Dead birds are falling from the sky in Canada's most populous city. Can avian-friendly skyscraper fixes save the city's ecosystem?
In 1989, Michael Mesure was running a gallery two hours north of Toronto when a friend told him he had read that birds were colliding with buildings in the city. The two of them drove downtown at 4 a.m. to see for themselves. "I stepped out of the car and there were birds all over the sidewalk," Mesure recalled. "I disappeared into the night, leaving my friend in the dust. I was shocked that something like this could be happening and nobody knew about it."
Birds can't see glass, and collisions with buildings are the biggest human-related cause of avian mortality after habitat destruction. In the United States alone, an estimated 1 billion birds die every year by crashing into windows. Most of these strikes occur during migratory season, when birds pass through unfamiliar landscapes or become disoriented by cities. All glass, anywhere, is deadly, from a cottage window to a plate glass skyscraper.
Because the evidence of bird strikes quickly disappears -- eaten by predators or swept up by building maintenance -- the problem is not always apparent. The cause of death is generally brain hemorrhage, which means that even when they fly away, the birds still can succumb to the impact.
Dr. Daniel Klem, a Professor of Ornithology at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania, has been trying to draw attention to this problem since the 1970s. He said it is "insidious beyond description" because window strikes are indiscriminate, killing both the weak and the strong. "No population can afford to lose its fittest members, its breeders."
The unnecessary death of millions of birds is a tragedy for multiple reasons. Many species are already in decline. Birds pollinate plants, distribute seeds and control insect populations. Birdwatching is a multi-billion dollar industry -- according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, roughly 47 million Americans are considered birdwatchers. And migratory birds are incredible creatures. Take the Arctic Tern, for example, that flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back every year. Or the Swift, which almost never lands.
"There's going to be a day where we will finally feel the impact of the loss of these birds," Mesure noted. "Right now, everything feels OK, nothing seems to be going awry. But it will happen if this continues, and it's going to be a lot more difficult for people to sit on the wayside and turn a blind eye."
The fourth largest city in North America, Toronto sits on one of the biggest migratory corridors on the planet, making it a prime killer of birds. What's more, there is glass everywhere you look, from condominiums to bank towers, and more going up all the time. For a migratory bird, it's like flying through an enormous house of mirrors.
After that fateful morning in 1989, Mesure traveled downtown more and more often to pick up dead and dying birds before dawn. People started to hear about him, and some came out to help. In 1993, a small group formed a non-profit organization called Fatal Light Awareness Program, or FLAP.
Today, FLAP's volunteers number close to 60 (Mesure is one of three full-time staff.) They target a number of sites in and around the city and pick up birds in the hours before and after daybreak, notably during migratory season. With their limited resources, they manage to collect 3,000 to 4,000 birds a year, a fraction of the million that are believed to die annually by crashing into Toronto's windows.
The dead go into a freezer at City Hall and eventually to the Royal Ontario Museum, which exhibits the tiny corpses once a year. The injured are either treated and released or else taken to a wildlife center for rehabilitation. FLAP also works to raise awareness, audit buildings to evaluate their danger zones and offer advice on how to minimize the risks to birds.
In the beginning, it seemed that nighttime was the biggest threat. Migratory birds frequently fly at night, using stars for navigation, and city lights confuse and attract them. In 2006, FLAP and the city of Toronto launched a campaign called "Lights Out Toronto!" encouraging people to shut off unnecessary lights at the end of the day.
Eventually they realized that the problem is three times worse during the day. Reflective windows are the most hazardous, since birds see mirror images of trees or the sky and fly into them. Transparent glass is also dangerous because birds try to pass through it to objects on the other side. A building doesn't have to be tall; the bulk of strikes take place in the first 50 feet.
In 2007, Toronto became the first city to draw up voluntary bird-friendly development guidelines. A policy planner named Kelly Snow helped draft the document. "Slowly we were raising awareness and bringing something out of the fringe to the mainstream," he said. In 2010, bird-friendly criteria -- such as muting reflections or treating glass with a pattern for the first 10 to 12 meters above grade --became mandatory for all new construction. Ordinances mandating bird-friendly design now also exist in San Francisco, Oakland and Cook County, Ill., while a U.S. representative from Illinois has introduced a bill requiring that all new federal public buildings incorporate bird-safe features.
However, these laws still leave the threat of existing buildings -- including 940,000 homes, institutions and office buildings in Toronto. On a recent summer day, Mesure walked me around the city, pointing out some of the more perilous ones. We stopped in front of a 51-story tower completed in 2009, proudly LEED-certified yet a bird-killer. The façade was a large expanse of glass with trees planted out front; looking in the window, I saw the trees reflected as though they were growing in the lobby.
We arrived at an architectural treasure: the Toronto Dominion Centre, an all-black grouping of towers by Mies Van Der Rohe. Until recently, the linkway was a hot spot, one of the most lethal places for birds in the city. As Mesure explained, birds trapped by the maze of buildings would fly close to the walls, where they felt safe, until they ended up in this dead-end alleyway and bounced up against the windows. He said, "The seagulls learned to wait there in packs and scavenge the fallen birds."
Little white circular decals now decorate the black glass walls of the linkway, the result of an unprecedented event: lawsuits against two corporate entities for causing bird collisions. These were the first cases of their kind in North America and probably the world.
