Ditto. Anything between 70-75" is nice for 'round here.
Personally, I'd sell the tubies and get a good set of clinchers. Between the potholes, frost-heaves and broken glass on the side of the road (for the next month anyway) I can see changing flats being a pain. Then again, I've never ridden tubulars on the street.
Maybe keep a set for weekend trips to Bromont.

Any place in particular in Ottawa that you'd suggest for picking up a 19t cog?

Try Phat Moose, on the corner of Hawthorne and Main St., just over the Pretoria bridge. They get Surly stuff in fairly regularly. Other than that, I'm out of ideas.
Popluhv, where do you get your cogs?

ooo-kay then.

my buddy from ottawa visiting right now has his left leg rolled up in solidarity. he didn't realize you were a tory, he's a grit. maybe you guys can still get along over pints at darcy's by parliament hill. keep an eye oot, eh.

ps you STOLE that bike...

I don't want to be Tory. Can't I just take my pants off altogether and be NDP?

EDIT: sweet, Phat Moose is just a block away from where I have spinning tomorrow morning. How very convenient.

don't bother. you'll just have to put them back on in 3 hours when your government changes again.

PS search "nathan fabian" for some hints on trackstanding

Haha, I've perused through that thread. It's amusing to say the least. It's great when people post dumbass pictures of themselves trying to be bad ass on the 'net.

wow, that's a good deal on that bike. i don't know the terrain there, but i second the suggestion of 48/17. let me rephrase that. play around with some different chainring sizes, but keep the 17 tooth cog. up to a 49t chainring, i believe, using a 17t cog will give you the best skid patches. to put skid patches simply, if you're not sure (use the search as well, there are some other good posts to read on the subject, plus diagrams and calculators)...different ratios will cause your rear wheel to stop at different points when you lock it up, due to the number of wheel rotations per crank rotation, causing different amounts of wear, depending on how many places the wheel stops at. 17t cogs are the best size cog since the ratios tend to yield the most skid patches, but you can play around.

THat deal is absurd. Is the bike cursed?

Yeah, bad Canadian juju.

175$ canadian? you are one lucky cat.

Good lord, went to one of my fav shops today to pick up fenders and such and was quoted $110 CDN for an Open Pro rim. Looks like I'm sticking with the tubies for a while...

Aren't anything wrong with tubulars.

Nothing wrong, but I figure clinchers are easier to take care of if I flat during a ride.

Tubulars are easier *during* a ride. Its *after* the ride where they get harder.

I know they're 10$ cheaper at Full Cycle, if that matters.

Not a lot, but thanks for the heads up. I might just go down to the Bike Dump again and see if they have any clincher rims in decent shape. EDIT: I also just found an eBay seller who has a pair of Sun M14A rims for $45. Could be promising...

Went there today to see if they had a 19t cog or smaller chainring and went away empty handed. They measured the BCD of the Sugino cranks and told me it was 150mm and I would have a hell of a time trying to find a chainring that would fit, but I used a measuring tape at home afterwards and it looks like 144mm to me. The techs also agreed that I made off like a bandit with this deal.

Phat Moose said they wouldn't be receiving their Surly order until next week, so I'm stuck pushing 51x16 for a little while longer.

144 is way more common. were you measuring center to center on all the bolts?