jeremywhitehorn

Si. i saw that at a supermarket in argentina and had to buy it. it's the closest thing to a road bike i could find in that country.

cavit8

Anybody have any downtube indexed shifters for cheap? A guy at work is looking for a set.

iherald

Cavit, what do you do for a living? Programming?

operator

jailbaiting

Fuzzz

I have a pair or Shimano ones that i pulled off of my latest project bike. They're 105's (i think but can't remember)...

somnambulant

best. episode. evar.

https://www.crumplerbags.com/b4b/

Shiznaz

Thats really weird... why can't crumpler go buy their own beer? Too many underage labourers?

cavit8

$? Beer?

Shiznaz

you should go to the LCBO and exchange money for beer, then exchange the beer for a cruumpler bag, then exchange the crumpler bag for the downtube shifters, and then exchange the downtube shifters for a full body massage. Then tell your story to the world. Eventually you might get some crappy bungalow in the prairies out of it.

operator

bet you it was fabricated

Shiznaz

the red paperclip guy?

Offhoff

So where are we gonna get you roaringly drunk to celebrate your freedom from cubicle hell Shiznaz.

Oh and I agree on rob the red paperclip guy was totally fabericated.

Story from the road for the day. Pounding up Yonge to do my last 2 drops on bloor and people start pouring onto the streets from the subway. From queen to Dundas it turned into pedestrian hell apparently the subway was having problems. So it was totally a meat pylon run up to bloor.

That is all.

TRaffic Jammer

what was your final score?

Offhoff

I ended up chatting with girls looking for cabs at like 3 lights, but didn't smoke anyone so I'm gonna say I scored a nice gold medal run.

Also had a great day on the road so this was just the icing on the cake. Especially the two girls at bloor who wanted me to double them over to bathurst. I almost did it but couldn't figure out how to put TWO girls onto my bike.

TRaffic Jammer

Nice one..... that Offhoff...he's so cuuuuute!!

Offhoff

Thats what my mom says, and we all know mom knows best.

Danhalen

Well dudes I'm going away over the weekend so have a good one! Stay safe in all senses of the word and see y'all next week.

Charlie congratulations on leaving "the suits" behind for now. I'll probably see ya before you leave next week but if not then bon voyage! I'll get your bars back to you before you leave.

And as per an earlier discussion topic not all bike messengers are "bike punks". I'm not even sure what that means. It sounds kind of um lame though. ROCK AND ROLL

cavit8

Fuzzz, check your PMs

Oh, and $80 for a 113m Phil Woods BB https://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/337687311.html

And Iherald, I are a grad student in epidemiology and community health. I'm working at ICES for the summer.

Shiznaz

I'll be at cavern tomorrow after work to pick up my double cross. I'm going to have to leave my fixie at work and come pick it up next week (gasp!), so I'll be walking to cavern and then riding a gearie home so that should be fun.

I was blown away when I walked out of the office to front and bay. The entire intersection was a sea of people. It was like a documentary shot of some city in china or something. The roads were totally corked by a critical mass of drivers so I was lanesplitting and clipping every few cars with the fender strapped to my bag. OOPS! I also saw jeremy/darkmother tearing along bloor street going west so he is still alive and well.

This situation shows how when you get rid of the subway, the city basically shuts down, so if you improved subway service, the city would actually run properly.

jet sanchEz

It was the same sort of thing during the big blackout of.....2004? Or was it 2005? I was cycling north on Bay and BOOM!, everyone left their office buildings all at once! It was nuts and I had no idea what was going on, people just kept coming and coming and coming, blocking the sidewalks and spilling over out onto the streets. Traffic was nuts and there were no traffic lights, so it was just as messed up as it could possibly be, thank god I was cycling, no one was getting anywhere. Much like how it was today, I guess. At least the cab drivers made some cashola.

Offhoff

I find this acceptable.

jeremywhitehorn

so i ventured into the don to field test the new MTB and boy i had forgotten what a different experience mountain biking can be! i'm used to sort of zoning out and thinking of the big picture, taking my hands off the bars and stretching. nope, not on the trail. i was all alert all the time, grunting up hills, walking about 60% of them and eventually having a full head on colision with another cyclist (our helmets actually knocked together). i can't wait for more, but i think i'll lower the gearing a little bit becuase i was pushing a little too hard. or maybe i'm a weakling. now back to your regularly scheduled programme.

Fuzzz

you should be able to rip pretty hard on the lower don portion on yer new toy... having multiple bike options to switch it up rules!

Offhoff

Speaking of riding anyone up for a spin and beer? Nothing hardcore just enjoy the warmth?

Fuzzz

DOH... i just saw the forecast for tomorrow... sunny in the morning but chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon... hopefully it isn't terrible considering I've been looking forward to CM tomorrow...