i tried it about 6:30
there wasnt even enough traffic out to make ruts let alone melt any of it.

i got from ossington, to the mod club before my rear wheel jammed from show building and packing at the bottom bracket.

it took us 4 hours to drive from toronto to london on friday.
after london it was clear sailing, but pretty sketchy for a bit around hamilton.
13 hours from toronto to the hotel.

hot water music was amazing.
i've never seen chuck so happy on stage.
able baker fox were way tighter than expected. especially since they all live in different states.

thanks, i guess the most obvious thing would be the old cinelli bars and stem, there's a stupid sticker of a guy playing air guitar on the seat tube, and another sticker on the top tube of a chick riding a whiskey bottle with the words "man's ruin" over it.

do you work at a shop?

Word. My roomie had his Specialized Sirrus stolen from the garage of his last rooming house. Its either a) an inside job, or b) what Keith said. Its really f'ing sad when people steal anything, let alone what could be someone's only method of transportation.

yeah i was grilling this guy in basement, who always uses the back door to go out and smoke (he always leaves it open a crack so he doesn't have to take his keys) and he seemed less than concerned about whole thing. I'm probably being paranoid, but you how it is when you get your **** nicked.......everyone's a suspect.
That fuji was my winter warrior man.......ttc for me for a while, i HATE the bloody ttc

found a couple more pics on my comp.

I just read that Cannondale is being bought my Pacific, the company that owns GT and Schwinn

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/news/newsDetail/926.html

Maybe now will be able to get Cannondale fixies at Walmart

yup...by Dorel...good acquisition for them...they also bought Sugoi...

It's good for them, paying 1x this years earnings, but I don't know if it's good for the Cannondale brand. I can think of lots of BMX brands that were good back in the day that are now crap because of mass market.

Huffy being an example

oh its definitely bad news for the brand for sure...hahahahahaha

just a good acquisition for dorel...theyre all money grubbing mega-corporation types who care nothing about the brand or the bikes...look for C-dale at your local Zellers/walmart/crappytire! hahahahaha but wasnt Cannondale pretty much heading in this mass produced POS direction anyways?

Yeah those "lefty" shocks will come standard now, though they won't reinforce the left side, they'll just stop putting anything on the right side.

Listening to the teleconference this morning was pretty sobering, and the QA period after was even worse. The president & CEO, Schwartz, sounded like he was reading a speech he didn't even write, stumbling over words and mis-pronouncing, "Cannondale." The people invited to the FAQ were strictly investment house types, who were only concerned with the bottom line.

In summary:
-GT & Cannondale will go under the name of Cannondale Sport, operating under Dorel, focused on premiere brands and IBDs.
-Pacific will stay strictly to mass-market.
-It sounded like they were interested in off-shoring manufacturing to China

This is really disappointing, and I hope they keep the brand as-is, but suspect otherwise.

Were they going to keep it as is, I suspect there would a very slim chance they'd buy it in the first place. That's not what money ppl do.

RIP Sheldon Brown

I was wondering if it was somehow related to MS as he was diagnosed with it last year, but I found this: "On February 3, 2008. Sheldon Brown passed away due to heart failure."

Wow, I feel like a serious pillar has been taken down... RIP Sheldon, wow...

Holy crap. RIP.

He was pretty young too, only 63 years old. Awful news.

A quick question for you CX guys: I have a Surly hub that is spaced for 130mm, that is pretty standard for a CX frame, right? I think I am going to build it up for a SS/Fixed CX ride and would like to use this hub.

What size bike do you ride?

Cross specific bikes are usually...and should be....130 spaced. There are a bunch that use 135 but these tend to be multi-purpose "cross" bikes rather than racing models.

WhatEVER!

9 minutes to respond? Slacker.

Seriously tho....real cross racing bikes are not traditionally built to use mountain bike components. A ton of pros use Campy on their cross bikes. Who makes a 135 spaced Campy compatible hub? I don't mean to dump on or suggest that a cross bike with 135 spacing isn't a capable race bike, just that cross is really more about road standards than mountain.

Heres a shot in the dark, but I got a question for any messengers out there.


I want to be messenger, but I got to finish up high school. So I am at school until 12, and I was wondering if there was a company that would hire me to work from 12 onward (till when ever). And I'm willing to ride in any weather, if that makes any difference, which i doubt it will.


Currently I'm getting over a ridiculous injury (fell rock climbing, hurt my wrist), so I should be up and riding a bike in a week or so. So this is just like an initial search... to see if it is possible to get those kind of hours. And if not, I will try again in the summer when I'm done school

The short answer is yes...you can find a job. The downside is that you likely make very little money.
Edit: Messengering is not a great idea for someone coming off a heinous wrist injury.

Cool, thanks.


the wrist is not too bad (minor pulling of a stupid useless muscle), and the major reason I'm going to have to wait a week, is because i broke my crank/chainring (pictures posted somewhere here a while ago) and the new things haven't arrived yet.


and I'm looking for the experience more then the money (i hear messengers typically don't make much the first year, and not making much isnt a problem, as i live at my parents house)

pffft.. yeah, whatEVER!

Actually I agree with you on most counts. However you know that I ride a Campy bike with 135 spacing. That said I would generally prefer a cx bike with 130 spacing for the choice of road wheelsets/hubs.