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Old 11-15-07 | 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by shapelike

So some guy walks into the shop the other day and immediately asks where the hampsters are.

Tadah!
If you come in the back, you get a whiff of the wood from the renos from downstairs. That's probably what it was. Or maybe you just smell like a hamster. www.twohamstersandducttape.com
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Old 11-15-07 | 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by zippered
ooo did you happen to notice if they had rain pants? of course they probably won't have my size... but i'm getting more and more disheartened with mec these days, so i should try there first.
i didn't notice, but it's worth a look.
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Old 11-15-07 | 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by MattRennick
Thanks dude! Here's how she turned out in the end!



MORE

Big thanks to Keith for getting that wheel together in such a short timespan after I embarrassingly bought a 36 rim to go with a 32 hub... which I guess I should get back from you at some point, maybe I'll grab a rim and try my hand at wheelbuilding with that hub/those spokes?
Yeah...the old knackered one is here anytime you want to pick it up. Sorry for not dragging the other one with me but you did only pay me for a one piece delivery.
With the old one the spokes are already properly laced, so re-building with a new rim will be somewhat easier. Learning to build yer first wheel with a Deep-V is prolly a good choice. It would be pretty hard to do any real damage if you mess up a little. Having the spokes all pre-stressed will help as well.
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Old 11-15-07 | 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by sweep242
I like that the planet bike ones cause are removable so if your staying long just slide them out of the bracket witch is nice.

Until someone steals your brackets
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Old 11-15-07 | 09:26 AM
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Someone stole a couple blinkies from my bike, right outside the shop. Probably the same kids that like to blow my air horn every day as they walk past...

All I know is next time a ball gets kicked into my yard, I'm keepin it.
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Old 11-15-07 | 09:36 AM
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"oh no you're ball when into old man brad's yard man! if you try jumpin' the fence he'll eat you!"
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Old 11-15-07 | 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
"oh no you're ball when into old man brad's yard man! if you try jumpin' the fence he'll eat you!"
You're just lucky that Old man Brad isn't as stringent on grammar and contractions as he is on balls kicked into his yard!
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Old 11-15-07 | 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by shapelike
Story time:

So some guy walks into the shop the other day and immediately asks where the hampsters are.

"Sorry, what?"
"The hampsters. It smells like hampsters in here. You guys don't keep hampsters here?"
"Err, no ... not that I'm aware of."
"Oh weird, 'cause it definitely smells like hampsters."

Tadah!
hahaha awesome entertainment.

Nice job with Lucy, Matt - she's gorgeous (can't freaking wait for my Rob Roy group buy).

+1 for the Superflash, awesome light for the dollar value IMO. I've had it stop working on me once in some serious rainstorm coming down the Niagara Escarpment, otherwise it's been faultless. I bought another soon after

I had my MTB taken from my backyard one Sunday afternoon last year, it was locked frame/rear wheel, but not TO anything. Anyway, they dragged it across the street I later found out, and took my saddle (not the seatpost though). I had a saddle bag on the bag with some basic tools/repair kit - get this, they took the tools and kit, all but the patch glue and LEFT the saddle bag on the floor with the bike. WTF?! There are some 'special' people in my old area... special like crackheads, that is.

I'm just super glad I bought an OnGuard lock the week before, as my supercycle piece of crap fell apart on a ride.
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Old 11-15-07 | 10:32 AM
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For the light I'm loving the double LED turtles, and they were selling extra batteries at the display at MEC. I got two red for the back and will getting some new white ones for the front.

Nice looking ride there Matt!
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Old 11-15-07 | 10:34 AM
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Catlike Whisper $160 "west end" - https://toronto.craigslist.ca/bik/479565432.html
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Old 11-15-07 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by 2wheelsgood
well, i wouldn't really compare the theft of my lights to an entire bike. It was the pettiness of stealing a $4 and $9 light that actually bothered me. like, if you really wanted them that bad just buy your own. don't touch my bike! and my front light had a little toy attached to it that i got in Tokyo

i want knog frogs. You has them? Good? Bad? Or should i get another standard blinky from mec?
I know what you mean, I was at the TCU meeting the other night at that place the top of John, came out, was dark, light no workie, complain to wife about how I bought it a month ago and it's burned out (one of those lil red LED models that strap to the side of seatpost with rubber band ya know) I get home, take it off...some nimrod stole the battery while we were in the meeting....
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Old 11-15-07 | 12:19 PM
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Stole the battery?! Jeez, the effort some people will go through just to be an ass.
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Old 11-15-07 | 12:21 PM
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they stole the battery but not the light? a conscientious thief? Right now he's at home with his ill-gotten battery, writhing his hands repeating "take what you need, but need what you! mwahahahaha!"

