Toronto Fixed
08-05-08 | 06:39 PM
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From: Kitchener, ON
Bikes: 1994 Proctor Townsend Reynolds 753, TT S3 True North, Kona Major Jake, Kona Honky Tonk, Marinoni Puima, Cannondale BBU
mine has the same sticker - you stop noticing it after you've ridden the bike for about 3 min - its that good.
LULZ - I re-built my OCR2-fixie with that ENO wheel I had kicking around. This thing is a monster - 6 inches of seatpost with a Brooks saddle, compact road geometry, super-short seat stays, and a positive rise stem. I'm thinking its time for a rack - mebbe some fenders? w/e - the bike is a total ****-kicker, and Giant just blows...
LULZ - I re-built my OCR2-fixie with that ENO wheel I had kicking around. This thing is a monster - 6 inches of seatpost with a Brooks saddle, compact road geometry, super-short seat stays, and a positive rise stem. I'm thinking its time for a rack - mebbe some fenders? w/e - the bike is a total ****-kicker, and Giant just blows...
08-05-08 | 06:53 PM
cab horn
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Toronto
Bikes: 1987 Bianchi Campione
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08-05-08 | 06:54 PM
Live without dead time
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From: Toronto
08-05-08 | 07:10 PM
freed psycho. RUN.
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 490
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From: Toronto
Bikes: Ironhorse Maverick 2004, 1970's handbuilt Raleigh fixed conversion
I actually just taped over the IronHorse logo on my rig, I find tastefully cutting it and tapering it helped blend it into the other relatively cool designs on the frame. Slash I may have been high and found tape again.
Im running some faaat tirez now, 2.60, all knobbly and whatnot. I feel like a kid who found a monster truck in his driveway. Down side = I have to redish the wheel about a millimeter to get half a millimeter clearance for the back wheel.
This may end hilariously badly.
Im running some faaat tirez now, 2.60, all knobbly and whatnot. I feel like a kid who found a monster truck in his driveway. Down side = I have to redish the wheel about a millimeter to get half a millimeter clearance for the back wheel.
This may end hilariously badly.
08-05-08 | 07:15 PM
Raving looney
Joined: Jul 2006
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From: Toronto, ON, Canada
Bikes: 70s Leader Precision w/Shimano 600 (road), IRO Rob Roy (Fixed)
Yep, I just got in from a blast out to Yonge & Bloor and back... rode out there around 5:30/45 and came back around 8:15, much wetter out after that 2 hour stop off 
Streetcar tracks on College collect an assload of water meaning spray comes from both oncoming and same-direction traffic... yay. Glad I made the call to remount the fenders before I went out as I'd been out to the Angry Immigrant Mall earlier without even a sign of dark cloud in the sky. Boo-urns to a craptacular weather season so far this summer.
Streetcar tracks on College collect an assload of water meaning spray comes from both oncoming and same-direction traffic... yay. Glad I made the call to remount the fenders before I went out as I'd been out to the Angry Immigrant Mall earlier without even a sign of dark cloud in the sky. Boo-urns to a craptacular weather season so far this summer.
08-05-08 | 07:31 PM
freed psycho. RUN.
Joined: Apr 2008
Posts: 490
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From: Toronto
Bikes: Ironhorse Maverick 2004, 1970's handbuilt Raleigh fixed conversion
mine has the same sticker - you stop noticing it after you've ridden the bike for about 3 min - its that good.
LULZ - I re-built my OCR2-fixie with that ENO wheel I had kicking around. This thing is a monster - 6 inches of seatpost with a Brooks saddle, compact road geometry, super-short seat stays, and a positive rise stem. I'm thinking its time for a rack - mebbe some fenders? w/e - the bike is a total ****-kicker, and Giant just blows...
LULZ - I re-built my OCR2-fixie with that ENO wheel I had kicking around. This thing is a monster - 6 inches of seatpost with a Brooks saddle, compact road geometry, super-short seat stays, and a positive rise stem. I'm thinking its time for a rack - mebbe some fenders? w/e - the bike is a total ****-kicker, and Giant just blows...
/I have some dirrrrrrty fenders and a grunge rack you can have.
I mean, drop the value of the bike two hundred bucks grungy =D. BYOHardware.
08-05-08 | 08:06 PM
Yup
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
Bikes: Kona Unit, planet X cx bike, khs fixed gear
Was that your bike being tuned at urbane today I saw Operator with?
