I think I paid 80 at blast and coat.

Izakaya survives on rich bay st. types. I've been taken there on a variety of occasions for business lunches. Its OK but there is much much much better japanese in this city, with a whole lot less pretension. I just wish there was a decent and affordable ramen restaurant downtown.

does anyone know if this is a good pedal?

http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_d...=1156265828652

or are eggbeaters better?

Jet Kote. $75 for dip, blast, one colour coat. I have rarely waited more than 1 week to get em back. 905-625-4334.

I just gunked it on and used steel wool to get it off. I applied liberally, let it sit for about half an hour and then took the steel wool to it. Put a lot of the stuff in the hard to reach places and you might want to drop by the dollar store and buy some cheap steel brushes to get in those spots. You'll probably have to do this process a few times....it took me an afternoon or so. I used gloves and did it in the backyard, you'lll want a lot of ventilation.

Why are you waiting on a BB tool? I always see them at MEC. And $125 seems really steep....maybe she's caught on and realizes there is money to be had in the bicycle market? I was quoted $125 for a paint job with clearcoat by an auto-guy, powder-coating should be waaaaay cheaper.

Thats a road pedal....won't work with the shoes you are workin.

hahahahaha hey keith whats up man!

ok cool, get these gotta get new shoes (which I need anyway ;) )

I proved you right and learned skid stops at the expense of my leg flying out the pedal...so now I realllllly need to cop some pedals :( mo money mo problemz...will come down with daughter later this week so she can check out that bike if thats ok with you?

is a road pedal like that look one betta than the eggbeater or smarty ones?

took me forever to find this muthaf#^&$kin' link and then keith posts the phone number in 2 seconds. when are they going to fix the damn search function...

http://www.watmc.com/powder-coating/...g-blasting.htm

The ones I have look like a pair of cotton work gloves that have been dipped in some sort of bright yellow liquid plastic that has since hardened. You should be able to get them at Home Despot, or a hardware store on the cheap.

Don't get that paint stripper stuff in your eyes-seriously-safety googles are a good idea. Leaving the goop on the frame for a long time makes getting the paint off easier and won't damage the steel. The hardest part is around the ridges of the lugs, but it will all come off. All in all it is a really easy, if somewhat messy, job. Keep a wet rag around to wipe that stuff off your skin in case any spashes on you-it takes a few seconds, but then it starts to burn like crazy.

I went for a long ride last night and I always forget how crappy the roads can be in this city.

I took Keele all the way up to the 401 and man, there is broken glass everywhere, potholes that are actually holes and not just indentations in the tarmac, those sewer grates that are not chevroned but are the old style straight grab-your-wheel-and-kill-you type and people in their cars kept looking at me like I was some kind of rare bird or something.

I took Dufferin back down, thinking the hills would be fun (they were!) but I forgot about that super duper motherfkr between St.Clair and Davenport. That thing is steep and I missed the light and I couldn't stop fast enough so I had to bail..... Funny thing was, there were these two BMX kids pushing their bikes up the hill just when I jumped and they looked at me and I looked at them and I did that Pee-Wee Herman thing "I meant to do that!" and they looked at me like I was nuts. I guess that is an old-timers joke :cry: ;) How embarassing!

dude.. have you seen how jungle-massive Look cleats are? There's no way in hell I'd be clip-clopping around in those around the city. I'd only put those on a bike used only for racing/touring/etc (i.e. a situation where I will hopefully never have to walk).

I use looks and road shoes on my silly bike, eggbeaters and mountain shoes on my commuter bike and I used to use clips and straps and nike dunks for commuting. I was considering using the looks for commuting, but I couldn't bear the thought of walking up the 5 stairs to my work in my sidis. For booting around town nothing beats the 4 sided ****** proof balls-saving entry ease of eggbeaters. Anything more than 10km and I might consider swapping in the look pedals, because they ARE much better in general.

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/2472/peewee1wq.jpg

I got rid of Looks in favor of Times, no float in 'em. I messed in them for ages. They can be walked in, but they are not designed for it well. As soon as that little rubber bumper on the bottom wears, skids are fun, and you can break the front off a worn cleat off walkin on it.

saw you riding down Huron this morning and think you gave me the head-nod action just as I was looking away. wasn't bein snooty, you were just going too fast to catch my head-nod reply.

*nods head*

you change your bars?

hahah.. I totally forgot about that. Yeah, that was me. I wasn't sure if you saw my "morning grimmace" either. That was all I could manage.. :P And yeah, swapped out my bars for something I found in the basement at Cavern. If you hadn't noticed, my bike now comes upstairs with me every day. After my wheel got stolen, I'm not taking any chances. You should come out to Critical Mass on Friday if you have anything to ride.

No more searching...you search too much!!!!! You go now!!!!
Man is it CM time already? hmmm last day before vacation can I leave early? Could require beers.

Rode last night for a bit digesting massive coronary schnitzel a la chef me. Operator... I like that two turtle lights setup on the front, seems to catch peoples eyes, even in the mirrors. Must....go.....faster. Buddy said he'd hook me up with one of his wireless bike 'puters so I can gauge my speeds now. Keith your opinion on the Fuji cross? Any other cross rider/store types want to throw in two cents regarding cross bikes, feel free. Cross so that I might toss another set of wheels on it and going a roadying.

it just isn't the same staring at the cruisers

unfortunately my bikes are in victoria now, so no CM for me :(

If you have no bike here you can use the Cavern "cruiser" for C.M. if ya want. Just stop by on Friday.

yo thanx for the suggestions guys...after keith told me you need a next shoe for the look pedals and the jungle massive size cleats i think Ill stick to gettin the eggbeatz....makes more sense...I wanna just make sure I dont get that foot pulling out the pedal prob (im riding worn out onzas atm) ...if the eggbeaterz take care a that then Ill get them...how long is the cm ride for?

cool. i just might do that.

actually planning on stopping by in a couple hours to sort out some more parts for the IRO.

Do it! In fact, I'll be jealous of your ride. :D

yo aki which IRO u gettin?

The lower model is a nice bike....good handling...but the wheels are anchors. The Pro model is su-weet but it is pricey. Look at the LeMond models...they have 853 steel frames too.

i bought the mark v, which is still not built and sitting in a box in victoria. it should finally be complete in a couple of weeks once i make my final move over there.

i was in the store when you got your jamie roy i think. you were getting rid of some mtb?

hahahaha yaaaaaaaaaaa the junkhopper errrrrrrrrrrrr rockhopper...was nice for 11 years but decided to make a switch to tha fixed and aint goin back...I have this crazy dream of tryin to get a fixed off road bike at somepoint when the paper godz are more favourable to me...:D

I had looked at the Lemond in steel with carbon fork(disk) at Cycle Therapy, (2k-ish) I think it was , what makes a good cross wheel?
Shimano shoes and Time ATAC cleats....compatible?

would that be the one with the handle-bar mounted radio and dura-ace??

bahahah.. I forgot about the radio.

speaking of which, I was walking home with the lady-friend on Saturday night along Harbord at around 1am and some joker on a fixie was riding the other way and was honking with some really rediculous sounding electronic horn. It wasn't very loud, but it made me smile and he seemed really happy about it as well. hehehe.. Now I'm on a quest to find a really inoffensive electronic horn for my bike. Don't make me try and make one with parts from active surplus

...

actually that isn't such a bad idea. :P

http://www.davidsteele.com/electronic_whistle.html

I've been thinking of dropping one of these down one of my bullhorns and rigging a cheap switch for a bell...

Active surplus used to be the bee knees but now they have no inventory and charge 3x what they used too, the gentrification of Queen continues. I miss the days of building overpowered hydraulic siege machines on weekends for fun. We still have a trebuchet that can chuck bricks at a stupidly high velocity...

It's gotten that bad? I haven't been there in years. Well, if not Active, then someplace similar. It's not like it would require very many parts.. basically a noisemaker of some sort, a switch and a battery.

ps. the trebuchet sounds like fun.. :D

Active isn't horrible it just has a 1/10 of the space it used too and has decided to move away from tinkers and more towards selling bread boards and LEDs and everything. Which would be fine but the prices did go up an astronomical amount.

The trebuchet is fun but the fact it requires hydraulics which makes it about as portable as any siege weapon.

I'm curious as to people's plans post CM, if anyone wants to come over and drink some beers and hang out my place is probably going to be free. The catch is I'm going to want to shoot some highdef video of your rides and talk to everyone about fixed-gear bikes for a mini-doc I'm doing about fixed gear riding.

Anyways if your interested shoot me an e-mail or PM or post or show up on CM...