It started in 2009, when a Toronto lawyer named Albert Koehl met a FLAP employee and learned about the problem. Koehl works for Ecojustice, a non-profit legal firm specializing in environmental issues, and he decided to see if there was a legal avenue for targeting the worst offenders. "We always think of the environment as out there," he said. "We have all these beautiful creatures right here in the city, and how do we see them? As displays at the Royal Ontario Museum when they're dead."
Ecojustice's legal argument was unconventional: reflected light is radiation, and therefore these buildings were emitting a contaminant that caused harm to animals. If proven, it would mean that the defendants were violating the provincial Environmental Protection Act as well as the federal Species at Risk Act.
FLAP had spent years collecting bird corpses at both sites and trying to convince management to react. As soon as the trials began, both companies started to apply bird-friendly films to their windows. And in both cases the court acquitted the defendants, saying they had shown due diligence by applying the films. However, the case against Cadillac Fairview provided a crucial legal precedent: the judge ruled that light reflected from the building's windows did indeed lure birds to their deaths and was prohibited under provincial and federal law.
Koehl said that for this reason, the ruling was a victory: "We wanted that precedent -- we wanted companies not to be able to say, 'We're sympathetic but we're not going to do anything about it,' which is what they'd said for 15 years to Michael Mesure." Since then, Ecojustice has written to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment asking that it start enforcing the law. And they have written to company directors, warning that if they don't retrofit their buildings to prevent window strikes (by applying films or taking similar measures) they could be liable for migratory bird deaths.
I took the subway to the Yonge Corporate Centre, a group of three glass-clad buildings bordering a ravine. There were trees all around, and a muskrat strolled through the parking lot. The general manager, Patricia Poyntz, told me that she had been looking for a solution to the bird-strike problem since 2007, when a tenant complained that a cardinal was dive-bombing a window. Poyntz called Mesure, who recommended a company called Convenience Group, who came and applied a film similar to the ones on bus shelters. Though it worked, it obscured the view, and the tenant asked that it be removed. "It was our understanding there was nothing else on the market," Poyntz said.
Now she showed me the new decals they installed last year on the worst wall, a grid of little white dots that went up to the sixth floor. The retrofit cost the company just more than $100,000, and Poyntz was satisfied with the result. She told me that since the trial other building managers have called her to ask what was the minimum they could do to avoid being sued. "It's like they're scared to be next on Ecojustice's list."
Beyond awareness and policy, the bird strike issue requires a product -- some kind of window covering or "visual noise" that birds can see and people can live with. As Klem said, "In the 1970s when I started searching for solutions, I remember thinking: if you don't come up with something that doesn't inhibit how people look out their windows, you're going to lose."
His research shows that most birds won't fly into surfaces covered with a contrasting pattern where the elements are spaced no more than two inches apart horizontally or four inches apart vertically. The pattern should be placed on the outside surface or the reflection can still dominate.
Companies from Austria to the United States are making bird-friendly glass for new construction that is screenprinted, acid-etched or treated with ceramic frit. Knowing that birds can see ultraviolet light, a German company developed a glass with a UV-reflective coating they say is visible to birds and invisible to humans. And a few organizations, including the American Bird Conservancy, now sell easy-to-apply, bird-friendly products for windows in residential homes.
In Toronto, after years of trial and error, the Convenience Group seems to have cornered the suddenly burgeoning market for retrofitting buildings with their "Feather Friendly" films. These are the small white dots that now cover the windows at the Yonge Corporate Centre and Consilium Place. The company's founder, George Turjanica, said, "We were lucky enough to be there with the right solution at the right time."
I met Turjanica in the city of Markham, northeast of Toronto, where the reaction to the bird strike problem has been exemplary, thanks to the efforts of one concerned politician. In 2009, Markham hired the Convenience Group to apply a patterned film on a municipal building that was causing more than 100 collisions a year. Immediately, the number plunged to almost zero.
We went to see the Hilton Hotel, where an installation of Feather Friendly film was underway. You could not build a building more deadly to birds if you tried: highly reflective glass and transparent windows next to a tranquility garden with trees and water. A pair of workers were applying the film, a process not unlike kids putting temporary tattoos on their arms. One held the film on the glass while another ran a moistened squeegee over it. Then they peeled it away, leaving white dots stuck to the window. The workers told us they had just finished covering one window when a bird flew at it and changed course at the last moment, grazing the adjacent, uncovered pane. Though stunned, the bird was unhurt.
With any luck, these dots or their equivalent will become as ubiquitous as handicapped parking some day. "What a fight this has been, trying to get people to take this issue seriously," Klem said. "For the life of me, I can't figure it out. Nobody wants birds to die."


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Christy inside her studio (Photo Courtesy of Chloe Apple Seldman).
Working on a drawing (Photo Courtesy of Chloe Apple Seldman).
Works in progress (Photo Courtesy of Chloe Apple Seldman).
Christy Powers was born in New York, and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA with distinction from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales (2007). She works with ink, gouache, and watercolors, and her main subject matter includes girls, social media, and youth culture.
The out-of-focus quality of her artworks metaphorically signifies the effects of fading memories. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, including at the Bronx Museum, the Queen Victoria Museum, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, White Box, MadArts Gallery, and Giacobetti Paul Gallery. She has participated in residencies at ILIRI in the Australian Outback, and at the AIM program at the Bronx Museum.
