tempting!

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gosh am i ever glad i'm not a student anymore. two years was quite enough for me. and i really like my job. i spent a great deal of my day today making french toast and having productive conversations. if only i could buy real maple syrup, real butter and real juice for the place, i'd be laughing.

ps.

I just emailed a buddy about it. If I didn't have my one-legged special being built up at your shop already, I'd be down.

My last year of law school was the first year I wasn't really excited to be at school. Six years of university were enough. That said, 3 hour days weren't too bad considering everything else!

Googled this band from Chicago called "Challenger" after hearing a song playing during a mtb vid (totally crazy: https://www.rip.tv/video/watch/2135/).. turns out one of the guys is a messenger in Chicago.

https://www.challengermusic.com/pages/collarbone.html

^d'oh!

that's awls.

for the MTBers, courtesy of the icebike list:

"Ok maybe I haven't had enough coffee yet this morning but that really sound like a great idea, so much so that I thinking I could use that method to bring back a pair of shoes that got odour/ruined during an offroad swampy ride. Can it be as simple as putting soap in my funky smelling shoes and heading out on a wet ride?

BTW, about that smell, ever wonder about the rain rehydrating and vehicle tires remobilizing the nearly invisible flatten remains of roadkill and your wheels accelerating tiny morsels to embed in your shoes/clothing and equipment?

Can I get some marmalade with that order of toast please?"

Is anyone here (shop dudes esp) especially talented when it comes to removing seized seatposts?

I got a new seatpost tonight and when I went to remove my old one and it's most definitely stuck in there. It's one of these jobbies (below) and the downside is that the bolt cluster at the top is not the same piece as the post itself and when I yank on the seat trying to pull it out - the bolt cluster is coming out of the tube and the tube is staying securely in place. Any ideas and/or volunteers? I definitely want this ****er out NOW!

Have you read this yet? https://www.sheldonbrown.com/stuck-seatposts.html

The last suggestion might be somewhat more up your alley. If you guys need access to a stand and what not I can open up bikechain after 6 on weekdays.

I'm sure this has been discussed on here before but any recomendations re: cycling computers?

So, what do you guys think of those E-bike things? They are getting pretty popular now and they ride in the same space that we do but they have the ability to go really fast and I am guessing that they are a couple of hundred pounds with the rider(s) on them, so they can be potentially dangerous. As well, there is no need for a license to drive or buy one and since there is no registration needed, there is no driver's test or aptitude test at all.

I ask because a couple of times now I have been riding along and one of these E-bikes comes right up behind me to pass and it kinda spooked me the first time because they are super-quiet and I just noticed it out of the corner of my eye and then, boom!, he was in front of me. I think these things are going to be a problem for cyclists. The people who use them may not understand how fast they can be and the government doesn't regulate them, so we might have some real idiots behind the wheels who may not be held accountable for their actions.

Yeaaaaaaaaaah, I thought that might be what I have to do... Not looking forward to it!

I've got a stand, thanks for the offer... Now I just need some time to actually do this!

Try taking the wheels off your bike and the saddle off. turn the frame upside down and put the square part of the seatpost into a large vice and twist the bike frame this way you can use the bike frame for leverage. be very careful how you grab your bike since you dont want to bend the frame.

MEC wired, DB4L. Huge multi-line display and cheap.

https://tinyurl.com/37r39t

$13.50 + tax

I'd recommend the DB4LW-C (has cadence) but the wireless suffers a lot of interference in the city. Good for country rides only.

Bikes that are not human powered need to be licensed and banned from bike lanes. I don't see how they're different from a motorcycle. That's my take on it at least.

In Chengdu, nearly EVERYONE rides an electric assissted bicycle.

Yes, I've had a brush with a clown on a E-bike, in a bike lane. I challenged the guy to pedal the "bike", and received an offer of a shot in the face in return. They, (and the gas scooters), also make use of the post and ring lockups, which can be annoying. I sent off an email to Councillor Heaps, but I'm hoping there won't ultimately be that many of them on the street in the long run.

Bikes that are not human propelled need to be licensed and banned from bike lanes.

Yeah, I had nothing but trouble from that wireless one. I picked up a Cateye ASTRALE 8 from Cycle Therapy last year and it's been grrrrrreat. I like having the cadence sensor on my roadbike.

If Sheldon's methods dont work for you give me a holla.

Lets concentrate on cars in the bike lane first...then we can move on to others
On another note....the lack of recent discussions have left me feeling distinctly unsafe. Anyone up for a safety meeting tomorrow eve?

Don't worry about the e-bike, they're just $1000 supercycles. Who's gonna fix them when they break in a couple months?

Yes, please.

(aka. Thank you, sir, may I have another?)

anything with a motor is not a bike. it's a slippery slope: first you allow e bikes in the bike lane then mopeds then scooters then motorbikes. unfair advantage if you ask me.

I've seen some of those e-bikes on the bike trails around town which clearly specify "no motorized vehicles" So there you go (also seen those stupid mini motorcycles too-but they only go 10kms/hr)

Yes. It seems that the E-bike has slipped under the radar as I spoke to a cop the other day about it and he didn't even know what an E-bike was. Let's hope it doesn't take someone getting killed by one before there is legislation about them.

There is legislation though! 32kms/hr max speed, 500W max power. Not sure who is enforcing that or how they go about it.