Whoa... that's messed up. Helluva check the cop did :(

Our CM last Friday saw the police presence at a surprising 0, compared with the 50+ that were there last month. I was expecting at least a lasting and diminishing presence rather than there/not there.

Stripped of his badge and gun. Win.

I smell a new Meter Maid! You gotta wonder how many cops are:
1. Actually bullies in their personal lives
2. Turn into bullies because of the role

rob: cranks had bolts in the box. bike still sounds like a machine gun - but now with more bling! In other news: Miche track chains are loud as can be.

just saw that check on the news, dayum. if he bent my rim doing that as5hole move it would have taken half the cops present to pry me off him, cop and all.

im up for a don ride today if anyone is up, i had a dream i nailed the backwheel hop and i want to try the position i had...

I'll be in there, but not until after dinner this evening.

work from six :(

yesterday:
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Toron...f-6292151.html

Wow. Looks like the Thursday deadline may get changed,

"was unloading bikes through the back door when he held up a Dole Bananas box full of bags of marijuana"

this is an excerpt from the day of my dreams. ka-CHINNNG!

/hope lives!

"It was put in the trunk of an unmarked police car and taken for processing."


hmmmmm... processing, eh?

chopped up and rolled?!

Beat me to it!

I didn't hear about a deadline but yeah, I guess that will be changed. Have the cops said anything about what will be done with the bikes? I am assuming it will be an auction but maybe some of the kids' bikes (of which I saw a lot) could be donated to youth centres, etc.

One of the newspaper articles a few days ago (sorry, I read it in print at work and can't remember which paper) indicated that they will all be sold at police auction, which is interesting, as it presumes they are ALL stolen, without proof that they are. I'm not defending Igor here, but it would seem that due process has not been followed. The article also mentioned that the police keep the proceeds from any auctions. They don't hand the money to the city.

Yeah, that does sound like a violation of something or other, oh yeah, the Charter of Rights and Freedom. Maybe Igor will sue the cops and come out richer, there is no way that all those bikes can be proved to be stolen.

not to mention - and i'm in no way a lawyer - that those bikes are "evidence". who ever heard of getting rid of evidence before a trial??

I never thought of that but yeah, that seems like a valid point as well.

I read something in the Sun (yesterday I think) that mentioned the bikes might become property of the court, whatever that would mean.

When I've been cranking on my bars, I'm noticing a creaking as I haul-butt on both sides - could I have tightened my stem clamp too much? They're Nitto bullhorns from IRO. Not sure what else could cause the creak, should I use a rubber shim around the stem/bar contact point? It's in there without right now. The sound just concerns me.

I'm no lawyer either but I think they'd have to wait until he was convicted. Given that nearly 10% of the bikes that were found have been returned, a case could likely be made that the balance of bikes would be dealt with under forfeiture of offence related property. http://www.canlii.org/ca/sta/c-46/sec490.1.html

Igor could appeal that, but he'd have to be found guilty first in any case. The nearly 4 kg of weed is probably a bigger worry for him.

The crack will put him away for a while, too. The bikes are a nice side effect, but I think the drug convictions will be the main things to send him away.

I don't like the idea that they're trying to hurry these bikes away/wherever, at the same time though I'm kinda interested in checking them all out when (if?) they do go for auction.

mebbe not tight enough if its creaking. sure its the stem-area creaking and not your bb, headset, etc?

try to disassemble, check for any surfaces worn shiny on bar and stem, sand lightly with medium grit if there are, clean thoroughly, and then tightly reassemble. has worked for creaking ive had in the past. I wouldnt do rubber shim, just personally, that for me is like asking for it to give or shift at high loads.

Pretty sure it's the bar/stem area, I'll take them off and have a look. I've been needing to re-wrap them for ages too... Bah.

Is this threaded or threadless?

i went to the bike showing AGAIN and came up empty handed AGAIN. $&^( %&$ ^%#$^&!!!1!1:bang::mad::bike:

Hurray I got my bike!!!! I started building it this afternoon and will finish it tomorrow after i've allowed the glue on my fork insert to dry overnight! And they managed to find me a 54cm R3SL (as opposed to an SLC-SL which I was going to settle for due to back orders) after all! **** yeah! Who wants to ride road bikes********** I'll post pics tomorrow.

700 more bikes were discovered, I am sure they haven't had the time to sort them out and put them on display yet. Keep the faith!

i asked. they're all there as of last night.

Let's go do the donut

property being returned to the victims of theft prior to a trial frequently happens. as long as everything is documented for presentation in court it is all on the up + up.