...no?


anyways, i ended up getting one of these for the front and one of these for the back. I didn't know they made a "turbo" turtle.

then i ate an entire gandhi roti in one sit. so bad but so good.
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Old 11-15-07 | 12:55 PM
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Someone popped the hood to my Honda in the summer and stole my alternator cap. Even if things are locked up, you have to be vigilant in this city. Sucks kinda.
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Old 11-15-07 | 12:59 PM
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Someone took apart the solar path lights in my neighbors' yard and stole the bulbs the other evening.
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Old 11-15-07 | 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by 2wheelsgood
then i ate an entire gandhi roti in one sit. so bad but so good.
so good, but you loose the ability to function as a normal human being

ghandi's = done for the day
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Old 11-15-07 | 01:15 PM
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a lot of clients at my work are "crack heads", so i hear the other side of the story, but it's still hard for me to reconcile the two perspectives. for example, there's one homeless guy who got run over as a kid so he has a brain injury etc etc, but he kept trying to bring his "friend's" bikes around here... the last one we saw had a kid's seat on it, which really upset me and the other staff. he's been locked up in the don for a few months now.
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Old 11-15-07 | 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by exhibitx
so good, but you loose the ability to function as a normal human being

ghandi's = done for the day
I've been back to work after a ghandi roti... possible, but expect productivity to go the way of the turd

Island Foods is good times too...


ps: https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/7095134.stm lol?
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Old 11-15-07 | 01:36 PM
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Tonight: Cloudy. 60 percent chance of rain showers or wet flurries changing to wet flurries near midnight. Wind northwest 30 km/h becoming light this evening. Low zero.

Friday: Cloudy with sunny periods. 60 percent chance of wet flurries. Wind northwest 20 km/h. High plus 4.
:/
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Old 11-15-07 | 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Flimflam
Poor lonely fella. Seriously though, as high-larious as the situation is, I figure what someone does to an inanimate object in privacy is their own business. I mean, me and my inflatable sheep have had a lot of good times together.

Speaking of eff'ed up situations... https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7096814.stm
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Old 11-15-07 | 01:47 PM
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The batteries on the Frog Knogs are the same as the MEC Turtles (CR2032, replaceable). Ebay them for $1 each, NIB energizers. The Lifu batts that come with the knog/turtles are garbage. But they will last for a bit before dying.
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Old 11-15-07 | 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
Speaking of eff'ed up situations... https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7096814.stm
The New York Times had a similar piece recently regarding a 15 year old boy ***** by 3 men in Dubai and the government there is considering locking up the kid because he is now gay: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/wo...es&oref=slogin

These are depressing stories and I think to myself "Thank god I live in Canada" but then there are stupid things that happen here too, like that confused and non-English speaking man who is tased and dies in Vancouver airport:

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7095875.stm

https://www.cbc.ca/news/yourview/2007..._shock_by.html

I feel that if there hadn't been someone nearby taping the encounter, this story would have gone-by unnoticed. Sucks.
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Old 11-15-07 | 02:03 PM
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Yeah being a sex offender and humping a piece of steel are two different things. For shame britain, for shame... I mean give me booze (just like this dude) and an oversize seat tube...

And those tasers... they're being used in a preemptive fashion, before signs of real danger. Just like Irak. Very sad.
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Old 11-15-07 | 02:05 PM
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And I quote, "She needs a lot of stiffness and a lot of strength in the hoop."

https://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/2007...pike_shooter07
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Old 11-15-07 | 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 2wheelsgood
then i ate an entire gandhi roti in one sit. so bad but so good.
You disappoint me.
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