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1)-- Playstation 2

SOLD

2) Angler fish hip bag

had this custom made-- but it isn't big enough/doesn't meet my wants perfectly. letting it go for $40 obo

-black cordura, silver tape, yellow vinyl liner, blue threads. has a white embroidery of an angler fish who's angler ends in a blinkie light holder.

-has a center divider and some pockets for wallet/pens.

-thick 2" cordura belt included.

-velcro u-lock holster is located under the flap.

-d-ring for holding your keys on outside.

blinkie light goes at the end of the angler fishes... angler...

u-lock goes under the velcro

PM me offers/trades

Anyone have any tricks for removing cogs without a chain whip? I bought a new cog and a chain whip to fit it, but I don't have one to fit the old cog. Thanks

there's the rotafix method... or you can take off the lockring and apply some heavy ass backpedal pressure.............

actually this may not work so well for loosening.......dunno

http://204.73.203.34/fisso/eng/schpignone.htm

picked this up today cheap at a local shop brand new for $400...indifferent about the trackends on these cayne uno frames but not in favor of it i guess...

ill be switching out the saddle, takin off back brakes.

ill put up some better pictures soon

how do you like the uno? i've been eying the ebay $165+shipping frames for a long long long time now. I've heard the geometry/handling is comparable to the bianchi pista and to me-- drilled for brakes is a must for the hills in SF (at least for me and my skull).

it wont' help you that much. things like gearing and trying skidding on other surfaces like wet, smooth cement, wet grass, and i've heard sand/loose gravel for some works well.

just keep at it. it'll click.

gotcha. is it worth the investment for a noob? does it make riding/breaking easier to learn?

i mean there's a lot of factors in there:

1. are you riding brakeless? if so-- consider your investment in good pedals + straps vs. getting levers, brakes + pads, and cables. you want good straps because you're going to be pullin on those things hard. however-- if you're riding this bike in a lot of rain + snow... maybe consider something cheaper since you'll probably wear anything down fast/hard.

2. investment-- are you looking to ride this bike for a year? more? are you going car free? if so.... go for it. and if you decide in a few months this isn't for you-- you can sell those bad boys to me

3. riding/breaking? like... skidding? people can do it with or without straps (don't recommend without straps or clips)-- you'll make do with what you have. understand you are paying for quality, but to start off with it won't make that much of a difference.

quality. they don't wear out, they feel wonderful, and quality.

and yes i said quality twice.

man... one day... some day-- i'll have a track frame (probably be riding a conversion into the ground. or till i get a job.)

toshi's at an OBS?

http://130.94.226.209/Store/Toe_Straps

if you need it-- i could make a trip to SF. could always use an excuse to drive out there. and i'm always down for looking at bike shops. kinda new to the area so checking out LBS is probably a good thing for me in the long run.

yo green-- you're around SF right? just put up a craigslist ad. tons and tons of roadies out there. the SF craigslist bike section blows my mind. when i was in pennsylvania i'd see 5 posts in one day... and then switch to the SF pages and dream of my glorious return...

already interested in some jackets from realistic situation + playhound.

i'll try to pay close attention to this thread.

3. you learn to not pedal. when you get back on a freewheel your pedal strokes will be so buttery smooth it will make the roadies cry with envy.

also, 45 km training ride yesterday. i need to start wearing chammies.

Chammies are a must-- if you can, get 2. that way you can wash one and wear the other.

get panniers-- a back rack + panniers is a must. If you're going with another person, and plan on doing a lot of tours, can consider using a trailer... but they're quite an investment.

a front rack can be useful... especially for strapping your sleeping bag + tent. You generally want to have more weight in the back for better maneuvering.

Get LED lights (front and back if possible)... if your get a good front one that is removable and bright-- you can save the weight of bringing batteries + flashlight. A front light will easily last your 8 day tour. Try not to pack batteries-- extra weight for a small package.

Get your gear ASAP and practice riding with racks + bags weighed down... try going 75% of the actual distance you will cover in a day.

Get gloves. your hands will go numb. Make sure you're riding on drops or have something that has lots of hand positions (trial bars with a drop + aero bars are the only other thing i can think of that would help.)

Pack light things. Plan for all types of weather.

