There was a reasonably long blurb in the Globe and Mail Focus section which wasn't bad. No ongoing media, though, true. And people will always moan about stuff the interrupts their meaningful lives. They're always moaning about whatever run/race/ride has such and such a street shutdown.

I think I'd go with a simple too much speed into the corner. Those bikes are waaay too picked over for a mechanical failure like a brake cable snapping. Star sent one photog to crits, and I spoke with photo assignment editor and he said not a single editor so much as wanted to attend the Worlds'. According to him The Star wants to be the NY Times, to which I replied it's a shame that, in general, neither the audience not the editorial staff are ready for that kind of content. If it's going on around you.. report it...don't pander to some demographic you are try to target the paper to....they'll all be dead soon of natural causes. Oddly enough with cycling being the new golf, you'd think the Star would be all over it like a fat kid on a smartie. It'll take a VP or a board member on a Cervelo to change a village.

I know the course is a good one, and recommend ANY course to a new rider...BUT I'll put my/our amassed experiences waaaay ahead of a general safety class. I can;t see it being geared towards the urban ripper. As for the races, etc. I know the Star owns the Now and they were a media sponsor, so maybe they felt their job was done. Not an excuse though, considering the fixed gear shark is on the dock and about to be skinned.

Time to pester CityHall-ites with velodrome requests

my size!!! can't afford two bikes in one season though... :(

also, my friend at the globe wrote a little write up about all the bike events that were happening that weekend, leading up to them, so yes, it did get some press.

but. while events like cmwc or the crit are fun events to recommend to readers, there's nothing really newsworthy about them. maybe for a magazine feature or for the likes of blogto/torontoist, but not next day's news. especially when you consider the same weekend, two 'rich kids' got shot on richmond, with a whole spate of other stabbings/shootings/etc. busy day for star reporters.

news coverage still goes by the adage: if it bleeds, it leads.

however, i guarantee you will see something about it in this thursday's issue of now.

This morning I was rolling super-slow on the sidewalk at Yonge and Eglinton towards the intersection in order to get on the road... random dude walks towards me and effing ELBOWS me in the arm/chest super hard, causing me to emit a high-pitched scream of anguish as I fell under my bike and bashed my knee. By the time I'd recovered and stood up, intending on punching this fellow in the teeth, he'd already disappeared into the crowd.

Watch out for sidewalk sociopaths, people.

how would a police man get hurt by traffic? when do cars drive on the sidewalk?

So how is that NOT their loss leader then? And electronics? For what? Bikes? There's like let me count say... 1 no 2 components on a bike that are "electronic.

1) Computers
2) Lights

That is seriously ****ed up. Wow.

The best way i've found to not get pwned by tickets is to not go through areas where you there are stop signs to run. High speed down Yonge st. then down over to University where hardly any cyclists ride = traffic ticket free zone.

Jeez that's pretty crazy, 32flavs.... Hope you're OK barring a "wtf?!".

Got told to STFU by a minivan driver, as I was yelling at cars parked in the bike lane on Gerrard - he was waiting for me to yell at him as he'd just got in the vehicle and obviously had his response ready. He thrashed and caught upto me at Jarvis and came right up to my back wheel. He muttered something about a car lane, so I suggested he should get a licence, then he started yammering something (no idea what, I was already heading across, he was turning right) so I yelled "YEAH I LOVE YOU MAN, I LOVE YOU!" as loud as I could... Kinda mad I wasn't more random, but it was just another incident with a silly angry person :) Had he touched my bike, I'd have no remorse in throwing my bike on his car, and was prepared to do it - he seemed like that kind of d0uche to throw his vehicle around.

Probably won't make the ride tonight, just not feeling like going out again. Have fun!

Bootleg Sessions 2 is in, woo.

Edit: d0uche is censored, I forgot heh l0lz

lulz.

Also i'm just going to throw this out there - would anyone be interested in a brand new sugino 75 silver 165mm track crankset for near cost (arms only)? I'm obligated to buy it but now I figured I really wanted the dura ace track cranks instead, so they have to go.

Please pm me if you're interested and i'll give you a $#.

