Any rides going on today?

Guess your all out / I am heading down to Kensington Market maybe go to Cavern bike shop to look around first

Wind.

Sorry to hear it. Must have been the burritos last night

Huh

I did all my riding for the day from 09:00 - 12:00. Now I'm being lazy.

so did I but I would be able to do a late night run /. I droped by Caverns bike shop on the way home Nice place

Had i noticed earlier i would have headed downtown with you. If you deal with cycle solutions east you’d be in my hood around Vic Park & Danforth?

I did some bombing around the back field /tracks/pit didn’t bother to wear my lid(bad me) or carry my backpack(tools) got a bad sunburn on my forehead & a flat tire 45min walk home that will teach me!
Cheers

I am just south of you on VP I rode the downtown core Kensingtonmarket twice and the lake trail home great day / sucks about your flat

Re: the city truck incident

Not that I actually know what I am talking about, but perhaps you might consider speakers corner?

Ok I need people to put their thinking caps on. I have a bike (possibly a few) to ship to the states. Im looking for options besides GREYHOUND courier, that are inexpensive. Anybody here shipped a bike to the states at a good price?

ya speakers corner but no wayyyyyyyyyy would they show it on the air but we could hound them and every one all the time till they go nut's about it /////////// can't help ya on the shipping sorry

There are a million of them as you know but at my co. we use fed ex ground (not fed ex) as our daily shipper call for a quote i know they are cheaper then canpar,puro,ups. Actually Canada post as well never know. I’m sure there are more options.
Cheers

[QUOTE=sweep242]There are a million of them as you know


Actually.. not that I know what I am talking about but, my experience has been most of these companies dont do packages as large as bikes. Or they only cater to high volume customers.

Im thinking about canada post but putting bike in a few boxes, one for the frame, one for the wheels.

Any other reccomendations are welcome, I guess im looking for a gorund service that would take oversized boxes, once anything goes air the cost goes up.

Another option to speakers corner.. again not that I really have any clue what I am saying..might be approaching another station or something like NOW that is allover such unPC acts. Once again im not expert, and I proobably have no clue what im saying.......

The Shimano bmx cogs/ are they prone to noise? if not something is screwy with it and any night rides around town?

Creative packing can get the size down. I've had bikes shipped north USPS and FedEx. My recollection from other discussions (and you may want to search this) is that shipping Canada -> US is more expensive than the reverse.

Anybody catch this poll asking 40 regular Toronto bike commuters by the Globe & Mail yesterday?

A few interesting findings:

I have an ACS claws freewheel that ratchets like a mad thing when I coast on it, so I couldn't hear anything remotely cog related anyway. Does it make the noise when you're loading it or coasting?

makes the noise loading annoying but I live with it

Talk about biased polling. Didn't realize Will ride through anything was a class of bike.

^^Well, it was an informal poll, and the interviewer probably chose bike commuters who are professionals and/or office workers rather than blue-collar workers; so the responses were self-selecting in that case. But I think it reflects the visiblity of bike commuters vs. regular joes who bike.

^^^It's called a cyclocross bike! (or I guess a fixie)


Didn't bother to read the second sentence, so that explains my rant above.

a note to anybody:

don't EVER ride through wilket creek park trail (linked to edwards garden)
its the same as riding your bike through a beach.

and I finally found a good route to get downtown quick. my time today was around an hour and a 1/2. I'm aiming for around hour or so by summer vacation.

What's your route? It takes me about 1.5 hours to get from Yonge & Davis in Newmarket to Yonge & Sheppard, then another 30-45 minutes to get to the core.

OK I put up some pictures from the Critical mass ride https://www.flickr.com/photos/steeker/

Yes picture of me!
What was all that video shooting for?

Steeker can you send me the original for that picture?