Is there any bike related postings here anymore?

Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.

Kevin

Kevin wrote:
Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.

Kevin




Sad isn't it

On Apr 11, 7:26*am, "Kevin" wrote:
Just curious... :-) *It looks more like an ebay store front.

Kevin

But, but, Kevin, now I know where to buy a cheap FAKE WATCH. Very
useful when you don't want to know what time it is.
And how about those call girls in HYDERABAD and
BANGALORE.....oooooooWhee! Now that's livivn' son!!
BTW, Call girls in Bang Galore? It's worthy of Ian Flemming.
ABS

Kevin McIntyre wrote:
Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.

That and cross-posted flame wars started by donquixote1954 aka
CommendanteBanana.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

In article ,
"Kevin" writes:
Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.

I've just passed the 8th anniversary of my
stewardship of my main bike -- an old-skool
MTB that somebody discarded at the closure
of our last public transit strike.

The only "original" parts remaining since
I got the bike are the frame (even the
fork is a replacement) and the Sugino AT
crankset.

Last week I dropped $40 for a new rear wheel
c/w screw-on freewheel hub. It's a nondescript,
single-wall-rim'd, straight-gauge-spoked li'l
beauty. I was lucky to find something with
a threaded hub. The outer walls on double-walled
rims wear from braking just as quickly as single
wall rims.

The front wheel rim is getting fairly worn,
so I might buy an whole new front wheel this
weekend. Since I'm doing 40 hour work weeks,
[re]building wheels eats into my precious riding
time. And maybe I'll look into obtaining either
a taller stem (one where the front brake cable
stop is an hole bored right through the thing)
or a riser handlebar.

I've thought about getting a new bike; maybe
a DaVinci Umbria or something like, but my
current whip has served me well and faithfully,
and I've become rather fond of it, and respectful
of its perserverance. It's always there for me.
It's gotten me home while I was in dire straits,
and it's gotten me away from dire straits at home.
Besides, I like having threaded eyelets for everything,
a rigid fork, and old style cantilever brakes & levers.
It's easier to fit fenders around old style canti brakes
than V-brakes, and old style canti brake levers just feel
good to me. And 18 speeds/x-over gearing inc. granny is
generally more than sufficient for my needs.

I bought a new rubber bulb horn for it last week, too.

Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather
becomes conducive. I think I and the bike would
like something '60s-ish psychedelic.


cheers,
Tom
--
"... my Preshuss ..."
-- Gollum
I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Tom Keats wrote:
In article ,
"Kevin" writes:
Just curious... :-) It looks more like an ebay store front.

I've just passed the 8th anniversary of my
stewardship of my main bike -- an old-skool
MTB that somebody discarded at the closure
of our last public transit strike.

The only "original" parts remaining since
I got the bike are the frame (even the
fork is a replacement) and the Sugino AT
crankset.

Last week I dropped $40 for a new rear wheel
c/w screw-on freewheel hub. It's a nondescript,
single-wall-rim'd, straight-gauge-spoked li'l
beauty. I was lucky to find something with
a threaded hub. The outer walls on double-walled
rims wear from braking just as quickly as single
wall rims.

The front wheel rim is getting fairly worn,
so I might buy an whole new front wheel this
weekend. Since I'm doing 40 hour work weeks,
[re]building wheels eats into my precious riding
time. And maybe I'll look into obtaining either
a taller stem (one where the front brake cable
stop is an hole bored right through the thing)
or a riser handlebar.

I've thought about getting a new bike; maybe
a DaVinci Umbria or something like, but my
current whip has served me well and faithfully,
and I've become rather fond of it, and respectful
of its perserverance. It's always there for me.
It's gotten me home while I was in dire straits,
and it's gotten me away from dire straits at home.
Besides, I like having threaded eyelets for everything,
a rigid fork, and old style cantilever brakes & levers.
It's easier to fit fenders around old style canti brakes
than V-brakes, and old style canti brake levers just feel
good to me. And 18 speeds/x-over gearing inc. granny is
generally more than sufficient for my needs.

I bought a new rubber bulb horn for it last week, too.

Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather
becomes conducive. I think I and the bike would
like something '60s-ish psychedelic.


cheers,
Tom

Yes. Most of us are probably out riding when we can.

Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather becomes
conducive. I think I and the bike would like something
'60s-ish psychedelic.

=v= Beautiful Saturday and I'm sitting around waiting for
delivery of my "psycho lime" bike. (You can google the color.)

Yes. Most of us are probably out riding when we can.

=v= True enough. Others are spamming when they can, though. :-(
_Jym_

"There's a SEASON?"
-- Yehuda Moon

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:14:00 -0700, Jym Dyer wrote:

Maybe I'll paint the frame when (if) the weather becomes
conducive. I think I and the bike would like something
'60s-ish psychedelic.

=v= Beautiful Saturday and I'm sitting around waiting for
delivery of my "psycho lime" bike. (You can google the color.)

Yes. Most of us are probably out riding when we can.

=v= True enough. Others are spamming when they can, though. :-(
_Jym_

"There's a SEASON?"
-- Yehuda Moon

Spam already comes in a can.

My server has good filters so authors I see (or not, based on my
filters) are mainly OT: involved in on going ****ing contests, flames
and troll baiting by the regular experts at such, (mia culpa). Or,
they're in my watch file.

IIRC, Eric S. Sande and Peter Cole were the first people who
responded to my first posts in r.b.m. Many of the ideas presented
here, including yours, have influenced my thinking about cycling
protocols.

Online communication among local people who are likely to know each
other or meet in the future has a more civil tone but I dislike the
interface compared to plain text. A BBS would be better for me.

A picture is worth a thousand words so they use a lot of txt msg
spelling. Being moderated, as it must be to protect the host from
defamation hassles, makes for a tamer exchange than often times found
on Usenet. Fewer threads wander into far off-topic hostilities.

I found the Velolove list a little _too_ moderated with many OT
political/environmental posting hoping to mobilise cyclists for the
cause du jour.

Between the Momentum calendar and fixedvancouverdotcom, I can find a
ride anytime.
--
zk

Many of the ideas presented here, including yours,
have influenced my thinking about cycling protocols.

=v= Who, me? But I was being a jerk (and even spelled
your name wrong). I always figured that the half-naked
women with chocolate got the message across much better
than I did. ;^)
_Jym_

In article ,
(Tom Keats) writes:

The front wheel rim is getting fairly worn,
so I might buy an whole new front wheel this
weekend. Since I'm doing 40 hour work weeks,
[re]building wheels eats into my precious riding
time. And maybe I'll look into obtaining either
a taller stem (one where the front brake cable
stop is an hole bored right through the thing)
or a riser handlebar.

Well, I bought a new front wheel today. Double-walled
rim. Set me back about $55, which is $15 more than
my rear wheel with the threaded hub. I asked the
guy at Our Community Bikes about long stems (I have
about a 6" drop from saddle to handlebar right now)
and he suggested I should come back next week when
they'll have a new line of super long ones in stock.

I also bought a Matisse Quickstand:
http://tinyurl.com/6qpfrt

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6qpfrt

URL in full:
{http://www.mec.ca/Products/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=84552444261 81\49&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302694071}

It's basically just a display stand with a
little adjustablility, but I think I'll be able
to make good use of it. I like the simplicity
and compactness of it. One can kick it under
one's workbench and out of the way when it's
not in use.

It's another of those assemble-it-yourself thingies
and it didn't come with enough washers, so I've been
perfunctorily & half-heartedly rootin' through my
parts drawers, looking for do-fers. I'm not disheartened;
I just don't feel like assembling stuff right now.
Screw it, I'll just buy some washers from a hardware
store/home improvement shop tomorrow. Another excuse
for a ride, eh?

Maybe I should get around to installing the new wheel.
But first I wanna go over the bearings. I don't really
feel like doing that right now, either. Chances are
I'll wake up in the middle of the night with a compulsion
to take care of that.

And I impulse-purchased a pair of skull valve caps.
Actually, two pairs -- one pair's for a fellow rider/
cow orker with whom I trade cutsie dollar store junk.


cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca