YA YA show em what time it is BIG PUN!

ahahahaha you guys crack me up :D

what a busy morning! first chance i've had to sit down! thankfully the shorts i wore are comfortable, and they didn't take as long as i thought to dry out. commando in jeans may be liberating for some of you; it just don't feel right to me. i thought about going to a dollar store, but we were short-staffed and i had french toast to make... will be sure to bring some tomorrow to keep in my office.

i "seem" like a super commuter?? i am a super commuter!!

actually, i've been eyeing the MEC splash pants for a couple years, but for some reason i haven't coughed up the money to buy them. i have regular rain pants that are ok with dork straps if it's cold ('cuz they're not breathable) or windblocker tights, but if it's warm i usually just get wet for the couple kilometers i have to go.

i have to say though that i really like the booties that i got at the bike show. what a steal for $15. a cyclist was in front of me today with the same pair so i chatted with him for a moment before riding on. (plus, i enjoy saying booties.)

hehehe.. great bsnyc post:
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2007...cle-notes.html

Let's just take a moment to remember that fixed gear bikes can easily take a finger off. Careful when you're working on your bike there, kids.

cavernmech: d'oh.. Mark DNF'ed again on Sunday? Tell me it wasn't his chain again! :P

Also, "Oh, no no no more mosquitos" ... ahh, how I love Four Tet.

PS. Ahahahaha, "Bike Lane Salmon" ... so true.

That got a good lol from me :)

My buddy with the left-side drive fixie stripped his pedal off yesterday, as predicted, heh. He got another and was liberal with loctite. He rode around town doing his drops with just the one pedal on the go, tucking his leg up on the cross bar.

Really bummed about not being more prepared clothing-wise for the rain - my track pants, shoes and socks are still wet after spending the day on my monitors. That's what you get for not staying at home. At least I had my goretex. Work, bleh.

The best thing i've found for drying shoes is to fill them with newspaper. Usually I leave the newspaper in for a few hours and then change it out for new stuff.

+1. Fill em up...step on em to squash the water into the paper...repeat.

raincoat+rain pants+ my new booties= dry and toasty. :)

HOpe nobody got hurt at your shop Mike!

Am I missing something?

^^^apparently

Just a PSA?

I can't remember his name at the moment (Paul?) but dude who works for Nadir took the end of a finger off and crushed a few more I've been informed. They sewed it back ... hope it takes.

ugh. Did that happen today? I was just talking with Nadir yesterday.

No, last week apparently (I'm getting this second-hand from John).

Albert?

Sliced off fingers suck. I grew up with a bunch of uncles who were baggage handlers for Air Canada and not a single one of them had full sets of fingers on any hand. Lots of missing tips and such...

Way too easy! :D

Albert, yes (man, I was way off but ya).

Ooof on the fingers.. :|

Thanks for the tip re: newspaper, I'd heard that somewhere just recently but forgot it. The insoles dried quickly, I just had to wait longer for the uppers. Stupid cotton track pants though :p

I just want to get out there and ride, this sitting at a desk business is getting old. Blah.

Does anyone know of a good place to get inexpensive, but good quality picture frames? I want to make a few of the really good photos from my cross-country journey into some wall art, but I'm not sure where to start gettign the frames.

I like the Umbra look, lots of mat around the photo.

There is/was? a place on Queen 2 blocks West of Bathurst....don't know if they are still there but they had pretty reasonable prices.

Still there - it's called Victor Gallery. I've been less than happy with some frames that I purchased there but I've had friends that swear by the place so I guess it's a case of YMMV.

You may also want to try Loomis and Woolfitz (sp?)

like matt says, you can buy frames and matting from woolfits on queen or loomis art supplies. I've bought some from curry's before too. what i've done with some of my nice photos in the past is just buy a large piece of "museum board" (matting) from woolfits for $7 then take it to a framing place and have them cut it to size for you which costs usually about $5-10 and you get half a dozen frames or so out of one sheet for a fraction of the price of what a photo studio would charge for one piece of mat.

i think i've said mat enough.

hey Matt - do you still have those old cranks available?