[QUOTE=operator]Also did you get slapped with customs/duties on that from the ebay guy?QUOTE]

ask him to write "gift" on the canada customs form. but, if the package is big enough (wheels, frames) they open it anyway and charge you duty. i once payed $20 duty on a bike frame i paid $12 for.

BTW - i fail to see how antiquated single pivots stop as well as modern dual pivots. the only older brakes that can match modern dual pivots are those old mafac racer centre-pulls.

FYI writing gift on a canada customs forms for ebay can and will get you charged these days. Customs and Transport Canada are really trying to cut down on such things and have become much more attuned to such thing. So if you do it and end up having to go to court don't say you weren't warned. Just a warning from a guy with a friend at Customs Canada

Cuz old school is always better you young whipper snapper....lol

how can canada customs prove something isn't a gift (aside from the fact that there is a receipt in the package)?

Umm because nearly every ebay transaction includes, as you've already realized, a receipt. Plus they can just contact the sender and ask them and I bet they are not going to remeber to lie to save your butt.

Strange how quickly they can move when some possible revenue is at stake, let's use the taxpayers dollars to drag the taxpayers sorry ass to court. Duty from stuff bought off the web, ridiculous. Talk about paying attention to the wrong problem in customs.

This is a test of thread killing ......

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Please continue about with your normal business

i need my critical-mass cherry popped ASAP.. it's just that i can never make that ridiculous 6pm start. i guess everyone is done work by 5pm or just cut out early?? thanks for the doc-octagon suggestions.. been meaning to hit that.

gokiburi you work off hours?.... this will be my first time as well....I'm kinda nervous but I know my bike loves me so it'll be ok..... I actually get off at 5 that week .....cool. I'm at Yogne/Queen could maybe leave a bit earlier....


somnambulant.... double sword day....? hahahahaha

ps. isn't CM next week, not this week? Or did I just misunderstand. This Friday is the 24th, next Friday is the 31st. Isn't CM the last Friday of every month?

yes...next week

On the topic of Doom-related mcs, MF DOOM (and his umpteen million aliases) is a personal favourite of mine.

See:
- Danger Doom - The Mouse and the Mask (MF DOOM and Danger Mouse)
- Madvillain - Madvillainy (MF DOOM and Madlib)
- MF DOOM - Operation: Doomsday (MF DOOM circa 1999)
- Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain (MF DOOM alias circa 2003)

Any of you prospective CM'ers have a cell phone? I'll be working until 7pm next Friday in all likelihood, but then I can kick it over to wherever you guys are on the ride. No hurry, but as it gets closer to the date let me know your cell # please if you plan on heading to CM.

Edit: got my spell on.

Do not forget King Geedorah (2003)

and also the KMD albums (early 90's), Black Bastards for best rap album of all time!

Operation Doomsday rules. I was gonna post up that Doom rules in general but am even happier now that someone beat me to it!

Andrew

Also, the original PC game Doom rules hardcore. Many a night my young self was scared by the giant brainy pink monster that went "crunk crunk".

The whole concept of Danger Doom seems really lame to me, hence I've avoided it so far. But people keep saying it's good, so maybe I should just give it a go. :)

Also, ok, next Friday, that's better. Also for (later) that night: if anyone's into MSTRKRFT, I'm going with two lady-friends of mine. :)

danger doom, MSTRKRFT....have I lasped into such a state of oldster lameness, that I have no clue what the hell you're talking about?

He just wants our digits. :p

Somna, watch what you say about that Danger Doom Album - my pimp hand is strong.

See, and I like my bell. A friendly reminder to peds and rolling slackers to stay out of my way on the rare occasion I go down a bike path. And allows me to sneak up behind people on my near silent fixie and scream "Ice cream man" while frantically ringing the bell. Gets some interesting reactions, particularly from small children.

On the issue of ebay, I've been dinged anyway when things are marked gift; you can't control what the sender put on it. I ask them to put the purchase price, rather than the value on it and to ensure it's marked made in USA if possible. The last Fuji I bought was made in the USA :D

The worst is when the cops set up on Beverley or worse on Stephanie at the T intersection at the top of John. I've seen them sit there dinging bicyclists for rolling stops. The worst of the worst is apparently if you get a moving violation on your bike it can effect you car insurance, might just be a rumor, I certainly don't want to find out. Its bad enough being under 25 and being insured I don't want to think about what would happen if I had some points on my license.

Oh yes you can lose point off your license for moving violations on your bike.
Totally makes me wanna bolt then..lol

the leg-irons comes on at 10am and it usually takes me until 7pm(at the earliest) before i manage to break/pick the shackle. not really off-hours, just longer than usual. actually, who am i kidding, it sucks donkey balls. i'm enslaved at king/spadina.

I don't think it's a critical mass unless you can't get us all into the same bar afterwards....lol

Post-CM bar trip = oh hells ya.

including the cops..... So how's that for an idea, drinks afterwards, somewhere not 10 bucks a beer? In a place I don't have to sit outside. lol Suggestions? I don't do alot of afterwork drinkin', heck don't do much drinkin' at all these days.

we could always do the Sneaky Dee's we talked about before... ?

I have several kool keith and MF doom songs memorized word for word. Why? Because I've listened to the damn albums a thousand times. Hell I could probably recite you half the ultramegnetic albums. Wierd rappers are just so fresh!

PS. Get off my elevator

Shiz I think you're av is having far too good a time.

Shiz I think your av is having far too good a time.