Jabba Degrassi

Does anyone else think a bike track in Toronto would be a lot of fun and also make pretty decent money?

I do.

cavit8

Yep, but it's a question of where you'd put the silly thing, property prices in Toronto being what they are. If Toronto had nailed the summer olympics we'd get one for sure. But then the down side is Toronto would have the summer olympics. I think a velodrome down where they're planning on putting in the Walmart on Eastern would be a fine idea.

MattRennick

A lot of fun? 100%

Although I suspect it would get a lot busier than Forest City and busy usually means less fun!

Financially? In "Toronto" perhaps but most certainly not anywhere near downtown - the amount of space you needed for a proper velodrome would cost a bloody fortune!

Wes? Any word on the centennial bike park?

MattRennick

doh! beat me to it!

Jabba Degrassi

By "Toronto" all I mean is "less than 200km away." I can count the number of times I've been to London in the last 5 years on one hand.

~Stuart~

Bik... naw...Modelling sucks.


Only because I didn't get a Prada job (that would pay after there cut $13,000) because my thighs/calf's are too big for there pants. I could do with a pick me up... I wanna ride my bike...

Flimflam

Definitely my experience, I've skip/skidded through two tyres in only 2000kms of riding, both "blue" and in 23c. A Vredestein Fortezza SE and a Hutchinson Flash, the Vredestein on my front wheel is still perfect. I'm holding out for some Rubino Pros in the future, but for now I have some kevlar Conti ultra sport cheapos to throw on. I've spent way too much on tyres recently

That being said, I have a few blue tyres if you want to recover my cost for them (fine for front usage, I wouldn't recommend back unless you're never going to skip/skid).

Bummer Stuart - can you get yourself a cruiser bike, any bike is better than none!

zippered

hyperventilating on the way to work due to lack of oxygen FTL.

electronsean

Hey! Sorry for the delay on our part...however! The Bicycle Film Festival programme is finally online:

https://bicyclefilmfestival.com/2008_site/toronto/

June 18 -21
Hope you can come out! We've really worked hard putting this together. So hard I've barely been outside!

~Stuart~

yea a little... but saying that my legs are too big means they don't want me riding bikes anymore... and $13000 is not close to the amount they would have top pay to stop me from riding my bike


so I'm going to a market to get a bike tomorrow... I'm not sure how comfortable I will be buying a bike there (90% stolen bikes) I don't know if I can buy a stolen bike.



im going to go buy an old school single speed (like moustache bars and bars instead of cables for the brakes... and they pull up on the rim (not pinch)) should be pretty sweet... but for 650 euros...

nerdsgirth

Greeaaaaat...... Smack dab in the middle of the 24hr summer solstice race... Oh well too bad for me.

Looks good though.

Jabba Degrassi

Please don't buy from a stolen bike market. Thieves don't need the encouragement.

Herbie_Glick

Just saw someone eat **** so hard in front of the shop. He's okay but his ego has got to be severly bruised. Cute girls walking along Harbord and he gave them a look back and high sided....too good.

Jabba Degrassi

Man, I pulled a total newbie move the other week. I was fiddling around with my straps (this is on my cheapie hybrid btw). They were set up incorrectly forever, so after running them correctly, I was trying to get used to adjusting them while riding before I got my fg built up. I was slowing down as I approached Queen on Beverly, reached down to loosen my right strap, unconsciously squeezed the brake a little harder, which kinda scared me and made me squeeze even harder.

Up and over the bars I went. Weeeeeeeeee!

Thankfully it was deserted, but boy did I ever feel like a schmuck.

electronsean

Dang thats too bad...I think we were in the middle of a race last year too in August! I guess it is the season. Well we're releasing a DVD this year if thats any consolation...

shapelike

What content will the DVD include?

zippered

been there, done that, got the stitches... learned my lesson!

shapelike

I've never rubber-necked a hottie and bailed because of it, but I did once end up lying on someone's trunk because I was trying to diagnose a derailleur issue and forgot about the road in front of me.

somnambulant

I have a set of light blue Michelin Pro2's that I'd be willing to sell for cheap as well.

Yep. I actually emailed you guys earlier in the Spring to make sure it wasn't the same weekend as the 24 Hrs of Hot August Nights again, and was relieved when you weren't. Then a couple of weeks later I realized the film fest was on the same weekend as the biggest 24 Hr race in Ontario. D'oh!

cupcrazy4

Thanks, but I'm goin with yellow.

jet sanchEz

That sounds like one of my old falls but it was a book that brought me down. I was returning a book to the library on my mountain bike. I had the book in my left hand and was messing around with it and it somehow got caught between my left foot and the front wheel and I went down pretty hard. No one saw but ****, that was a stupid thing to do.

It was a hardcover book so I guess that is why I went down----always try to get softcover books out of the library if you are a mentally handicapped person, you will have less accidents that way.

kylehutton

https://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/709996797.html

another stolen brooks out there today.

Jabba Degrassi

*commences pre-emptively panicking over incoming fizik aliente*

cabinhorn

nerdsgirth: "I was playing with fire"

P.S I have your shim

Danhalen

Come to the Horseshoe Tavern tonight (just a random gathering)! I'd say give me a call, but I left my phone in my Mom's car Most untriumphant!