Just got in from a solid ride w/Benway....it's getting nice out there kids, group rides and sprints coming up!

Brad, the SMPs are kinda weird, tried one and it felt like I only had one position on the saddle. I really like the Fizik Aliante. No stitching and was comfortable enough on my road bike and mountain bike. Sadly I sold both. Doh!

And on another note, Keith is 100% right about Matt and that IS his bike. Insanely light and if you catch up to him on the street is really willing to show it off and talk about the different parts and how they are engineered to work with so little material..cool guy indeed.

Where did y'all ride? We were out on the spit for awhile. Seems like it was only pros, hobos and hippies out today!

Mike and I rode up to around Royal York and Dixon this morning. Lovely day. I totally overdressed since I heard something about a cold advisory... I guess I needed to take the sun/physical-activity into account better. My lobster-gloves were more than a little swampy.

Also: the Humber trail is absolutely horrendous. Think rutted, solid ice.

Hey! I was out on the spit today...

Did you shave your beard off. I thought I saw someone who might have been you and Tam

Yeah, the beard is gone. We were out there around 3ish?

I was riding my orange miele.

i should have gone out of a ride - instead i stuffed my face with indian food. maybe tomrrow morning...

Could well have been you then. I was out walking with Sandra and we would have been out about then.

We rode from Dundas Square south on Victoria to Wellington to Spadina to College (Manic) and showed the bike off to Toby :P Then north on Bathurst to Dupont and east on Dupont to Davenport/Church to Bloor and Bloor/Danforth to Pape down to Queen and back home. Trying to figure out routes for group rides is good times. Insanely deep pot hole about half way down Pape though, thing almost swallowed me whole.

I think this is about right: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1724017

Ya, fun day. The weather was pretty friendly once you got moving. Getting lost in the neighbourhoods around the river valley could certainly lead to a quick death from some of those hills. I think next weekend I may try that route again and just skip all the crap in the burbs - just take Bloor to Royal York and try a simpler route. Once spring has taken care of the Humber trail I'll think about checking that again.

Walking is SO pedestrian.

I ride the humber a lot in the summer. It's a nice tour and you can go all the way to steeles. I remember one day last summer when it was crazy hot I decided to "get out of the city" and rode up the humber to steeles and then continued Northward to king road hoping to catch some country. There's some nice hills up there, but the continuous line of trucks and cars was annoying since when I left I'd pictured nothing but me and the grass blowing in the wind. Turns out the most peaceful part of the ride was along the humber.

If anyone is up for a ride earlyish tomorrow I'd be interested.

I put in a solid hour on the bike today thought i was dressed well but no match for the cold!

Nice ride :). I find it hard too to find a ride without too many annoying junctions, yet avoiding major motor roads. What other rides do you guys like?
Going on Lakeshore from Humber Park westbound is nice and quiet (some traffic though) at least until Port credit (the farthest I've been). Otherwise Commissioner st. is ok for loops but boring.

T Minus two weeks!

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the stretch along the lake from port credit to Oakville is pretty nice, then you're stuck on lakeshore until burlington. Around the bay in hamilton is fun and there's some neat sightseeing points along the way. Grimsby is as far West as I've been so far.

Going east, my favourite stretch of the lake is from Newcastle to Port hope. If you take the GO train East to Oshawa, then oshawa to port hope and back is a reasonable Sunday ride.

Ok

T-Minus 3 weeks!

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I unfortunately forgot to start recording the ride on my gps until we were already in the Humber area, as evidenced by the resulting map: http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/117000

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T-Minus 4 weeks. :)

Good ride today. Hopefully this week will be good. Can't wait to show off the new stallion ;)

i'd be into that. i think pyze said he was up for a ride as well. what say you?

i was thinking out to the spit and back or somesuch.

Nice.. I'll have to use you for some advice as I'll be passing through there before and/or after the SSWCs in August.

t-minus 3 weeks for the start of racing for me as well. yikes! The April races are gonna be awfully messy methinks!

are these the mid-week road crits you were talking about a while ago?

I have to be back at the house for 12:30, meet in a central area and go form there works for me. What time say you?

i dunno, anywhere from 9-10 is fine. what time does i deal open?

I'm in. someone say where and when.

I can be there for 9-9:15. Always go to moonbeam if ideal isn't open.

sounds good to me. 9 at ideal (if it isn't open go to moonbeam), ride out the spit or something, home for lunch sounds like a plan.

t minus 5 months (hey, i wanted to play along!)

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(Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Bergen, Venice)
plus a cross canada tour, new york, chicago, and hopefully the uk before october.

Ok. see you there.

Well, those start around the beginning of May. The first race is the Uxbridge Icebreaker.

me = jealous. Copenhagen is one of the nicest places I've ever been, especially as a cyclist. I lived in Stockholm for 3 months as well. Great cities.

edit: to join in the club.. I'm doing Vancouver in June, St. John's in July and San Fransico / Napa in August.

I've never ordered from them, but my guess would be shipping wheels would be pretty expensive. I would have recommended CavernMech as the wheel builder to go to, but he closed down his shop. But local might be best. That way if there are issues your roommate can go to see the builder.