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operator 05-02-07 08:38 AM

Set of locking skewers for only $30 on CL.

iherald 05-02-07 08:43 AM


Originally Posted by operator
Set of locking skewers for only $30 on CL.

Good price

somnambulant 05-02-07 09:10 AM

I <3 Robot Chicken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDklHx6cHxQ

jeremywhitehorn 05-02-07 09:26 AM


Originally Posted by pyze-guy
I'm off Thursday, coffee around noon? We can discuss your cooking class as well.

works for me. bring that wheel and i'm buying.

jeremywhitehorn 05-02-07 09:32 AM

i'm still in need of a time frame for scotch night. is this and early or late affair? or perhaps something in between?

Shiznaz 05-02-07 09:34 AM


Originally Posted by somnambulant

haha seriously. This one is also great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA64g3pi97M

somnambulant 05-02-07 09:35 AM

anyone doing coffee today? It's a lovely day out there.

ditto for scotch scheduling.. I'm thinking around 8:30 or 9:00 would be when I'd be coming by, personally. But don't let that hold you back! As long as people are still around then feel free to get the party started earlier. :)

operator 05-02-07 09:38 AM

AHAHAHaha Keith has a secret admirer?

http://toronto.craigslist.org/mis/322065423.html

Yellow bike in storefront.. hmm.


anyone doing coffee today? It's a lovely day out there.
What time?

P.S Lmao @ calvin and hobbes

somnambulant 05-02-07 09:43 AM


Originally Posted by operator
AHAHAHaha Keith has a secret admirer?

http://toronto.craigslist.org/mis/322065423.html

Yellow bike in storefront.. hmm.

oh. my. gods.

pfffffffffffffffffffftbahahahahahahahahahha!

jeremywhitehorn 05-02-07 10:21 AM

that's what happens when keith is outside wrenching in his cut-offs...

ronin2046 05-02-07 10:21 AM


Originally Posted by somnambulant
oh. my. gods.

pfffffffffffffffffffftbahahahahahahahahahha!

Another admirer perhaps?

http://toronto.craigslist.org/mis/317881698.html

lol

iherald 05-02-07 10:23 AM


Originally Posted by ronin2046

This was decided to be the guy at ReCYCLE.

jet sanchEz 05-02-07 10:25 AM


Originally Posted by ronin2046

I think that one is Pauly, unless Cavern never opens?

edit: Darn these slow typing fingers of mine!

jet sanchEz 05-02-07 10:32 AM


Originally Posted by somnambulant
anyone know anything about Viner bikes? A friend is looking at a Viner road bike that just popped up on Canadian Cyclist's classifieds..

2004 VINER Pro Team v107 Carbon 54cm
Compact frame 53.5 cm c-t-c top tube –- Dedacciai V107 main triangle –- Deda Blacktail rear wishbone seatstay -– Gass Bonito Carbon Fork 1.125" -– ITM Mantis stem 90mm –- Easton CT2 carbon seatpost -– Easton Carbon bars -– DuraAce 9 Drivetrain and 53/39 crankset -– DA STI shifters and brakes -– nearly new Ritchey DS Pro wheels with Hutchison Fusion Comps -– 12-23 Cassette -– Selle TransAm Saddle -– Shimano Flight Deck –- New BB, cables and housing. Light and stiff, great ride and well maintained. Email for more pix.
Price: $$2000 obo

Hrm, here is an inventory list from GVH bikes, they sell Viners and I think that the frame this person is selling can be had from them for about 600$USD. So, are the rest of the parts worth 1400$CDN? Hard to say but I think that your friend can do better.

http://www.gvhbikes.com/inventory.html

jeremywhitehorn 05-02-07 10:32 AM

it sounds like pauly to me based on location....

Shiznaz 05-02-07 10:46 AM

Keith doesn't fix bikes outside of the store does he?

cavit8 05-02-07 10:46 AM

No, it's Pauly. I'll nip around the corner and let him know or leave a note on his door.


Originally Posted by operator
Set of locking skewers for only $30 on CL.

Mine

And I'm up for caffeine right now

TRaffic Jammer 05-02-07 11:22 AM

that's Pauly allright..... there IS ONLY ONE...I guess there is no accounting for taste...eh? I'm married and Pauly has a fan club...go figure. :lol:

So this morning I'm pulled over for what I thought was jumpin' the streetcar doors on Queen.
Young officer, tells me I'm supposed to be over to the right more...
(I'm in the passenger wheel marks on the curb lane, passing the cycling cattle on Queen East)

I politely tell him no Sir I will not and proceed to explain to him that I've asked several police including the biking ones as to the laws regarding lane usage and passing and he in fact giving me differing data than they did. I tell him just how dangerous hugging the curb is for everyone and give him the fact I'm going so close to the speed limit as to be a car. 'If the powers that be want a coexistance between cars and bikes, then law enforcement needs to be consistent with it's message, and you're not being consistent' I then give him my information and told him he should check up on his understanding of the law in this regard. He was a little put off by me telling him 'no' at the beginning but it said soooo respectfully he had no choice but to deal with it. I think had he been an old school cop he'd have just hit me with a stick :lol: This one seemd to really take in what I was sayin', because there was no way I was going to allow him to tell me to further endanger myself.

somnambulant 05-02-07 11:35 AM


Originally Posted by cavit8
And I'm up for caffeine right now

Just got back. By ordering just espresso I'm learning who makes a better cup at ideal. :P

operator 05-02-07 11:43 AM


Originally Posted by cavit8
No, it's Pauly. I'll nip around the corner and let him know or leave a note on his door.

