Keep them in good shape, if they don't make nice with you trade them in for Speedplay Zeros with adjustable float.

I had 3 hours of ****ing rad in the Don today.

This time I took a left back at the initial bridge after warming up on the river trail ... did some loops up and around there and eventually ended up at the sewage treatment plant. Had to call it a day at that point but it's been great exploring the area.

Edit: I very much like the bit ... how to describe ... you go left from the first bridge (after the tracks), up the erroded hill w/ all the gravel and it's the first trail off to the right. There are some easy/short ladder bridges and not-quite-Ravenshoe-bad rooty sections. Then it ends with a ridiculous 10' steep section covered in roots that made me jump off the bike everytime.

I'd like to have hand in doing this East/West thingy, possibly in conjunction with a couple someones.
As I'd hope to run a team event of some sort...maybe the teams could be broken down to rider classes as yes indeed Matt there are some nasty peel-your-skin-off fast guys that make us look like punks. (more chances for glory) Hey...maybe a short course relay.....You'd make good enforcer/blocker. Dublin folks will be back loong before this thing hits the bricks.

Some imagination and this could be a blast!!!

secondary thought...to make it easy and quick.... who has a nice surface running track? The one on Bathurst is kinda evil, incl. busted glass, making for more realistic road surface..

I felt the same way when I first started using Time mountain pedals. I had to pull up on the pedal just to make sure I was clipped in. As with most new things they will take a little getting used to....once you have been riding in em for a couple days it will feel totally natural.

Teddy doesn't live in Toronto but when he comes to town he stays on the East Side....he will be our lead-off guy.

You're dead to us. ;)

And technically he lives east of Highway 11.....so...y'know...EAST SIDE REPRESENT!!

I was going to post my favorite "e-card" from this site, but I really couldn't narrow it down.

http://www.someecards.com/

(wtf: http://www.someecards.com/upload/apo..._unicorns.html)

Hey Hey! It went well, I still don't have a final figure, but we know we got enough to send 2 to Dublin, if we scrapped up enough to send another we will! I believe since the volunteers all have day jobs that we'll be hooking up tonight to tally and arrange delivery of prizes for the winners that weren't at the draw. Mostly Toronto winners again, the internet only did about 10% of ticket sales it seems. Only one fellow in Dublin won a prize though it was a sweet white messenger bag. I'm as pleased as punch considering I'm on the hook for shipping charges. Just a package to Dublin that I'll piggyback on a messenger going that way, and probably a few local deliveries I can put on account :) There were ticket buyers in Australia, S. Korea, Japan and other places that would've cost me big money to ship to. I sorta wish a few more out-of-towners won, but they didn't buy near as many tickets. Besides, we're paying the way for next years race winners to come to Toronto as there won't be any need to send Toronto messengers anywhere:D

The big spenders were the winners again for the most part, Cavit8 won some stuff, another fellow who bought $100 worth of tickets did real well, 4 bells! Count em, 4! (and a bike computer & something else)

I'll be emailing winners when we get done tonight,

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I'm likin' the idea of running it on a track somewhere in the city, as a team-ish event would be suicide on the streets. Wipeouts are cool and all but not with cars around. Imagine a train a of riders...TTT style. Lead out guys bustin' hump for the final sprinters.

I think I could handle the enforcer role - I may or may not have pimp slapped a kid in the face last night for yelling at my lady and a friend of ours as we rode by. You hear me? PIMP SLAPPED!

Yeah, that Bathurst track would be cool if it weren't in such bad shape. I used to ride in circles there when I needed to blow off steam. Is there a track at that stadium on Bloor near UofT?

If not, I suggest cx tires and you tough guys get your path racer on.

haha... brad did that once to a cabbie who was mouthing off at me when i said something about him blocking my path...

i thought that place was walled off? what about the loop on the island at hanlans?

I just sprayed coffee on my keyboard.

And if anyone's interested, I have a black 57cm c-t-c Bianchi Strada LX fork and frame for a minor consideration (i.e. beer). Short horizontal drop outs. Paints very good but has cable guides on the top tube etc. I also have a blue 53cm c-t-c Apollo Cobra (cast Sun tour dropouts) I may be willing to part with if the inamorata doesn't want it.

http://cavit8.clawz.com/graphics/strada.jpg
http://cavit8.clawz.com/graphics/apollo.jpg

ps. And Mitch and I are both east enders as well :D

I suppose living in East York would make me an East Ender. Sad I missed the race, was at a stag and couldn't get away in time. I did win a raffle prize.

I'm a north ender

is there something in the water these days, or did someone put a pox on me? today going west on bloor at bay, a girl swung open the passenger side door to an suv in my path (TO THROW OUT GARBAGE AT THE TRASH BIN, NO LESS... talk about a trivial reason for nearly injuring someone). i scolded her, she got back in, and as i went around the back of the car (since it was turning right), her psychotic boyfriend opened the door as i came around the side. needless to say, i parked myself in front of the car, got out my pen, and got the make/model and plates. ARSF 132 can choke on a dick, i'm filing a report tomorrow.

it's one thing to accidentally almost door me, quite another to do it on purpose.

Wow, sorry about the copious ******baggery you're experiencing. Looks like you've taken over Shiznaz's role in the scheme of things....

*grumble*

/punches wall

Well on the bright side I have new pants.

From the photo thread, as a reference guide (or not) for Cav's '20.

http://www.littlepixel.info/twenty/r20_180707.jpg

Lawl @ the front wheel. FtW!

Where sthe guy with thehf fuax areo helmet?

P>S Aero ftw?1

race? i was hoping for a old-timey dance off.

Totally - report that ****!

Tonight Ashlee almost got doored by a cabbie on Bloor and when she yelled to let him know he yelled "**** you" while continuing to open his door... She waited for him to go into the place he was going and kicked his door in - wish I could have been there but I was here trying to sleep... it obviously isn't working.

I used to have a Strada just like that - it was my first road bike and also ended up being my first SS conversion... I miss that bike but it was always too small for me. Booooooo...

Yikes! Report that ****! I know it's not what you meant but my tap water has been smelling funky that last couple of days. Sewagey. My roomate and I were both commenting that we had both been feeling a bit queasy over the weekend as well. I don't even want to know what we were drinking out of the tap. Ugh.

:Dhttp://www.runjenrun.com/archives/breakin2.jpg

Jeez...what circus tent did that crawl out from. HED carbon with a crappy suspension fork? WOW!
For the east vs west challenge I would assume Yonge is the reference point for east side or west side. As far as a race route goes, I am a proponent for an alleycat style vs riding on a running track. If T.J. really wants to keep it away from traffic perhaps the Commisioners, Cherry, Unwin, Leslie loop could be an option. It is still on the street but with less in the way of random traffic and still has enough distance to make it interesting. I like the idea of having it alleycat style with maybe 4 or 5 different manifests...everyone goes at once, and then just award points based on finishing order. This would split people up to a fair degree and then the whole city is our playground. I hereby offer up the back alley at the shop for post race festivities....perhaps a nice keg from Mill St? the brewmaster there is a customer. I have a digital projector that we could show some movies on the wall with. This could be the first feature. My favorite line..."with her mustard shoes and ketchup sash shes a real HOT DOG!"

Yeah, I was thinking yesterday that it'd be cool to have both an east-side and a west-side manifest. Either you could have the east-enders race in the west-end (and vice-versa), or have everyone stick to their own hood.

Movies in the alley would be kick ass.