Toronto Fixed
05-01-06 | 03:01 PM
#4726
Dances With Cars
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Bikes: TBL Onyx Pro(ss converted), Pake SS (starting to look kinda pimped)
Originally Posted by operator
L OL!
So I was like biking back from Finch station right. And I was like hey lets go up weldrick instead of crappy Yonge st. So there was these like two high school kids on the sidewalk making out. And I was like YO GET a r00m. So one of there lackeys on a fuji front suspension fairly nice bike goes, YOU get a r00m. I was like, NO Dude KTHX.
Then I was like lets settle this by RACING, he's like OK. At the next intersection he pulls onto the road and like, are we doing this or what. I don't answer him look down at this bigass dial on my handlebars and turn it to 4000W (p0wnz0r level) and go eat it, west side story *****!
As I was powering up my rear wheels starts burning off rubber and he disappears in an envelop of dust. 5 seconds later I was 2km in front of him and doing 50kph up a 10% grade.
kthx.
note some events were dramatized
So I was like biking back from Finch station right. And I was like hey lets go up weldrick instead of crappy Yonge st. So there was these like two high school kids on the sidewalk making out. And I was like YO GET a r00m. So one of there lackeys on a fuji front suspension fairly nice bike goes, YOU get a r00m. I was like, NO Dude KTHX.
Then I was like lets settle this by RACING, he's like OK. At the next intersection he pulls onto the road and like, are we doing this or what. I don't answer him look down at this bigass dial on my handlebars and turn it to 4000W (p0wnz0r level) and go eat it, west side story *****!
As I was powering up my rear wheels starts burning off rubber and he disappears in an envelop of dust. 5 seconds later I was 2km in front of him and doing 50kph up a 10% grade.
kthx.
note some events were dramatized
hee hee hahahahahahahaha
05-01-06 | 03:01 PM
#4727
dam this is fun !
Joined: Oct 2004
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From: on my bike ! in Toronto !!
Bikes: Hurricane Low Racer ! and a Masi
what is the bestway to keep the rear wheel on a singlespeed or fixie with vertical drop outs?
05-01-06 | 03:01 PM
#4728
cab horn
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From: Toronto
Bikes: 1987 Bianchi Campione
Yeah, my writing is clearly better than his.
05-01-06 | 03:04 PM
#4729
Dances With Cars
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From: Toronto, Canada
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Originally Posted by STEEKER
what is the bestway to keep the rear wheel on a singlespeed or fixie with vertical drop outs?
Operator, you are a much better coder than Gibson EVER will be.
05-01-06 | 03:06 PM
#4730
dam this is fun !
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From: on my bike ! in Toronto !!
Bikes: Hurricane Low Racer ! and a Masi
I have a bolt which locks on with an alen key but the thing losen up to easy
05-01-06 | 03:07 PM
#4731
Get the stick.
Joined: Nov 2004
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From: Toronto, ON
Bikes: 12 Y.O. Litespeed MTB, IRO Jamie Roy fixie, Custom Habanero Ti 'Cross, No name SS MTB, Old school lugged steel track bike (soon)
Originally Posted by operator
I don't answer him look down at this bigass dial on my handlebars and turn it to 4000W (p0wnz0r level) and go eat it, west side story *****!
05-01-06 | 03:07 PM
#4732
So I says to Mable I says
Joined: Jul 2005
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From: Toronto
Bikes: '05 Urbanite Fixie, '06 Lemond Croix de Fer, '06 Jamis Dragon Pro, '07 IRO Bikeforums Track, '07 Planet-X Uncle John
YOU THERE!!!!! You should be smacked for making such a comparison.
I actually just re-read it last month.
05-01-06 | 03:18 PM
#4733
In Velo Veritas
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From: Toronto
Bikes: Menonite black urbanite, probably enough spare parts to make anther one.
Originally Posted by STEEKER
what is the bestway to keep the rear wheel on a singlespeed or fixie with vertical drop outs?
05-01-06 | 03:21 PM
#4734
dam this is fun !
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From: on my bike ! in Toronto !!
