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Hi everyone,

A friend of I sent this picture to me today morning, and I didn’t resist to publish it.

It’s awesome!!!!!

Enjoy the view

Posted By: Cleiton

Mountain Biking, Pictures, Uncategorized

I took my Giant XTC 1 out for another ride this weekend.  I rode north along the trails starting from Orchard Heights Park in Etobicoke-Toronto.  The trail begins right under the bridge of the Gardiner Expressway.  It rides along The West Mall all the way up to Dundas.  Unfortunately that is where it ends.  It is short (two or three kilometres), but some parts are challenging enough to make you want to go back again.

I used my new favorite panoramic stitching program AutoStitch to create these panoramic photos.  Feel free to click and see a larger version of them.

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Posted By: Roberto Sebestyen

Biking Trips, Mountain Biking, Pictures Mountain Bike Trails, Mountain Biking, Pictures

The following was taken from Tech Radar.  Since I found this useful I am mirroring the post here for my own reference (and others).

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Posted By: Roberto Sebestyen

Uncategorized, Windows hacks, Windows

Why does a huge country like Canada not have a highway similar to the German Autobahn?

A little History of speed limits in Canada; on February 7, 1975 Canada imposed a 55 mph speed limit. In 1973, reacting to the ban of oil sales to the United States and other Western countries by 11 Arab oil producers, President Richard Nixon lowered the U.S. speed limit to 55 mph in hopes of conserving gasoline. An addition to a greater reserve of oil, a by-product of the mandate turned out to be a lower rate of highway automobile fatalities. Two years later, Canada followed suit in hopes of lowering their own rate of highway fatalities.

Today we can buy cars that are capable of well over 150 Km/Hr.  In Ontario the fastest speed you can drive is 100 Km/Hr which is on our 400-series highways.  Even so, everyone still drives at around 120 Km/Hr.  It is not uncommon to see many driving at 140 Km/Hr.  Under our current law, police have every right to pull these people over.  However driving at 120 Km/Hr the police generally do not bother them.  For this reason I see 120 Km/Hr the unofficial speed limit.  Recently though, a new law has been passed that will have the driver’s licence suspended and vehicle impounded if they exceed 50 Km/Hr over the speed limit on any road.   I would agree with that for cities and rural areas.  In fact I would make it 30 over the limit in those areas.  But on the 400 series Highways, the speed limit should have been increased instead.  Like in the Gazette article, the problem with speed limits is that they are too low.

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Posted By: Roberto Sebestyen

cars cars, highways, speeding

What are “Z rated” Tires?

While a Z-speed rating still often appears in the tire size designation of these tires, such as  225/50ZR16 91W, the Z in the size signifies a maximum speed capability in excess of 149 mph, 240 km/h; the W in the service description indicates the tire’s 168 mph, 270 km/h maximum speed.

Each tire has a letter rating to determine the top speed a tire can reach, before losing traction. The chart is as follows:

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Posted By: Roberto Sebestyen

cars Tires

This is my first post on NoobTech’s blog and I going to say a little bit of me: I’m from Brazil and I have been living in Canada for 10 months… that’s enough

I’m the guy who have influenced Rob to buy the bike, my friends in Brazil used to calm me “bike maniac”, because I used to go every were riding my bike, including dating

So, a few days ago me and Rob decided to go biking – we couldn’t wait for the warm weather, it was nine degrees – , and we have found just mud, mud, and mud…

We rode across the Etobicoke River, although, at the end of the trail our bikes was weighing two times more.

Photos are too bad quality because I forgot my cam and I had to use my cellphone, anyways it’s better than nothing

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Posted By: Cleiton

Mountain Biking