I have both. 16 and lockring. 1/8. $10.

Thanks for the holster link.

Ride report:

Well yesterday my buddy Dave told me he couldn't join me for a ride east to Rouge Hill, so instead we planned on a decent ride for today, Sunday. We thought "let's start off early and do 100k by riding to Whitby and back", as the Ride for Heart 75k seemed a good workout, but we felt we could do more.

We busted that idea and ended up riding here instead

We made a pitstop here as that's always somewhere I wanted to stop by again.

Rob/oper - we saw you on Yonge right north of Major Mack when we were going north (you were heading south) perhaps around 11:30/12?, I yelled out but you didn't hear me/look around.

Anyway, 192km from my house back to my house riding fixed. Felt pretty good, my legs were feeling it up the hills on the way, but felt much much better on the way back - granted I did unclip and rest on some of the bigger hills (130+rpm is something I just can't handle for long over time). My first metric century fixed and my longest ever ride in a day so far at 119 miles (previous was 102 miles from Niagara Falls). Bike computer says 7:52 riding time but we basically took a good 12 hours including lunch and a swim and some cruising around Sutton area, I left my house at 9:45am and got in at 10:20pm.

nice ride there phil; i used to ride up that way all the time - a great way to spend the day indeed.

i was going to ride tonight before it started raining but didn't feel like getting wet so i'm heading out in the morning (before it gets hot) for a short spin (40-50km or so) if anyone feels like joining me.

anybody got a set of speedplay pedals I can try out? I want to upgrade my Shimano M505 stock pedals and speedplay's got good reviews. I'm not sure how I'll handle the free float though...

shoot i just got rid of a bunch of tires before i moved; they may still be at the curb at my old apartment.

what frame did you end up gettinhg? i remember you were looking for one a while ago...

FWIW - i've used the speedplays and the one thing i didn't like about them was that they don't release to the inside. have you thought about time ATACs? functionally similar to shimanos but with something like 20 degrees of float if you reverse the cleats...

ill take for a fiver.

i'll take a zine aaaaaaaaaand a link to that new sigur ros record!!!! hook a brother UP!

It is on the Sigur Ros site as a streaming album. Torrents are on Demonoid and Pirate Bay but so far the quality is not so hot. I have a 128 rip and it is good but I am sure it will be out on a higher format soon enough. And yep, it is good, so darn good :)

Brand new to this forum as I just got my first fixed gear this week. I've been riding around for about an hour everyday (aside from comings and goings- work, meeting friends, etc), and it's already starting to get boring.
Anyone else want to take a rookie rider unde their wing, show me around town a little? PM me! I'm usually up for at least an hour of biking a day depending on work schedule- gotta take it easy for the first bit, don't want to kill my legs right out of the gate.

1x9 or a full drivetrain? I'm going to try to get a 1x9 "kit" together next season that I can quickly put on the bike for really hilly days. I can guess which company you'll opt for but I'll probably just go XT/XT and run full housing to keep things simple.

PS. So ... the new Dura-Ace is going to have a chain with a master link. That M.L. is also going to be backwards compatible w/ other Shimano chains. That is all.

Yeah JW - was a great run, the rain was later than I'd preferred as it actually started to cool off a bit too much in places (and some of those rolling hills, as I zig-zagged down, on Leslie specifically sucked balls :p)

Hey there and welcome...

Plenty of people in/around town that ride fixed, for a more "official" pickup ride/hang out, keep on the look out here for DSR/Devil Strip Roller rides (it'll be sprints this week I think, even if you don't run it's a good hang out) or checkout www.devilstriprollers.com for news/updates. Because of CMWC, Sprints should be huge this week!

I don't ride much socially but have enjoyed the DSR group rides and sprint events, my personal schedule and working in Whitby get in the way a lot :p

The big news of the week (month?) is that it's bike month AND the week coming up to the CMWC (Cycle Messenger World Championships) so fixed or not, it's a great time to be on a bike.

City bike calendar: http://wx.toronto.ca/inter/uds/cycli...vents?OpenView
CMWC 2008 website: http://www.cmwc2008.com (check out events)

Keep your eyes peeled for more stuff, search on facebook for CWMC - there's a few side-events and movie screenings/stuff going on that aren't on the official event list.

As for solo riding, checkout the Martin Goodman Trail (not so great in peak hours, but when it's quiet traffic-wise, it's a great run) - that's the path that runs along the Lakeshore. Check out the valleys, some nice scenic runs (can be busy traffic wise on the sunny days) - Don right from Edwards Gardens (Bridal Path) right down to Lakeshore/Lower Don Road and the Humber valley you can go from Steeles/back down. Get yourself a city bike route map, some of those routes aren't so bad - you'll also get to see how incomplete and mis-matched/badly planned some of them are :p I personally ride a lot on my own due to transportation and I love riding my bike.

is anyone else super stoked about the thunderstorms that have been happening lately?

last night there was a sweet double rainbow after the storm

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaack

+1 on Time.

