But I already did. Went and saw Duran Duran live in '84. Most excellent.

Well, there you have it. Shapelike, if you still want to try out my MJ this weekend or something, PM me. Lemme know if you want knobbies or road slicks on it.

alright, i'll start something up: i managed to crack my cross frame at the seat tube. i want to have a cross/touring frame for a commuter. would it be worth it to get it fixed or should i just buy a new frame? anyone have a 58-60 cross frame they want to part with?

If the frame is aluminum, it will be hard to repair. you can weld aluminum, but not many people can do it well (or so I'm told)

$120 later I think I have enough bits and pieces (in addition to scavenged parts from the Devinci) to build up the IRO Rob Roy frame I've had sitting around for ages. Tonight: bike building. Hopefully I didn't forget anything!

No wonder no french guys win the Tour. If I had mountain bike trails like this around I'd never ride on the road

Mountain Biking in the Alps

Holy crap, that was nuts. And here I thought riding in Toronto traffic took some skill...

wow

they were really flying -- looks amazing

I also wish I could whistle like that guy...

those guys were fast... anyone up for a trip to france this summer for some DH????


you wanna whistle at that guy? what?

haha, no no I want to be able to whistle like that guy. No handed, high pitched, and irritating. Who needs a horn/bell when you can whistle like that?

nope, it's steel. 4130 i think. crack just below the seat collar...

yo, toronto courier here.

Pyze can do most anything, he can play and he can sing...

steel is easy and relatively cheap to repair. You could look up welding in the phone book and they could likely to it for you in ten minutes.

Edit: actually, seeing as how the frame is my size it would likely be really hard to fix and really expensive. I'll take it off your hands cheap!

Hehe.

I absolutly LOVED Jeremy the Bear when I was a kid.

Things holding up the Rob Roy build:
- seal for the headset (lost in the shuffle when C.T. closed and my frame got moved)
- two barrel adjusters (for front/rear brakes)
- chain whip (to de-cassette the rear wheel - current chain is already gone so no reverse rota-fixing)
- cold ... I have no idea to suffer through public transit in this **** today, though by tomorrow I'll break down (and it'll be even colder)

****, so go to school with the bike today, but decided to take viva back since i was feeling tired and didn't want to go back again in the cold. However i didn't bring money or tickets so i hop without one, and of course the guys checking for tickets had to come this day. $150 fine. At least i have a decent excuse and i hope it gets lowered. On top of that i had to bike back home anyway.

Just got back from a nice ride. I've been doing this short loop lately of my favourite hills in the west end. I'll have to make up an extended version of this soon.

The Best (hills) in the west

Me too! Back to back with fables of the green forest on TV0

You looted onto public transit without pleading your case or paying fair... are you mentioning this for sympathy?

Yes I guess i got none from you though. I just did not plan on using transit today since i was biking, didn't bring cash or tickets, however i decided to get back with the bus since i wasn't feeling strong to bike home again. I pay my fair each and every time i use viva, and i am little pissed i got nailed the first time i didn't. and funnily enough, this is the first time i ever saw officers checking tickets and i've been using viva since september. I explained this to the officer but he didn't care of course, so i will try to get this lowered if i can.

I've got a chainwhip you can borrow, but I'm not mobile until late tomorrow night - you can come pick it up though, I'm around Queen/Ronces and should be home most of the day. PM me. edit: I'll be up for a couple hours tonight still too, if you want it tonight.

I took a bus briefly on Friday afternoon (pinch flatted at Keele/Finch, replaced the tube and took the bus as a time-saver...hah) - I had to get off at Lawrence because I was going crazy already. Filled my tube at the gas station there and went merrily on my way home again riding. It crept into my mind that this is the same 41 Keele bus route that recently had that shooting on, AND I pass through Keele/Eglinton W which also seems to be a hive of gang/shooting type activity of late... Yay!

I used to enjoy the TTC, never having driven regularly in Toronto (VERY rarely, in fact) - but now I'm used to my own space and my own direction/will I can't stand it. That and traffic drives me absolutely insane when I know I could be going past it all, but I'm stuck on a metal tomb. That being said, it's mainly other people on the TTC that ruin it for me - people are so damn rude and inconsiderate, bah!

aMull, don't feel bad - though I didn't get a ticket, I got a stern warning from GO Transit the other day when I just plain forgot to buy a ticket (usually I have a multiride pass, so I just stamp it and get on). $110 ticket luckily avoided, helped by my sweet talking I hope

...of late? Muhahaha... I used to go through that part of the city en route to Finch/27 on my bike for 8 months. It became a sport to watch the 11PM news and wait for info on murders/shootings/drugs/whatever in that area. Vaughan/Oakwood - Weston/Lawrence - Keele/Eglinton : a trifecta of **** XD

Speaking of the TTC, I had to ask some drunken chaps to stop wrestling each other on the yellow strip of the NB line at Spadina Stn. tonight. They said thanks and moved away, and I just told them I didn't want the train to be held up ... I think it was lost on them

Found some videos from last month... unfortunately the lense on the camera got all messed up with snow/water on the Sunday morning ride I went along for.

Here's the commute I do to the Keele/Steeles area:

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

This was very much a typical commute, I tried to draft a tanker at the end but only caught a slight pull before he turned off.

Here's the ride home, though I went via Dufferin Mall:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN5ugVI6rwo

Not sure if there was anything to note on here either.

Both videos aren't of the greatest clarity, but you can see some of the nastiness on the roads - St. Clair West westbound both east and west of Caledonia is a crapshoot (it was awful around Old Weston Rd too, which is why I now cut through as in the video), and there are patches of Keele between Ingram Dr. (halfway between Eglinton W. and Lawrence) and pretty much the 401 that are sketchy as heck in the right-wheel curb lane northbound.

Southbound is mainly just Keele south of Lawrence for a few 'blocks' with the odd crevice/crappy area. Lansdowne between Bloor and Wallace is really ****ty, but that's a pretty small stretch. Same goes for Lansdowne between College and Dundas, all ~100 yards of it is just farked.

edit: fixing the home trip, initial length was too long (that's what SHE said...! no?... I'll get my coat.)