Bikes: Hurricane Low Racer ! and a Masi
I will put up a link to the picture that shows I hope what I am trying to ask the lock bolt just does'nt stay tight https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7...ello060023.jpg
05-01-06 | 03:26 PM
#4735
cab horn
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From: Toronto
Bikes: 1987 Bianchi Campione
Horizontal
05-01-06 | 03:28 PM
#4736
Dances With Cars
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From: Toronto, Canada
Bikes: TBL Onyx Pro(ss converted), Pake SS (starting to look kinda pimped)
Originally Posted by STEEKER
I have a bolt which locks on with an alen key but the thing losen up to easy
05-01-06 | 03:31 PM
#4737
So I says to Mable I says
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Bikes: '05 Urbanite Fixie, '06 Lemond Croix de Fer, '06 Jamis Dragon Pro, '07 IRO Bikeforums Track, '07 Planet-X Uncle John
Originally Posted by operator
Horizontal
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/singlespeed.html
(scroll down about half way to the grid of dropout pictures.. then read the rest
)
05-01-06 | 03:31 PM
#4738
Dances With Cars
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
bahahaha.. I loved the book too, but I couldn't help myself. I actually just re-read it last month.
I actually just re-read it last month.
05-01-06 | 03:32 PM
#4739
dam this is fun !
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From: on my bike ! in Toronto !!
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well with a quik release I would'nt have to worry about stripping anything unlike the bolt which strips, maybe I could drive my bike over to Carvern bike shop and ask them.
05-01-06 | 03:35 PM
#4740
Dances With Cars
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From: Toronto, Canada
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How much play do you have on your chain?
Looked at the pic. I don't see why a QR wouldn't work.
Looked at the pic. I don't see why a QR wouldn't work.
05-01-06 | 03:36 PM
#4741
dam this is fun !
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From: on my bike ! in Toronto !!
Bikes: Hurricane Low Racer ! and a Masi
not much right now it does not jump off the ring
05-01-06 | 03:39 PM
#4742
Dances With Cars
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From: Toronto, Canada
Bikes: TBL Onyx Pro(ss converted), Pake SS (starting to look kinda pimped)
Originally Posted by STEEKER
not much right now it does not jump off the ring
Crank it down though.
05-01-06 | 03:53 PM
#4743
dam this is fun !
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From: on my bike ! in Toronto !!
Bikes: Hurricane Low Racer ! and a Masi
hard to type the write words and think on theses pain killers but the lock nut striped I got it off and put on a campi QR
05-01-06 | 04:19 PM
#4744
Me talk pretty one day.
Joined: Aug 2005
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From: Toronto
****ing Ryerson admissions office w/ their busy phone line all day that closes half an hour earlier than what their site says! *throws a cop car*
Operator, best story evar.
Edit: So I went out for a ride, stupidly forgot to install a bottle cage on the Lemond and didn't drink a thing until I got back to downtown, proceeded to drink a litre of pop before making a b-line to the gf's bar, wolfed down 2 pints and made my way (thankfully downhill) home. The Sarthe gets a bottle cage tonight and I learned a phlegmy/headachey lesson.
Operator, best story evar.
Edit: So I went out for a ride, stupidly forgot to install a bottle cage on the Lemond and didn't drink a thing until I got back to downtown, proceeded to drink a litre of pop before making a b-line to the gf's bar, wolfed down 2 pints and made my way (thankfully downhill) home. The Sarthe gets a bottle cage tonight and I learned a phlegmy/headachey lesson.
05-01-06 | 04:23 PM
#4745
cab horn
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From: Toronto
Bikes: 1987 Bianchi Campione
Check these out lol. Good for beaters? https://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/156175584.html
05-01-06 | 04:27 PM
#4746
Dances With Cars
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you were trying to call ? Silly boy..... that number is there simply for subterfuge.
05-01-06 | 04:58 PM
#4747
Me talk pretty one day.
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From: Toronto
Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
you were trying to call ? Silly boy..... that number is there simply for subterfuge.
05-01-06 | 05:14 PM
#4748
Dances With Cars
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From: Toronto, Canada
Bikes: TBL Onyx Pro(ss converted), Pake SS (starting to look kinda pimped)
bring a book.... might impress
05-01-06 | 05:18 PM
#4749
Shiftless bum
Joined: Apr 2004
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From: Ottawa, Ontario
Bikes: Apollo fixed winter bike, Gazelle Cross, Baboe Cargo bike, Linskey Rouleur Road, Bridgestone Picnica, Tern C7, 2nd gen Strida
Steeker, with those vertical dropouts quick release should be fine for SS. If you fix it, you'll likely want to go to a solid axle and nuts. Why do are you using a safety skewer anyway? You never get more than ten feet from that bike!
05-01-06 | 05:19 PM
#4750
Me talk pretty one day.
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From: Toronto
... on the basis that I respect your opinion, I will follow your advice. But man oh man did I ever want to launch into a "financial institution, not a learning institution" rant about the post secondary school system. I'll save that for another time when people are actually in the mood for a vitriolic diatribe. 