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cstine posted:Yeah - is ALL of Canada that expensive, or just where Tuyop is? He's in not-big-city Ontario, so he's middle low. Remember when he was talking about moving to Nunavut and all the Canadians in the thread were blowing up about his COL over there? Meditate on that for a bit.
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FrozenVent posted:He's in not-big-city Ontario, so he's middle low. Yeah, someone posted this tumblr during that. Pretty great.  Click for site.
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| # ? May 12, 2013 21:21 |
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tuyop posted:Yeah, someone posted this tumblr during that. Pretty great. Quite the price difference for name brand and generic ketchup, considering they both appear to be the same size....
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| # ? May 12, 2013 21:57 |
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cstine posted:Quite the price difference for name brand and generic ketchup, considering they both appear to be the same size.... There's probably some weird subsidization poo poo going on behind the scene. Keep in mind that stuff is either flown in or shipped (And I mean literally, they send boats up) in the summer.
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| # ? May 12, 2013 23:25 |
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Yeah try buying fruit up there
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Yeah try buying fruit up there I think the best option is probably to just go full Inuit and shoot all of your meals and subsist on seal fat, supplements (fibre?), and elk. A friend of mine is getting posted to Yellowknife and he's pretty pumped about all of the hunting opportunities and the prospect of somehow making a side business out of aquaponic greens. I mean like SPINACH.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 12:28 |
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tuyop I saw you posting in the bike thread; if you want actual advice on parts/etc that doesn't come from the '$1300 entry-level bike' perspective feel free to PM me.
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Me in Reverse posted:tuyop I saw you posting in the bike thread; if you want actual advice on parts/etc that doesn't come from the '$1300 entry-level bike' perspective feel free to PM me. Thanks man, but I'm just killing time at work and trying to improve my bike knowledge. Another purchase isn't even on the horizon for me (like, maybe after my BEd in 2015) unless this bike breaks in half or something.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 12:41 |
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http://www.sheldonbrown.com -- read every page, enjoy!
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| # ? May 14, 2013 12:48 |
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tuyop posted:I think the best option is probably to just go full Inuit and shoot all of your meals and subsist on seal fat, supplements (fibre?), and elk. Got your PAL and hunting license? The initial cost of hunting isn't cheap (permits, time, firearm, ammo, insurance, butcher). I don't think you will be able to transport an elk on your bicycle either.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 16:05 |
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I know it's fun to jump all over tuyop, but he was clearly talking about his friend.
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| # ? May 14, 2013 19:35 |
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Ok, so my loving front derailleur or the shifter is the worst loving thing in the world. I decided to try to fix it and just kind of gave up. Now I'm trying to put my old friction front shifter and derailleur onto this bike so I at least have two gears on the front, instead of just one. Think of it like a frankenbike or something. Except... well, it's not alive anymore.    I particularly hate these photos because the Cannondale in the background, which was only 50 dollars more, is just loving perfect and doesn't have any of these issues. Guys, I really think I just made a $250 mistake. Maybe less because I can possibly sell the wheels for 70 bucks, but ugh. I have a feeling the end state of this little adventure is going to be a bike with seven speeds that goes really slow.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 15:27 |
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What was wrong with your FD in the first place?
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| # ? May 17, 2013 15:31 |
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Me in Reverse posted:What was wrong with your FD in the first place? Every gear in the front was causing the chain to rub against the derailleur. Tightening the H and L screws didn't fix this problem, and I think I torqued too hard on the shifter and hosed up its indexing or something, and then it just kind of fell apart in my hands like one of those styrofoam airplanes.
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tuyop posted:Every gear in the front was causing the chain to rub against the derailleur. Tightening the H and L screws didn't fix this problem, and I think I torqued too hard on the shifter and hosed up its indexing or something, and then it just kind of fell apart in my hands like one of those styrofoam airplanes. At this point you know you have to ride the bike into a lake, right?
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| # ? May 17, 2013 15:36 |
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tuyop posted:Every gear in the front was causing the chain to rub against the derailleur. Tightening the H and L screws didn't fix this problem, and I think I torqued too hard on the shifter and hosed up its indexing or something, and then it just kind of fell apart in my hands like one of those styrofoam airplanes. Calm down, slow down, and take it from the beginning. Watch some "How to install an FD" videos on youtube, and get the FD remounted. This isn't "a $250 mistake". Don't be defeatist. People install bikes from the ground up every single day, putting your FD back on is not an impossible task. There's not much to an FD, and unless you physically broke a metal piece, you didn't ruin it. It's just disassembled. Don't worry if it doesn't work right yet, just get it back on. From there you can work on fixing the original issue. Edit: Why did you detach the handlebars to fix the FD  Edit2: I see now, you maybe broke the shifter. Take this to the Bike thread, I've got no idea how to fix that. Me in Reverse fucked around with this message at May 17, 2013 around 15:43 |
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Me in Reverse posted:Calm down, slow down, and take it from the beginning. Watch some "How to install an FD" videos on youtube, and get the FD remounted. Well, you see, this bike is a terrible piece of poo poo so its shifters are plastic chinese newspaper based mountain bike shifters, and the handlebars are like two hacked-together mountain bike handlebars. Once I broke the shifter, I decided to take the shifter off and try to either fix it, swap out my old one or give up on having a front gear at all. This meant I had to take the handlebars off and separate them to get the left shifter off.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 15:45 |
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I have a spare parts bike in my garage, pretty sure I have a 3-speed FD shifter if you want it for the cost of shipping. (If yours is broke.) (Ask the Bike thread, add some close-up photos of the parts)
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| # ? May 17, 2013 15:48 |
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Yeah junky bikes aren't meant to be fixed very well. I would throw it in the middle ring and ride it like that. 7 speeds should be good enough for most stuff except huge hills.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 18:13 |
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How is it that every time tuyop touches a vehicle
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| # ? May 17, 2013 18:14 |
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Me in Reverse posted:I have a spare parts bike in my garage, pretty sure I have a 3-speed FD shifter if you want it for the cost of shipping. (If yours is broke.) (Ask the Bike thread, add some close-up photos of the parts) Yeah I'd be up for that. How would that work? Is it like a brifter or a friction shifter or what? My friction shifter from my old Fuji won't mount on the frame or handlebars anywhere and so I sort of gave up for now. Toeshoes is leaving for Edmonton forever tonight and we're both kind of upset about it.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 19:36 |
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Honestly, you kind of deserve this for spending $200 on a used Wal-Mart bike.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 21:13 |
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There's something about a mobile Tuyop that really pisses off the universe. drat son.
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| # ? May 17, 2013 21:49 |
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Tuyop, before splurging $750 on a new bike, how about you at least take it in to your LBS and get a quote for the repair? Because that's a lot of money to spend to fix a simple problem with the front derailleur.
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| # ? May 18, 2013 01:31 |
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DoctorTristan posted:Tuyop, before splurging $750 on a new bike, how about you at least take it in to your LBS and get a quote for the repair? Because that's a lot of money to spend to fix a simple problem with the front derailleur. Don't worry, I'll consult you guys before I buy anything. I mean, it's seriously not worth $750 to have another gear or two on my bike. I'm actually just trying to get a sense of bike values.
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| # ? May 19, 2013 08:59 |
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I don't think the universe will be happy until you are a quadriplegic, completely immobile and unable to crash into things. Because
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