i've got xbox live but i am so ****ty at COD4 i don't dare play with anyone.

i do like gears of war though. that game... that game i understand.

A good friend of mine has got a set of the IRO Dark Matter wheels (120mm, fixed/fixed - still in the plastic) up for grabs if anyone is interested. They currently retail for $269 + shipping / duty - asking $250

http://www.makergo.com/shutup/images...008/wheels.jpg

Holla if you're interested.

i don't blame you! i'm very excited; i've never had an official "paid week of going away from work" before!

we're taking the go train east out of the city, then riding along the pine ridges to a cottage, then staying a couple nights at ferris and then presquile provincial parks, and back again. we rode a similar route to the cottage last year before brad rebuilt my hybrid into a touring rig... i was on my vintage 3-speed! (but no tent etc) of course there were a lot of hills; i had to walk the last few feet of a few of them by the end of the day, but hopefully with better gears and better endurance it will be easier.

400-500 kms round trip, which isn't really that far over 8 days, but i'm sure i'll wish that the 2 rest days were a week each! :giver:

ha ha a little bit of both... lets jus say either way ma boy hooked a bredda up for realzies!
its 45!! (minus 10!) ;)
definitely headin toward the hippo...but im workin on the spare tire...give a bredda time!
thanx Gee!
:roflmao2:

I am switching my cog, do I use loctite on the lockring too? I can never remember, thanks....

Neermind, the lockring came off pretty easily so it probably wasn't loctite'd before and it operated fine.

dont have to loctite it, just get her nice and tight, ride it a while, then tight it down agin. did that to mine and survived a pounding... i have strong legs.

thumbs improving! still f@cked, but will be back in the saddle in no time.

KEITH FTW!!!! Thats the kind of gift/part gift that makes a brotha cry. I hope youre weeping Sham.

That trip sounds amazing zip, make sure you post a manifesto of your experiences somewhere, id love to know how it came out.

And rennick, I might want them wheels. Still kinda broke, but if youve got no takers in a few days we'll talk ;). Are they on IRO hubs? Looseball? I know duppys hubs lasted thru the winter, so this wheelset might be just right. I think you ran IRO hubs right dups? Bueller?

Sounds like a wicked trip Tam, hope you guys take lots of pictures and a route map :D

Anyone help this person out (legit or not I don't know, but I'd give them the benefit of the doubt). Too bad I threw out my old Canadian Tire bike.

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/788403218.html

Damn. I am switching out the cog on my Miche wheelset because it was making a lot of noise; I figured matching the size of the cog to the size of the chain would cancel out the noise because my Formula wheelset is really quiet.

But, now that I have the sizes on the Miche wheelset matched, it is still making a ton of noise....when I compare chainlines, the Formula set is right on and the Miche set is off by a couple of mms. I guess that is the problem but the Miche set has a Dura Ace 16t cog, I figured it would be fine. Shheeeeeeeeeeeeit.

^^ try flipping the cog around, might shift it back into alignment. hrm. actually i dunno if that would work, but see, it might.

EDIT/ have any spacers?

Don't bike pirates give free bikes out?

The guy who stole the bikes under Igor's direction was found guilty
http://tinyurl.com/5kk4qr

I was going to try spacers but I think I will try flipping the chainring to the inside of the crank. The noise shouldn't bother me but, knowing that the Formulas are so quiet, it does, heh.

Speaking of cogs, where's a good store to buy one? I know any LBS is going to have them, but maybe some are a better value than others. If nothing else I'll just go back to Urbane, they've been good to me. I'm looking to go up to an 18T or mybe 19T and am pretty much ready to convert my 17T into ninja star duty.

Whats your chainring twitcho?

/taking up cog collection, any unwanted sizes can come. starting a take-a-cog leave-a-cog service =), slash starting parting for teh winterbike.

its all aboot the COD4... i play too much so im not half bad :D

48 and a 17T cog. It isn't crazy tall gearing by any means, but I'm used to spinning fast as hell and being able to launch out of intersections on a much lower gear and now my bike feels really sluggish with the higher gearing. I'm never spinning out on flats really and I just found riding alot more fun when if I wanted I could really mash the pedals and fly ahead of a car. I think I'm gonna find the gear inches in the gear I normally rode on my old bike and aim for somewhere a little around that.

The Inbetweeners

Really good comedy based on younger characters than gavin and stacey, and also funnier.
although gavin and stacey is good.

and you can see stacey's boobs in that hugh grant movie love actually, was a nice surprise on a rewatch of that film.

Just as a little feeler, I may soon be selling off some nice track stuff. All stuff is totally unridden. I was planning on building a really nice tarck bike, but I sat on it for a long time, and now I don't really care enough to finish the build. Although those black IRO wheels tempt me to finish it. :)

-59cm IRO bikeforums fixed gear frameset.. blue (kinda an aqua/teal). Totally unbadged. King headset installed. Same geometry as the Angus/Mark V. Dedacciai tubing. Drilled for brakes, but no cable stops.
-Black Sugino 75s + Sugino 75 BB.
-Black alloy Deda pista bars.
-EAI cog.. I can't remember how many teeth off the top of my head.. maybe 17t?
-I think I might have a dura-ace lockring as well.

Also: used, but in good shape:
-unbranded (no words!), straight-blade carbon road fork with alloy steerer (cut). Steerer was too short for the headtube on the IRO.

Hrm, colour me interested in the Deda bars, let me know when/if you decide to get rid of them.

Why not build the bike up and sell it? It sounds like you have pretty much everything except wheels.

That frameset made my ears perk. Def. keep us posted som, though to my detriment I have to say I tsounds like a build well on its way already.

Gardin is lookin' good Shamil!!!!!!!!

nuttin but love :love: for Kool Keith...
yup yup......ya they held up nice...I didnt do anything to em except ride the hell outta them...cartridge bearings on mine...

gotta get some hoops for my IRO hubs, what was this hard open pros? My current mavics are getting older now. Time for a soft rebuild and maybe off to roller land with roller tyres for em, though they do have nice campy hubs both of 'em. I'll ask K the master.

My drivetrain was noisy up until this week.. 3/32 chain, 3/32 DA 16t cog + Shimano 105 crank with MEC 42t chainring (not so round). Chainline is within 1 mm, and nothing I tried would stop the noise.. then I lubed my chain with some generic wet lube that we had at Bikechain. It collects dirt like a biatch, but is silent compared to the previous stuff i had tried (finish line dry, triflow).. guess wetter is better when it comes to noise? :)