I have always been interested in the role that photography plays in how we construct our memories and how that is changing with social media. There has always been an element of fiction in our memories. But with the contemporary need to create an online identity, how is that construction going to affect the way we remember things? These online images are so ephemeral and impermanent, and I enjoy capturing that in my paintings. By painting these images, I'm able to capture that 'just-out-of-reach' feeling of memories, where some details remain sharp, yet others blur and disappear.
In college I had a professor tell me that my rag was just as important of a tool as my brushes, and that I will probably use them both equally. What we remove is just as important as the marks we make. That has always stuck with me.
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It's hard to choose just one, but I guess I'll go with one of the first paintings that really knocked the wind out of me, Caspar David Friedrich's Monk by the Sea.
This list could go on and would probably be different everyday: Susan Sontag, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Joan Didion, Denis Johnson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Douglas Coupland.


It's always a pleasure bringing a customer's custom dream bike to life, especially when budget isn't the main concern. It gets even better when the customer is eager to incorporate the latest technology into the build and we get some hands-on time with the best components on the market. Here is what we came up with: The concept for this bike was to start with a Santa Cruz Tallboy CC carbon frame and build up a mountain bike which would be light and snappy enough to feel at home in a cross-country or endurance mountain bike race, but at the same time be capable enough to handle rugged, back-country trails. We went with the top of the line CC carbon version of the Tallboy frame in Forest Green with Baby Blue logos. The Tallboy is the perfect frame for this project with it's 110mm of VPP suspension, 68 degree headtube angle, and boost spacing, placing it firmly at the trail end of the cross-country category.
A Fox Step-cast 34 120mm fork is the highlight of the suspension package. The Step-cast version saves a half a pound of weight over a regular Fox 34 fork while retaining the same stiffness. The fork is paired to a custom-tuned Fox Float Factory shock at 110mm to handle the suspension duties at the rear of the bike. We also went with a Fox Transfer dropper post at 125mm.
You can buy Santa Cruz Reserve x Chris King wheels straight from the Santa Cruz factory, but we decided to source the parts and build the wheels in-house. We mated Chris King ISO B hubs in turquoise to Reserve 27 rims using Sapim Race spokes. The carbon rims carry a lifetime warranty through Santa Cruz, and Chris King hubs have one of the best reputations in the industry for durability and longevity, so we are confident these wheels will be able to handle many miles and years of hard riding. We covered the wheels with Maxxis tubeless tires; a Minion DHF on the front and an Aggressor on the rear.
A Santa Cruz 760 carbon riser bar with ESI Extra Chunky grips will control the bike. We also used a Chris King Dropset that matches the hubs.
The most exciting part of the build is the Sram XX1 Eagle AXS electronic drivetrain. Like their previous road groups, the AXS wireless shifting was easy to set up and shifts flawlessly.
The rainbow coating on the chain and cassette is stunning in person.
The shift button is very ergonomic, and feels natural to use if you have been using Sram mountain bike shifters in the past.
One of the coolest features of the new AXS system is the ability to customize the system through the companion app. You just pair the system to your phone and you can adjust the shift functions, check for firmware updates, and check your battery levels.
We hear things like that all the time in the shop. It gets a little frustrating because while all of those places offer amazing trails and riding, you shouldn't just dismiss our city all together and give up on mountain biking here. Sure, you have to get a little creative within the city limits, and need to drive a bit to get to sanctioned, maintained trails with singletrack. Which is why a 26″ dirt jump bike makes a lot of sense if you live here and want to scratch your mountain bike itch more than once or twice per week. Just 1.5 miles from the front door of our shop, and soon to have an off-street bike path covering almost that entire distance along the river is The Garden- Chicago Dirt Jumps. The Garden is in the heart of the city and has something for everyone with a pump track featuring table top jumps for beginners and small, medium, and large jump lines for everyone to hone their skills. Also within the city limits, but further away from the shop on the South Side of the city is Big Marsh Bike Park. Big Marsh is much newer than the Garden, but the first phase of the park has been completed and features some great jump lines, a street section, pump track, and short singletrack loops with progressive features to help you build up your skills.
There are also skateparks in the City of Chicago where you can get creative with your riding. Wilson Skatepark and the Logan Square Skatepark in particular are fun places to get your transition on. You can also just ride around the city and find plenty of spots to session and mess around with like Brandon Semenuk did when he visited Chicago a few years ago.
The highlight of the build is the Rockshox Pike DJ fork. In our opinion, this is the nicest 26″ dirt jump specific fork on the market. It's got 35mm chassis for plenty of strength and support, a custom tuned Charger Damper to smooth out rough landings, and a solo airspring with built in bottom-out resistance to give the fork good, smooth progression while also keeping it from bottoming out after a big drop. The fork came with an extra set of stickers for the lowers, so we removed the traditional white, black, and red ones and replaced them with black-on-black to match the subdued color sceme of the rest of the bike.
The Jackal comes with sliding rear dropouts with an integrated derailleur hanger, so you can easily run the bike with or without gears. We opted to go single-speed on this build. The frame has a 73mm English-threaded bottom bracket shell with ISCG tabs. We decided to use Truvativ Descendant cranks with a Dub spindle and bottom bracket to give the cranks some stiffness. The 32 tooth chainring pulls a 17 tooth Surly cog on the back wheel.
We installed Truvativ Hussefelt bars, stem, and seatpost on the bike. This gave us the strength and support we were looking for without breaking the bank. The bars are finished with ODI x Vans grips in natural rubber color. The 90's skateboarder in us appreciates these grips. There was a bit of debate about what to do with the brakes on this bike. At first, we were just going to build the bike with only one basic brake on the rear, which would be totally suitable for park riding. But then we talked it over with the customer and decided to run both brakes, since the bike would be ridden in busy urban streets as well as being used at the park. The customer already had a NOS pair of Shimano XT levers, so we just got a simple set of Shimano calipers to mate with them. We left plenty of extra hose on the rear brake, and ran the front brake hose through the topcap and steerer tube to allow the bars to spin around freely, either for tricks or in case of bike-bails so the bars can spin around without kinking or breaking the hoses.
We used Standard Issue wheels from Atomlab on the build. Again, we wanted to prioritize durability without breaking the bank. These are great wheels, but we found the stickers on the rims to be a bit much, so we removed those also to preserve the clean look of the bike. We topped off the wheels with Maxxis DTS tires in 26″x2.1″ in skinwall. We think these tires look great on this bike, and we have had nothing but good luck with Maxxis mountain bike tires. The last fun detail on the bike is the Chromag Overture saddle in Rawhide finish.
We hope the owner has as much fun riding this bike as we did building it!
If you have been in the shop sometime in the last couple of weeks, you may have noticed a new face behind the counter. Well, it's time to officially announce our new mechanic Rawny Semba. We're calling him the new guy, and while Rawny is a new addition to the shop, he has been around the block as a bicycle mechanic.
Rawny comes to us straight from a second consecutive National Championship-winning season as a mechanic for the Cannondale- Cyclocrossworld.com team.
We're pretty excited to welcome Rawny to our team, and our customers should be excited too! It takes great mechanical ability and a meticulous attention to detail to work as a pro mechanic for the most successful cyclocross racing team in the United States. If you come to the shop this spring and summer, you can have a mechanic who has worked on and maintained Steven Hyde, Katy Keough, Curtis White, and Emma White's bikes for the past two seasons. Whether you are a dedicated commuter, local amateur racer, or you are trying to win an elite national championship, you can bring your bike into the shop with confidence.
Rawny and Ben working for Sram Neutral Race Support in 2014 re-enacting a pro rider shooting the gap between a cone and our tent leg at a Tour of America's Dairyland race.
2018 is going to be a great year for Tailwind Cycles, and we look forward to meeting and exceeding all of your mechanical needs. Rawny will be hitting the road again with the team in the fall, so be sure to catch him at the shop before then.
Washing bikes- it's what a pro mechanic does!
We had the opportunity to build up an awesome bike this week! We started with the Van Dessel Motivus Maximus frame, which is their carbon road racing frame. It's no secret at the shop we are big fans of Sram and Zipp componentry, and so is our customer, so we went all out on a custom build for this bike with Sram Red Etap HRD, Quarq power meter cranks, Zipp bar-stem-seatpost, and Zipp 303NSW wheels.
The Motivis Maximus frameset is impressive in it's versatility to ride in different conditions while still maintaining the frame geometry which will make this a fast and tight-handling race bike. While the major trend in road bikes currently is to go in the all-road direction, stretching out the frame to accommodate really big tires, the Motivus finds the sweet spot between tire clearance and quick handling.
Our customer spec'd the bike with Zipp Tangente 700x28mm tires which on the 19mm internal width Zipp rims measured exactly 28mm with a caliper. The rim's are designed to be aerodynamically optimized for tires in the 25-28mm range, and we were really happy how the Tangente tires mounted up tubeless on the Zipp 303NSW rims. The bike still has clearance left over to fit a 700-30mm tire if you would like. While not as extreme as a gravel or all-road bike, that amount of tire clearance is impressive on a road racing frame with 405mm chainstays and a 74-degree seat tube. This bike will be able to hold a tight line through a corner right next to the most popular road racing frames while at the same time letting you run bigger tires than most if you want to ride some nasty pavement, cobbled roads, or find yourself off the road entirely doing some light gravel or dirt riding.
The Sram Red EtapHRD shifting system is amazing. We have been confidently building bikes and using the Etap system since the 2015 road racing season, before Etap was officially launched by Sram. It's so simple and clean to set up the shifting system without cables or wires, and after setting up and maintaining Etap bikes in harsh racing environments we have no doubts about the system's reliability. The hydraulic disc brakes allow for great modulation and tons of stopping power on the 160mm front and 140mm rear rotor. We opted for a WiFli rear derailleur with an 11-28 XG1190 cassette and Sram Red Dzero Quarq cranks with 52/36 chainrings. This gives our customer a great range right now, while leaving the option to add a wider range cassette in the future. The rider has plans to race and ride the bike in some pretty crazy places, so we made sure to keep that in mind while putting together the build kit.
The last detail on the bike which got us excited is the brake/wheel/frame integration. Being a semi-aero carbon road frame it really makes sense to use the flat-mount caliper system to get the brake caliper tucked in tight between the stays. Not only does this look really clean, it is also a more aerodynamic and lighter way to mount the caliper. Small details like the Centerline rounded brake rotors and Mavic Speed Release through axle system make a statement about this bike's race-readiness. This is the first bike we have built up using the Speed Release system, and we have to admit it is pretty neat. We wanted to keep the bike relevant to innovations in the near future for racing. The idea behind the Speed Release system is unlike regular through axles in that the axle has a collett which keeps it with the hub when you remove the wheel. The fork and rear dropout have one side open, unlike regular through axle dropouts. This allows for very fast wheel changes in a racing situation, and there is a good chance neutral race support programs will adopt this technology as disk brakes become more common in road racing. Mavic has kept the standard open so other companies can make compatible wheels for this reason. Even aside from race applications, the Speed Release axles are really nice to work with and make taking the wheels on and off the bike a breeze. The levers have a built-in torque setting, so you just tighten them until they click, then keep turning them clockwise until the lever is in the desired position.
We can't wait to see what this bike and it's owner get up to in 2018. We'll try to get a review once the bike has some miles on it. In the meantime, check out the bike builder on Van Dessel's website to get some ideas for your next build, and let us know if you have any questions. Unlike most bike manufacturers, each Van Dessel model can be ordered from the factory in a myriad of different component options as a stock build, or we can go all-out like this build and customize whatever components you would like.
We try to keep a varied selection of bikes in stock at our shop. For one reason or another a customer may want to buy a bike from an online dealer though. That's ok. One of the main advantages to buying one of the bikes we stock in the shop is we include a comprehensive assembly procedure with each bike we sell at no additional cost. But, even if you don't buy a bike from us, we feel you have the right to a well assembled, safe ride which won't immediately cause you problems. This is why we offer our basic bicycle assembly from a box for $49.99. This is an assembly of a standard bicycle from a shipping box with the front wheel, handlebars, saddle,front brake, and pedals removed for shipping. We can also do a full custom assembly if the bicycle frame and all parts are shipped separately for an additional charge.
This is an example of a bike which was bought from Amazon earlier this year. The customer made an attempt to assemble it themselves before deciding it would be better to bring it into the shop and let a professional take care of it. The bike had a few issues which would have made it difficult for even an average home mechanic to assemble it into a safe and good riding bike.
The first thing you can't help but notice is the wonky cockpit. The brake levers had been installed very low on the drop bars.The customer tried to compensate for this by tilting the bars up at a crazy angle to try to get a comfortable grip on the controls. As you can see, this makes the bike look really funny, and the bars and levers weren't designed to be used at such an extreme angle so this isn't a great setup ergonomically. Also, the rear brake cable is wrapped around the steerer tube the wrong way, the front wheel is on backwards, and the handlebar tape was wrapped from top to bottom. The bar tape isn't a huge deal, but if it were left like that, it would start to peel off prematurely. Since we wanted to get the brake levers adjusted on the bars in a good position, we just removed the bar tape and re-wrapped them from the correct direction.
A small but important detail missed on the customers assembly was proper routing of the front brake cable. The cable should be routed through the slotted washer in the cable clamp, not right underneath the bolt head. I have seen improper cable installations like this result in the bolt head cutting the strands of cable and eventually leading to the brake cable completely failing. Not something you want to happen on a bike ridden in the streets in heavy, urban traffic.
The bike was shipped with the rear derailleur attached. The box got smooshed in on one side, which resulted in the derailleur hanger being slightly bent. Without the proper tool and know how to fix it, the bike would be rideable but would never shift quite right. So we got out our alignment gauge, straightened it out, and got the shifting perfectly adjusted.
Most people don't have waterproof grease in their home or apartment. Often times when these bikes get assembled at home, the seatpost and pedals are installed without any grease. Once again, this isn't a safety issue, but it can cause big, expensive problems in the future when the bike needs the seat height adjusted or the pedals replaced. Also, without a pedal wrench, the customer wasn't able to fully install the pedals. If the bike were ridden like this, the pedals would likely rip out of the cranks, stripping the threads and requiring an expensive repair to remedy.
All stem bolts are properly torqued during professional assembly. This is a vital safety detail.
And here we are all finished. The saddle is adjusted to a good angle, and the height is adjusted for the rider. The handlebars have been re-wrapped, and the levers have been placed so they are comfortable to use from either the hoods or the drops. The bike is well adjusted and mechanically sound. It is ready to be confidently ridden on the Chicago streets without having to worry about loose parts, brake failure, or shifting issues.
You can have your new bike delivered directly to our shop to be professionally assembled and delivered. You can also have it delivered to your home and have us come out with our mobile van to assemble it for you. Just book an appointment using the Booxi button in the Service page of this website.
We have also been background-checked and verified to be a service provider on Amazon.com. You can pick our shop as an assembly option before you check out when buying a bike from their site.
This past Sunday was the Illinois State Cyclocross Championship at Montrose Harbor in Chicago. While it's a day of celebration as we crown our new state champions, there is also a hint of sadness as we realize our beloved series has come to an end for the year. We would like to give a sincere thank you to everyone who participated in our 'Cross Cup Package this year, and also to the Chicago Cyclocross community as a whole. Our series really is one of the best in the country.
We want to thank everyone who took part in our CX season service package. It was great getting out there every week and helping our riders achieve the results they were after. Whether that was finishing near the top of the field in the category 1+2 races, or going after their Crossresults.com nemesis in the lower categories and pushing themselves for improved results. We were happy to provide freshly serviced bikes each and every week so our riders could concentrate on the task at hand and not have to worry about their equipment.
