oof, someone's bitter
http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/340088828.html

Hey for you who are doing becel: are you gonna ride your fixies? I kinda want to, it'd be a lot of fun spinning like crazy on those long descents, or just unclipping for them.

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/5869/spa0044jh1.jpg
beautiful cell phone pic

New tools for my arsenal. So nice, but so expensive. People at the shop can not touch my tools or they will die, and now I can actually say that more of them are "MY" tools.

Those of you who work at a shop will probably understand how frustrating it can be when a floor guy borrows a tool and says they will be right back with it and then you go to grab the tool they borrowed and it's nowhere to be found.

i can symathize; we have a similar problem in the kitchen.

PS - no reason not to do the ride for heart fixed. just make sure you have sneakers and cyling shorts on with a big baggy ride t-shirt, a white eggy looking helmet, a rusty chain and then start swerving all over the place and you should fit in fine.

I rode it last year on fixed, 75 gear inches = no problem, or you could unclip but I would highly not recommend that. You need to put like gps beacons on all your tools.

i'm thinking of making a run to i deal tomorrow for beans and maybe a little ride-around afterwards if anyone has the day off and is interested.

aaahhhhahahahaha :) lolllll

but oh noo, you just reminded me that we usually get a huge rush of people wanting tune-ups a day before "because, I am riding in the Becel Ride for Heart and I just pulled my bike out of the garage"...
ughhh

but we are booking tune-ups for june 14th so too bad for them

Hey Offhoff.... when I saw this on FGG it instantly reminded me of your frustration... this is what you need to build up for a laugh...

http://fixedgeargallery.com/2007/may/c/Ggrs.htm

http://fixedgeargallery.com/2007/may/c/Ggrs-1.jpg

I knew I should have grabbed that fixed bmx I found last week.

Sure..you can borrow my tools..just fill out the requisite forms in triplicate and pay the required $50 deposit. Now that there are 2 of us in the shop I made sure Dave has a full kit of his own. Shurely the floor guys could get a small kit of their own for this purpose? Reaching for a tool and finding out it is not there is not only frustrating but also affects your productivity. Shurely Roger wants full productivity out of his wrenches so get him to put a kit on the floor and be done with it.
Out of curiousity..how much did the Mastercraft digital verniers cost ya?They look exactly like my no-name calipers.

Productivity can be greatly affected when you use that nice blade to chop buddy's finger off for "borrowing" the one tool you need over and over.

Note to self: don't ninja TJ's tools

Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Rumack: I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.

.....merely a fraction of pinkie... just a flesh wound really.

Sweep242: Thanks for the flyer.

Fuzzz: I'm going to hit the Curbside thing... not sure what to expect.


Also, there is a movie/band thing going on, on Thursday night at Cinecycle. It's being hosted by Navid ( the who's been hosting the bike polo's). I'm hittin that also.

Inflamatory link: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_11451.aspx

Calling it a war doesn't help cyclists at all.

Thought this might be a useful link though:

Ontario Highway Traffic Safety Act: Bicycle Violations: http://www.toronto.ca/cycling/pdf/hta.pdf

section 218:(3) For the purposes of this Section, giving one’s correct name and address is sufficient identification.

my name is Mike Hunt and I live at 123 EZ St. nope i dont ride with my ID.

The Toronto Bicycle Film Festival (August 22-25) presents

No Cadence - A Film Festival Fundraiser
Bicycle films on glorious super 8 by
Martin Heath, John Porter, Martin Reis, Benny Zenga,
with live music soundscapes by
Matt Smith, Aaron Lumley, Thom Gill, Colin Fisher, Sean Corcoran.

Thursday, May 31, 8pm, $5 ($3 for bicyclists)

free bicycle valet parking

++++CineCycle is in the old coach-house down the lane behind 129 Spadina Ave.,
on the east side between Richmond St. W. and Adelaide St. W., Toronto. Map
Mail to Box 45, 401 Richmond St. W., Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8.++++

SOS

yup. i'm thinking of doing that next time the dishwasher re-arranges my set up to make himself a sandwitch during the dinner rush.

BTW, i came across a link for live Giro coverage. it's in italian, so the commentary is wasted but you still get to see the race and if i know my italian TV at all, some random casual nudity.

I'm heading out to i deal shortly if anyone is interested in drinking caffiene in the sunshine.

I'm planning on heading out to that as well.

http://toronto.craigslist.org/bik/340243585.html

should i be worried my bike doesn't match with kryptonite orange?

You should be shot. Fashion over function is the hipster theory.

as long as your toenail polish matches your hard anodized nipples you should be fine.

...

and here I thought it was a little warmer outside

ba-zing :)

FWIW, Adrian Heaps, the councilor heading the Toronto Cycling Committee for the foreseeable future has recently put forth some changes that effectively gut the TCC. His changes include reducing the number of at-large citizen seats from 15 to 8 and removing altogether the CBN, TBN & ARC organization seats. This was done as near as anyone can tell with no consultation of any TCC affiliate past or present. Mr. Heaps also intends that there be only 4 meeting per year.

His changes destroy the committee which has been invaluable over the past decade in promoting safety and continuing the development of the Toronto Bike Plan. It affects everyone from the established components of cycling in TO, namely CBN, TBN, ARC and the individuals who worked on the TCC to better this city, to new groups, such as the TOBMA, which I understand intended to join the TCC in the same capacity as TBN, CBN & ARC, base on a recommendation of the 2006 TCC Promotions sub-committee.

Make yourselves heard, this action has the potential to set cycling back in this city by several decades and reduce the focus of the TCC (another change is that the TCC will become the CAC Cycling Advisory Committee or Kak for short) to recreational cycling & has the potential of ending inner city development of cycling infrastructure, events & promotion.

Mr. Heaps is new to council, and is acting without consultation from the groups & individuals who have dedicated their very existence to cycling for the betterment of this city.

This cannot stand.