I run a 1X9 SRAM set-up. 32 ring with an 11-34 cassette. If you have slotted cable stops you don't need full housing...you can pull it off without dis-connecting anything as long as you have an open cable guide under the B.B. The SRAM works well for me also as I can remove the shifters from the bars without taking the grips off...I use a little dohickey that lets me use the same clamp for both brake levers and shifter.

With the amount of broken *****mano chains I have seen at the races, I will never put one on my bike again. SRAM, KMC and Wipperman all use master links also. I prefer the SRAM.

The free float takes some getting used to, though it's a big help if you have knee issues like I do.

I went from Look (red cleats) to Speedplay Zeros on my road bike and had a bit of a learning curve to keep my feet from waggling back and forth when sprinting. I don't know how they'd feel on my fg.

As for getting out, the action is pretty easy on the Zeros. I have the float adjusted relatively low, so they disengage at about the same point as my Looks did.

The only quasi-PITA is the break in/maintenance thing. The cleats are STIFF for the first few rides. Clicking in is...challenging until they loosen up a bit. Dry lube on the cleats (which are barely walkable - covers are a must) frequently. Every so many months/miles, you're supposed to grease the pedals.

All in all it's really not so bad, but they're definitely more needy than other pedals I've used. And only being able to get out of them to the outside may be a drawback.

I'm willing to bet (once, at least) that most of those broken chains are due to people glazing over the instructions, not using the replacement pins properly and basically just ****ing up their own chains. As for factory installed chains, well if that's the case then Shimano really has no excuse.

Edit: add to my speculation, how many of those chains previously had a pin pushed out/back in w/ no replacement?

*shrugs*

I picked up some Time RXT shoes at Curbside this weekend for $10

I don't yet have a clipless set up on my bike - maybe if I get a road bike or build a dedicated distance and/or track bike then I'll throw them on but for daily riding in the city I think I'll stick with clips / straps.

Either way, for $10 I figured I couldn't go wrong!

Give Time your time. So what's all going on this week for CWMC... I'll be taking the kids to the island on Sunday.

The ratio of broken chains (and I always ask people when I see them with a busted chain what brand) are at least 4-1 in *****manos disfavour. I will concede that some of these are no doubt poor maintenance and assembly, but there have been many that were factory or installed by competent wrenches. Their chains suck...at least for off-road.

Thanks for the tips. I heard about DSR yesterday and I'm definitely going to try to make it out to some of their events. I'm also going to be going to the island on Sunday to check out the CMWC. So excited. I've been in Toronto for four years but I've never gone to the island before, so it should be a realy exciting day.
Right now, since I'm pretty unexperienced on my FG I'm sticking to neighbourhoods I know well, staying close to home (which for me is College/Bathurst area) but as I get my legs going I'm definitely going to be on the lookout for some of those longer paths you mentioned. Thanks again!

This pretty much summarizes my experience with zeros too. I use them on my road bike where clipping/unclipping is at a minimum. For urban/commuter stuff, I'm not sure I'd recommend zeros. Walkability with covers is interesting and would get old really quickly if you're on and off your bike a lot. I use spd on my bikes, mostly because that's what I started with and I've had no major incidents or problems.

Pretty much my experience as well. That said, I totally love the Crank Brothers stuff for pretty much everything. I currently have Candies or Eggbeaters on all my bikes plus two pairs of shoes with Crank Bros cleats (one pair of Shimanos that are comfortable to walk in, and a pair of SIDI Dominators). I haven't tried their road-specific pedals yet, but I love my Eggbeaters. A little bit of free-float.. no worries of accidental upwards release (assuming the cleats are in decent shape).. 4-sided entry.. really simple mechanism.. good mud-clearing.. etc.

That said, a lot of people swear by Time stuff, but I've heard the newer stuff isn't nearly as nice as the older stuff.

As for CMWCs, I'll definitely be on the island on Sunday (assuming I'm not doing a mtb race), maybe on Saturday afternoon too. Might check out the party on Friday. And there's Goldsprints on Saturday night. Also, Martin's showing some bike movies (incl Quicksilver! :P) at Cinecycle on Wednesday night starting at 8pm. Andre and I are talking about hitting the Don on Wednesday in the early evening, and then I might swing by Cinecycle.

so who has rock solid bouncy dirt ride with no tensioner issues? Crank replaced this evening so the ring with no long shift on the crank....yay!.... dirt?