We washed a ton of bikes this season. Having a clean and well-lubed machine is the first step in making sure your equipment works flawlessly throughout a season of racing. Every week, each rider's bike got washed in our indoor bike wash, then lubed with Morgan Blue chain lube, and checked over to make sure it was ready for action in the next race.
We had a good number of customers take advantage of our tubular gluing and custom wheelbuilding services before and during the season. Great wheels and tires are particularly important in cyclocross racing. We offered a 20% discount on tubular tire installation for the CX Cup package, and will be doing that again for the 2018 season. We will be tweaking a few minor details of the package, but for next year we will mostly build on the success of the 2017 season.
We started out early in the season by adding the Trek Cup weekend of amateur and UCI World Cup races to the service package. It was great to see our local riders race on the same course as the best pro riders in the world. We are planning to get out to more big races in 2018, including USA Cyclocross Nationals in Louisville.
Our favorite moment of the day from Montrose came in the last race, when 17 year old Maxwell Montegano won the 4/5 race. Maxwell races for Blackstone Bikes, which if you aren't familiar, is a community bike shop and youth education program on the south side of Chicago. It's great to see these kids out at the races, and a big congratulations to Maxwell for coming out on top in a huge field of over 100 riders on a tough, sandy course. While not officially part of the Chicago Cross Cup, we highly recommend heading down on Dec 17th to Douglas Park for Afterglow: A Cyclocross Race . Afterglow is put on by the Chicago Cuttin' Crew race team as a benefit for Blackstone Bikes and West Town Bikes, two great youth bike programs in Chicago. We will be there with the van in an unofficial capacity to help out racers and spectate.
It's almost Cyclocross Season, our favorite time of the year! The Chicago Cyclocross Cup has been getting bigger and bigger in the 10 years we have been racing and participating in it. For our first 'Cross Cup season as a new shop, we are excited to announce the Tailwind Cycles 'Cross Cup service package.
Anytime between now and the first race of the season, Caldwell Woods on September 10th, sign up for the service package. For $250 per person, you get a full tune-up before the season starts. Then at each race in the Cross Cup series (11 races in total), you will have access to our support van. We can give your bike any last-minute adjustments and dial in your tire pressure before your race. At the end of the race day, you can leave your bike with us. We will transport it in our service van back to the shop in Albany Park where it will be washed and checked over by the end of the day Monday, so it will be ready for Tuesday practice. You will also receive a 15% discount on parts for your race bike and 20% off tubular gluing services through the end of our local cross season on December 3rd. We will also be available for support at other cyclocross races in the region and possibly CX Nationals. We will be charging for those on a per-race basis.
Steven and Ben have been participating in and supporting riders at the Chicago Cross Cup for over 10 years. Ben has worked neutral support with Sram since 2013. You will be in good hands with us!
Use the link on our homepage to email us any questions or give us a call at (773)654-3419.
We are limiting the number of spots for this package, so sign up today.
Our friends at Wahoo are running an $80 rebate program through the end of the month on their Elemnt GPS bike computer and the Elemnt GPS bundle. Just trade in any old bike computer to take advantage of the promotion. This is the perfect opportunity if you have been thinking about making the leap from a basic bike computer without map functions to a GPS computer, or if you have an older version of a GPS computer and are thinking about an upgrade.
We have been using the Wahoo Elemnt for the past month and have been impressed with it's reliability and ease of use.
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Midlander Kenneth Spiers, aka Spizz, is to many people largely identified by the one song, Where's Captain Kirk? (1980).
But few artists can have gone to as much trouble to continually reinvent themselves, as Spiers came up with variations on the Spizz name on an annual basis.
After a brief solo stint, Spizz teamed up with former schoolmate Pete O'Dowd (aka Pete Petrol) to form Spizz 77, before coming to prominence in 1978 as Spizz Oil, supporting Siouxsie and The Banshees on tour.
A John Peel session soon followed, as did a deal with Rough Trade, who released their minimalist but stirring debut, 6,000 Crazy, and its eerie, queasy plinky-plonk follow-up, Cold City 4.
As well as the name changes (the next incarnation was Spizzenergi) the line-up altered with dazzling rapidity, as Petrol came and went several times, and the likes of Slits drummer Palmolive joined for short stints.
After the indie success of Captain Kirk – also released on Rough Trade – Athletico Spizz 80 signed with A&M, hitting the Top 30 with their Do A Runner album, but it would be their only hit.
Throughout the 80s and 90s, Spiers kept at it – as The Spizzles, Spizzenergi: 2, Spizz's Big Business, and Spizzivision – while working as a bicycle messenger in London, for the Post Office and as a freelance cartoonist.
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It is exciting. Suitcases are showing up. Humans are packing. Dogs are arriving here. Human neighbors are coming to meet the dogs. I think we are going on a family vacation. I, Zeb the Duck, Soapy Smith Duck, and Bucket Duck, are all going with our humans. I am not sure if you know Bucket. His human is the son and grandson of the other humans. Bucket's human parents like basketball a lot. His dad and friends shoot baskets, or buckets. That is how Bucket Duck got his name. Bucket's two dogs and Soapy's one dog will stay at my house while we are on vacation. This trip did not have an easy beginning. Our airport transportation was to get us at 3:00 a.m. When we got up,there was almost a foot of new snow here. Then at Denver International Airport, over 300 flights, including ours, were cancelled. Our rescheduled flight was delayed three times. The news for Denver was a little chilly.