Mine

And I'm up for caffeine right now

I'll have a pistol duel with you for them!!

jeremywhitehorn 05-02-07 11:47 AM


Originally Posted by somnambulant
Just got back. By ordering just espresso I'm learning who makes a better cup at ideal. :P

then spill, who makes a better cup?

somnambulant 05-02-07 11:55 AM

Well, I only recently switched to "naked shots" there (because their latte's are so tasty), so I'm not sure if some people are just inconsistent or not. I also have no idea what anyone's name is, so I'll do my best. I just got a pretty lame one from the dark skinned lady. I seem to remember "Audrey" making a good one, but that was a while ago. I've gotten a couple good ones from the sorta hippy-ish girl (amazing one yesterday, actually). And the guy with the butterfly tattoo on his hand has made me a couple of terrible ones. I think that's about it. Any observations from you?

Shiznaz 05-02-07 12:00 PM

I've found the shots much better on ossington than in kensington. I got some real crappy shots pulled by the tattoo guy before.

TRaffic Jammer 05-02-07 12:02 PM


Originally Posted by operator
I'll have a pistol duel with you for them!!

Pistas at dawn .... you fool :p Round the block first one back FTW!
Pistols....someone's gonna get hurt.

jeremywhitehorn 05-02-07 12:13 PM


Originally Posted by somnambulant
Well, I only recently switched to "naked shots" there (because their latte's are so tasty), so I'm not sure if some people are just inconsistent or not. I also have no idea what anyone's name is, so I'll do my best. I just got a pretty lame one from the dark skinned lady. I seem to remember "Audrey" making a good one, but that was a while ago. I've gotten a couple good ones from the sorta hippy-ish girl (amazing one yesterday, actually). And the guy with the butterfly tattoo on his hand has made me a couple of terrible ones. I think that's about it. Any observations from you?

dark skinned girl has done some nice ones for me, ditto hippy-girl. butterfly-guy has ****ed mine up a couple of times (i seem to remember him overflowing the cup). petite brunette usually working on thursdays is alright but when i order an espresso she puts it in a big mug unless i ask. i don't think audrey has made me one yet...

TRaffic Jammer 05-02-07 12:25 PM

Coffee shots? As I understand it the first quarter...yuck, quarters 2-3....what you want in your cup and the final quarter...yuck as well. Me....will drink all 4 quarters and not notice the diff. :lol:

Shiznaz 05-02-07 12:51 PM

Oh boy, I love advocacy and safety:


Originally Posted by Helmet Head
This picture is from the June 2007 issue of Bicycling magazine, p. 37.
*snip don't ride in the door zone snip*

What can we do change bicycling culture to understand this better?


Originally Posted by sbhikes
Oh I know!

How about a campaign of ridicule, with phony psychological disorders and "syndromes"?

Or what about we just throw out all the cycling-specific infrastructure and see if that improves the lane positioning of ordinary cyclists?

Maybe we can thump 30-year-old bibles that could crack the average skull?

Or direct people to web sites full of shamelessly phony data and a kind of Internet crank-ish style.

Yeah. That ought to work.


Originally Posted by Helmet Head
Is this supposed to be helpful?


Originally Posted by uberleet
Are you?


Originally Posted by Helmet Head
I'm trying to be helpful.

Are you?


Originally Posted by chipcom
Goooooo Team!


cavit8 05-02-07 12:52 PM

Yes, buddy makes some horrific shots. And they're not butterflys on his hands, their deaths head moths a la the silence of the lambs.

I must admit that I haven't taken time to differentiate shot quality from the various and sundry women working there. I'm often too enraptured.

Operator, no pistols. I'll challenge you to an Inuit finger pulling contest.

edit: and that's why I'd rather visit foo than advocacy

boroSS 05-02-07 01:00 PM


Originally Posted by somnambulant
Did I see you riding up Dovercourt last night?

indeedy!

somnambulant 05-02-07 01:04 PM


Originally Posted by cavit8
Yes, buddy makes some horrific shots. And they're not butterflys on his hands, their deaths head moths a la the silence of the lambs.

I must admit that I haven't taken time to differentiate shot quality from the various and sundry women working there. I'm often too enraptured.

Right, moths. That's what I meanted! I actually like those tattoos, but that's besides the point. :)

Also, yes, you speak the truth.


Originally Posted by boroSS
indeedy!

I happened to look out my living room window just as you were zipping past.


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