I vote for 9 Tuesday.

Look Ke0 or SPD-SL. $40 For pedals + cleats you can't go wrong.

Yeah, being up top was cool just for the height, but I like the crazy compression from centripital forces down near the bottom where the corner radius is tighter. The term "human powered rollercoaster" now holds a LOT more meaning. :)

I love my eggbeaters. The cleats do wear out pretty quickly, but I kind of believe in their reasoning: it's better for the cleat to wear than the pedal. I'll be shopping for a new set of pedals soon and I'll likely go for another set of crank bros (not sure which model yet). But, there are too many positives for the pedal design to not go with them again as far as I'm concerned.. 4-sided entry. good amount of float. small cleats. no upward release at all.

i think the bushing wear out way too fast and are expensive to replace. the cleats also wear fast which makes it too easy to disengage from the pedal. it's too bad because they are functionally a good design. why don't they use real bearings like everyone else.

why not stick with the spds if you have them?

Time atac alum mtb ones are working well for me.

So I just got a chance to take a look at the photos/video of your field trip... a few comments:

1) WOW You guys are crazy
2) I don't understand why you haven't attracted more female riders ;)
3) Incredibly crazy
4) Incredibly cool

btw. according to the Forest City website they only do the track 2 + 3 combo on the 4th Saturday of every month. So that means the following dates:

June 24
July 22
August 26

That's assuming that we can't arrange for something at a different time. I definitely want to do this fairly soon, but is June 24 TOO soon? I'd prefer to avoid July 22nd because that's the day before the bike rally to Montreal starts. I don't really want to wait until the end of August though. What does everyone think?

edit: I just emailed Mike @ Forest City and asked whether it was possible to do the track combo another day. I'll let y'all know when I hear back.

I left just after 10, I thought maybe the ride had been cancelled. Probably for the best, I was pretty tired from riding on Saturday. How far did you guys end up going? After I left Balzaacs, I went and rode the leslie street spit, and then out to the beaches. Nice day.

Hey, did I see a picture of Operator in spandex-or did I inhale too many fumes the last time I patched a tube???

we went up leslie to about stoufville sdrd, about 100km for me from door to door. i was planning on doing more but after lounging around drinking coffee and riding kind of slow i had to call it a day to make it home by 3pm.

Wes, those beat to hell MEC espressos are mine... I knew I left them somewhere... Also if you find an olympus lens cap its mine, but I have a feeling I left it at the velodrome (yet another reason to get out there again!) The old SLR camera by the way is an Olympus OM-2n. I have an OM-1n that I liked so much that I decided to buy an OM-2n. The motor drives are detachable and they are super sweet. The only SLRs I like more are Leicas but the cost of those is crazy. Great time on saturday by the way, extra thanks go to our most gracious drivers, Wes and Keith. I'll try to process and scan the roll I shot ASAP and get them up here for you guys to check out. If we all start selling crack, I predict that we could raise the money to build a velodrome in under 3 years.

Cuz I want more clearance when cornering. I've come close a few times when cornering. Plus I don't feel like getting shorter cranks. I have these ones:

http://bike.shimano.com/catalog/cycl...=1150126117031

They're multi-purpose, but mad heavy and I've sparked a few times cornering.

:eek:

Maybe I'll look up some pedals on the interweb...

Where did u get them? How much? How far out does the cleat come out of the shoe?

I have Adidas SPD compatible shoes. Will the Time cleats fit those?

Cheers.

Zero chance of me making it out until August.

No, that was my identical twin. I don't think we'll be seeing him again.

Zero chance of me making it out until August. July very iffy.

work?

ps. the track combo would be in the morning.

What does everyone else think?

Those dates should be fine with me, as long as I can book the time off beforehand obviously.

i have eggbeater SL's on my road bike...and have ridden eggbeater C's on my friend's bike.

the stock cleats wear out real quick. i wore the cleats within 3 months and bought replacements (mind you, i do a ton of riding).

they now have hardened brass cleats...and that's what i'm using now. they last much, much longer...and also take much, much longer to break in :D egg beaters are typically harder to snap into when the cleats are fresh, but once they are worn in, it's super easy.

i noticed that with eggbeater C's, it was even easier to clip in. i'm guessing that they're using a lower spring tension on that particular pedal...

it's a good pedal with what seems to be gobs of float (coming from welgo or shimano spd)...and obviously easy to clip into. i'd recommend them!

June 24th is no good for me....got a 24 hour Mtn bike race that weekend.

+ June 24th is Broken Social Scene/Bloc Party/Fiest! whooo. so I can't do that day.

Yer racing with the Cycle Solutions guys right? You might want to take out a membership with the Midweek Club and do some of their Learn to Race nights out in Mississauga. Very good prep for when you want to get into the Senior 3 field....which can be really sketchy at the best of times. If you are serious about road racing be prepared for ton's of training rides/races. Chin is coming up and they have a novice race...you might want to consider that for your first road race, it would be a good intro to road.

Originally Posted by somnambulant
June 24
July 22
August 26

July 22 could work for me not the other dates.

I'm not sure if you saw me, but I was in a yellow windbreaker with the silver brodie romax...I went in to use the washroom, then sat down outside to eat a banana and swill some gatorade. Were you in blue?

Oh, and I can probably make it for CV Tuesday night...

Alright. Well, I'll let this die then. June and July both appear to be bad.

Mike @ Forest City says:

"The cost for a T2/3 combo is zilch. Bike rental is included in the zilch too. We're just trying to drum up business in the slack days of summer." (this was regarding the "coupons" we got)

"This session only operates on the 4th Saturday. As the numbers don't dictate any more than one session per month I can't open a 2nd one unless I'm guaranteed a full class. I ran one last Saturday but that was for a certain group of people."

"I'd have to be guaranteed 8 people, plus I'd have to get permission to hold another session. As a volunteer it's an extra 6 hours of my time not to mention fuel costs! It's over an hour's round trip drive for me."

^^^based on this last bit I just emailed him to ask if we could convince him to come in a different Saturday for us.

So a fuel donation/bursary and maybe some lunch for Mike the volunteer and we are good to go. Since it is gratis the next time a small donation from everyone should be doable. I don't imagine the 8 people will be hard to come up with. Shall we try and come up with an alternate date and run it past Mike?

World Cup Soccer has been awesome indeed..... what kind of CV is it tonight I've been stuck in all day

well the 24 is St Johhny the Baptist day and as I'm not living in MTL nor a separatist I WON'T be burning Verdun. Gottsa get me damned shoes.
edit: flipped the stem and it feels nice.

Any of the dates that somnambulant listed would be good for me, it would be even better if we could set up our own date for all of us to go, we could easily come up with eight people. I'd be more than willing to donate some money to mike for gas and food. I'd like to get back out there before the end of the month. :)

will ANYONE be going for an intro at the 'drome? To get the dude there?, donations are go andconfidence is high.

uh, blue wool jersey, blue cap, black fixie. that was probably me. i was looking for other fixies...