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		<title>End of summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I raced cyclocross I&#8217;d be excited about the start of &#8216;cross season, but I just ride a cyclocross bike so instead I&#8217;m excited about the start of the best bike riding time of the year.  

Yesterday was 20 degrees celcius (not those piddly little Foreignheit degrees)  colder than Wednesday with a headwind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixed gear tool</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Half a 15mm combination wrench with a tire lever ground into the cut end, fits in an Altoids tin tool kit.  I left my old one sitting on a Jersey barrier on Saturday night, after getting off the GO bus at Union Station and finding a nail in my tire.  I hope a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://junkmiles.net/2010/fixed-gear-tool/</link>
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		<title>GPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I havent had a good chance to try it out on the bike yet (it rained during the week, and I spent a quiet weekend at home with an ice pack and a bottle of methocarbamol) but here are some initial impressions of the Colorado 300, currently on sale at MEC.
While I was waiting for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://junkmiles.net/2010/gps/</link>
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		<title>the race is on</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Which is slower &#8212; Canada Post delivering my on-sale Garmin Colorado 300 plus bike mount (costs less than a Legend HCx at MEC right now) or Rogers Cable throttling my bittorrent of the Ibycus free Canadian topo map pack?

Update:  Canada Post is slower.
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		<link>http://junkmiles.net/2010/the-race-is-on/</link>
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		<title>Hanami Ride</title>
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The cherry trees in High Park (a gift to Toronto from Tokyo in the 1950s) have started blooming in force.  It was supposed to rain this weekend, which can knock all the petals off, so I rode out there on Friday afternoon to have a look.  A lot of other people seemed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://junkmiles.net/2010/hanami-ride/</link>
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		<title>Bike Snob reviews the Wal-Mart &#8220;fixie&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BSNYC Product Review: Walmart&#8217;s Mongoose Cachet &#8220;Fixed-Speed&#8221; Bicycle. 
Apparently &#8220;Fixed speed&#8221; means single speed as suspected,  but it comes with a fixed/free flip-flop hub.  Sounds good, but also as anticipated the quality (or at least the quality control) appears to suck, bite, and blow all at the same time. 
He also reviews the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://junkmiles.net/2010/bike-snob-reviews-the-wal-mart-fixie/</link>
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		<title>electricity farm</title>
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As often as not we get a last bit of snow at the beginning of April, but this year it&#8217;s been almost summery, so on Friday I rode up to the electricity farm way out in the suburbs. I figured the waterfront and downtown would have been nightmarishly crowded on a nice Eostre weekend &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://junkmiles.net/2010/electricity-farm/</link>
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		<title>Carbon catastrophe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I think Grant Peterson from Rivendell (and Bridgestone before that)  is an important foil to the high tech side of cycling, and he&#8217;s done a lot to bring back practical road bikes after the skinny-tired dark ages of the 1990s (when there was very little in the happy middle ground between touring and racing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://junkmiles.net/2010/carbon-catastrophe/</link>
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		<title>Walmart fixie?</title>
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Well, they call it a Fixed-Speed Bike so it&#8217;s probably just a freewheelin&#8217; one speed, but I still hope this foreshadows the imminent implosion of the fixie fad.  Partly because after evangelizing fixed gears since 1998 I&#8217;m almost embarassed to be seen riding one now, but mostly because it&#8217;ll mean lots of nice cheap [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://junkmiles.net/2010/walmart-fixie/</link>
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		<title>bikes of spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time of year the weather can be pretty much anything, and I&#8217;ve learned not to get my hopes up too much about nice days in March&#8230;  but sometimes you can tell when the weather&#8217;s really turned. For the past 3 weeks I&#8217;ve been seeing definite signs that it&#8217;s really spring.
One sure sign is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://junkmiles.net/2010/bikes-of-spring/</link>
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