Hi all,

Does anyone here have an extra 700c rear wheel, free or fixed, I can borrow/rent until my replacement parts for my hub and wheel come in?

I have some candy... or beer... :)

You can get sidi's here in town no? Or are they the super fantastic not available in Canada ones? Is the price just that much better?

I think I have a beater cassette wheel in the bin. Its in ok shape...do you till you get running all proper like.

Sidi Genius 5 mega's are around 230 CAD. MEC has em for $15 more then you pay tax on top. Not a bad deal unless you get stroked on duty + GST. Ronin, check with traffic jammer. I just sold him an MA3 SS wheel.
He may let you borrow it for beer.

Local: Sidi Genius Cycling Shoes (Men's) $261.00 CAD

vs:

PBK: Sidi Genius 5 Steel/Black/Blue $177.79 CAD

Shipped prices. Of course teh net order might get pwnz0red by customs/tax/brokerage. f34r 7h3 !n73rn37. The Look Keo graphite pedals used to be $45 same as the 105 level SPD-SL's shipped but they changed supplier and the Look's got owned up to $60 something :/

In other news cavernmech has hooked me up with frame repair dealz! Should be ready to go in 3 ish weeks. Word.

Note: beer coming soon as well

I don’t find this very reasonable a little pricey i think.
Ha-ha
http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=C9610

Does anyone have a shortish no-rise quill stem they'd like to sell/trade/etc.?

By no rise do you mean zero degree or negative? How short? i might have something
Oh yeah....is it for flat bar or road bar?

I think it may be the luck of the draw. Most of the time my orders come through with no charges. I bought a Campy Centaur crank and BB (~$150), to replace the FSA external BB piece of crap on my cross bike.

Huh? What? *looks up from his vacation* Dude, totally....it yours as long as you need it.
***edit*** Ronin, I PM'd you the digits. Give me a reason to 'deliver' something, I dare ya..:p

I'll check my parts stash. If I have one, it's yours. How short do you need?

I'm not going there. It's just too damned easy. 32flavs, that's a sweet ride. How was out west?

hmmm... I guess I will just order them to here. Will they slap me with taxes PLUS duty? I thought they were the same thing.... if its 14% + 5$ brokerage that will be less than the 17% VAT I will be paying to get them sent to france. I also don't want to do seperate orders because I get 10% of the shoes and pedals if they are ordered together. Makes life easier on my mum too.

32, I've got an old nitto I-beam style stem thats pretty short and has no rise. It may be really hard to get the bars out though as I shoved ourys way up on them a few years ago and haven't moved them since. You're welcome to the stem and (incredibly narrow flop and chop) bars though if you want. I've kind of damaged the screw a little on the top too but as long as you use a proper spanner or socket wrench (not a huge adjustable pipe wrench like me) you should be fine.

pics here http://velospace.org/node/381

Duty is based on the Country of origin and the materials the item is made from. Tax is tax....duty is totally different.

Anybody want an old Raleigh Record bike for a conversion? Looks to be about 56cm. It was getting tossed at Sandy's Cycle on Laird and I threw a lock on it going by this morning. It's your typical Raleigh, cottered cranks etc. etc. but the frame is certainly fixable :D

That's a cool vintage stem.

Sounds like operator should come pick it up

I had to retire my old Japanese steed after it nearly killed me a few times. Now its sitting in the shed stripped of everything except rack, headset, stem and bars. Kind of sad.... But its spirit still lives on and someone may as well be riding on the stem because I've put it thought too much to really be considered 'vintage' anymore... its just old.


Back to customs/duties: So I'll be paying 14% gst/pst + $5 brokerage + ?% duties IF I'm charged anything at all?

Thanks for the offers, everyone. Shiznaz, PMing you.

Happy hump day!

Yesterday evening I was riding to Yoga class with my girlfriend. She got caught behind me at bloor so I waited on the south side and when she passed me I hopped back on the pedals and tried to start going. But I ground to a halt when my toe got caught on my fender and then my fender bent and touched the tire and then the tire sucked in the fender bending the metal fictures and plastic part. I thought I was going to have to walk the bike but I managed to pry it out enough to ride to yoga and then to work today. Mighty annoying! If I didn't have a tiny 10mm box wrench on my multi tool I would have been screwed (LOL!!!!) I've also ripped my shorts several times on my fenders... its those damn metal spikes that shoot out of them but I didn't want to cut them down in case I wanted to swap them over to some other bike. But now its messed anyways! So are my shorts!

Lol Shiznaz. Anyways yeah

Level 1 Owned: Tax + Brokerage
Level 2 Owned (cumulative with Lvl 1): Customs on t0p

Well I'm just about ready to flip a coin here. What do your guts say? Because god knows I don't have any! I suppose the novelty of having my mum give me pedals and cycling shoes soon after my birthday might be nice. I wish this was standardized or something. I hate gambling with anything except my life or future!

Who's going to Critical Mass on Friday?

I'll be there.

maybe just maybe.....daughter will be girlying on her 13th with youngest, my wife , and friends. I just may need a distraction.

Ronin ....makin' dinner, shout me later man, I'm speedy.
As it is if you call and ask for Traffic Jammer they will know who you are talking about :lol: ( I still get a kick outta that).... or Andrew

I wrote a random decision maker program for tough decisions like that Shiznaz. You ask it a yes or no question and it tells you the answer.

It's been done

http://www.trond.com/brazil/images/brazil33.jpg

"la la ...la la la la la lalalalala la la la" *to the tune from Brazil*
Best movie ever.