Wow that's bull****! Hope your knee's okay.

That sounds like an accurate description. Who the just hauls off and hits some random girl because ... what, she was too close? Wow.

PS. I'm offically bummed that worlds are over. It was pretty awesome to see all the random out-of-towners leading up to the event and being there for the main race itself. Be it not for my "it's really not my place to race in this" hesitance (well, that and the fact that I don't even know how a manifest works), I would have loved to give it a go. At least I had some people to cheer for though and that was definitely good times. I'm not willing to wait another 13 years for the CMWC to make its way back to Toronto so a road trip might be in order in the future.

PPS. Iceland, August 27 - September 5 ... tickets are booked and confirmed.

Thanks for the well wishes, guys. My knee is totally fine, just a little bloody. I *really* wish I could've recovered quickly enough to get my vengeance. The Ontario Science Centre tells me my karate chop moves at 94 km/h. Next time I'm bringing the pain, *****ES!

P.S. I'm bummed I missed the island festivities this weekend... my flooding basement kept me home. Sounds like you all had a blast though!

Karate Chop that guys head off and use it as a spoke card.

I would love someone to accompany me for an easy ride in the Don tomorrow morning if you have the time. 9 or so, but could go a little later. PM me with contact info and I will get back to you tomorrow morn.
Mark

The NY Times reported on an alleycat last year ...Staten Island Invasion

hey,

Is this anyone's? I recall a forum member with a blue Makino. not really my style but i have to admit, ahem, "on topic" for a track bike that i hear is all the rage these days.

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/724827121.html

wait...

counting up the parts list and the things gotta be more than the asking price by a long shot.
buyer's remorse perhaps? someone would do pretty well parting it up.

PlusOne on all that. Tokyo 2009, anyone? :)

No more tickets for me, thankfully; all my riding goes through the burbs right now, and not the good burbs, either. Cops in NW 'coke have more to worry about than cyclists running lights/signs or riding on the sidewalk. Also, leaving campus at 11:30PM has its benefits - I can ride along Rexdale Blvd and down majors like Kipling without so much as a honk. Major arteries like that are pretty dead late at night.

The more I ride through town of Weston, the more I feel bad for it; such a nice place in such a convenient place. For some reason, its turned into a strip of pure **** from St. Clair to the 401.

dom that is messed up. glad you are okay.

also, are bikes sold in kits now or something? the thing even comes with a supreme sticker slapped on already. only thing it's missing is the top tube protector.

what is it with the star and it's uninformed bike-related articles? yeah, the reason pedestrians aren't as safe as cops on the road is because we lack "training", could it have something to do with the, i dunno, the badge and the reflective jacket that says "police" on it? i wonder how many traffic accidents cruisers get into every year - i'd wager not as many as the rest of us and i'm sure as hell that it has more to do with the siren and flashing lights than it does with driver training.

BTW - andrew, i've never heard of the star trying to be more like the NYT; if that's the case then what the hell is the Globe's niche?

Did you spot that article on people snagging smoked bikes from Dukes? I'm kind of perplexed that manufacturers haven't prevented Duke's from selling those bikes. Seems like a bit of a liability to me to ride a bike that was fire-damaged. YMMV?

Other than that one Cervelo in the article, I suspect most of the others will be nostalgia pieces. Don't forget that CF is cured at temperatures approaching those they would have seen in that room. As they said, most of the bikes still had tags attached, indicating the temperatures they were exposed to was relatively low. I wonder if the trend of 'relicing ' guitars to make them look like they have been played for years is going to be seen in bikes now. My wife ixnayed me relicing her new Mercedes.

i think i read somewhere in the tomes of rivendell literature the term "beausage" (or the beauty resulting from usage of a thing) used to relate to bikes. i'm a bit of a luddite so i like the look of old stuff but for now new bikes will probably look brand spanking new until beausage kicks in...

I saw a guy holding up a Cervelo on the cover of the Star today but I didn't read the article....that Cervelo was in the fire? Isn't that theft? Or did he buy it from Dukes?

edit: Just read kergin's post, I guess Duke's is selling them.

I'm going for sure.