales guys and he told me they don't sell them on their own...i'm going to check back in then.

time to un-sheath the winter bike!

Anyone who rode today my hats off to you.

So digging around in the basement I come across some old plastic fenders with no mounting hardware. One front fender, two rubber sink faucet O rings and a synthetic wine cork. O rings top and bottom of screw hole in fender, bang cork into hole on underside of fork, screw fender into cork, BOOYA fender for free!!!! Tail wind blew me in from the East, drivers being quite accommodating/self preserving as they tend to be in the crappy. Head wind home .... not so much fun but quite doable. All and all a good ride in. The CX tires were grip-tastic but still no snow to speak of so they remain in testing phase.

Okay ride this morning. Got completely soaked. And on that street with single lanes that goes up and down then up and down and is not cleared and was icy, I walked.

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ank&p=10125835

10,000 posts. holy cow

And I was just about to say we missed the party 5 posts too late hha

found the chainguard! whoop!

anyone....? bueller...buelleer...? its a ghost toen in here...

I put my studs on a couple days ago. Winter is here!

So im back in toronto and have $400 to drop on a bike. What else can i do besides looking at craigslist for a nice used fixed gear? Any other websites etc?

You can mail order one of those $250-$300 fixed gears from the u.s

Talk to ashar in parts if you ever need anything. There's a very large disconnect between salespeople and what's actually in stock/for sale

Best purchase ever. Wore them Thurs when it was about -17 with the wind. My hands were sweaty when I got to work.

Was that the bikesdirect store? I thought they didnt ship internationally.

I think I have the same ones, in glove version for the extra cold days. It wasn't that cold the other day though! I think they just made up that wind chill to placate the whiners.

Maybe with the gusts. Who knows, they were certainly warm though.

They don't, or didn't in the past. I had my stuff from bikeisland/biredirect shipped to a friend in buffalo.