:lol: that's sitting right beside me on my wall. I love that cartoon!!!

I just remembered: there is a diagnostic disk that came with your MBP, and it might just perform a surface scan of the drive. If you can't find it, I will burn you a copy of mine and ride it over to you. Let me know.

FWIW, the new MB and MBP with the CNC Alu body is much more rigid than the old MBP design. Case warping is why I returned several MBPs shortly after purchase.

oh yeah, Bikes.

If it's intel, just install bootcamp and install Windows then boot right into it. Otherwise, it's a bit harder.

Plastic bags served me hella good today as impromptu winter footwear, but it's totally time for something better.

Drivers have been surprisingly polite the past two days though, which is wild considering all my previous observations are that road hostility magnifies exponentially whenever the weather goes sucky. Three cheers for good providence :)

^^ I find the driver's get more patient and resigned in an upperward arc proportional to the weather^^ hip hip hooray (that's one)
ah those Gaerne boots are serving me well

it's intel, I've got Parallels running but it's virtual.

hmm booting right into windows

Andrew: for all your surface scan needs, if you have AppleCare: https://support.apple.com/techtooldeluxe/

If you don't, let me know, and I'll squirt a copy over to you.

cool thanks I'l dll it tomorrow at the office with all the monster bandwidth I can handle.

sorry to interrupt the engineering love fest.... but has anyone else noticed the fuji track pro with hed's and some carbon for sale on craigslist outta london?? 1250 seems pretty good no??

On a side note... anyone selling wheels?? i need some for my build after my van encounter the other day

the orange ones, not the winter ones

I have iro hubs for sale. 36 hole silver. Never laced to a rim. Needs the track nuts for the rear.

how many of those do you have? i thought you sold them all in that group buy thingy...

on a side note i am truly glad i decided to buy a pair of goretex lined winter boots for winter riding. i've never had dry feet while on a bike in this type of weather. to answer jet's question, yes it is dorky to ride in waterproof boots but it's so comfortable it worth it. plus if you have enough confidence, the dork factor can be perceived as ironic and thus cool. if you don't believe me look it up in vice magazine...

On that note, I will now research Gore-tex socks ...

http://www.gorebikewear.com/remote/S...&ssbinary=true

http://images.mec.ca/media/Images/Pr...9830760584.jpg

Holy hell. It seems unconscionable that a street like Danforth would have been left unsalted knowing it would drop below zero after a night of rain, but there it is. Now I've got me a potentially bent brake lever and a sore neck to show for my optimism. Arg :crash:

**** really?! Wow... That surprises me, and now I read this I'm changing my route this morning... I usually ride to at least GO Danforth at Main when heading to Whitby, but I think I'll go to Union this morning... My street is always screwed, so it's naturally an icerink - I figured the majors would be fine, but apparently not :twitchy:

Was it black ice you hit.. or? Sucks to hear regardless. Hope your neck is OK.

I guess I'll leave extra early and just putter along.

Holy S H I T ! every side street out there is a sheet of ice.
Not black ice but the rain left over from last night froze in the snap cold that hit in the early morning hours. No front brakes on the side streets gang!!!

sounds like a good day to be on studs! :p

re: gore tex and all that fancy mumbo jumbo on boots and socks. IMO, leather + sealant is better. Get some good mudflaps and you're even better.

Shackleton never had gore-tex, and he was a bad mother****er.

a little off-topic... can anyone recommend any good, preferably road-oriented, LBSs around Yonge+Lawrence? I'm never lived east of High Park, and now I'm moving all the way to Yonge in a less than a week... I'll be so lost!

Slowly, ever so slowly he's going over to the Dark Side... move east young man. D ooo it ....

Yea if your poppin around on side streets, being studly is a good thing today.

Yup. Knowing it would be slippery I chickened out. I did bike 4k to my shuttle bus and the main roads were ok...

Yeah it just looked like the road was wet where I went down and I was about in the middle of the right lane well clear of the mess in the gutter. I was riding along, tapped my front brake and the bike was just gone from under me. At 7:30 the stretch of danforth and greenwood was about as bad as the sidewalks were and I probably only made it about 800 meters this morning.

Neck is sore but I'm sure it's nothing, just tensed up and jarred it from going down that unexpectedly. I called in sick as consolation so it's not all bad ;)

Around thar area there are 4 shops. Spokes on Avenue Rd just north of Old Orchard, Sporting Life for bikes, Yonge North of Broadway, Cyclepath Yonge, south of Eglinton north of Manor and Trek Bike store across the street fron Cyclepath. Spokes is more a mix of bikes, Sporting Life has some nice high end stuff, but pricey. Cyclepath is where I went for 2 years, and the Trek store is mainly road bikes, at least the one time I went in. Sporting life is mostly snow boards this time of year and I have only ever part small stuff at Spokes. I would hit them all to see. Been a few years since I lived in Lawrence Park.

I definitly enjoyed the studded tires today. 42/18 made for a nice easy ride to work, granted it took longer but I was able to make it up hills cars were stuck on.

This is spot on. Nothing really top notch around that I know of although I've never been to spokes.

Sporting Life can be ok, they often have good prices on higher end components like chris king headsets, they usually have a lot of stuff on sale at the end of the year, my friend got an giro ionos (?) helmet for under $150 ... I don't go to cyclepath anymore, usually when I go in there it's 2 kids sitting at the front desk making dick jokes (not that i would do any differently) and when i ask about something they just say they don't have it, really dismissive and not helpful. Trek has definitely changed, more of a mix of road bikes and mtb bikes (which are probably mostly sold to college students in the area), they have an ok selection of accessories if you are hard up for something, I did once get an sram powerlock from there, but have never found anything else. It's not much different than shopping for a bike at walmart, people who work there are generally nice though.

I usually just go down to the downtown shops if I need something.

If you're looking for a nice way to get downtown, check out the bike route 35, although Yonge for the most part is not bad and is very quick to get downtown, it's mostly downhill.

hey man, you will be right by me, im a bit north of you @ sheppard and although i haven't been riding too much with snow on the ground, i'd be game for any rides on the weekend. i have some roadie buddies that are usually good for weekend mornings.

there is also ENDUROSPORT.com, and Will from Urbane now does his thing at their Laird Rd. location. Cool guy and if you are into road bikes, this place has more cervelo than you can shake a thousand-dollar-bill at.

Yeah, I'm almost done exams right now in Guelph, so I haven't ridden at all for like 2 months, it's been ridiculous... (although, that was partly due to a sprained ankle at the end of September).

I'm in Toronto until the begining of January. Other than this weekend (I'm moving fri/sat) I'm game for riding whenever. PM me or something

Where in downtown do you usually go? I want to stick with one shop and try and build some sort of relationship (kind of like when I went to Sweet Pete's all the time last year, but I wasn't too happy with them...), but I'm not really familiar with any shops outside of the west end.

I'll definitely check out Trek and Cyclepath (which my friend previously recommended as a good shop), thanks.

It has been listed for quite awhile and started out at $1600. I would say that it is a bit much, I see used FTPs on eBay for $700 or so, the HEDs are cool and all but are they worth all that extra moola? I don't think so...

Oh yeah this place is cool to, I have run into Will a few times there and remembered him from Urbane and alley cats. They definitely have a cool selection of roadie stuff and clothing.

MEC for day to day stuff, usually Urbane for parts and stuff not available at MEC, but I also like curbside and bikes on wheels if I am in the area. I'm sure there's a ton of other good shops downtown though, so I don't want to necessarily leave anything out, those are just super easy for me to get to.

Man, the entire west end is an ice rink. Fun times.