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Most ladies prefer a women's saddle to a guy's saddle, controlling for things like width and padding. Most guys can't tell the difference between the two. SRSLY. The bike industry would be well served to make all stock saddles female-friendly, and make guy's saddles aftermarket for the few that need them.

Is that a Neutra house?

Is it okay to nickname this brake the "Juicy XT"?

I wear practical stuff. My favourite biking jersey is a synthetic shirt my wife got in a squash tournament that was way too big for her. Shants for the daily commute to work, full Lycra for road rides, a big shirt to fit over the armor for DH. The things that visibly identify me as a cyclist are sock/short/glove/jersey tan lines, scars on my shins and somewhat overdeveloped calf muscles. That, and riding a bike 300+ days/year. I don't feel the need to look like I ride

That was Ahab and the main slickrock trail in… mid-October?

Food runs.

You forgot road SS/FG with brakes [for winter training], track bike [for track riding] and heavy-ass chrome-stay downtube-shifter carbon-free lugged euro- trash paint scheme "classic" with Shimano 600 or Campy Croce d'Aune [and tubulars].

LOVE Dope/Not Dope.

I seriously had to do a double-take on this. Titus El Guapo @ $1000 frame with shock or $2k complete [current stock going end-of-line]. 26″ to boot. Just saying…

Review of the 2014 Crank Brothers Wheels:

10/10. I was expecting "build trail" to be in there. "Bleed", "get lost", "teach someone to ride" should be there too.

They give you one as you roll into the Park. There's also a 15-second blurb about Canada's 150th delivered in English or French by a bored Parks employee.

GM was a talent. He'll be missed for sure.

Of course this doesn't explain Keith Richards… there are always anomalies

Oh, he's been dead for years, but the nicotine and heroin haven't quite worked their way out of the tissues.

Snow tires for snow, everything else is a compromise. Huge +1 for going down a size for winter tires. When you drift a turn and curb it at 50, it's not so bad.

Thanks all! It would be a 2011 or newer model, and probably with AWD. The in-laws have a Sienna, and although it's nothing like the WRX and STI we have, it actually drives okay. With the 3rd row seats stowed, and the middle seats out, various Youtube vids show that a 4x8 sheet fits in, so that's a lot of room. The only downside is that the middle row seats attach via rails that stay in the vehicle so the floor isn't completely flat. Still, these are resolvable first-world problems.

Looking at a Toyota Sienna as a "sleep where you stop" vehicle for mostly summer biking excursions. I'm thinking that the main mod is removing all the rear seats (or back row at least) when we go on road trips. It's just the two of us, so we need one bed and space for gear. We won't be heading up 4x4 roads. Pros/cons?

No, you really really don't want me ever chosen for those positions.

That's exactly why you need to be there!

Another Innovator here.

I would love to see being an MP/MLA/City Councillor as more of a public service, and less of a power/prestige thing. Anyone meeting minimum qualifications [no criminal record, post-secondary education or an IQ over 100, 18-70 years old, not in school, exemption for those with kids if needed, etc.] is chosen by lottery to serve, whether they like it or not.

Compensation would be slightly above average for their home municipality, tax-free, full RRSP contributions for the time they're there, retraining if they can't return to their old job/career for whatever reason. 1 term. 1 representative per 100,000 people. All votes by secret ballot. Mandatory attendance. Run the country for 5 years, get a handshake, limited edition coffee mug and a plane ticket home. Not a punishment, but not really a reward either. Lobbying would be pointless, as there would be no way to track who voted for what.

Odds of being selected are about the same as winning the LottoMax jackpot, about 1 in 20 million, and they could do it the same way, with the spinny ball machine on live TV.

How the hell did I not know there was a Ready Player One movie in production????? Note to self: "Get out more."

I couldn't agree more with that.

I've spent the last month or two re-reading Hamilton's Commonwealth saga so as to read his latest two-part series.

Just on the last book of that and while I enjoy his writing a lot, I'm a bit bummed he's back in the Void and dealing with low-tech and 'magic' again.

I can't wait until I've forgotten the Culture series. Looking forward to re-reading it.

The Void is a pretty neat concept, but it would be neat if it were meshed with the sci-fi a bit more. Once I'm done my current titles I'll check out that Hamilton book.

The Culture series! I need a little more time before I go back to that - it's still too fresh. I can probably re-read William Gibson's Sprawl and Bridge series now, although I may have parts of Neuromancer memorized.