Originally Posted by cavernmech (Post 7122021)

Sure...I have 13 thru 17 in steel and 14,15,16 in aluminum. If you care to pony up $150 for steel or $200 for alu I will let one go. These are all brand new except for the 16 alu which has a bit of wear. Pardon the high price but I would prefer to keep them and it isn't worth it to me to take less than that.

On another note I had a great ride home from Wes' tonite....except for the d00che cop who thought it would serve the public interest to give me a ticket for running a red light. The funny thing is I didn't even run it. I made a full stop then proceeded as the opposing light went red. The second thing he said to me was "can I see your drivers license" I responded with "no you cannot see my drivers license but I can provide my Health card for identification purposes". He tried to get all gestapo with me, insisting on my drivers license upon which I informed him that firstly I am not required to provide a drivers license while riding a bicycle and secondly that I would pass on having to deal with going to the J.P. to get the inevitable points removed from my drivers abstract. He then told me that i would lose the points whether I gave my drivers license or not. I laughed in his face....told him he was a 2 bit excuse for a police officer...and that I would see him in court. I am really surprised he didn't cite me for something else as I was a difficult prick with him. What a fricken joke. He seemed taken aback when I informed him that cyclists only lose points on their drivers license when they are too stupid or uninformed to know the law.

Originally Posted by kergin (Post 7122062)

Jet: They look nice for the money, and they are italian, but I'm not convinced they're any better than the Formulas that came on the bike. Not for my purposes, at least.



How did he catch you? bike cop? Probably could've out-run one of those fat-asses on a bike ... hehe

Originally Posted by cavernmech (Post 7122101)

Motorcycle. You really think I would stop for a bike cop? They would actually have to be able to ride their bikes at a normal pace, which of course they are unable to do. I was tempted to bolt anyway but those years are well past me.

Originally Posted by kergin (Post 7122127)

I stopped for one :o .... did this guy care about the bell, brakes, etc...? funny thing is, these buggers are so lazy they wouldn't bother you if they were in a patrol car. God forbid they'd have to get out...

Originally Posted by cavernmech (Post 7122157)

Dude...I had no lights..no bell...my headphones were in..a messenger bag on and I had beer on my breath. In retrospect perhaps he wasn't so bad after all :twitchy:
I was on my S.S. not the track bike. If I had have been on the track bike he wouldn't have been able to catch up.

Originally Posted by Flimflam (Post 7122194)

Kergin, 20k in winter I'd prefer on the fixed rather than a geared bike. Despite the seeming stability of an MTB in say last winters crap, I much preferred the control of the fixed wheel. I don't know your route, so I dunno if it'll be reasonably passable, assuming a winter like last, but I found it OK to ride last winter in just about all circumstances - that riding was basically all on major routes within the core though (I did go to 400/7 one afternoon/evening, that was 'fun' ;)). I think I only had one 'weather' day that kept me off the bike.

Originally Posted by jet sanchEz (Post 7122234)

I have a set of Formulas and they don't spin nearly as nicely or as long as the Miches. That is a super-unscientific way of determining hub quality but I can turn the bike upside down, spin the Mches are they go for close to 4 minutes. The Formulas are under a minute.

Yes, I had nothing better to do and timed this once. Someone kill me.

Originally Posted by cavernmech (Post 7122021)

Sure...I have 13 thru 17 in steel and 14,15,16 in aluminum. If you care to pony up $150 for steel ...

Originally Posted by cavernmech (Post 7122360)

The Miche's use a 6001 bearing which is about as big a cartridge as you will find in a hub. Formula's use a much smaller I.D. bearing. I always believe that more bearings, or a larger size, makes for a more durable hub. Miche comes with a dry axle out of the box. A dis-assembly of the axle assembly with a liberal re-greasing will keep the problems to a minimum.

Originally Posted by kergin (Post 7122230)

Regardless - there are more important things that prick should be doing than writing opportunistic tickets. What a waste of the system's resources: idiot cops write tickets which aren't really important, which in turn get fought, which costs taxpayers even more money... Why the hell don't they do more important things, like patrol bad areas such as Moss/Regent Park, Bloor & Lansdowne, or Vaughan & Oakwood? Oh yeah, that's hard work and giving something to the community. I bet this fool even checked off the box where it says, "vehicle involved".

Originally Posted by ~Stuart~ (Post 7122345)

someone turn off the rain please, i wanna ride the don

Originally Posted by jet sanchEz (Post 7122030)

Really? I like my Primato hubs a lot. They spin forever and they look pretty sweet to my eye.

Nerdsgirth, saw you riding east on Harbord tonight, what frame is that? It looks like it has a sloping toptube; nice. I woulda yelled but I was in a car and I hate when people yell at me from cars ;)

Originally Posted by cavernmech (Post 7122057)

Fixed.

Originally Posted by nerdsgirth (Post 7124182)

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Originally Posted by nerdsgirth (Post 7124182)

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