Uh... and so much more. When are you riding? I'm actually doing a 7 day ride in... 5 days. Got most of my gear ready, now it's just cleaning out my house before my lease is up-- and continuing to ride around 30 miles a day.

Did some photoshoot today in such a nice weather.....

Asking for taste and preference sort of thing...SHould i get BULLHORN bar or Track drop??

Both look good to different types of people. Most importantly, RIDE what you LIKE. not what other people like looking at. try them both-- check a LBS or with a friend for a pair of bullhorns. Try to get some cheap drops-- flip'em and chop'em. Try that and if you like the forward thrust-- invest in a pair of bullhorns. You can get cheap ones at Nashbar.com

driving, straight forward, cuts your teeth, southern rock and punk tinged:

the bronx, the bars, fucked up, cancer bats

ATDI, give yourself something to more complex to chew on:

les savy fav, hot cross, blood bros, we vs. the shark, mewithoutyou, malady, ultra dolphins...

i always find myself revisiting the 90's for the "emo" dose, drive like jehu, antioch arrow, fugazi, hot snakes, hoover, rival schools,

more metal side:

baroness, torche, big business, saviours, priestess, kylesa (sludgey, but yeah why not?), cursed (new EP is loud, brutal, and I can't get enough of it)

the melvins (new album - hoooly shit, one of my favorites of 2006), black elk, mouth of the architecht, intronaut, rosetta

misc you might enjoy

zombi - duo playing synth horror soundtrack style stuff. ambient, groovy, and sounds like a 70's italian horror soundtrack (ala argento, fulci, and the band goblin)

envy - japanese "post hardcore", released a new album, got a lot more "post" but still some emotionally wrenching and powerful stuff

death from above 1979 - power duo playing gritty, slightly dancy, stripped down stuff. i'm always revisiting You're A Woman, I'm a Machine

i think that's a decent list. i feel lik ei'm starting to stretch boundaries into things that aren't quite ATDI, dinosaur JR. esque... but i tried.

oooh man. my wheelset for my cheapie schwinn conversion is in order and being built this week. it's going to be a long/hard week.

it can be a bit of a pain going down a hill with your wheels/pedals and chain in a simultaneous dance... however a front brake (if you choose to install one) will help slow you down a bit. Also skidding/skipping/mini skips or skids/power slides or whatever other tactics you employ will help slow you down. If you're really gung ho and don't mind a bit of knee pressure (just don't over do it) resisting the pedals by pushing the back pedal down and pulling the front up will slow you down a bit. As aforementioned, when riding a fixie, your mindset and awareness go to a different level.

The advantages of riding a fixie is having the ability to modulate your speed by slowing your pedal cadence or resisting the motion. It makes for a smoother type of riding through traffic, especially if you couple it with trackstands which allow you to travel without ever putting your feet on the ground. Also the drivetrain continues forward momentum so you get an extra boost when you're going up hills. Coupled with the fact that you have a shorter chain than a geared bikes + less friction from the chain having to go through the derailer makes for a more efficient and zippier feeling. Plus you lose a couple ounces without the extra metal/parts.

Some people can burn through thick tires in a day, some can skid on tires for months. It all depends on your weight and riding style (and the terrain you are on). There's a lot of advantages to riding fixed... or better to say caveats. It's not for everybody.

Trust me-- I know the feeling mackelface. I used to think I'd never get into bikes... especially road bikes. I've gone bike nuts in the past 2 years and fixie crazy in the past year. I've finally worked up the funds and my enthusiasm has outweighed my guilt to finally build up a conversion.

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It's pretty hard if you're not watching the road carefully and someone cuts infront of you abruptly. The best you can do is basically do a skid stop where you lift your weight off of the back wheel, lock your legs, then let the wheel come down and you resist the movement of the pedals and you bear your weight down in back. It ain't pretty and it can get hard on the knees, but it can stop you pretty quickly. It also works better/best with clips so your legs can lift the back wheel more easily... plus your feet won't get bucked out of the pedals as easily. Some fixie riders also have brakes... since your legs control the backwheel with the drive train, having a front brake is more essential (the front brake provides more than half of your braking power anyway).

It's not that much more effective than using rim brakes. It takes a few feet to come to a complete stop and jamming on rim brakes (especially if you put most of your force in the front) can easily throw you over handlebars. Disc brakes might be different... I actually have no experience with them but I know they work better in rainy/wet conditions. But fixies also work quite well in those conditions.

