hm, i'll give malcom a call in the morning. failing that - perhaps on the lookout for a new frame.

oddly enough, when i was in urbane today talking to one of the mechanics about it, a guy starts looking the bike over and says "hey - did you buy that off keith? that's my old frame!" small world; forgot to ask him his name.

You sir, are amazing. New wheels and a half a billion posts all in one night? :D

I hope they weren't too poorly started for ya!

If you haven't already taped 'em, don't sweat it, I've got some veloplugs here but if they're already taped I'm obviously not gonna complain. hehe

I did a quick test tonight and it looks like I'll be able to get the 18t and the 15t on without any chain mods from my current setup.

Can I pick 'em up tomorrow evening?

If the crack isn't too big (=<5mm) maybe you could drill a hole there to stop the crack from going further and alleviate a future stress riser. I noticed something like that on the Rivendell we're building up right now.

Edit: Oops, that sounds like a nastier crack than I initially thought.

I recently read that Campy dealers will be facing a price increase in the neighbourhood of 30% for 2008, at least for the North American market. The US dollar has fallen so far and so fast that nobody is expecting it to recover anytime soon and Campy (and all European companies, likely) is adjusting accordingly.

Shimano is expected to raise their prices by 10% or so, we shall see. Perhaps Shimano is going to win by default.

But yeah, the gap between the Euro and the USD has grown very wide. It is an unusual time, this is unmarked territory.

Not that I want to spam the forum buuuuuuuuut anyone remember this Marinoni?

http://www.makergo.com/shutup/images...7/adidas02.jpg

Well, if you like it and want it - owning it is now a possibility. The guys decided to auction it off and give the proceeds to the MS Society of Canada so if you're at all interested go HERE and bid to your heart's content.

I can't wait to watch this! bid this up- good work guys!

Woo I'm the winning bidder- only 9 days to go!

With shimano '09 coming out with eDA and mechanical and not a peep from Campy. They may already have lost, price increase or not.

Yeah, actually the ergonomics on the prototype DA brifters looks vastly improved. But, with that said, you can pry my Record brifters from my cold dead hands. :) The eDA stuff doesn't really interest me that much at this point. I'm bad enough with remembering to charge my phone, I wouldn't want to be out in the middle of nowhere and have my drivetrain run out of battery power.

That's a hot bike.

I love the way Shimano tries to make it like a competition between equals....hahahahahahaha.
Poor misguided fools. They could be half the price, covered in icing sugar, and come with a bag of free trade coffee, and they'd still be trying to catch up. Sponsorship deals aside, there IS only one... and Campy is it.

The options reflected in this post are those of the commentator ONLY and do not reflect those of this board of any of it's sponsors. :D:rolleyes:

Well, the SRAM stuff is pretty damn nice too. It definitely has a lot going for it. The one thing I really like that's now only on the Record/Chorus level shifters is the QS feature, which lets you shift through multiple cogs per button push. With Shimano you can go up 3 gears at a time, but you can only go down 1 at a time. With Campy you can totally dump the thing into an easy gear. Nice for 'cross in particular I find since you can hammer towards a steep hill and then dump the thing down a bunch of cogs in one go as you lose momentum.

I'm picturing the release of eDA wireless shifting causing garage doors to open and close, car alarms to arm/disarm across Suburbia as ppl shift while riding by. *snikker* Then we'll find out it causes the same tumors as cell phone usage.

Bueller? Bueller?

Fry?

As of late last week it was a write off, I doubt it is now based on how much ice melted yesterday alone on my street. Fuel party was pretty cool but I think I showed up after most of you guys left.

I think I might take a spin over there after work today and check things out. It's amazing how much snow/ice melted yesterday. There's a huge lawn spanning several houses behind my house and yesterday morning it was still about 75% covered in snow. When I got home there was nothing left except for a big pile (snow fort!) right in the middle.

If anyone wants to take a little spin through there avec moi, fire me a PM.

i don't know about the don, but as of monday the humber still had a lot of ice on the trail. i forgot to post a couple photos i took. i actually turned back before old mill station! it's only fun riding in the pouring rain to a point... but it sure does help to get rid of the snow.

The Lakeshore / Martin Goodman trail is also icy in patches around the beaches area.

From some new census stats that just came out today:

"20 — Percentage increase, from 2001 to 2006, in the number of Canadians (195,500) who biked to work."

Also:

"17,025 — Number of Canadians who identified their ethnic origin as "Newfoundlander" — far more than those who chose "Nova Scotian" (1,875) or "Ontarian" (1,650)."

hehehehe..

NICE on the 20percent!!! Only them's from the Rock, or with family from said can understand why it becomes an ethnicity as opposed to what province you live in.

20%? Noice... I've yet to make it out east, but I've been told a Brit *needs* to visit NF, so I'll have to check it out.

I tried to ride home last night, but once I got into Ajax the hail and snow starting coming at me horizontally, which was enough for me to bail so I took the train into town and went upto JF. Wind warning claimed it'd be done by 5, but it sure wasn't and I left Whitby at around 6:45 in hope it'd be better.

Had a flat and my two water bottles missing after Jet Fuel (only pop/gatorade bottles, no biggy but still a pisser) but I was drunk so all was well :) Great party despite the wind, nice to see a few of you there. I love the community feel around cycling-ish events.

Thanks pyze, I'll probably just go grab some of those then.

Will hopefully see y'all tonight.

Seems to be pretty clear, I'll try to check on my way home.

As importantly, use of the car fell and public transit also increased.

http://www12.statcan.ca/english/cens...elease/pow.cfm

(I would also draw people's attention to the median distance to work :mad:)

They are sexy to boot.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...f/IMG_0857.jpg

I'm hoping I'll actually be able to make it out to the ride tonight. I gotta give my new wheels a test ride before I leave for Europa on Friday so this'll be a good opportunity if I can get them / get them set up in time...

for anybody interested I'm about 99% sure I'm getting a 58cm Kona JTS from Sweet Pete's today.
I wasn't sure if I should get the 58 or 60 (6'2", 34" inseam) but the guy there said I'm definitely a 58.

did you try it? Sweet ...new rides for everyone!!!! That's what I'd do with 6/49 win....bikes for all my friends!!!!

I'd buy all my friends adult trikes with aerospokes.

Don paved trail is virtually ice/snow free.. good times! The mtb trails however are complete soup, though with most of the snow gone already.