-14 That is cold! And lots of snow on the ground also.
Then another airline and another flight scheduled. Soon we were in Philadelphia. They have a very nice airport. What is this?
Dogs come here? Well, if dogs are now traveling, this is a necessary area.
We, the Colorado Traveling Ducks have never seen this before. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is a very important city in the history of the United States. Among other things, the Liberty Bell is here. This is a replica of the Liberty Bell, crack included, made of Legos.
This airport has museum type exhibits. This is Transforming Glass by Justin Tyner.
So many humans are now taking photographs, and many photos of themselves. This is a suggested location for a "selfie".
While waiting for our next flight, we relax on the armrests of a chair, by the Christmas tree, and look out at a wet, cold, Philadelphia.
We left Philadelphia, flying south. Now we are in a warm place and the humans say, "ducks, we are going on a boat." Oh good! Let's try that sail boat.
Sail Boat or Cruise Ship?
But humans say "No. Let's get on that cruise ship" Can you believe it?? All the times we talked to Santa, we asked to go on a cruise, and Santa said Yes! The humans have cruised before, but this is the first cruise for the Colorado Traveling Ducks. We have so much to show you. See you soon.
February is still winter, but not very wintery in Denver this February. We enjoyed temperatures in 40s, 50s, 60s, and even 70s the past couple weeks. Tuesday morning we woke to a few inches of new fluffy snow. Early morning featured snow covered trees and branches.
The sun appeared and snow disappeared. The mountains, covered with new snow, from across Denver's City Park are usually a regular Denver winter sight.
And the Canadian Geese still believe they own the town. The mountains received much more snow than we did in town. Our snow was almost gone by sunset.
Snow and cold in Denver today. We had more snow during the night. Our morning snow is beautiful.
Snow covered evergreen bushes have white frosting.
Mom put us, Zeb and Soapy Smith Duck, on this table. The snow measures 7 inches. The 24 ounce Pepsi bottle is almost buried.
Here Zeb is almost buried.
Hey mom! I am sinking.
This is a good time to ski in Colorado. The ski resorts have feet of new snow. Have some winter fun.


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Piper Jaffray & Co. is serving as the sole book-running manager and Sandler O'Neill + Partners, L.P. is serving as co-manager for the offering. The shares will be issued pursuant to an automatic shelf registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on Form S-3 (SEC File No. 333-197881) and a prospectus supplement to be filed with the SEC.
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DF-07720 – P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) comes alive with the oddities in Twentieth Century Fox's THE GREATEST SHOWMAN.
Ella Harper – Camel Girl (1870 or 73 – ?)
Nicknamed the Camel Girl because of the bizarre way her legs bent backwards, Ella Harper suffered from a congenital deformity called genu recurvatum which caused hyperextension of her knee joints. The extremity of Harper's condition was exceedingly rare as the way her knees were bent caused her to walk on all fours. Thought to have been born in Hendersonville, Tennessee between 1870 and 1873 (like many people from this era, surviving, accurate records of Harper's life are scarce), Harper became the star of W. H. Harris's Nickel Plate Circus by 1886 and her name and likeness were prominently promoted in local newspapers whenever the circus changed locations. Harper was earning a very respectable $200 a week for her act and she was quoted as saying that she aimed to quit show business and go to school. There are no further mentions of the Camel Girl act after 1886, so it seems like Harper may have go on to lead a more normal life after she left the travelling circus.
9.Stephan Bibrowski – Lionel the Lion-Faced Man (1891 – 1932)
Many sideshow freaks were given made-up backstories or were said to have over-the-top personalities which exaggerated the deformities or medical conditions they suffered from. It was a fairly common tactic of promoters to compare their sideshow freaks to animals, especially if they had rare conditions like hypertrichosis which caused abnormal hair growth on the body. Polish-born Stephan Bibrowskibecame a very popular sideshow attraction travelling around Europe and later at Coney Island, New York because the abnormally long hair covering his body gave him the appearance of a lion. Stephan was born in 1890 with one-inch long hair all over his body (apart from his palms and soles of his feet) and was shunned by his mother as an abomination. He was sold to Mr. Sedlmayer, a German impresario, when he was four and was displayed as a sideshow exhibition around Europe. However, Sedlmayer was kind to Stephan and the showman ensured that the boy received a proper education. Stephen grew up to be a gentle, intelligent man despite his beastly appearance. In 1901, he moved to America and began working at the world-famous Barnum and Bailey Circus before returning to Germany 5 years later. Stephan continued travelling and performing around the world until he retired from the sideshow lifestyle in the late 1920s. He died from a heart attack aged 41 in 1932.
8. Wang – The Human Unicorn (? – ?)
Cutaneous horns are a very rare skin condition which can give people the appearance that they have horns growing out of their body. Typically thought to be a type of skin tumour, these conical growths don't usually grow much more than a few inches, but there have been extremely rare cases of the horns becoming more than one foot in length. One of the most famous and mysterious cases of a 'horned human' came from China in the 1930s. A travelling Russian banker snapped a photograph of a Chinese farmer in Manchukuo who appeared to have a horn growing out of the back of his head which exceeded 13 inches in length. The banker submitted the photograph to Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley naming the farmer only as Wang. Ripley offered a cash reward to Wang or to anyone else who could bring the farmer to his famed Odditorium museum in Baltimore, America. However, Wang was never tracked down or heard from again and the original photograph (which Ripley made a waxwork figure from for his exhibition) is the only known record of the man.
