Paying for basic maintenance when I know what to do is a bit annoying.

yes

nope
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Canadia is not super easy to get into last I checked.

Probably easier than getting into the US. One of my best friends is a former Yugo and has a green card, and her stories of endless paperwork, fees, and bureaucracy are pretty amazing. She just got married (to an American) and they want $450 just to change her name on her GC.

Thankfully our sponsoring shop foots the bill for all labor.

Eight weeks or so after I sent in the application, they sent the entire thing back indicating my documentation was not proper (but not saying why). You can't contact the office for help from outside Canada. I emailed the Consul in Atlanta, but without seeing the paperwork, they weren't any help. I could only guess that one of the documents was not properly notarized according to their rules.

Apparently they restarted the entire six+ month process in October.

Surprisingly, giving citizenship to U.S.-residing people doesn't appear to be an important Canadian national priority.

Amazing. I would have thought Canada would be thrilled to welcome all those friendly American cousins.

In laymans terms that is known as refusal due to undistinguished character. Your twitter page is getting more hits than I gave it credit for VV.

I work on all my own bikes. I perform all my own stunts as well. I've been doing this for as long as I can remember.

It started soon after this picture was taken when I got my first 20" bmx bike.

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did that bigwheel talk?

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No, but that front tire would sing. I eventually burnt through it.

You could add that to the "pet peeve" thread...

Next thing you know they'll be erecting a 5,000 mile electric wall.

I kinda like it. Last summer I was riding the fixie totally unencumbered and got a flat. Walked it a half mile over to Sports Authority and had them change the tube for me. I think it was $12 total. Best bonus was that I found out the SA by the airport has smooth valve stem Avenir tubes!

Made me feel like an elitist having some underpaid kid getting his hands dirty on my behalf :)

One chore I've often considered having done is re-wrapping bars. For some reason I dread that task enough to consider wasting money on the labor charge.

it's kind of weird, but even though we regularly tear apart motorbikes, and besides needing to buy time on a dyno, or the more exacting repairs like boring out or replating a motor, we do all the motorbike maintenance ourselves. bicycles are so seemingly easy, but yet i can't manage something simple like get my ******* FD to not rub on the ******** chain. meh.

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and we have no shame, we work on stuff all over the house.

Nice looking floor.

ask VeloVol how to rewrap bars. He is an expert.

Just found another bike I gotta have. 1979 26" Gary Littlejohn BMX cruiser tandem...

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i'm a failure at that too. last time i wrapped them i bumped one of the levers and didn't notice. the hoods are at different heights and i haven't bothered to rewrap them to fix them.

You guys are weird. I love wrapping bars. It's so satisfying and pretty easy to do.

Just keep unwrapping and re-wrapping for an hour until it looks good.

Is the NHL going to be fixed shortly?

If you ever move to the Vancouver/Portland metro, lemme know datlas ;)

I crashed on the Diamond Back about 4 months ago, Scotch-taped the tape back together. Picked up some new tape about 3 months ago but have yet to rewrap cuz I'm just like "Do I HAVE to?".

I wrecked the Free Spirit tape over the summer also, so there's two bikes worth of bartaping zen just waiting for a willing soul.