Toronto Fixed
08-10-06 | 01:44 PM
Tie me up, Tie me down
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I've never wobbled on a bike but I've wobbled on a skateboard and street luge and neither is fun. On a bike it should be easy to avoid if you break at all. On a skateboard you just have to touch the board to change the vibration frequency and your good. I wonder what kind of speed you'd have to be hauling to see it on a bike.
08-10-06 | 01:58 PM
Fast and Danger
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Originally Posted by Offhoff
I wonder what kind of speed you'd have to be hauling to see it on a bike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdceaZMT8E4
08-10-06 | 02:00 PM
Gone, but not forgotten
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From: Toronto
Bikes: spicer fixie, Haro BMX, cyclops track, Soma Double Cross, KHS Flite 100
Once I get to about 25kph (estimated speed) no hands it seems to start wobbling. Not always though which is strange.
08-10-06 | 02:04 PM
cab horn
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Happened on my Bianchi around 65kph. Annoying.
08-10-06 | 02:07 PM
otherwiseordinary
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Originally Posted by gokiburi
whew.. finally past the page of death (444).
08-10-06 | 02:29 PM
So I says to Mable I says
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Originally Posted by operator
gimme the mic^H^H^H wrench so I can take it away
08-10-06 | 02:38 PM
cab horn
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mic^H^H^H
08-10-06 | 02:47 PM
::3 o'clock roadblock::
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From: reppin tha 416
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
Shimmy shimmy yaw, shimmy yeah, shimmy yay
gimme the mic^H^H^H wrench so I can take it away
gimme the mic^H^H^H wrench so I can take it away
Yeah, from the home of the Dodgers, Brooklyn squad
Wu-Tang Killerrr Bees on a swarm!
Rain on ya dollar's a$$, disco dorm!
08-10-06 | 03:27 PM
Dances With Cars
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From: Toronto, Canada
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Originally Posted by lymbzero
If you know what 444 means, then you must be Asian.
I got 8's loaded up in my phone#
I've full on speed wobbled myself to pebbles embedded in my chest on skateboards. Would love to try luging.
I had shimmy on a bike years ago, though it didn't really present a problem in the handling. More annoying than anything.
Kinda interesting it would manifest itself on a fixed though.
Operator were you speed wobbling or shimmying at 65?
Last edited by TRaffic Jammer; 08-10-06 at 03:32 PM.
08-10-06 | 04:26 PM
Tie me up, Tie me down
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Originally Posted by lymbzero
If you know what 444 means, then you must be Asian.
08-10-06 | 05:27 PM
accident-prone
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From: Toronto
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Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
How you feeling these days GBoy? Healed up nicely?
Originally Posted by boroSS
nope! i wasnt downtown at 4ish today!
u ride around that are a alot? <3
u ride around that are a alot? <3
rant/ Speaking of which... drivers here are the craziest bunch (an unholy mix of suburban and urban drivers vying for supremacy on a collapsing four-lane narrow road with crumbling street car tracks situated in the centre of the roadway and the worst offenders are guys with souped up ****-boxes racing to a red behind a TTC bus.)
\rant
Just today...
Riding my bicycle westbound at around 6:45 pm on St Clair, just east of Dufferin, I was harrassed repeatedly by a CAA Emergency Road Service vehicle following behind me. Due to the nature of the road surface of that section of St Clair and my ability to keep pace to the legal speed maximum, I thought it prudent to take enough of the lane to disuade motorists from passing me unsafely. Unfortunately this did not stop the tow-truck driver from passing me dangerously close and then braking abruptly in front of me numerous times. His agressive driving, while towing a customer's vehicle (with license plate starting with ACEW or similar) attached, reflects poorly on CAA in my eyes and harms the reputation of CAA in the minds of customers, not to mention that it goes against the traffic safety that CAA espouses.
I did not have the ability to record the pertinent details of his vehicle as they were obscured by that of the customer's vehicle; in lieu, I request an apology from the local CAA office. Please train your franchisees more diligently in regards to traffic safety and courtesy.
Sincerely,
Grisha Boyko-Vekin
I did not have the ability to record the pertinent details of his vehicle as they were obscured by that of the customer's vehicle; in lieu, I request an apology from the local CAA office. Please train your franchisees more diligently in regards to traffic safety and courtesy.
