shapelike

Dear everyone, mind the pipe bombs: https://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...ub=TorontoHome

Flimflam

Ahh, so that's what was going on there, then. I came from Main/Danforth across Bloor to find the worlds supply of emergency vehicles everywhere and Avenue/Bloor closed to the west and south. I asked an officer if I could go south, as I was trying to drop in at the sprints (didn't mention that part to him though ), and he said yep, but man - that's three incidents this week and four in two weeks in that little block of town that I've happened upon. That fire at Bay/Bloor-ish, coincedentally there was another fire going on at Charles/Avenue that I got tangled up in, as I chose Charles to get over and back upto Bloor. Doh, this ROM incident and last week there was a weird fireworks display in the construction area at Bloor/Bedford (over the road from the track/field) - really weird, I figure drunk students but didn't look in the news for anything.

Crazy!

Edits FTW.



- Whatcha making there, Gravey?
It's a pipe bomb, Jobriath. For to blow up planned parenthood.
- I don't know, Gravey.
I'm sick of your lack of faith!

nerdsgirth

Hey guys I took a picture of me at sprints at 9:30.

I guess I missed the trip to the bar.

duppy.conqueror

hahahahaha nice one flimflam and nerdsgirth....how do those things ride anyways?

jet sanchEz

Heheh, I rode my Ciocc up Keele past the 401 today and there was snow up there! I couldn't believe it and would have ridden the bike with fenders if I had known it was going to be like that. The people in cars looked at me as if I were some sort of alien-being---"A guy on a bike in November?!"---and I didn't bump into one other single rider until I was back in Parkdale. Freaky

jeremywhitehorn

All this talk of lights got me to thinking about battery solutions. i found a light at MEC and bought it: it's a 3 LED light run on a wind-up generator. you have to wind it for about five minutes to get about a 40 minute charge. other than kludgy mounting hardware it works fine.

duppy.conqueror

whats up nasty car driver? you say i should be on the sidewalk? are you sure you wanna go out like that?

operator

It's like this everday for my commute. Walk out of house, snow. Proceed south down Yonge st. Snow turns to slush turns to ugly liquid crap then to nothing when i'm downtown

somnambulant

Yeah, the amount of snow up at Albion last Sunday was a bit of a surprise too.

ps. had a 1/2 flat tire this morning. Didn't realize until I was already around the corner. I passed 4 bike shops (Velotech, Bike Clinic, Bike Joint & La Carrera) and none were open. For shame!

TRaffic Jammer

ew squishy tire, I hates squishy tire

jeremywhitehorn

what time were you out there? to my knowledge, urbane is the only shop open early...

somnambulant

Around 8:45.. and yeah, I guess I'm still in the Summer mindset of seeing Derek (and/or Brad!) + Vinnie outside their shops when I ride by.

Also: **** winter.

jeremywhitehorn

how dare they rest for the winter!

MattRennick

Sweet Ton Ton, the toe clips are ILL, SON! Submit that **** to tontongallery.com!

I got there just after you, I guess... not a rider in sight.

somnambulant

The race I'm planning on doing on Sunday should be interesting..

"At this point it appears that the final race on Dec. 2 is still a go, but please check for further updates. The current forecast is not very favourable. At the very least, we will not be using the hill to avoid bicycle-toboggan collisions. "

Ottawa forecast:
Sunday: Snow. Low minus 14. High minus 4.

Flimflam

= lol +

What a day to have to ride up north, and reading that there's snow still up there makes me feel awesome (feck arse girls). Ho hum, should be fun nonetheless... Anyone want to ride north a long way this afternoon?

I must've got there around 9:45/10 and only saw people up on Queen and on Strachan (about 4 in total nobody I recognised to know) heading away from the scene - I wasn't sure how many would show but figured it's on my way home anyway.

I_bRAD

We still open at 8:30, We're maybe just a little better at fixing bikes then getting to the shop on time! (It's Derek's day today so I'm off the hook)

jeremywhitehorn

i was thinking about this ROM bomb-scare thing: perhaps a guerrilla performance/installation art piece?

I_bRAD

The explosion part of the video was pretty well done I thought. Of course the guy posted it on youtube from his own account so I'd expect the guy (an OCAD student) is probably at the station by now.

This reminds me of that story from a while back where someone had a sticker of a local punk band- "This bike is a pipe bomb" on their bike... and well you can figure out how that played out.

Too bad they blew (pun not intended) all that money last week staging a mock terrorist incident when they could have got an OCAD student to set it up for them for free!

jeremywhitehorn

yeah, i was about to mention that - in fact when i first heard about the story on here i assumed that the bike pipe bomb was making a comeback.

I_bRAD

Bikes just don't explode like they used to. All those CF lightweight goodies look good in the ads, but when they explode the shrapnel is so light that you might as well have just thrown a handful of monopoly houses at someone.

somnambulant

AAaAGHgh! The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Monopoly houses in my eye!



ps. I'm honestly depressed that 'cross season is ending. That was a LOT of fun.

jeremywhitehorn

well played, sir.

pyze-guy

Ryan and I left around 9:20 as we were the only ones there. I won by default.

To paraphase the immortal Homer, 'Ahhh the two greatest words in the english language, de fault.'

DrBenway

Yeah generally Nadir and crew are already there when I show up a lil before 9p. When I got there lastnight, no one in sight. I practiced backwards circles for about 10 minutes when Pyze showed, but alas two is not enough to get the sprints going. We hung for another 10 - 15 and headed out. We saw one person who looked like they might be going over but they skipped the red across lakeshore and we missed them figuring another 1 person still wasn't enough.

No worries, the way I see it is I get a decent night ride in once a week. It's also my fault for not getting the word out earlier. That being said, I will do my best to update both on here and the FB group before 5 but unless we post a cancellation - which will only likely happen in wet/icy dangerous weather.

It was also good inspiration to get the damn site done that everyone could just refer to for updates on everything!