Oh noes! It's totally the time of year for bike salmon. I almost got taken out by a couple of them going through the crosswalk at St. George and College.

Oh! EEG experiment peeps! I am going to get back to you... now!

Close. The plan doesn't involve Fuzzz as he'll be babying some fresh tattooage, and I'm hoping to go for a longer ride somewhere other than the Don... possibly on my CX bike.

nice!:thumb:

wwaaaaaa i wanted to start the bike slalom on my bike today!!!!

duppy and Krusty, mmm, new bike hotness.

And my brooks arrived today. What a good excuse to go for a nice long ride tonight.

Woohooo, it's wrong-way chicken time once again! Remember kids it's the silent steelie eyed glances that make 'em scurry for cover.

Doff. Well, the rear derailleur on my cx bike needs to be replaced before I can do any "real" riding on it. I'll try to get that done on Saturday but no guarantees.

The Naga looks hot.

Wow. the Gardin and Nagasawa are stunning!

someone was looking for a B17 earlier, I think

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/827042424.html

Thanks. I definitely wouldn't leave that Gardin unattended long, even locked. I'd be guardin' it:p

It's not obvious from my pics, but the parts on my Naga are as follows;

Crank, BB & seatpost - Dura Ace (Octalink crank)
Wheels - NOS Campagnolo Omega V rims on Phil hubs with Phil cog
Tires - Conti Sprinter tubular
Stem & bars - Nitto
Seat - Flite Ti (Kashimax 5-Gold was painful, even just around the block)

I drove over 800km round trip on Tues to go pick the frame up. It was worth every boring minute of the drive

Wow, what a bunch of dicks.

I almost got my head chopped off by a dump truck opening it's door (conveniently located at face level) on the way to work today. I just barely ducked it, which doubly irritates me because I'm almost always smart enough to stay outta the door zone but for some reason a parked dumptruck didn't register as a potential hazard and I almost got smashed for it :crash:

Bah on the idiots that grace the road with us :/ Sucks Cam, glad it wasn't worse. Thanks for the Brooks link.

Very nice Nagasawa, krusty.

Had a guy doing the "I'll pass you while you're sitting at the light and then go slow after" move today. He was even trying his very best to ride along the 6" curbside/sewer concrete - I told him "you don't have to ride all the way over there, eh?" but he seemed defiant in his choice "oh, I'm a curb hugger" to which I honestly had no good reply, I just mosied on with my ~3ft-from-the-curb line.

Threw my chain last night (tension was just piss poor since I did a tyre swap earlier and I obviously didn't tension her up too well) - most inopportune time as I was passing a cube van. I still made the pass with the chain off, but obviously had to pull off anyway. I guess reefing on her + slack = off we pop. Having that happen approaching 40km/h with traffic bearing down on me (they also wanted to pass said cube van which was just crawling along the curb lane) was freaky deaky.

Several gouging scratches on my drive side crank later and I guess I'm lucky to not have snapped the chain or crashed. Notching another upto lessons learned in laziness.

Yay for crappy chain resilience though, heh. It's taken/taking a beating and still holds strong. $8 cheapo works just fine for me(tm), damn near 3500 miles to boot!

Kona does offer the Major Jake as a frameset. I am not sure if the 09 is available yet..but we have a few 08's in the store. Scandium frame...Easton 90 carbon fork....$800. If it's for you I can swing you a better deal than that.

That's what Stephane's racing on this year, right? Seemed like a pretty nice frameset when I was checking his out at the shop (before it was built up).

Got the worst calf cramp I've ever experienced tonight while getting some massage work done. Yikes. Still hurts.. :(

That Nagasawa is very clean, krusty. Not much flash, but the bling is there if you know where to look...

Well, I had La Bicicletta build me a front wheel, and I finally picked it up today. Radially spoken 24H. I thought the spoke tension felt too low at the store, but I said, "meh," then took it out for a ride tonight. Lo and behold, I'm at the corner of King & John when I start hearing rattling - figured it was just the computer cable... around Parliment and King, the noise got worse and worse, so I pull over to check the spokes... two had come completely un-threaded! Hobbled home with my ass on the seat and tensioned that bugger up!

Don't know what that shop's reputation is for wheel building, but I wasn't impressed.

Yikes! Mustn't have been Lorne who built it. I'm still waiting on spokes there for a Corima build that is supposed to have unusually high tension. I hope they get it right. Hopefully they will rebuild for you and check it twice. First time I got on my new bike yesterday, I heard some popping coming from the front spokes, and today my first hard effort gave some ominous pings from the rear. It was only the once on each wheel, and I checked them carefully after today's ride, but it goes to show that wheelbuilding takes a lot of skill to get consistent results.

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wow... apparently i got a phone call from dukes saying that the reason my bike creaks is because the fork is to light weight for what i do on it (This call happened back when i was on my camping trip, only got my message today).

Ok. Seriously? WTF? I made the bike creak in the store, before I dropped it off, and after I picked it up. Dukes -1.


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ps whats with all my info and stuff being in red? <---

the red just means it's a new post

i think they added that this week

Balls to that. You should just contact the manufacturer yourself to see what's up. I think they're in Bolton, so its a reasonable distance, should you have to drive there.

also, its kind of funny and fitting that Duke's [temporarily] re-located to the fashion district...
keith/mike/anyone - start selling Cannondale, please! there should be some decent shops in the city selling those bikes.

Again.. I don't know that I've ever heard any good stories from Duke's. There are plenty of shops in the city that sell their brands, even ones that fellow BFSSFGTO folks work at. I don't see why I would ever need to go there.

I don't think that fork is particularly light if it's the stock Misfit fork. Peter tends to OVERbuild rather than UNDERbuild, so I can't see that being the issue. I call BS on their buck-passing.. Plus unless the fork is BROKEN, I don't see why it being light would cause creaking. The carbon forks on my CX/29er bikes flex like crazy, but that doesn't cause any creaking.

Also: red means the user is currently online.

I could tell some good stories from Dukes, but wouldn't want to spoil the party!

Are you sure it's the fork creaking? How's the headset?

When my roommates front fork / headset was creaking it was actually the seatpost! Greased that baby up and the creak went away.

Speaking of creaking my wifes bike creaks when peddled. Tighened the bb, cranks arms, crainring bolts and pedels, but still creaks. Not the seatpost, stem or bars.

Ideas?

Could it be the seatpost rails creaking in the seat shell? I have seen that happen more than once. Grab the seat and start pushing/pulling it in different directions.