how did the polo go ?...# per team ? I don't know about golf club shafts for mallets....sounds delicate. The wooden shaft (broom) is good for mallet to mallet love.

fun as hell, 3 on 3

any wheel tacos? Gamin' surface?

An aluminum golf club sounds more delicate than a wooden broom handle?

brad: the only thing is that the guys there said the broom handle ones don't last very long. He said they basically just use them for backups/loaners/etc because they wouldn't last through a tournament. Of course, they're playing harder than we do, but still.

eg: https://toronto.craigslist.org/spo/329479804.html / https://toronto.craigslist.org/spo/327555487.html

Actually.. I noticed a bit of a wobble in my front wheel Monday morning, but that could have been there already. We played on the paved tennis surface near Hanlan's Point.

We were playin' on a tennis court. No tacos... yet. I was playing on my Makino. I would want to use a beater though to play more aggressively.

I would go in on the clubs, depending on how much...

Yeah, not caring about your bike certainly helps. As does just having a bike set up properly for it (flat/riser bars + low gearing).

edit: remember the cardboard disk wheel? I didn't know before, but that guy plays polo. He's in the video from the NYC tournament earlier this month playing against Ottawa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0e68b0_3No

That particular broomstick is actually thin-wall aluminum tube. I do remember he said they wouldn't last though... although I imagine wooden broomhandles are still cheaper than clubs and much easier to work with!

You're probably right. In fact, since I already have to make a trip to Canadian Tire...

Anyone up for a mountain biking excursion on the holiday Monday?

I was talking to a friend about hitting the don. Interested? I'm doing Kelso on Sunday. Staying in town on Monday 'cause I'm not dealing with the traffic

Yeah, I'm interested if that's all I can get.

So I did a fitting session for a customer yesterday ... adjusted his bars, swapped out his stem for a new one ... adjusted his saddle height/position. He came in today with a MASSIVE black eye, swollen completely shut and blue/purple/black. All I could think was "oh god I didn't tighten something down and he bailed hard - now he's going to kill me." In reality, he got pwned during a water polo match.

*swallows balls back down into scrotum*

Even better if he comes in with the bike in two peices. I'll do that to keith just to keep him on his toes.

Come on out to Kelso too if you like! I'll be at a party in Milton on Saturday night so it's gonna be a 5km drive for me! If you want to meet up let me know and I'll let you in on the details when I have them.

Well, I have plans on Sunday afternoon, so unless you're going to be doing a morning ride I likely won't be able to make it. And if you're partying on Saturday night, I doubt you'll me mtn biking on Sunday morning.

What did you have in mind?

No idea. The only places in the GTA I've ridden are the Don and Albion. I'm fine with just planning on hitting the Don again though.

You need to get around more! I can show you a ton of good places.

Don's the best bet on Monday IMO unless you like sitting in traffic (which is very high on my list of things I hate)

So... Flightdeck says that the max speed for today's ride was 135.2kms/hr! I'd have guessed around 60 but I can hardly argue with a computer!

72 Speed Touring bike:

https://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/332790075.html

How do you get 72 speed? 9 in back and 8 in front?

8 speed casette on 3spd hub. triple up front.

More something to have fun putting together than actually useful I'd say! (I think the guy that built it feels the same!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnZb5wi_jsU

It would be cool if it had a 10 inch gear all the way up to 200 inch gear in even increments. As is there are probably 5 different 68 inch combos. I prefer Nestors 2 speed pedal frontwards and backwards set-up

hahaha. Even more funny 'cause I think we've all had that experience once in our lives.

Rohlhoff with a 2 speed BB perhaps? Expensive experiment though!