Today has been pretty good so far. Tuesdays are my day off from school so I woke up today at noon to a really sunny mid-November day. I ate a lunch of instant noodles and headed to Quilchena, which is the best skatepark in the world, and self-filmed some clips (since no one seems to have Tuesdays off). After that I went to Chevron and bought a Coke making it the best day ever. Also heading to the Jeff Wall show at the VAG tonight, hoorah. Anyway hit the jump for the movie.

Also if you check The Come Up the Gnarwhale Summer ‘08 edit is posted up so you can go talk shit anonymously on that.

Quicktime Link

Since I’ve been messing around with this new layout and video player a bunch I decided to put up another little random assortment of unused clips from this year. Pretty much just a reason to procrastinate school work and go through all my old clips and get rid of a bunch of stuff. Hit the jump for the clip.

So the old Gnarwhale was completely infected with Viagra ads since I was a terrible blawger and didn’t ever update wordpress. I finally got around to upgrading the site and put together a fresh install. I also simplified the layout a lot, it’s very white. There’s still a backup of all our old content, however it’s a little bit unformatted. That stuff isn’t on the front page but it’s all categorized as “old posts”. Above are a few clips I had laying around of Ian jibbing around Kitsilano. The winter season is here so hopefully we’ll get some interesting parkade sessions and videos going. Hit the jump for the clip, Woop woop!

Also don’t forget to update your RSS feeds as your old ones will no longer work! Never mind the old rss subscription seems to still work.

Flatland Groove Down from Scully on Vimeo.

NIGHT TIMING (direct link)

PS. What were you for halloween? I was told struthers was not keen on halloween but then he showed up looking like this. That’s my ass with the self painted, striped suit as Bettlejuice.

I go through the 2008 Norco Distribution catalog and inform you, the public, about really great and useful products.

Hit it up HERE. Sorry for the lazy blogging on my part lately by the way…

Oh, and he gave me a print of the photo above. Thanks Stu, it looks awesome.

Stuart Kennedy’s Montreal Photos

Stuart Kennedy Photography

Aero bars. Like 1 in 10 people using aero bars has them set up properly, and the next time I see someone riding IN TOWN, with their aero bars pointing way up, I’m going to assume they’re in the middle of an Ironman, and throw water on them. Actually, I think I mostly just hate triathletes. Stick to one sport, and stop pissing on your bikes.

Lots more hate after the jump.

I hate the University of British Columbia for sending me letters demanding my tuition, while ignoring the calls they were getting from Student Aid BC, who wanted to confirm my enrollment so they could give me a student loan.

650B wheels. The last thing cycling needs is another standard. And, frankly, there are about 29030939039032 other things that could be improved about bikes before we start getting finicky about god damn wheel diameter. Seriously, the difference in diameter between 650b and 26″ is 25mm, and for all the hassle and stupidity they create, they’re just not worth it. It’s just more assholes trying to convince stupid people that buying something new and fancy will make cycling everything they ever wished it was.

EDIT: 650b is ALSO only 13mm bigger than the much more standard 650c. Retards.

The bitch it the coffee shop that pulls both breasts out to breastfeed. That’s just distracting.

Rocky Mountain Flatline. Overmanipulated crap, that downtube looks like someone’s boss’s bad idea that they had to implement because the boss thought it was SO COOL!

Neil Peart. Too many fucking drums. If you need more than Gene Krupa to kick ass, you should take up another sport.

Brad Ewen. I would think this guy sucked if I met him on the street, but then someone had to go and give him a job where he gets to talk into a mic all the time. It’s awful.

Lugs. If your bike is newer than 1986, your lugs suck. They’re heavy, pointless, and have become the stamp of nostalgiaphile frame makers everywhere. I just don’t get it, why not put all that extra money into important things?

This bike. It’s a commuter with aero bars (?????), AND an adjustable stem. I really hate adjustable stems. Sure this bike has an Alfine drivetrain, which is cool, it also has a really stupid rack that can’t possibly be very strong. The only thing that could make this worse would be if it had lugs and were 650b. Can someone find me a lugged frame 650b bike (that should be easy) with aero bars and an adjustable stem?