EGC Skates

“Every time you take a car off the road - I don’t need to tell you what that does for somebody’s health, but also for the environment.” - Lance Armstrong (via Rhiannon Coppin, Momentum Magazine.)

Read the whole article at:
http://www.momentumplanet.ca/features/shifting-priorities#
For those of you out there thinking about utility cycling… I’ve been doing this for over [...]

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Thanks to the skaters that showed up last week to get cast.  I did five participants of the prototype program.  Your casts are drying in the garage.  I apologize for having to cancel the Sunday appointments and I may have to cancel those coming up this weekend as well.
As of today - all casting appointments [...]

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So I brought my bike into “the shop” today.  More accurately, I brought the frame of my bike to Urbane for a re-build.
When I was 16, my dad bought me a racing bike.  It was a Cyclops, made by the late Mike Mullholland in Toronto.  The frame is gorgeous, and like I wrote earlier, I [...]

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As you know, I’ve been cleaning up my basement and garage.  I’ve been cleaning up both physically and metaphorically.  Each time I throw something away, it reminds me of how quickly life passes me by.  What was once exciting, fun and happy, is now plain, idle and sad.  Looking at many of the things I disposed [...]

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And so it goes - my big problem this time around was having patience.  It’s that internet thingy and the desire for instant gratification that makes me anxious.  Rushing to get stuff done and things get forgotten.  Well - fortunately for me the stars were aligned and the work looks acceptable.
The Good News: My version [...]

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