ha. nice cranks!

Miche supertype!

got the stem from your shop too

Nice Rossin.

The city is so broke that i don't think we will be seeing any of these potholes repaired anytime soon. Kinda sucks but I am glad I am running 36h wheels on my SS nowadays, it is gnarly out there.

You should be able to. Save the Windows library as a file onto your Mac hard drive, open iTunes then under the file menu "Add to Library' or "Import" to the iTunes library. Hopefully the dialog boxes will be friendly and tell you what to do.

In the iTunes preferences under 'advanced-general' check - copy files to itunes music folder, etc. and under 'advanced- importing' check - import using AAC encoder and uncheck - play songs while importing.

Good luck, PM me if anything else.

Somebody selling the seatpost locally too?

That looks pretty long for a supertype. Is it just sitting in there or is that the above the minimum insertion line.

Hey whadyaknow? I did a Sunday ride and mapped it too! (the gmap was almost as intense as the ride)

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1705617

Puttin' the CX fixie to work. Tried scouting a little bit in the Don, and serendipitously ended up riding/hiking in knee deep snow around a golf course. (BTW did you know that the greens are SHOVELED and AERATED on at least that particular municipal golf course? I hope they are turning a profit because otherwise that is bull*****. Anyway, I rode across them both out of spite and because they weren't covered in knee deep snow)

I came to the conclusion that big knobby tires are good. They allowed me a greater margin of error in determining whether or not puddles were actually potholes. And also they allowed me to rip down a decent chunk of the Belt Line.

Slow going though. The whole thing took me about 3.5hrs, although at least a half hour of that was spent trudging around Donalda and having a smoke/puff.

Gotta start doing some more of these rides. Wes, how you feel about getting Roger dirty? Icebreaker training!

Andrew

EDIT: I was informed that Donalda GC is actually private. But shovelling the greens is still messed up.

My bike is sitting at the shop. If you want to take er out for cruise you can borrow mine for a couple days till you get sorted.
Shame about that fork tho...sorry..had to say it.

wow man...that is serious bidnezz!
the crank is sic!

Thanks guys. Post is sold at my shop (La Carrera) and it is inserted past minimum but will be lower. Crank is crica '70's and is 144bcd. Fork is a kick in the balls but I don't have the heart to drill the original. And Keith, you mean me to borrow?

Oooh wicked. I'll drop by later to pick it up. Tired of waiting for marinoni orders.

Call the shop tommorow, I may have sold the last one.

Yeah...I won't be riding it for a few days I am sure.

Thanks man, I'll call you tommorow.

You may want to take a look at the Marinoni catalogue and see what the have for sale in forks. Last I saw there were a few track offerings that might be appropriate (drilled) or maybe a different road fork (I think I saw straight blade steel). Nice frame.

I know what fork I want so it's all in time. The Bianchi will do for now.

I'm all over that like stink on a monkey. I'm hoping to make it up to the Durham area sometime in the next couple weeks to check out the trails there as well. I hear they're usually pretty rideable a lot earlier than most other trails in the GTA.

Mansfield used to be the best early/rainy ride... but alas they are no more.

Gorgeous Rossin, love the frame... crazy cranks!

I went to Whitby on Saturday, my left crank failed on the way back as we were leaving Whitby, so I limped it back to the GO station and trained it back to Union. That's what you get for running a crappy old splined crankset and fixed gear together... I figured it'd happen, so no biggy - ended up kicking it old school and having a few beers and a puff in a park system before heading back into Toronto instead.

Lovely day out there today, I converted another old frame I had kicking around (Gardin) to a fixed beater and took it across town - loved the sun crossing Dundas and College eastbound... though the wind wasn't pretty at times.

PS. Can't wait to build my IRO.

PPS. Meltwater on railway underpasses can often be frozen... I found this out a rather hard and roadrashy way today. Oops.

Those cranks are amazing, is there a reason they are bent? or it it just to make the bike look amazing. I cant wait to see the completed bike.


I was walking down King st, and (as i always do when injured) checking out every bike that passed. I saw a guy ride past heading west riding a fixed gear, with a chain with about 5-10cm of slack in the chain. More then i have ever seen in any bike. Just thought it was odd, but the rest of the bike didn't seem too bad :D .

The crank itslef was from the 70's and the thought was that you would have more leverage in your downstroke if your foot was ahead of the crank arms rotation around the bb spindle. In reality it makes no differance as the space between the bb spindle and pedal spindle is the same and rotates at the same rate. Either way they look awesome and took me forever to track down. More can be found here. http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/PMP_crk_ad.htm

Where are you working these days Keith?

And I may well be able to join you. My otherdoofer is on the way from on*one.

I also like that they're PiMP cranks :p

They sure look neat, but apparently back in the 70's they hadn't figured out the equation for torque yet