Sincerely,
Grisha Boyko-Vekin
08-10-06 | 06:30 PM
cab horn
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Report the tow trucks license plate!
08-10-06 | 06:32 PM
Dances With Cars
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From: Toronto, Canada
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I may...MAY have some wakestock passes come into my possession tomorrow morning. These would be four day passes, well three. Interest? 2...maybe up to 4. I'll know more in the morning, if a client hasn't snapped them up. If the client takes them all I apologize for workin' you up.
08-10-06 | 08:34 PM
Shiftless bum
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From: Ottawa, Ontario
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Anybody here goes to wakestock and talks about it on this board, I'll pop a cap in his ass.
08-10-06 | 09:10 PM
cab horn
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R O F L
08-10-06 | 10:26 PM
Me talk pretty one day.
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From: Toronto
I think that would be more angst-rock than my body can physically withstand.
Having said that, I've become so numb ...
Having said that, I've become so numb ...
08-11-06 | 06:06 AM
Jonnys ilegitimate Father
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Originally Posted by cavit8
Anybody here goes to wakestock and talks about it on this board, I'll pop a cap in his ass.
08-11-06 | 06:27 AM
Dances With Cars
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Jees you'd think a bike was the only way to get the adrenaline flowing. I've been told. Maybe I'll use it to go see a couple musical acts and go skate the park they're building. Pooh on you lot, so rigid you sound like roadies... Diversify. Cavit8, I giggle with the mental image of you popping caps into a posterior.
08-11-06 | 06:45 AM
Jonnys ilegitimate Father
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Originally Posted by TRaffic Jammer
Jees you'd think a bike was the only way to get the adrenaline flowing. I've been told. Maybe I'll use it to go see a couple musical acts and go skate the park they're building. Pooh on you lot, so rigid you sound like roadies... Diversify. Cavit8, I giggle with the mental image of you popping caps into a posterior.
08-11-06 | 07:01 AM
Jonnys ilegitimate Father
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Heres a heads up for all the budding alleycat racers out there. Just announced today, the latest incarnation of the Global Gutz worldwide alleycat race. The basic idea of this event is to have simultaneous races all over the world. These are arranged so that everybody is racing at the same time worldwide!. So as you are tearing it up around Toronto, so are all the other folks all over the world. The date for this will be Sat Sept 9th. More details to follow.
08-11-06 | 07:26 AM
Me talk pretty one day.
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From: Toronto
Bring out my "Team DFL" jersey. *cues theme music*
08-11-06 | 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by cavernmech
Heres a heads up for all the budding alleycat racers out there. Just announced today, the latest incarnation of the Global Gutz worldwide alleycat race. The basic idea of this event is to have simultaneous races all over the world. These are arranged so that everybody is racing at the same time worldwide!. So as you are tearing it up around Toronto, so are all the other folks all over the world. The date for this will be Sat Sept 9th. More details to follow.
08-11-06 | 07:36 AM
Jonnys ilegitimate Father
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Originally Posted by ronin2046
Are you gonna come out of retirement to own the newbies in the Toronto chapter alleycat?
Sadly my involvement in this capacity precludes me from participating in a competitive nature. I will however be participating in the upcoming 20th anniversary Toronto alleycat on Halloween.
08-11-06 | 07:49 AM
So I says to Mable I says
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Originally Posted by operator
...
Originally Posted by cavernmech
Heres a heads up for all the budding alleycat racers out there. Just announced today, the latest incarnation of the Global Gutz worldwide alleycat race. The basic idea of this event is to have simultaneous races all over the world. These are arranged so that everybody is racing at the same time worldwide!. So as you are tearing it up around Toronto, so are all the other folks all over the world. The date for this will be Sat Sept 9th. More details to follow.
ps. Keith, I'm gonna drop by the shop today after work.
08-11-06 | 08:05 AM
Jonnys ilegitimate Father
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
That was just for you..
Damnit.. I'm likely going to be out of town that weekend. Maybe there'll be one in Ottawa too.. although I don't know how much point there is to race in a city I don't know the layout of.
ps. Keith, I'm gonna drop by the shop today after work.
Damnit.. I'm likely going to be out of town that weekend. Maybe there'll be one in Ottawa too.. although I don't know how much point there is to race in a city I don't know the layout of.
ps. Keith, I'm gonna drop by the shop today after work.