Bike riding.

Gotta find the spots somewhere, since Streat is always hiding.



Expect interviews with bikechecks soonish.

Spots!

Bickford, at Christie and Bloor, is a freakin' goldmine. No pics, sorry. I have a massive headache.

Tomorrow 12-1PM Dairy Queen @ Pottery Rd.

Meet there for a downtown ride.

You saw my bike, now check out the progress of team rider Khaled's Riot:


Still waiting on a few parts, but that's the rough essence of it. Black Market Riot, rawed with hints of paint throughout, baby blue bits and pieces, freecoaster and peg. Mounts castrated as needed.

To whom it may concern

Vanderhoof skatepark is good to go. A few puddles but nothing major.Go get rad!

Bike riding at long last

Occasionally, we do ride. My frame has been broken for a few months, but just today I (mostly) built my other bike. Said "Fuck it!" and rode instead of worrying about details.

The Kona you see here isn't in spring shape quite yet...she needs a chain (obviously), but that's waiting until I figure out how I'm maintaining tension, and that's waiting until I decide on a ratio. No sweat! She's also waiting on a front brake. Stay tuned, you'll get a full speclist when she's done.

TS team rider Duran produces with a footjam tailwhip in the grimy, poorly lit garage.

TS team manager and manly man CR takes a break from finding shit to blog about and chucks a tailwhip in the grimy garage. Courageous decision to wear a white shirt. Early snap from Duran, but we'll forgive him this time.

In the news

If you read any of Toronto's papers, that partisan clueless bullshit rag the Star in particular, you know Toronto is in the process of mounting a bid for the 2015 Pan-Am Games. I don't know what the hell those are, other than what I've read in afore-mentioned populist rag. I do know that it'll be stupidly expensive, like $1,770,000,000 expensive, presumably because of all of the facilities you have to build. The idea of these games is to showcase Toronto's superiority as a city or something...

• The capital investment made to stage the 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games represents a legacy investment of close to $1 billion – the largest ever contribution to Ontario’s sport and recreation infrastructure

• Brand new facilities will be developed to host competitions; a combination of existing and renovated facilities will be used for a variety of events, all facilities for the games will meet or exceed international and Olympic standards

• All venues will use green technology, be fully accessible be available to spectators, high performance athletes, community groups and members of the public during and after the Games

So. $1 billion dollars worth of flashy shiny new facilities being built, fully acessible to the public. Can you see where I'm going with this? Build it and we will come.

In other news...expect some original content from our corner in a week or two.

And on the topic of dicking around....keep clicking that CORE link over there, eventually it'll take you to an actual website.

The waiting game

Most of us just play the benches when snow comes, shred the forums, you know the deal. And that's why most of us ride the same old spots year in year out. So get off your ass and explore, who knows what you'll find.

Worse comes to worse, you've seen a new part of the city, experienced some new streetlife. Hardly a day wasted.

We've still got a good month or two of this shit left, but when the season comes it won't be waiting, so find yourself a nice new ledge. These spots won't ride themselves.