Ride for Charlie was very nice, a nice relaxed ride out with a few hammery bits, Matt toasted the fallen from the tallboy and we passed it around until it was gone.

^^^ for those of you who missed it.

What length BB should I get for my GT? I was running an old mountain bike BB and it was fine but one of the cups was plastic and it broke on me last week. 103mm seems to be pretty standard but I have also seen 107mm ones out there, what do y'all use?

If you have weed, roll a blunt and check out channel nine,

MR T is pawning the flavourwave oven!!!! YES.

If you're using the same crank set, then get the same size BB.
One doesn't want to be fooling with chain-ring spacers;
Not too many anyway..

Maybe upgrade to a UN72 with a metal cup.
I'm pretty sure they have a metal cup.

I likez teh sealed BBs.

Gawd, what a horrible day to be on the road traffic-wise.

I've spent the last couple of days stripping the paint on the IRO frame I got last week and readying it for a repaint. I think Noah will get the nod on this as well, as I want the old bars I have done at the same time. I'm in no rush to finish building it anyway.

In other news, my Nagasawa arrived today up north! I work the weekend (gotta keep the power flowing to Ontario), but can go pick it up maybe Tuesday. I'll be riding it by Wednesday. I'm stoked!

Yay for rain... heh. Was about to head into the core for dinner when it just opened right up, so I decided to assign it to Captain Fuck.it and go for a walk instead.

Pretty much snapped my brake cable last night, so I've been cautiously riding around effectively brakeless - definitely keeps you on your toes not having that safety net Need to check my lever->cable bridge angles and see why it frayed/wore through in the first place. Bike's taking a beating anyway - done a tad over 500k in the last 10 days

For those still interested in the Mean Streets 200k...

vainglorious, I won't be able to ride up tomorrow as I'm helping a buddy move house - would you want to do that ride on Monday? If not, we can go another weekend.

I crown myself the "Leader of Dumbass's"

I have a skill of not picking up on hints from girls... Anyways, went on what i though was old friends catching up, turned out to be more of a date (which i only realized on my ride home).

Instead of a story, i have decided to write the pros and cons of tonight.

Pro's:

Got to catch up with a good looking girl.

Con's:

Wore normal clothes rather then cleaning up a bit.
Rode in the rain without the riding jacket (which was apparently in my bag).
Didn't bring enough money for her ticket or food.
Missed all the, now blatant, moves that she made.
(heres a good one) Thought her putting her arm on mine on the armrest meant she wanted me to move my arm.
Missed the "Goodnight" kiss, thinking it was a hug.

and a bike related one.

Ran a stop sign behind a cop, then turned off the lights and raced through the neighborhood running away... although when it passed me a couple minutes later (i stopped at a stop sign and it rolled past) i saw it was only a parking cop.


*sits down in the corner facing the wall*

hey don't worry stuart. us girls are surprisingly forgiving -- they are after all usually haplessly straightforward about these things (edit: err, men that is). if she was interested tonight i'm sure she'll be up for it again if you ask her out for the second.

Woo! Special trea: I got invited to spend the day on a 50' vintage yacht today
Airshow and lake cruise FTW!

Us men are notoriously dense in that regard many many times in our lives.

Yep, I don't know anything about women and/or the signs that I am supposed to understand.

not

stu, that's awesome. i wouldn't even worry about it.
consider it ... playing hard to get! bwahahahahahaha


no worries, amigo.. i got roped into something on monday, but we can definitely try another weekend. i'm gonna give it a go early tomorrow morning though, cos i wanna see if i can pull it off.

sweetness, glad it arrived. tracking down one of those bad boys in the colour/size that i'm interested in is turning out to be pretty tough..

I hope this isn't anyone we know but someone's IRO got pinched. Black frame with a white deep-V up front and a silver wheel in the back.

https://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/820184900.html

Great recipe for chicken, salad, and jello!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPraKwW98yY

Ah,The Merrill Howard Kalin Cooking Show, been awhile since I've watched that. At one point I thought about showing it to mhy students. Public television at its finest. Got to love the salad made on the raw chicken slime.

RIP Merrill. Your James Brown impression was, well, something.

Hahaha, nice one. While you may feel like a dumbass now it's an easy situation to rebound from. Call her up and try again for realsies.

made it from danforth/woodbine to north of 7/mccowan in about 1.5hrs on the fixed.. wasn't too bad of a ride, but i had a really early start. leg muscles are okay, but damn my knees are a little sore.

Nice, sorry I couldn't come today - I ended up missing the start of the Mean Streets ride (moving my buddy went WAY too late - didn't get in until 1).

Anyone up for a ride? I was thinking of heading up to Lake Wilcox to get at least /some/ km's in.

Looks like I'm going to go play Laserquest in the east at least for now, if anyone wants to ride TXT me on (6) --- two-neuf-se7en three se7en cinq, 5. I'm up for distance/speed or a slow roll.

thanks for the advice guys/gals



anyone up for a mountain don ride tomorrow?


i feel like seeing what else i can break on my misfit




when your eating oreos, stop at the first row... by the second one you just feel sick, and when your partway through the third, you want to go back in time and not have eaten them

by tomorrow i mean today as well if anyone is up for it

It is not a nice feeling when your saddle breaks on a pothole and the top of the seatpost rams your taint.

*insert joke about seat post, and grease here*

no but seriously folks, lets hit the don tomorrow

theres got to be someone else who isnt at work!