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  1. GreyGhost

    Anyone here a cyclist?

    Are the bearings the same size? Is head tube length similar? If cut short, it may not be possible install on a bike with a longer head tube.
  2. GreyGhost

    The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread

    Tractor trailer hits fire truck stopped at crash on 401. Unfortunately truck driver lived to kill another day. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BVuLcSnQ7/
  3. GreyGhost

    What did you do in your garage today..?

    I have a light for a mtb that would probably work but I'm too far so it's not worth the drive. Two pipe clamps and a flashlight should be solid enough.
  4. GreyGhost

    Canada Post - Huge losses

    Yeah, it will take a little time to clear. Most of the crap caught in the system isn't important or time-sensitive anyway. If something was very time sensitive, it should not have been sent through CP during a labour dispute. I'd be in favour of keeping the system shut down until there is a...
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    Canada Post - Huge losses

    Given the reality that very few people/businesses will put items into the system in the face of rotating strikes and uncertainty, there is a good argument for locking them out. There won't be much work to do anyway. Members are probably really hurting financially already. Is this going to get...
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    Canada Post - Huge losses

    Nationwide strike is paused, on to rotating strikes. Cupw met with the feds. They realized they had no cards to play and staying out would have delivered the fatal blow. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/09/cupw-to-replace-nationwide-canada-post-walkout-with-rotating-strikes/
  7. GreyGhost

    Anyone here a cyclist?

    Look carefully at the details. Swapping forks around has a lot of pitfalls (different bearing diameters, different stem length, etc). Changing travel normally changes height of head tube and therefore angle and trail. Why are you upgrading suspension? What's the goal? Like motorbikes, marginal...
  8. GreyGhost

    Rear brake failure

    Mostly true but if caliper has an air pocket above where you are injecting and above where the hose heads to the caliper, the fluid will happily flow and leave the air pocket untouched.
  9. GreyGhost

    Murder vs manslaughter

    Face tattoo for repeat offenders. A huge one (dui, assault, sex offender, etc). Make it easy for cops (and all of your friends/coworkers) to identify people that think the laws shouldn't apply to them.
  10. GreyGhost

    The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread

    Lots of blame to go around here. Nobody looking far enough ahead. It looks like one brain dead driver stopped in a live lane for no reason. I don't know whether to congratulate the truck driver for not killing them or if that would have done us a favor...
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    Murder vs manslaughter

    When was the last time you saw a charge for murder or manslaughter for a vehicle offence in Ontario? I don't think I've ever seen one vehicle on vehicle. I have seen a few but normally it is a vehicle mowing down a pedestrian. Most were drug associates. I think the cops in Toronto tried that...
  12. GreyGhost

    Does Toronto actually have a plan?

    Wait a minute. You had a 25 year fixed rate? Those existed in Canada?
  13. GreyGhost

    Looking for a shop to patch a tire in 2025

    Front or rear? I've had good luck with diy rope plugs lasting the life of the tire. Rear tire has less consequences if it starts to get soft so I have no qualms about a rope plug in it. Front I think twice about. I can't help you with a shop. Good luck.
  14. GreyGhost

    Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

    It sounds like it had some weird and expensive differences. 800V architecture is nice, but having it only on the halo means you can't amortize it over many vehicles. They should all have been 800 (or wait until next gen and make that 800). Two-speed transmission for an EV is a really strange...
  15. GreyGhost

    Does Toronto actually have a plan?

    Afaik, zero. I don't understand how having the bank in the middle improves things substantially from 10 month billing direct to municipality. Obviously 10 month billing isn't perfectly even monthly cashflow but it provides more available funds in months where people typically are hurting as they...
  16. GreyGhost

    Does Toronto actually have a plan?

    My last house had that for a while but Tangerine stopped doing that and it went back to diy. It was never offered as an option on the mortgage for this house. I don't know if they would do it if I specifically inquired. In any case, I don't see the upside to having the bank as a middle man. If...
  17. GreyGhost

    COVID and the housing market

    That's sort of what we did. Although the mortgage is painful, it's not big enough to risk sinking. So far return on this house has been ~6%/yr which is pretty crap but that is tax-free (and not adjusted for the leverage used) so not quite as bad as it first appears. Property tax, mortgage...
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    Does Toronto actually have a plan?

    Ours are four payments a year but you can sign up for equal billing. That spreads property tax to 10 or 12 payments per year. EDIT: 12 payments per year is only available for those in arrears. The choices for most people are four or 10 payments per year.
  19. GreyGhost

    Rear brake failure

    Colour isn't great either. Flush was a good idea. How long since last flush?
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