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Saturday's stage is going to be brutal. Sure, it's only 100 miles, but they finish with 2 laps of the Leighton Centre climb + all the kickers on 773. The speeds on Sunday's dt finishing circuit are going to blow a lot of minds.

Anyone else excited about the Tour of Alberta starting tomorrow?? 5 ProTour teams, at least 2 former grand tour champions, several former world champions!! I'm pretty amazed they managed to pull it together (and grateful).

That is quite unfortunate, but the reason is that his maxilla is jammed. Next time you see his like, do him a favour and use your forceps to pry it lateral to his mandible. It's not pretty, but he'll live.

I was thinking about that guy's question about talking to himself while fishing alone: here in bear country, I try to make a point of it.

Thanks guys - as I said, I'm a newbie and I've been frustrated by the absence of pricing on the web. Your input is greatly appreciated.

I'm going to be putting a cap on a Tacoma in the next few weeks, but I've never been in the market before. Can anyone recommend a brand or a vendor here in Calgary?

Last week - virus in my left ear gave me 5 days of bed spins. Gravol helped, especially the new time release stuff they've put out. It may or may not help you, depending on the underlying causes. Regardless, I don't envy you.

They bend out ridiculously easily. Even on 5x, you have to baby the hook, not the tippet. It's a real bummer when you realize that all your pretty flies are pretty much useless.

Nice tie, but do yourself a favour and don't waste it on a 2487 unless you fish exclusively with 6X or finer.

Nice looking Skwala! Could you elaborate a bit?

As much as we might like to see people hung, drawn, and quartered for criminally infringing on our interests, that's not realistic. I doubt that they were so flush with cash that the loss of $100000 and a $50000 vehicle won't be extremely painful, especially with their revenue stream now gone. Given the resources at their disposal, I'm pleasantly surprised that SRD caught them.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Edmonton+poachers+fined/7507929/story.html

First thing you should understand is that the Bow above Harvie Passage and the Elbow in its entirety are closed.

You're right: if the odds of getting caught are low, the penalties have to be severe, much like driving without insurance. I almost forgot the school bus driver I saw last week intentionally run a red and just hit the brakes in time to avoid mowing down a bunch of pedestrians crossing with the light. That one I called in.

Certain stereotypes have a basis in fact.

Riding to work this morning and the guy beside me at the light talking on his cell phone starts running the red when the advance for the left turn lane goes green. He narrowly misses causing an accident, then sits there for 10s when his light does turn green. The girl behind him has her ipad on the steering wheel and only occasionally glances at the road. Saw 3 people run red (not yellow) lights. Last week a lady at work asks me, "So you fish?". I say yes and she asks me to give her some. I tell her that it's mostly illegal where I go and I'd be letting them go even if it wasn't. She informs me that she'd eat them all and to hell with the law. I tell her that that, in a nutshell, is why in 10 years tuna will be extinct and salmon will be $50/pound. She looks at me like I'm crazy. Hell really is other people.

I think the regs on the Bow are working just fine. How often is it that one even catches a fish small enough to be legal??? The bigger issue, here as elsewhere, is the near total lack of enforcement.

You sir, are talking out your bum. Virtually all the green space and most of the parks in the city are off leash. For example, ALL of the green space on the northern Bow river escarpment from Tuscany to Deerfoot and then all the way north on both sides of Deerfoot to the city limits is designated off leash. Playgrounds are, by contrast, nonexistent. Your right to take out your dogs ends where your dogs' existence begins to interfere with the rights of your fellow citizens. We are far, far past that already and have been for some time.

Actually Hawgstopper - my insurance just gleefully replaced a ridiculously expensive bike I demolished with a garage and a roof rack, and I was candid with the details. Your insurance just might cover this for you. At the very least, it would be worth talking to your agent.

So long as you don't have a relationship with gravity like mine, there really aren't many bad frames out there (the madone being an exception). But, if you want something novel, you'll have to pay for it. The pinarellos are just beautiful up close and they don't seem to have gone as far down the light-is-right road as some. If you want a forever bike like your Marinoni, you still can't beat Ti, but there is a weight penalty.

After breaking 1-2 carbon frames/year for the past decade, I recently went back to metal in the form of a Lynskey Helix OS.

Really??? Were you using a UST rim and tire or a conversion kit? The later can be very sketchy, but I've ridden and raced UST rims and tires for years and, while I still carry a tube and CO2 on principle, never had a single flat. Mind you, I always used 32-35 psi.

If you guys are running MTBs, the new tubeless setups are virtually impossible to flat when run with a bit of sealant.

You might be just paranoid enough! Good call on the CO2s as well. They aren't just faster, but easier to use with cold/wet hands. Come to think of it, I've had a whole bunch of minipumps over the years and I'm pretty sure none of them were in any way capable of filling a tire.

Yes, head start. I went out past Bullshead then across on the Maple Creek road to 40. It was a nice day, but I wasn't moving very fast by the end.