MrWilloughby

Lololololoooooool! Sounds like my buddy Ian.

Agreed. Milk does the trick topically as well as for an "accidental" ingestion of "try it, wou'll like it" peppers...

I got clipped by a side mirror once years ago. It caught my left elbow and sent me into the curb and up and over the sidewalk bending my front rim and popping the tire in the process. I saw their break lights the watched them speed off never to be seen again. I was picking bits of gravel out of my leg for days after that... Now with everyone driving and texting it seems to be worse. This morning on my way to work I saw a guy reading a stack of printerd papers braced on his steering wheel... he had no clue he was in and out of my lane, his lane, and the far right lane as well.

Any update on this from those in the know?

Sweet looking fish!

Ouch. Does not sound like fun...

I've had my eye on a nice Argon 18 or maybe a Cervelo, but it seems like the Cervelos are as common as grass on the streets and roads hereabouts. I used to ride a nice hand built Marinoni until it was stolen. That bike served me well for a lot of years.

Ah. That makes more sense than liquid goo...

Nice rods!

They ask for so little and give so much in return. Sorry for your loss.

Thanks! I never knew about this.

A couple question for you folks... What are you folks riding (Giant, Cervelo, Argon, etc.)? What do you do for clothing? I doubt they would let me wander about the office in spandex and lycra....

I think if the government (at all levels) made an effort to have affordable and accessible education and training available to Canadian citizens we would not be seeing such a demand for foreign workers. Governments traditionally cut education and healthcare budgets to meet whatever goals they “need” to meet at the time and this is ultimately the consequence: poor access to healthcare and a lack of educated people capable of filling the job market. We deride the actions of student protesters in Quebec but think about it for a minute (even if Quebec does have the lowest cost for tuition in Canada the principal is the same), who wants to get an education when getting that education will leave you literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt in some cases? Many people don’t want to do that and opt for easier and more feasible solutions so that they can support a family but what happens when the market takes a hit and the easy solution is no longer viable because the price of oil is way down or the mill closes? People en mass seem to vote along party lines regardless of the history of the party and the broken promises they leave behind like peanut shells on a barroom floor. If voters actually held their elected officials and parties accountable you would see a drastically different standard of living in this (or any) country. We have a tenth of the population of the US and have been lucky enough to avoid most of the major setbacks that they have seen in the past ten years or so but we are beginning to see them now as we begin to embrace their style of government more and more. What we don’t seem to think about is that with their brand of uber capitalism comes the associated risks. Corporations there have outsourced the vast majority of manufacturing jobs resulting in huge levels of unemployment. Look at Detroit for example. This also is true of IT and customer service jobs. The majority of companies have their customer service centres based in foreign countries where the fellow on the other end of the line is most definitely not named “Bob” despite his claims to contrary. There is a reason why Japan, decimated at the end of the Second World War, is now a global powerhouse of innovation and manufacturing, and that is because they did not choose the “cheapest” way or the most short sighted methods for a quick buck. *note* I specifically did not mention any particular party or flavor of political belief because, in my opinion, they are all as bad as the other regardless of their left or right leanings on the spectrum simply because they count on low voter turnout and party line mentality that will not hold them to be accountable.

I vote for Ott lights as well. I have had a couple for years now (one bought at a hefty price from Micheal's when they were still rare) and two from Costco. They work great for true colour lighting and I use them for painting also. You can also get GE true spectrum bulbs but I find them not quite as good as the Otts and being bulbs they throw off more heat than the Otts do too.

Nice rod indeed! Is that some kind of liquid in the base above the reel? Kinda hard to tell on my phone...