DirtyHarry

Thanks for all the advice kids. Local bike shop guy is going to help me with it - he's got all the spreading and allignment shit. Ken, I would just stretch it out by hand, but I'm already spreading it quite a bit just to get a 5-speed Shimano freewheel in there. It was originally made for a 1970's era 5-speed campi free wheel cog set up, which is WAY narrow. Bike shop guy obviously has some modern 130 mm spaced hubs we can try to horseshoe in there by hand to see how it works before spreading it permanently. BTW, isn't it kind of funny that the allignment tool used for spreading the rear dropouts is called a FAG-2.

I'm way too lightweight for that shit. I need gears. Thnx for the advice.

It was a nice frame 30 years ago.

Your reasoning just buttresses my argument. If we don't have exact calendar dates to tell us when exactly seasons change, then we'll have arbitrary enforcement of these laws, which is clear evidence of an unconstitutionally vague statute or code. I mean, who gets to determine if it is winter or not? If we get a freak snowstorm in July, does that make it winter again and people can be ticketed for parking in a sno-park without proper sticker? Afterall, its cold and snowy, it must be winter.

That's one interpretation. Common sense, however, dictates that one would not call a winter recreation area a winter recreation area in the summer. For example, if you had an outdoor ice rink that doubled as a basketball court in the summer, you wouldn't call it an ice rink in the summer, you'd call it a basketball court. Correspondingly, its not like people only use these areas designated as winter recreation areas in the winter. People use them in the summer too. The point being, statutes and codes need to be sufficiently clear in order to let people know that they exist. This one here, appears somewhat ambiguous. Hence, a constitutionally vague argument would be appropriate. Might not work, but worth a shot.

I see what you're saying. But you think 10mm will make that much of a noticeable difference though? Alas, it will be somewhat of a risky endeavor, but its an old frame and somewhat useless to me with 120mm spacing.

Seems like if you did it right, you could mitigate those possibilities. Do you mean, the rear dropouts would be bent so they wouldn't allign with the rest of the frame?

Intersting. Thanks. Anyone here actually done this?

or you might end up like Dru

Gate, snow on road.

That's old news. Answer my bike dork question in the gear forum, Dave.

Take late September / October off instead and go then.

Dave, anyone else - Have any experience with "cold setting" a steel bike frame? I have an old Italian steel frame with rear spacing of 120 mm. I'd like to make it go to 130mm, since freehub / cassettes are easy and available. Recomendations / Suggestions ????

Unfortunately, NO I do have a girl truck though

is it who can do the most pushups in an hour, with the caveat of you have to drink a beer each time you do a pushup?

Cool. But how many pushups can you do?

I prefer the ancient Irish martial art of drinking heavily.

you mean feelings are a cheap surrogate for meaninglessness

It makes sense in theory, anyway.

When Rolf and I were there two summerd ago, some dude was killed by a falling rock or chunk of ice the day before we got up to the Parkway. I think they were on Athabasca too. Sounds like a similar deal to the unfortunate incident Dru linked to.

How'd they get six dudes dressed in the same fagbag to lauch of that cliff in line like that?? Cool.

Yeah, rural areas suck. Stay in the city.

Don't do it. That MH looks like a hiker's tent. Single walls are stronger, easier to set up, AND WAY lighter. You don't NEED a vestibule. Both of those tents you are looking at are 3-season tents. The Firstlight fabric, EPIC, is very light and very dry. I seriously wouldn't worry about it being too hot, or too much like a winter tent at all. I've used a Bibler I-tent, in warm conditions many times and its been fine. Its not like it gets very hot in the Rockies anyway. Get the Firstlight.

Yeah, it was called a "job."

Its pretty tricky to get head while on lead, that's fo sure.