7. Josephine Clofullia – The Bearded Woman of Geneva (1827–1875)
The bearded lady has long been a staple of freak show exhibitions. Although plenty of these acts attracted their fair share of fame, ridicule and disbelief over the years, few lived a life as interesting and colourful as Josephine Clofullia. Born in a small Swiss village in 1831, Josephine was covered in fine fur at birth and she was already showing traces of beard growth by the age of two. Local doctors advised Josephine's parents to take her to Geneva for treatment but the general prognosis was that the condition was permanent and shaving off the hair would make it grow back thicker. Josephine was sent away to boarding school but the confident, unique young girl quickly learned how to draw a crowd with the help of her six inch bushy beard. With her father in tow acting as her agent, Josephine toured around Europe from the age of 14 and found considerable fame when she fashioned her beard like that of Napoleon III and received diamonds from the French leader. She fell in love with a talented young French painter and the two wed and had a healthy, similarly hairy young boy in 1851. The family moved to New York so that Josephine could work in P.T. Barnum's American Museum and it wasn't long before Josephine was the subject of a media frenzy when allegations that she was actually a man surface (despite having given birth to a son). It was rumoured that Barnum himself had instigated the trial for commercial gain which, if true, certainly worked as Josephine (along with her hirsute young son) entertained more than 3 million people while working for him.
6. Martin Laurello – The Human Owl (1886 – ?)
Unlike most 'freaks', Martin Laurello could pass for a fairly normal, nondescript person. However, although he looked normal, Laurello was able to completely rotate his head 180 degrees. Born Martin Emmerling in Germany in 1886, Martin performed around Europe before arriving in America in 1921. He quickly became a sensation stateside and worked at notable exhibitions like Bailey Circus, Hubert's Museum, Barnum & Bailey and Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditoriums. Posters for his act declared that he could "Walk forward and look backward" but there was more to Martin's act as he was also an accomplished animal trainer who taught cats and dogs to perform acrobatic tricks. Although he drew in massive crowds, Martin was apparently a contentious individual and an apparent Nazi sympathiser. Little is known about his later life, but it is thought that Martin burned many bridges in the sideshow industry and his last recorded performance was in 1945 with Ripley.
5. Mary Ann Bevan – The Ugliest Woman (1874 – 1933)
Very few nicknames in the sideshow business were complementary, but none were as downright insulting as Mary Ann Bevan's. Promoted as 'The Ugliest Woman', Mary Ann actually lived a fairly normal, married life until she began to develop abnormal facial growth and started suffering from severe headaches and failing eyesight in her mid-30s. Mary Ann was suffering from acromegaly, an adult-onset disorder which causes the pituitary gland to produce excess growth hormones, and her facial features became increasingly distorted and enlarged. Mary Ann was left a widow in 1914 and no longer had the money to support her four children. She entered an "ugliest woman" competition in desperation and after winning a cash prize she turned to the sideshow freak lifestyle. Bevan worked at the Coney Island Dreamland show and Ringling Brother's Circus from 1920 until her death in 1933.
4. Mademoiselle Gabrielle – The Half-Woman (1884 – ?)
Freaks with missing limbs were a fairly common sight at many sideshows, and many of the afflicted could wow an audience just by performing simple, routine activities that most people would assume they were incapable of doing by themselves, like eating or shaving. Such was the case with Mademoiselle Gabrielle, a woman who was fiercely independent despite being born with no legs. Born in Switzerland in 1884, Gabrielle was performing at the Paris Universal Exposition by the age of 16. Gabrielle was often remarked to be the perfect example of a half-woman as she possessed a well-proportioned figure and her trunk finished neatly at her waist. She proved to be so popular that she moved on to America and started worked for the big leagues at the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Strikingly beautiful and always performing with grace and demure, Gabrielle was nothing like the general public's perception of a freak at all. This elegant image helped Gabrielle get a spot on the coveted vaudeville circuit, and she was one of the very few freaks to have performed in this much more 'upscale' form of entertainment. Gabrielle made a fairly substantial income from her sideshow days and lived a normal life, marrying three times. It is unknown when she retired but she was still managing to draw in the crowds well into her 40s and it is suspected that she moved back home to Switzerland when she eventually left the sideshow business.
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Q: Django: Need to check for QuerySet existence before looping through it I have observed in several Django projects the following common pattern:
queryset = MyModel.objects.filter(...)
if queryset:
    for obj in queryset:
        do_something()

I realize that by checking queryset Django is already populating its cache so we don't hit the DB again when executing the for loop.
According to the documentation, the queryset is also evaluated when looping through it.
So my question is:
Is there any benefit in including the queryset check before the loop?

I am also aware of exists(), but let's consider for this particular case I am not going to use it.
Thank you in advance for your answers.

A: Why do you need to check?
if queryset:
    for obj in queryset:
        do_something()

and
for obj in queryset:
    do_something()

are essentially the same. If the queryset is empty, the loop will never be executed. Otherwise, it will.
queryset.exists() is not a good idea as it causes an extry db hit, when you would pull the data anyway.

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