Nothing really beats having your eyes and ears open for any potential danger. Chances are-- nobody's going to jump infront of you at the last second... if you keep your head about you, you should be able to anticipate any sort of danger and possibly any escape route or actions you might need to take to avoid getting killed. That is... if you want to keep riding and living on two legs.

pittsburgh! booyah grandmaaaa!!!

nesk, if you're on the east cosat, i have a spare room open if you wanna bunk it. lightning bolt is too fuckin good to pass up.

so stoked.

recently bought this off another SF member. Awesome pea coat... but it just doesn't fit me as well as I hoped.

It's a slimmer fitting 38R coat. Really nice quality. Has anchors on the buttons.

Payed $69 shipped.

Willing to do $65 shipped. I juts want to recoup as much of my costs as possible!

Measurements:

20.5" pit to pit

25.5" sleeve length (from shoulder seam)

22" bottom width

34" long

I apologize for the bad camera / mirror photos. all of them are old, dirty, and malfunctioning (the mirror not as much as the camera.)

if there was more than one of those dudes in the world, i'd probably cry for the human race and shit myself laughing at the same time. i'm still not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

just saw a compilation of his reviews (hard to read because they are wider than your screen... but they have some hilarious review gems in there)

http://www.happyrobot.net/robotchow/robot_filter.asp?rfid=1349

you sound like this guy-- who still lives with his mom and has been going to community college for 6 years:

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I just saw a movie that’ll give your eyes boners, make your balls scream and make you poop DVD copies of THE TRANSPORTER. It’s called 300. I don’t know what the title has to do with the movie, but they could’ve called it KITTENS MAKING CANDLES and it’d still rule.

It’s about these 300 Greek dudes who stomp the sugar-coated shit out of like a million other dudes. I have a feeling that a lot of high school sports coaches are going to show this film to their teams before they play. Also, gay dudes and divorced women are going to use screen captures for computer wallpaper.

The movie takes place about a million years ago, and it’s sort of like a prequel to SIN CITY. Except way less guns and cars but twice as much skull splitting. If you watch this movie and go into a Taco Bell, and say to the cashier, “I need some extra sauce packets†guess what? You’re getting twenty sauce packets because your face will punch him in the brain.

I can’t spoil the plot because THANK GOD THERE ISN’T ONE. Just ass kicking that kicks ass that, while said ass is getting kicked, is kicking yet more ass that’s hitting someone’s balls with a hammer made of ice but the ice is frozen whiskey.

TWO COOL THINGS ABOUT THE MOVIE AND ONE THING I DIDN’T LIKE:

COOL THING ONE:

HEAVY METAL DURING BATTLE SCENES

Who gives a shit if the music isn’t historically correct? LORD OF THE RINGS could’ve used some Journey. This movie has that chu-CHUNG kind of metal that you hear in your head when your shift supervisor at Wetzel’s Pretzel is telling you that you’ll have to stay for clean up and you wish you had a sock filled with quarters in your hand.

COOL THING TWO:

FOES, MINI-BOSSES AND A BIG BOSS

Basically, the Greek dudes are fighting these Persian dudes, but the director, who must have a dick made of three machine guns, does it all like a video game. The Greeks fight every death metal video from the last ten years. There’s wave after wave of giants, freaks, ninjas, mutants, wizards, and a hunchback who looks like he’s got Rosie O’Donnell on his back.

Would I have been happy if Dom DeLuise from HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I had shown up? Maybe, but this movie more than makes up for that glaring oversight.

NOT SO GOOD THING:

DUDE NUDITY (“DUDE-ITYâ€)

These are Greek times, when there were a lot of naked women around. And there are some naked women in this film, but almost every naked woman scene has a muscular dude giving the screen an ass picnic. Dude-ity is something directors put in their movies so people will think they’re serious, I guess, and not just throwing in naked hotties.

Any directors reading this – IT’S OKAY TO JUST THROW IN NAKED HOTTIES.

Can’t someone make a movie about naked Amazons and call it PAUSE BUTTON?

My final analysis is 300 the most ass-ruling movie I’ve seen this year, and will probably be the King of 2007 unless someone makes a movie where a pair of sentient boobs fights a werewolf.

