So is there going to be a safety meeting at 6 still?

i realized after i got home that i was riding the upper don (north of pottery road entrance); those are some technical runs! i think i'll try the lower part next time. are they flatter?

I was at Yonge and Bay at 5...on my way to meet a friend at Union Station. That was an unbelievable crowd.

Touched lids holy!
All my years in Toronto I’ve never rode the MTB dirt trails there always on the single track/path!
I'll be back.

I remember that day. It was my favorite of all summers.

I was riding through traffic, all the people in cars were bumper to bumper looking angry or frustrated. The people on the street were all hiking north, sweating up Yonge Street, staring at me, envious. Then one guy on a motor bike said, and I'll never forget this ...

"You're free as a bird!"

I love bikes!

I'm here in Taichung, Taiwan.

There is this bike shope that carries has so many new and old Colango bikes, it's ridiculous!
It makes bike shops in Toronto look cheap.

They also have a couple of late 90's DeRosa's Cassini's and Merkx road bikes.. soooooo sex.
No track bikes thus far.. :(

The search continues.
I think I need to go to .JP .IT or .FR for real.

Panasonic?

oh yeah.. the lower part has some nice smooth single track that has some decent flow.

Hey Foo

How did the wheel work out?

ya lower don is easier...

He at least got onto St. George alright... further than that.

Nice... I hadn't seen him post in a bit so I was hoping it didn't transport him to another dimension or something.

how does one find his way to the lower don?

Here is the northern entrance to the lower don by Taylor creek park, the parking lot to the south-west is where the northern exit of the upper don is.


And right about Here is the southern entrance to the lower don, to get here you can ride along the paved bike trail from Pottery until Beachwood Dr. which is just a gravel road and turn left, go along until you hit the train tracks and turn right over the wooden train track bridge and make another right and your on the trail.

Hope that helps.

While I'm at it I'll map out a few of the other Don trails that I know of.

Lower Don Trail (aka, Speed trail)

Upper Don Trail (aka, Ridge trail)

I think some peeps call this Trail "Party Atmosphere", this one isn't super accurate because there are so many forks in the trail and I might have confused myself a bit. It's a good technical trail with a lot of switch-backs, the first part of the trail is a bit depressing because there are big piles of trash by the trail from the apartment complexes. :(

Here is a good warm up loop (Fruity Loops) in Taylor creek Park, not too technical and there are a couple of decent climbs.

Here's another short loop in Taylor creek park (Doctor Quads).

I've been on a bunch of other trails too but they're kind of hard to map out.

Haha.. that'd be some magic wheel! I had to dig around a bit for some more suitable spacers, as it was being a bit noisy, but ended up getting it pretty close. So far, so good.. it's just been a busy week for me.

WOO! Mitch for the win! Thanks for mapping those out. I've been trying to figure out where best to venture into the Don w/ my cx bike, so that lower area looks perfect.

Wes, we need to sort out our beer-having. Call me at the shop - (416) 778-6473 - and let me know what works. Maybe this can take place at the safety meeting or pre/post CM.

I was wondering what was going on.. When I drove through Yonge/Wellesley on my way to the bookstore/coffee/cavern there seemed to be WAY too many pedestrians. I thought it was just because it was so nice out. :P

Totally and completely different style. It's a really fast, totally flat twisty trail. In fact, we usually just call it "the flats". Be really careful of oncoming traffic because it's a total big-ring bomber.

Mike: I think that's about the only place in the that section you'd want to ride a cx bike. The ridge trail is likely too technical. At least for me it would be. :P

P-A stands for Party Atmosphere? Wow that's lame. :P Then again, the guy who showed us that trail referred to the lead in to that and Catalyst as "Beaver Flats" and the top of the crazy climb on P-A as the "doobatorium", so I guess I shouldn't be surprised it stands for something like that. :P Thanks for the maps! I haven't checked out any of the trails in the Taylor Creek area yet.

Rock practice tonight (and every Friday) from 7:00 until around 9-ish. I'm up for getting together afterwards if it's not pouring rain.

Doesn't get any more lmao than this:

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/20...imposterCaught

Someone would actually sacrifice their time to pretend go to a university. The hahahhaah has not stopped reverbating throughout my house yet. Either that or the whole thing is a publicity stunt and story fabrication by stanford related personnel.

I have Teddies crazy maps of the East and West Don at the shop. These are as detailed as a map of the Don can be. Some are wall size, a few are fold-up pocket size. Now if I could only manage to go riding instead of being stuck in the shop every night till 9. SIGH!

To me, km for km, mountain biking is way more fun. The problem is it's easier for me to roll out of my house on my road bike and get a good ride in. Mountain Biking takes way more effort!

More effort?..perhaps. Less idiotic drivers? Yes. The biggest reason I enjoy Mtn over road is that you have no worries of getting run down by some inattentive car driver. Altho collisions in the Don are not unheard of as Jeremy can attest.

Takes about an hour to get through, but here are some really good talks featuring Greg Palast and RFK Jr.

There's a lot of information about what Karl Rove's been up to recently, details on the 2004/2008 elections and what republicans used to be (and of course stuff on the Iraq war). The bit at the end about corporations and their supposed philanthropic actions really nails an excellent point home.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...58769441262005