What do you mean by that?

Don't mind Shiz, you know how he gets when he drinks.:D
Bottoms up!

This bodes well for the less sober snow ride. Wear you some helmets, ya'll!

So what's the deal with the snow ride anyhow? time and place?

for place, as long as no one objects, should be the parking lot behind Honest Ed's (Bathurst & Bloor) as per usual a la Critical Vacuum.

For time, 8 or 9 is good for me.

I'm probably working tomorrow, but I'm gonna try and make it out :)

Ooh, ooh, I'm SO down for this! Please keep me informed if you're going to the track. I really want to go. Since we're out-of-towners, I believe they'll combine class #1 and #2 into the same session as long as you book it in advance.

Can you ride conversions there? with clips?

Doesn't matter anyway cuz I don't have a helmet.

you can rent everything there, minus shoes and pedals. Not sure about helmets, though. You might need to bring your own. I guess that means you can only rent track bikes, then.

Anytime after 8 works for me, closer to 8:30 is better, but whatever.

Cam, either fork is yours for the taking.

OK, I'm going out on a limb here, but here it goes:

Toronto Fixed Snow Ride
Meet: Parking lot behind Honest Ed's (Bathurst & Bloor)
Time: 8:45pm (Monday Jan. 15)
We leave at 9pm sharp!

If anyone has a problem with that, we can change...got it?!

P.S. It's called the Toronto Fixed snow ride, but you can ride your SS or geared bike. It's just a title. I'm on my slow SS Mountain Bike. Bring Drink if you wish.

let it snow! let it snow! let it snow!
and lean back, lean back, lean back.

Since your red lettering was so persuasive, I'm down for those arrangements. I'll be there. YEOwww.

*looks outside* Uhh. Snow, damn you!

heehee like a bunch of kids going to bed hoping to wake up to a big blanket of snow. I'm seriously as excited as my nine year old...:lol:

Ok cool! Well if this weekend doesn't work out, like if it isn't enough notice to book or if people can't go we can defintely do it another time.

Shamil (did I spell your name right? if not sorry :() if we did another weekend would that be better for you?

Tovi and Lymbzero are you guys going to the snow ride tomorrow? If so we can discuss it more then.

I think a couple of people from work want to go as well, I'll ask tomorrow. I hope you guys don't mind sharing the track with *gasp* messengers.

P.S. If it doesn't snow ridiculously we're still riding tomorrow anyway right?

I hadn't ridden fixed in two weeks (broke the Pake down to cannibalize parts for the gf's Crosscheck). Then today, I finish wrapping the bars on one of our entry-level fg offerings and hop on for a sec. All of a sudden I can no-hands trackstand like it's nothing. What the hell. Never been able to do that before, not even close.

I guess unless it looks like a damn beach party out there. If it doesn't snow, I'll just ride my fixie instead, but I'm still down for an outing.

Are you selling fixed bikes now?

Oui, for some time now actually.

http://artcontext.org/crit/essays/noQuarter/

Be a bit of a quandry if shapelike sold broken bikes now wouldn't it?

wooooah

hella crazy ride! ughhhhhhhhhhh had to walk some sketchy side streets but at least I was able to ride in!

Yeah, the main roads are slushy, but totally rideable. The side streets are a bit of a menace though. Markham was unbroken crust (just a pain to ride through) and Huron had hidden ice chunks/ruts under the crust/slush (nearly took me out a few times).

Touche.

I guess suitable route home is yonge to carleton and then east on carleton...altho carleton this morning was pure ice man crappy! first time riding fix in this 'ish.

It was a fun ride to work. Fun trying to break through the crust. Made me wish I put the knobbies on. See how it is tonight before I switch for ther snow ride.

my back is out, sooo the red rocket is my transport

sloowww going in this muck. Luckily the cars were pretty polite on the whole. Kinda wish I still had gears on the smoke because I have 'the need for speed'

Its probably best it maxes out at around 25km/h though as I probably shouldn't be riding in snow too fast anyways.

Little help: is the ride tonight an off-road ride? I ask b/c I've only got my Pista with slicks on. Riding in the snow (with pavement) I can do, but straight-up trails I cannot.

If you guys tell me where you plan to go, it will help me decide. If you do the Spit I'll have to pass :(