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he's probably the biggest reason I'm goin to watch this movie.

haha, someone else is into the geeks

MLIW is ... sometimes I'm into them, sometimes it feels a bit contrived. Can't really explain it too well.

seconded on Municipal Waste. Last time I saw them the place was at least 100 people over capacity (small 200 person venue). Boogie boards, beer bongs, and cruster punks abound. Good times.

Haven't really gotten into Fucked Up, but perhaps they warrant another listen. Personally I'm more into The Bars and The Bronx. Anyone into Cursed? Got the new EP and I don't know if it's enough to hold me over till III. I need to see them again live.

Anyone into Ultra Dolphins? Recently saw them with Tiny Hawks and they'll be comin round my area again with this Icelandic hardcore band called I Adapt.

Recently got the new Hot Cross and Comeback Kid... neither are impressing me like the earlire material did. Comeback Kid's new vocalist is great, but the southern sound is trumping their oldschool sound which was the fun/enjoyable part for me. Hot Cross, it hasn't blown me away yet, but it's a decent listen thus far.

Uh... has anyone started a sendspace/megaupload thread here? I feel like there's a lot I'd like to hear from the diverse superfuture crowd.

the pound is dead!? guhhhh-- i went to a few awesome shows there during the summer and was wondering why i don't see anything else going on there.

saw a few great shows goin on at balazo as well as the 12 galaxies. went to the phoenix a while back although it's pretty far from SJ (where I'm originally from). and the gilman... good god I love that place. I need some friends in Berkeley so I can just bum a place to sleep after getting thrashed at shows.

yeah.

nobody has mentioned Supergrass?

or the phrase:

Twee as fuck?

those are my 2 favorite things about twee.

musical ADD:

Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice

Ultra Dolphins - Mar

I've been flipping through a bunch of albums, but these 2 seem to hold my attention the most (kinda funny how they themselves are little musical ADD trips)

and startin to get pumped on lightning bolt again. they're touring, and i'm pretty much ready to explode with anticipation and excitement.

sounds like you're into the oldschool influenced stuff.

you might like:

carry on, the geeks, lights out, go it alone, righteous jams (earlier stuff), risky business, judge, have heart, mental, down to nothing, iron boots, miles away--

just browse top 8's in the myspaces for those 'modern' hardcore acts.

man, i just realized you're from the bay area. you get some pretty great stuff comin' through the area. i'm originally from south of the bay and drool whenever i look at some of the things comin through.

well... if you really want to get into "labels", Circle Takes the Square hits more of the screamo section.

recent screamo listens/favorites:

funeral diner, raien, pg. 99, city of caterpillar, circle takes the square, textbook traitors, love lost but not forgotten, shikari, orchid, neil perry, joshua fit for battle, majority rule

recently also been into this South Korean band called the Geeks. I was surprised they came through my area since I'm in such a small place where most hardcore bands pass over. I was never around for the 80's hardcore scene and in some eyes I'm just a suburb raised kid who knows nothing about the lifestyle these people created hardcore in... but to me it was all about the music and one's dedication to it. Although their english was broken and they were sick and delirious, the Geeks floored me with their sincerity and beliefs about hardcore. These guys had a lot of stuff stolen from them when they visited San Francisco, which is bad enough considering how much money it takes for them to tour the US. And yet they still were chuggin along doing what they cared the most about. It was what they were all about, regardless of how Korean society viewed them or how hard it was for them to make a living. I have a lot of respect for them, and i'm glad that every once in a while a band can come around and not only humble me with their music, but also with their outlook on life/hardcore. It's becoming a less common thing in "modern" hardcore.

does the flap have fabric underneath... and is it possible to take a more straightforward headshot? I am interested in seeing if the flap comes up to cover more of your mouth.

measurements would be nice too.

be in a band.

there are some decent performances out there. generally circuitbending isnt' anything amazing in itself for musicianship/melody... it's all about texture, sound, and technique (i.e. what are you bending, how are you doing it, and how good are you at controlling it?)

the scene itself isn't all about the vegetable fucks either. new media artists are getting pretty into the DIY-electronics hacking scene-- i mean check out MAKE magazine and Ars Electronica. media art is getting huge in japan and europe... and America has a few big things goin on too.