if anyone's interested in waiting in line with me at the show super-early let me know. i'll have to be at work for noon on saturday so probably can stay for no more than an hour or so...

TJ - free passes you say?........

Allow me to get to work and visit the sweet lady in Sales that helps a brother out.
*Makes Turkey and Stuffing Sandwiches*

What he said.

"Danhalen!" = triple post cheer.

I have a Topeak RoadMorph and need to buy a new 'adaptor' (the thing that connects to the bike that you slide the pump into). Does anyone know where I can get one?

Jeremy- tam and I will likely be there bright and early.
TJ- If you've got a pass to spare, I've got a use for it!

I got Cycletherapy to order me one of those so pretty much any shop should be able to order one in. It was about $7-12 or so. Make sure you get the frame mount specifically for the road morph. Topeak has some generic mounts that don't work.

And todays ****ELECTION **** DAY **** Don't forget to exercise your rights and vote in the federal election today.

Sure hope the jerk who was responsible for the ****ed up asphalt over the car sensor at the base of the biggest hill on Don Mills Rd choked on a wishbone this weekend

Hope everyone elses thanksgiving weekend was wonderful though

Bike show passes.... in the works.
Kick the Conservatives to the curb today Boys and Girls!!!!

Was it a bus knuckle? I'm not sure why, but Don Mills seems to have more of em than anywhere else I've noticed.

Nah it was one of those sections where it looks like they cut up the pavement to do some work on the metal car sensing thing underneath, then refilled it with asphalt but didn't make it even with the road surface. So there was a strip that went across all the lanes, about 2 feet across and about 3-4 inches deeper than the rest of the road surface with squared edges. I just about ate it when I hit it unexpectedly in the dark at the base of a big decline.

Kind of sucks that they'd not even consider how dangerous that could be for a cyclist to put essentially a 3 lane wide pothole at the base of a huge descent. I mean the city spends a **** ton of money putting up ads in bus shelters encouraging you to ride your bike but they don't even make an effort to make the city more rideable

optics man, they REALLY don't want you to ride, there's no revenue in it for them at all. I've got a hole like that here near work, it makes me want to carry a big can of safety orange spray paint.

There's a sweet bus knuckle at Bloor and Dufferin. I always forget and then remember half a second too late.

Woop-dee-doos?

I've always had that impression too. Sometimes it feels like the city is being irresponsible as hell encouraging people out into the streets without making them aware of the potential dangers or taking responsibility for their safety.


Otherwise though, aside from the hidden death trench, Don Mills southbound is a ****ing fantastic ride if you catch it when there isn't much traffic. Beautiful wide roads, well spaced out traffic lights and smooth pavement.

Two years ago, a 15 inch strip of the street was torn up and re-paved very very poorly on Roncesvalles so there is a bus-knuckle running for 8 blocks on the east side of the street. I talked to the Roncesvalles Business Association guys about it because it is positioned exactly where cyclists ride but they say that in 2009 the whole street is going to be ripped up by the TTC anyways, so it is pointless to repair it.

I think there should be some sort of penalty levied against the construction companies that do shoddy work but I don't know how viable an answer that would be...

who says field trips have to end in school?


just went on a 5 day canoe trip on Georgian bay, around philip edward island. work paid for everything but food, and then paid me for 25 hours . got some canoes surfing (4.5knots), some canoes sailing(4.8knots (~10km/h)), some fishing, also almost got dumped 2km from shore when we decided that the 5ft white caps off a shoal, would make a good playground (we got partially through a gap before loosing the wave, and had the next two just come crashing over the stern and swamp us, before we caught the last wave and surfed out.)


time to go vote, and then pick up a cetma rack

I slept-in, voted, had a nice lunch with a friend, finished up that Concorde to a more reasonable setup than it's previous "Tri" incarnation, chatted with my mom and now I am enjoying a coffee with some of mom's homemade shortbread.

Best October day off ever (will be even better if Harper is stuck with a minority---fingers crossed!)

cetma rack is on... shes purdy

That bike owns so hard, you don't even know.

Gears are in motion - the Marinoni will soon be mine... muhahahaha....

Piuma (Columbus Spirit) w/2009 Centaur (same shifting as '08 Chorus) and Scirocco wheels.

Hi

I have few things im curious to see what the interest in is....

One is a event planned for October friday 24th you can see the post on craigslist, sorry I just posted it so the link is not up yet. If there is enough interest I will secure the venue and how you say "Party on?"
I jsut thought we could use something fun for a change, since this year has been kind of sucky doom and gloom.. The title of the posting is ALLEY CAT RACE/BRAND LAUNCH PARTY/AUCTION/HALLOWEEN COSTUME EVENT


The other thing im looking at doing is offering a group buy on some fixed gear frames and parts
The frames might be $180-$150 with forks, and I would possibly offer a discount on parts as well.

However
As you may know however when you do a group buy on an item (frames especially) you may not see the item for a few months (3 to 4 perhaps)

If you are interested in either or both drop me a private message on here or email me via polly@cyclescanada.com

I hope everyone is well.. toodles

what does this even mean? who are you? are we still on for our date this Saturday?

hey me too I have a new ride weeeee

lovely

Kids these days.. tsk tsk tsk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Scirocco