And yet these are probably the same people who, if you took down the barricades on the back straight of the Molson Indy, would happily dash across for a refill of beers and hotdogs.

Somebody grab this. It looks a bit big for me.

http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/1157368580.html



After calling around town looking for a Kashimax frame protector, and being met with the standard puzzled questions from people who had no idea what one was (except for Urbane, who knew but didn't have one), I ordered one from Japan on Sunday. It just arrived this morning. Not bad.

Some pecker face paid the price last summer doing this. I was riding home from the shop on College one day and got stuck at the light at University going east. I was on the Piner and was trying to balance the bike with my right foot on the front wheel. Then Douch le Douch decides to pull up past me and brushes me as he pulls ahead just past the line. He is wearing flip flops and riding some **** box cruiser that would pass as "vintage" on CL. Light turns green and he takes off like a rocket and I jump and hold his wheel. Just as he is passing the Mars building his chain snaps and his chin makes sweet love to the street. I got around him, stopped and helped him up. Between wiping the blood off his face (with a sock from his european carry-all lol) and getting his bearings back he tells me pulling past like that was pretty dumb....uh ..yeah! haha


Probably delivered by courier ninjas: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Courier_ninja

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Hey FlimFlam and TrafficJammer, thanks for the headsup on the various rides in the city. It sure is nice to be back, well, it will be when the jetlag subsides. See you around!

Nice, buddy! Good to hear.

I picked up a Lezyne at lunch - the hose attachment is pretty sweet! I ended up with the Pressure Drive M - I would have liked the S but it wasn't in stock and really... how small does this thing need to be?

Way too big, but oh, so sweet.

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The line jumper is pretty offensive, but equally so is the rule-breaking indignant. @ Beverly & Dundas, oh, about two weeks ago, some ****** le ******(thx wil) riding a dutch utility / cruiser heading south starts screaming a safety lecture to a driver trying to turn left off of Dundas onto Beverly, going North, AFTER he jumps the light. The fool was lecturing a driver for being safe while he was running the light. What. The. Christ.

nice call on the lezyne

the hose is the big reason why i like the topeak morph, having to pump up a tire while it's directly attached is awkward once you've had the flexability of a hose

there's a dirty joke in there somewhere, not sure where

I'd like to sign up to your newsletter.

FWIW,

Owen @ Sweet Pete's offered me up some cheap Dura-Ace 7800 hubs he bought on clearance. I declined because I'm about to get King'd, but whoever needs these should go for the score.

Or, he can come to your house with an associate and speak about The Lord™

Hrm, do you recall how many holes they were? I am guessing 32h but you never know...

Does anyone have some old Shimano 600 hoods lying around? The non-aero ones, to be exact. Thanks.

Not a clue. Regardless, if I'm sure it didn't boil down to greed, and I could foresee using them in the near future, I'd buy & bank 'em.

I was thinking how awesome they would be with those 36h Mavic Open Pros listed on CL right now....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I dont.

But I did pull all the components off a 1985 Norco 12 speed. So disappointed the frame is done for, crushed down tube. Nice made in Japan Canadian bike. Has suntour arx deraileurs and tube shifters, dai compe 500 brakes and levers, and a 52/40 sugino gt crank in very sexy shape. I know you have some older road bikes so if any of the parts interest you, or anyone else let me know.

Hubs look in decent shape as well.

i keep noticing on my rides in the morning that lycra, gears and oakleys make you lance freakin armstrong... and clearly that gives you the right to ride my rear tire so you can slingshot out of the pellaton (sp?) to pass me once starbucks is visible...

sounds like you lost the race

no wonder you're upset

Is the rear hub a freewheel or cassette? I might be interested if the latter.

Wicked. If you don't need them, I would love them and can pick them up by the weekend. You are still in the east end?

hey all,

i am helping a friend back home do some bike-shopping research and have a couple questions.

1) seeing as i have not been home for a while, can anyone give a rundown of current SS/FG-friendly shops in the downtown core; i only know duke`s has moved (dunno about SS/FG, though), cavern has closed (and keith is now at ???) and urbane is still around. any help would be appreciated to point him in the best direction and/or who might be a good shop person to talk to?

2) from my friend`s preliminary research, can anyone offer any comments on the following frame sets/completes? or anything else that may be available locally? i have a steamroller, but have not ridden the rest for comparison.
http://www.bikes.com/main+en+01_102+...E=611&Y=2009#2
http://www.irocycle.com/index.asp?Pa...ROD&ProdID=163
http://www.masibikes.com/tab4_subNav2.php <Speciale Fixed LTD or Speciale Fixed>
http://www.giant-bicycles.com/en-US/...le/2344/32156/
http://www.surlybikes.com/steamroller_comp.html
http://www.jamisbikes.com/usa/thebik...9_sputnik.html

thanks! feel free to add any other relevant advice/info.

I am really happy with my MASI fixed. For what its worth though, I think I would be equally happy with an IRO or a steamroller or a sputnik. They are all solid bikes although personal prefference wise I find the sputnik ugly as sin and am one of those folks who cannot get over their irrational fear of carbon.

Dont know anything about the boroughs although that seems a little more track geometry specific than the others. I think you would have a hard time going wrong with any of those though, most entry level bikes seem to be more or less equivalent.

*jumps up and down*

2010 cyclocross NATIONALS are happening in Toronto! That is all. :)

Neat! Any more details than that?

So far, no, just that it's confirmed for Toronto and being held by Ziggy: http://www.cyclocrossontario.com/node/1125

braaaaaaaaake levers...

if anyone has to sell, old new, used, usable?