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08-05-08 | 08:20 PM
Live without dead time
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From: Toronto
Most likely. I picked it up at Urbane today stock except for a 17T cog on the fixed side so unless they were selling two today that'd have been mine. Kinda wishing I'd paid more attention to who else was there now, I was so stoked to be grabbing my first good bicycle that I don't think I paid attention to much else 
08-05-08 | 08:22 PM
Yup
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From: where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins
Bikes: Kona Unit, planet X cx bike, khs fixed gear
Just kidding.
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08-05-08 | 08:25 PM
freed psycho. RUN.
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Toronto
Bikes: Ironhorse Maverick 2004, 1970's handbuilt Raleigh fixed conversion
It looked more like a streetCAR, but I was drunk and using the cog as a shuriken...
(I wasnt even in the vicinity)
(I wasnt even in the vicinity)
08-05-08 | 08:29 PM
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From: Toronto
Bikes: '08 Marinoni Pista, '05 specialized langster(RIP), '06 norco kokanee(RIP), '05 norco charger(RIP),'08 surly steamroller, surly big dummy coming soon!
08-05-08 | 08:30 PM
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From: Toronto
Bikes: '08 Marinoni Pista, '05 specialized langster(RIP), '06 norco kokanee(RIP), '05 norco charger(RIP),'08 surly steamroller, surly big dummy coming soon!
rennick: high fives!
08-05-08 | 08:57 PM
Not Superstitious
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From: Toronto
Bikes: IRO Mark V Pro, IRO Mark V, Rocky Mountain Fusion
08-05-08 | 09:10 PM
cab horn
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: Toronto
Bikes: 1987 Bianchi Campione
Most likely. I picked it up at Urbane today stock except for a 17T cog on the fixed side so unless they were selling two today that'd have been mine. Kinda wishing I'd paid more attention to who else was there now, I was so stoked to be grabbing my first good bicycle that I don't think I paid attention to much else
haha
08-05-08 | 09:36 PM
freed psycho. RUN.
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From: Toronto
Bikes: Ironhorse Maverick 2004, 1970's handbuilt Raleigh fixed conversion
so I just finished truing the rear wheel (as true as it gets with its bent spocks) and now I have realised that my frame is precisely, and I mean within 0.5 mm, large enough to accomodate a 2.6 knobbly tire.
the little rubber strings that come with new tires? yeah those cause it to stick ever so slightly as they bend when the tire rotates.
im going to ride it for a little bit, but its being replaced with a 2.5, soontimes.
the little rubber strings that come with new tires? yeah those cause it to stick ever so slightly as they bend when the tire rotates.
im going to ride it for a little bit, but its being replaced with a 2.5, soontimes.
08-05-08 | 10:10 PM
Live without dead time
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From: Toronto
08-05-08 | 10:12 PM
Live without dead time
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From: Toronto
08-05-08 | 10:27 PM
oOooo, five bucks
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From: Toronto, On
Bikes: Giant OCR touring(06), Norco Storm (05)
08-05-08 | 11:16 PM
oOooo, five bucks
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From: Toronto, On
Bikes: Giant OCR touring(06), Norco Storm (05)
would someone who is planning on doing the dsr ride tomorrow night mind pming my there phone number? i get off work at 9, and i dont wanna miss the ride 
ps: nohanded skid = bad idea, everytime i tried it i almost crashed... who da thunk it?
ps: nohanded skid = bad idea, everytime i tried it i almost crashed... who da thunk it?
08-05-08 | 11:33 PM
In Velo Veritas
Joined: Jan 2006
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From: Toronto
Bikes: Menonite black urbanite, probably enough spare parts to make anther one.
I just put a Wald 157 on my Urbanite. Good times. Pictures later.
https://www.waldsports.com/index.cfm/wald157basket.html
Tempted to put CX tires back on my Planet-X and go for a rip in the rain/slop later.
https://www.waldsports.com/index.cfm/wald157basket.html
Tempted to put CX tires back on my Planet-X and go for a rip in the rain/slop later.
actually i have the same one of the front of my red "paperboy" bike.
Last edited by jeremywhitehorn; 08-06-08 at 12:36 AM.
08-06-08 | 05:21 AM
Raving looney
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From: Toronto, ON, Canada
Bikes: 70s Leader Precision w/Shimano 600 (road), IRO Rob Roy (Fixed)
'appy Birthday Sham dude, have a good one 
Yay smilies!
Yay smilies!
08-06-08 | 06:30 AM
w/presta heart valves!
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Stuart, ride starts at same place/time. Call me at the shop and we'll figure something out.
08-06-08 | 06:52 AM
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From: Toronto/Montréal
Bikes: Eight homemade, three very dusty
08-06-08 | 07:44 AM
::3 o'clock roadblock::
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From: reppin tha 416
Bikes: IRO jaimie roy