you are correct.

Have fun on the ride Mike!

Wix bike Mitch! Why don't you throw one of these on it? Jake! wtf

that could possibly be the dumbest spoke card i've ever seen. now, a king kong bundy spoke card...

Why pray tell? (did I mention I love the Sidis?!!)

Ultimate tt protection.

Anyone here use veloplugs instead of rimtape? Good?

DOPE!

I've got them and I guess I like them enough... Some reviews site the weight as being a definite advantage but I don't really care about that (within reason), 20g per wheel? Like I give a **** when I've got 20 pounds of stuff on my back.

The major advantage as far as I'm concerned come into play when changing pooched spokes and they eliminate the need to line up the stem whole with the tape, not to mention the fact that they are reusable which is nice... Beyond that, I have them and would buy them again but I could never argue all that effectively for them over tape... Maybe some of you shop dudes could make a better case either for or against?

well it ended up that we only saw some riders for about 5 minutes at our halfway point. our fearless leader took us on an interesting detour down by a creek along gravel trails that no one in the rally would have wanted to do, so by the time we got back to the route everyone had passed. it was my longest ride of the year at 100km almost on the dot. kindof an expensive ride with the cost of the go train, but lovely to get the marinoni out on the country roads where it belongs.

Man, 20 grams! I'll be flying up the hills in no time! Thanks for the info Matt.

do you ride a unicycle as well? If so, I think I met you last year.

ps. everyone: likely mtn biking Tues/Thurs this week if anyone wants to join. Just a casual jaunt through the Don. Probably a little later than usual.. maybe 7-ish?

a few years back i needed to put rim tape on a wheelset at 8pm on a sunday, and didnt have any with all the shops being closed i used electrical tape, and have used it since with out incident

James, check your PM's.

Wow you have friendly rims. With EC tape I need two wraps to prevent blowouts.

well, i did file down a few rough patches, before taping it up, but once round worked and havnt really had a problem

https://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/385384502.html

two tickets: $220
Making a cop feel stupid: just dumb
Claiming it was racist: priceless

someone just posted an amusing response to that

Bike ...crossWALK .... I don't know where he got his ideas from. The thought of using pedestrian crosswalks to get across the street after passing countless intersections.... does not compute.

I am guilty of riding across the occasional crosswalk and I understand why it's a bad idea and why those laws are in place - with that said, I also j-walk from time to time, understand why it's a bad idea and would still be kind of cheesed if I got a ticket for either just because I would only cross (in either instance) if safe to do so - I care far less about law then I do about principle. Unfortunately the cops don't agree.

If I ever end up with a bell ticket I will be absolutely furious. If cops want to ticket people for having unsafe bikes – they should start looking at all the broken down and barely rideable supercycles littering the city streets and people rolling around with their iPods blaring rather than picking on experienced riders on well maintained machines who know that a well timed “HEY!” or “YO!” will curbstomp any bell on any day.

I was the unhappy recipient of a $110 ticket few weeks back for riding through a stop sign. The kicker was - I saw the cop ahead of time. Never dawned on me that I'd ever get a ticket on a bicycle. Next time, I run from the fuzz !!

Anyway, seeing that CL link... I don't think the cop was looking stupid that day. Negotiating with traffic cops is a useless endevour, the see only black & white. They move to traffic duty because their wives tell them so.

Anytime I intend to go through a stop sign or red light, I check behind me and around me to be sure there are no cops around. I don't do it too often and I usually obey most traffic laws, the $110 fine is just not worth it.

I picked up a $187 fine for allegedly running a red a while ago - my court date is coming up in October.

I don't run reds because I know a cop will be there. The few times I have, fuzzy john was sitting in the bushes waiting for his cruller and double double to go down. And I've gotten off by looking contrite and being polite.
Stop signs on the other hand, I generally always will roll through, just like a real vehicle


To quote gumby on CL "I told him that and made him feel stupid..so then he looked at my bike and said ur getting another ticket for not having a bell." He didn't get a ticket for the bell, he got a ticket for opening his yap and the bell was conveniently absent. Anyone who just fell off the turnip truck will tell you beak + toronto's finest=bad outcome. He should have informed him that he also paid his salary.... that woulda learned him. Jeez.... I'm sure his fine attitude had nothing to do with the first ticket he got either.

He's gone man.

I've been thinking about getting a bell for the road bike just in case I get pulled over... but thats kinda like a fixie in spandex

I went to the court office on Edward to please guilty with an explanation, hoping to have the fine reduced but the line up was soooo freaking long. I'd have to take a day off work. I decided to pony up the cash and be done with it. I'm much more obedient now.