D'oh, good call. The mystery may be fixed then and not for a cassette.

Please Tell me that Teksavvy isn't associated with Bell at all ... I'm desperate to get away from those Bell idiots in May.

Let me know about this. I'm thinking of switching to Teksavvy. I haven't received any throttle notices as yet, but I'd like to keep my options open as I've been thinking of Teksavvy's dry dsl.

Re: Domain Offer

Keep in mind that the cost of a WIPO action (wherein they sue you for infringement) is about $3K. That is often the threshold. Be careful about naming a price or appearing to actively offering to sell. Lots of lawyers trolling for evidence of bad faith. This assumes your domain is non-generic and/or subject to a infringement claim. If you need some free advice, send me a PM. I've developed and sold websites and domains and know the ropes.

Now back to fixies. Now that Cavern is closed, can anyone recommend a good T.O. bike shop for fixies (frames and gear)?

La Carrera, Curbside, Urbane, Bikes on Wheels - each of those shops have a decent amount of FG product.

Me neither, but since I never get to ride in a fast group it was really fun. :)

Don't go to Cycle Therapy. They're a bunch of drunks.

*urp*

Well, they lease the lines from Bell but I'm not sure how throttling/etc factors in to that.

Awe Wes, you kept up just fine. You won the race back to home! haha I joke. Next week will be a little less speedracer. We were dropping people all over the place, wicked ride either way, seeing everyone lined out along Dupont at Ossington was awesome.

I saw an article on Slashdot yesterday that said that Bell is now throttling the lines before they get to the wholesale level. So companies like Tecksavvy are getting screwed even though they don't want to throttle.

If the Teclos had bothered building up networks in anticipation of the 21st century like Japan has this wouldn't be an issue. No investment in order to maximize profits then all of a sudden, 'oops we don't have enough bandwidth, better charge the consumer more'. Bloody Barons in all industries that do this North America wide, we're supposed to be world leaders in this sort of thing but greed constantly gets in the way to the determent of the populace.

Good god. At that point my resentment is off the charts, I still want to dump Bell as much as I can but is there actually anywhere else to turn to? Rogers looks like it's primed to screw people over if they go over some arbitrary bandwidth limit ... it's been years since I was even remotely concerned about that and I'm not willing to revisit it. Technology has moved forward you leeches, quit screwing all your customers over with nonsense fees!

Fido..owned by Rogers..which boasts of it's giant coverage is charging customers a tower building fee, in order to increase coverage... not even trying to be sneaky about it. Bastids.

All the same every single one of them.

RE: Bell. If you paid for it you can still manage to jam a full HD Bell TV what's it down the remaining two channels of the phone wire...bandwidth issues my starfish.

/rant.. smiling now...gonna ride to work soon.

You know, that was only part of it. I got entirely snubbed by the three guys that were waiting at Dundas Square when I first got there. I rolled up and tried to chat and they more or less totally ignored me. I guess I was too far below their lofty social strata or something. Plus the whole swarming through traffic, pissing off drivers hammerfest isn't really my scene. I can ride fast without riding like an *******. Meh.. different strokes I guess, but I was kind of disappointed.

its because you had no aerrospokzzzzzzzzz ;)

edit: yo wes I gots a whole boatload of quantic stuff dloading...never really heard more then a few songs but I like all that ive heard so far...I can up them to ya if you want...

For real, man. That's how I felt! Plus I had a *gasp*.. freewheel! :P

Yeah, that'd be cool mang. I used to have a whole whack of their stuff, but lost it in the greatest harddrive crash of the last century. ;) In fact, it's been a long time since I've listened to much Ninjatune stuff and they used to compose a large part of my musical diet back in the day. I think the only label-folks I still listen to at all are some Amon Tobin, Bonobo, Blockhead and Sixtoo. They're all amazing, both live and recorded. In fact, I saw 3 (no Bonobo) of them play a show (plus a couple other folks who I can't remember.. Kid Koala and others) a few years ago and it was an amazing night. Amon Tobin ended an already great set with this really crazy drum & bass remix of a couple Slayer songs. Good times, good times..

:lol:

Ive heard amon tobin and kid koala but none of the other stuff...will have to dload some and check out.

I thought there was finally a new Rakim album but psyke! its a flickin best of type album...when is that cats album gonna finally hit!!

I'm gonna have the *****inest, clashing-y-est, long seatposted single speed mountain bike commuter ever! The fork I got from Chris is a metallic orangey red and the frame is black with purple splotches. This bike is going to be a representation of every fashion faux-pas I choose to ignore.

weeeeeeeeeehoooooooooooo!! will it have pink arrrrrrrrooopsok? and pink ourys? cmon you know you wanna!

Ryan and i talked about this last night. It will be fixed for next week. And don't worry about the attitudes, we're trying to make it clear to have it checked at the door but with some kids....*shakes head*

How many people go to this event? I'll be in for next week, I think.

Next week full contact traffic riding!!!!!

It's a good thing Keith didn't come out as I assume he would have been on the Kona which has gearing significantly lower than my Roger, methinks. ~71 gear inches had me pretty much at the upper limits of my cadence comfort zone, any lower and it would have been good Goldsprints practice. :)

Speaking of which, anyone going to Critical Mass and/or Navid's party tomorrow? I'm not sure what my rock-band schedule is tomorrow night, but I might be free for two-wheeled hijinks.

Navid's is sooo tempting as I could crawl home from there...across the park no less.
Now I think of I just might hit up Navid's for a beer/spin.

What the hell, I'll go to CM tomorrow.

For the social cast-offs out there, details on the Navid thing?

NAVID'S BIRTHDAY BICYCLE CABARET !!!!
GOLDSPRINTS !!
Party - Birthday Party
Time and PlaceStart Time: Friday, March 28, 2008 at 9:00pm
End Time: Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 2:30am
Location: Center of Gravity
Street: 1300 Gerrard East/ Greenwood
City/Town: Toronto, ON

Bike films, visuals and sexy surprises to come!

Celebrate Navid's birthday with a race and a drink! See how fast you can race! Dance your ass off! Do it at the same time!!!!
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5$ at door
Free admission if you are dressed like a bicycle! :)
see you there!

Featuring:

Goldsprint races!!!

DJs - Rollin Cash - Dope breaks, Jazz, funk, dub...(http://www.djrollincash.com)
DJ Anatone aka Mr. Jesse Morrison - Deep, dark, funky! (http://www.myspace.com/anatonemusic )

Bike Bondage! Check out our installation of art bikes beautifully bound in rope in the shibari tradition. Artfully done by Lord Morpheous. (http://www.lordmorpheous.com/)

PS. bike-bondage link contains boobies. :)

sry my bad didn't even look first

and pumpum....