I think anyone that made it out is hooked and this will be a weekly lather/rinse/repeat provided ppl are healthy and the weather cooperates.

I had no idea so many athletes are riders. I better step up my pathetic game and get my knee looked at. The operator didn't even break a sweat.
Cupcrazy ran with superstar stamina
Sir flimflam owned the climbs fendered out and all.

It was good times you all tempt me to give up the desk-job and train as an olympian.

I tasted the 2x2 formation on the return and it was euphoria - until I got dropped after the climb. Then it was just a bad dream.

nice recap

did you guys end up doing the 80k or one of the longer ones?

I'm definitely coming next weekend, sounds like a fun ride. How bad are the hills for 48/17 gearing?

So, Flanders was today. Do I spy a bunch of de-badged Thomson posts on the Garmin team bikes?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/20..._full_view.jpg

Yeah, donut ride was fun - rough at times on the fixed (like when the chain falls off starting the nice ride back down so you miss the pack grr :p), but still a good ride.

I think most of us did the shorter route, taking a right from Keele onto King Rd. to head over to Yonge. From my place to Eglinton/Laird and back home was 111km all in, so 80k sounds reasonable.

cupcrazy4 went north more I'm pretty sure.

Just got back from a ride around the east end, man I'm beat... going to sleep well tonight :)

Sweet! Just won some NOS square taper Veloce cranks on eBay for $70 CAD shipped.

looks like it, they're sponsored by 3t now as well and i'm quite sure 3t doesn't make a setback seatpost, so that would explain that

Uh, ya they do. The Palladio. I was just getting at the use of non-sponsored products that work better on tough days than the regular blingie stuff. It's the same thing as guys racing on Nemesis/Reflex rims, etc.

the palladio isn't out, was supposed to be out by now but they re-designed the clamp

found a photo from tour of california, definitely a thomson, it looks like some of them were de-bandged and some weren't, weird

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/...9cb6a15744.jpg

edit: looks like this is their standard seatpost (debranded), guess they aren't sponsored by 3t for the seatposts, they just run the thomson unsponsored

I rode that exact gearing. If you can maintain 400w going up keele you'll be fine.

Ahh, I see. Noted.

Well, that was an interesting ride to work.

obligatory "if there are no pics it didn't happen" blah blah blah


looking outside today, i can understand if u think i took these pics last year.. but really, they were of yesterday morning.


http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/8239/pack.jpg

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/8358/photouta.jpg

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3570/bianci.jpg

we passed by some great sights that I didn't photograph, like passing by sunset blvd around Bethesda and stouffville sideroad.

there was one dude on a vintage rossin, we chatted and he sounded french or something. messenger bag and all and he was still hauling.

Indeed. I learned that getting into a deep aero tuck and pointing your head down as far as you can while still being able to see is a great way to keep hail from hitting you in the face...

You catch the ol' frozen *****slap from Mother Nature as well?

A healthy mix of snow, to hail, to rain. This weather is bull****. :cry:

yeah... not to mention the potholes that surprise you because you can't really see thanks to the rain/hail/snow.

Lately, the potholes seem to lie in wait, only jumping out on me at the last second ;)

:crash:potholes arghhhhhhhh!!! theres sooooooooo many more now...its sickening...cant remember the last time I had a pothole free ride! is it just me or are the streets lookin extra chewed up this year?

As they haven't been "fixed" but "patched" over the past few years ... yup extra crispy road surface. Watch out on Bloor east of Yogne, the yellow line has a pavé lip in it from two off height paves, that juuust might grab your wheel. Almost took me down at rush hour as I ran the line, was sketchy as hell for a second or two.

yeah, yonge between eglinton and lawrence is just brutal. It's a wonder my wheels are still in one piece.

Bloor is ridiculous all year long.

pffff... I do it everyday it's awful. I'm even more nervous these days knowing there is a crack in my rim.

For fun go east on Blythwood just north of Eglinton... a mine field of a street.

I raise you Rushton Rd, between St. Clair & Vaughan.

I read something in the Star a few days ago about you call a number and within 3 days the City will come and patch up any pothole.

again.. "patch" not fix..have you seen them patching.... shovel black road crap into hole, hit hard with shovel, drive away.

Not saying that the post isn't a Thomson, it definitely looks like one, but that logo looks to be 'shopped on...

I think I pulled it off the garmin photo stream, so I don't think so, but who knows. I thought it looked a little weird to.

from vande velde's bike: http://cdn.mos.bikeradar.com/images/...4da-798-75.jpg

It is, compare to stock photo:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3562/...9cb6a15744.jpg
https://www.cambriabike.com/Images/p...seatpost_g.jpg