*kicks dismembered foot in Puma sneaker back underneath couch ...*

you WILL be scolded for bringing a blend!

haha it doesn't have to be blended to be déistineach

I will temporarily look the other way if Johhny Walker Blue is the blend. Shortly thereafter I will mock you for wasting so much $ on a blend.

ahh.. the cool weather lunchtime ride.. nothing finer.. :)

All I know about scotch is that I generally can't drink blends, and I REALLY shouldn't ride after drinking a bunch of it. :lol: Now we are entering the realm of three seasons worth of clothing for one day's riding. Gloves in the morning, chilly ride gear at lunch and 20 degrees for the ride home.

Keith: It is an eight speed rapid fire I'll be looking for. How nice are the XTR's?
EDIT**** damn those shifters are expensive...I'll check to see if I need this integrate nonsense..... hmm SS here I come?

<-- you are hereby ostracized.

Op, I'm not on campus on Friday, but can make the run down. I'm heading up to my old workplace (Leslie and Steeles) on Friday morning as the are evidently incapable of operating in my absence. Let me know when you're around and where and I'll bring your new stem.

I didn't think you'd want the Zoom logo on it, so I sprayed some oven cleaner on it to get the logo off. I seem to have overdone it though, as it looked kinda mottled. So I rattle-canned it with some black BBQ paint I had kicking around. It looked great! Until I dropped it and the paint just skimmed off. So I painted it again with some rubberized truck bed liner paint I have. Now it looks amazing! You'll be the envy of all.

Yeah, logos = bad. I'll grab it from you when you're on campus.

:( I realised you meant single malt when I scrolled down...I know nuttin about the subject so /me will stay ostrich-sized ;)

cam's shopping list for sunday: oven cleaner..check. black bbq paint...check. rubberized truck bed liner...check.

If you want to go old school I can give you a Deore thumbshifter that should work well with the 8sp. Rapidfire wise I think an STX is the most affordable decent shifter in 8. XTR is great but overpriced IMHO. If you are goona shell out go for XT...still excellent quality but quite a bit cheaper.

rofl

mental note: don't invite cam to Arts & Crafts night. :)

Okay, I'm usually there Tuesdays and Thursdays. Next week it looks like Monday over the lunch hour and from 3-5 on Wednesday.

I'm gonna look at my setup and see what can easily switched out. The XTR just looks stupid expensive... how about a ball chain with ring on it? Suicide shifter? :lol: As it is, it's the front D shifter that refuses to catch in the chillyness.

Additional shopping..... duct tape, large garbage bags, zip ties and latex gloves and season 4 of CSI on DVD.

10. New Bike Locker Location

The City of Toronto is pleased to announce a brand new location for the Bicycle
Locker Pilot Project. In partnership with the University of Toronto, the City has
installed lockers at 371 Bloor Street West (on the corner of Bloor and Spadina in
the parking lot behind the building). These lockers are now available for $10 (+GST)
a month for a minimum of 4 months. For more information, visit
http://www.toronto.ca/cycling/locker.htm

"There are 4 lockers located in the parking lot behind the building"

Bicycle lockers are available for $10 (+ GST) per month for a minimum of 4 months.
Payment must be made in person at the East York Civic Centre by debit card, cash, money order or certified cheque.

Shall we have a pool to see which location gets broken into first?.... I know I know, I'm a cynic.
I'm going to check out these locations in the near future, I wanna see these things.

I find all the RF+ shifters do that in the cold-mine do anyway. I think it is the factory lube they have in there gets really thick, and some prawl won't engage. Anyway, I've had some luck with blasting the internals with WD-40....it will degrease the mechanical guts, which may or may not be good long term, but if you are going to ditch the shifter anyway-nothin' to lose.

i can't see why they can't allocate a small area beside parking lot booths exclusively for bikes. you can fit a bunch of bikes into the footprint of a car. if you charge the same rate as the new bike lockers of $10/month, 10 bikes would be 100 bucks/month. the gov't could subsidize it so that it's compartively profitable. i'm sure subsidies would be cheaper than what they're doing now. damn, those guys are sitting in the booths doing nothing anyways. parking lots aren't always full and they'd have to be for another source of income. in japan, this is so rampantly commonplace. they've got old uniformed men patrolling around to check that bike parking has been paid for. bike parking is usually outside of train stations and they're jammed with bikes in the morning. for a country that's so rammed for space, they're still somehow able to set aside some for something as unreasonable as parking for bikes. damn..getting pissed thinking about it.

Yeah, don't let common sense get in the way of politics. That'd be a ****ing disaster. I had some guy lambast me on facebook for daring to suggest that secure bike parking on campus would be a good idea. He retorted that this would "damage and increase the barriers to cycling"

What a bunch of ****tards.

Hooray for internet connection at home!!!

found some clips from a movie about bike messengers in NYC in the early 90s. worth watching just for the loud spandex tights. "what's that!??? i can't hear you over you're tights! they're very loud!"

Oh god, that was awesome. Someone order that docu pronto.

okay i'm making another CD compilation for a party and i need the quinessential strip club song. i have "paradise city" downloaded thus far. suggestions?

oh yeah, i need a new chainring for my fixed gear my old one is worn and grinding [fixed gear content].

eh?

Keith, you have anything?

anyone?

What bcd? I'm about to have a surplus of 110bcd chainring, one 42 and one 42.