Those lightweight wheels are sooo nice, they look organic, I wonder how hard they are to get untrue though, there's no way to get them back into true is there?

Hrm, sounds like the shooting down at King and Dufferin; that place with the green sign, "Gate" something, has been trouble for a long time now. I haven't seen a gun pulled in Toronto since 1994, but I guess I am in the minority.

Pretty close to home! I've never seen a gun pulled in Toronto ever... been here since '97. I don't go out of my way to avoid the "bad" areas either. Perhaps I've been lucky.

Ride them on race day only. How boring is that?!

What’s that? What is it?

Well i missed the bike show i miss Toronto; I did however go to a Frontenacs game today they lost to London!

So you other guys liked the Velodrome i'm guessing?
Cheers

5g's worth of boring.

did anyone see ryan leech ride? all i saw was a lineup for autographs.

keith&TJ thanks again for the hookup.

yep I saw him ride, wow he has some sweet skills, there were two 2x4 planks of wood set up parallel to one another about 3 feet above the ground and he was bunny hopping back and forth on them while doing 180's and 360's, friggen sweet.

Keith:
What did Brayden get?

I won't ruin the surprise, but I got all turned on looking at the bike.

go ahead which one?

Well, this is the first time I've had the energy to touch a computer in 4 days ... effing bike show insanity. I literally came home, stuffed food in my face and passed out (at times w/ my clothes still on) every day.

Our count was 4 people carted out on stretchers from the bmx course. I think the highlight of the show for me was chatting it up w/ the guys at the Scott booth and getting free argyle socks! Ahh, Scott, thanks for perpetuating my horrible fashion sense. :)

If we do the show again next year I think we're definitely going to have to bring the comfy chairs ... and load up the panniers on a touring bike w/ beer.

or any musical instrument type shop

Jamis Dragon Pro

Nice. Anxious to find out. Are we at least going to be Team Jamis? :)

I'll show you team kit!

:)

Andrew freaked the rep out by figuring out they use a basket weave style on the spokes....1 spoke goes from rim to hub and back to rim. rep was suitably impressed.
I think if you can afford that kind of $ on a pair of wheels you dont really care about truing em....out of true?..time for a second set.

Pop em back in the oven for 20 minutes at 350, cool on a wire rack and enjoy.

yeah....Braydon got the same rig. After looking at just about everything there....and glad handing and schmoozing some of the guys I know in bigger shops....the Jamis was the best deal. He is super stoked to hit the trails, as am I.

SO he did get that? Cooool, he must be stoked.

We went to that shop with the used Specialized first...as we got there and were looking at it the shop guy pulled it aside for a guy who had just purchased it. In the end prolly a good thing.

Something funky with this guy's setup
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2007...ccoPendola.htm

Just sayin'

sweet.. Team Jamis represent! :P

Lol.
It's the bar angle and the ridiculously small sized frame.

Thats got sore back and bruised taint all over it.

My back just hurts lookin' at it

Bike show was pretty cool. Saw lots of people there, I went around mainly with 2wheelsgood/Pyze-Guy and Bradyn/Keith for a bit. Bradyn is justifiably stoked about that sweet new rig. At the show I got in on some deals myself. I got some Vittoria Open Corsa CX's for cheap. And... I picked up a beautiful lugged Guerciotti road frame for a nice price! It's beautiful, nice details. It's got some nice pantographing on the fork (semi sloping crown) and seat stays, chrome right hand chain stay and fork, Campy dropouts etc. Trying to decide whether to just parts swap from my Urbanite road frame or just scrape together some classic/cheap parts. Probably end up doing a bit of both. I might just run it with downtube friction shifters. Cheap/no adjustment required. Some wheels built around some nice hard ano rims would be perfect.

Here's a pic:

http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0055zu6.jpg

not bad for 200bones is it?

This weekend was great. Bradyn, Pyze and myself had a blast at the velodrome saturday. We did track 1 and got to do a bunch of flying laps with our instructor. Then we rode a few more after during the recreational riding time. It was friggen great!

makes you feel a bit better for missing out on the Cyclops eh? Both those frames were nice. If you want some period correct wheels for it I have a pair I can give you cheap....maybe some other stuff too...I should have some Campy DT (not suicide regardless of what the young un's say) shifters...a quill bar and stem and some levers. Perhaps a rear derailleur and a front fer sure. Please dont sully its vintage goodness with modern *****mano parts...that would be a crime IMHO.
Of course you will never ride the Urbanite again but that might not be so bad.

Nice Cambio track with a good spec on CL.