Bikerfox has such a love affair with his ass, it's not even funny....

man that is some scary *****.

If you think that's scary, go look at his video take on Sir Mixalot's "Baby got back" on his site. Good taste prevents me from providing a direct link.

Say it ain't so...... there is no God.

The ones I encountered appeared to just be blackflies.. tiny little black things. I always thought aphids were green (and apparently I was correct), but oddly enough when I searched on wikipedia one of their aliases is "blackfly". I don't get it. When I say "blackfly" I mean gnats.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simuliidae. :P

either way, you got bugs in the face...

mmm protein.

To further complicate things, looking under gnats suggests it's a colloquial term for order Diptera, not Hemiptera to which aphids belong. Having tree planted, I have no such difficulty in telling black flys from aphids. Aphids suck plants, black flys suck (blood).

And you still get bugs in your face. But it's better than canker worms any day, as anyone who's lived in Winnipeg or Saskatoon can tell you.

are those the worms that totally took over Winnipeg a few years ago? I bow down to our new wormy overlords!

edit: when my old band was on tour in 2000 we stopped for an all-ages show in lovely (*cough*) Thunder Bay. They had this crazy moth thing going on. It was the creepiest thing. Once it got dark out it was something straight out of a movie about the apocalypse. :P I remember we drove past a car dealership with the big "stadium lights"... not only was there a huge swarming cloud of moths around every light, but all the cars were absolutely crawling with moths. Our drummer got a really bad case of the heebie jeebies. So, of course when one flies in the window and hits him (no air-conditioning + July = windows down) he FREAKS OUT. We pull over and he jumps out and obviously we take off and drive around the block. He was nearly in tears when we got back to him. ;)

Bugs and worms, sounds like a street food in Thailand. Making me hungry for crickets again.

Don't post Bikerfox please, I'll have no choice but to respond with the Hasslehoff crotch.

band love.... ah... the memories...."you ba*tards!!!!!!
Nothing like a bunch of buddies workin' across the country in a van to make sure you all hate each othr by the end of the summer.

when i was up in manitoulin in june, the entire northern half of the island was swarmed with mayflies. i saw a spider eating one, starting with its head. pretty gnar.

i_brad: i think i saw you today on ward's island?

My favourite is having a darning needle dragon fly using your shoulder as a hangar. I had one that would come by sit on my shoulder, eat it's bug, then off for another. I had one ride about ten km on my shoulder on my Newfoundland bike trip. He sat there while I went into the airport then took off when I came back out.

yeah, uh i saw a potato bug in my apartment. viva toronto!

Do you always have to identify yourself to police when asked?

Bart: Remember when Tom had you in that headlock and you screamed, "I'm a hemophiliac!," and when he let you go, you kicked him in the back?
Homer: Yeah.
Bart: Will you teach me how to do that?
Homer: Sure, boy. First, you gotta shriek like a woman and keep sobbing until he turns away in disgust. That's when it's time to kick some back. And then when he's lying down on the ground,...
Bart: Yeah.
Homer: Kick him in the ribs.
Bart: Yeah.
Homer: Step on his neck.
Bart: Yeah.
Homer: And run like hell.


ps. I experienced the aphids on my way home from the pub. yikes.

andrew: couldn't have put it better myself.. oddly enough I moved to Toronto within days of getting back home from that last tour. Well timed, says I!

Yes, but you are not required to show ID. Note subsection 4.

Section 218 of the highway traffic act

218. (1) A police officer who finds any person contravening this Act or any municipal by-law regulating traffic while in charge of a bicycle may require that person to stop and to provide identification of himself or herself. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 218 (1).

(2) Every person who is required to stop, by a police officer acting under subsection (1), shall stop and identify himself or herself to the police officer. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 218 (2).

(3) For the purposes of this section, giving one's correct name and address is sufficient identification. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 218 (3).

(4) A police officer may arrest without warrant any person who does not comply with subsection (2). R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 218 (4).

You might argue that if you're not contravening the act you don't, but if you take that tack, remind the police officer that you pay his salary. :D

There was a case I remember where a kid rode through a stop sign on a bike. He was pulled over and didn't feel it was his duty to provide his name. The court agreed (this was likely before the HTA section) but the court said that the cops have the right to determine his name, so it was fair for them to throw him in jail for 38 hours while they did that. :)

Nice. This is like the geneva convention on PoWs.
Name. Rank. Serial #.

Interesting read: http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/namerank/index.html

Bicycle mounted troops: http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/i...r45/index.html

Ah, you did! Zippered and I were there today. If ever there was a day for the beach, it was today!

You should have said hi...where did you see me?

Anyone interested in a PBK order? I'm ordering some tires while the 5% off + free shipping is intact.

i saw! right by the lawn bowling club; i tried to nod/smile, but i wasn't 100% sure.

i wish i was still at the beach!

i wasn't sure either, haha. i couldn't have said hi anyway, i was there with my boss for a meeting with one of our artists (i'm a publishing intern), and we were walking back to the ferry... he lives on the island! so nice. now i wish i had a house there.

http://velospace.org/files/cinelli_0.jpg
Ok this must be a bikerfox bike...

26" disc on a 700c fork. No wonder the guy took the pic with the bike lying on its side. That thing would be a terrible ride.
You up for some lakefront bevvies this eve there Duppy?

helllllllllll ya!!!

when and where?
I'm lookin' for some stopwatch wares, win or mac...any ideas?
Would like to be able to click as riders arrive to stop the time.

I have a couple of stop watches. They are good ole fashioned ones tho. My I-Pod has a stopwatch on it as well.
End o Polson....right at the waters edge.

Hot off the press...

Toby's next race:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1370/...45a0bdee4e.jpg

Coolio.... so massive laptimes for multiple riders coming in?
You leave for Polson at 6?

Toby's got the bug!!!

sweet... http://stopwatch.onlineclock.net/... will look nice displayed on the wall in the alley.