German cyclist Stefan Schumacher tested positive for dope. And German TV threatens not to broadcast the Tour de France.
That seems like incentive for ASO not to aggressively test for doping. If organizers swept everything under the rug, the problem goes away, the sport appears clean and everybody is happy, right?
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Why you should plug your bar ends
This is pretty rough to look at, but it's a reminder of why plugs in your handlebars are a good idea.
Masiguy's Virtual Tradeshow.
Guitar Ted's thoughts on belt drive systems for bicycles.
Who is Heather Graham?
Masiguy's Virtual Tradeshow.
City Cycling: How to build a usuable bike path. Via Planet Mike.
Make Money Fast
Three steps to easy money!
1. Steal a bicycle.
2. Post to Craigslist that you saw an obviously hot bike and bought it so it can be reunited with its rightful owner, like this:
3. Receive cash from naive and grateful victims!
Note: It turns out this guy is probably honest. I guess I'm too old and cynical.
See also:
1. Steal a bicycle.
2. Post to Craigslist that you saw an obviously hot bike and bought it so it can be reunited with its rightful owner, like this:
We recovered your stolen Miyata! - $50 (mission district)
My roommate bought this Miyata for $50. The bike is very obviously hot and we'd like to return it to its rightful owner. If this bike belongs to you or a friend of yours, please email me. I'm sure they miss it dearly. We'll gladly give it back for the $50 we paid for it and some sandwiches and/or a case of beer. In order to claim your bike, you must tell me what kind of pedals are on the bike.
My roommate bought this Miyata for $50. The bike is very obviously hot and we'd like to return it to its rightful owner. If this bike belongs to you or a friend of yours, please email me. I'm sure they miss it dearly. We'll gladly give it back for the $50 we paid for it and some sandwiches and/or a case of beer. In order to claim your bike, you must tell me what kind of pedals are on the bike.
3. Receive cash from naive and grateful victims!
Note: It turns out this guy is probably honest. I guess I'm too old and cynical.
See also:
- Confidence trick.
- Street smart.
- Receiving stolen property: "Paying for the goods or intending to collect the reward for returning them are not defenses."
Monday, October 6, 2008
Dating advice from fixed gear cyclists
The post started out kind of clever but then went downhill. Google for it if you're interested.
Orange brakeless fixie photo by me in Las Vegas...
LA Times talks about Sport Utility Bikes.
Ken Conley's Interbike photography experience.
Santa Clara County Trail Count news coverage.
Suzue caps and shirts from Soma Fabrications.
Pedal Powered Tank.
Miley Cyrus still rides a bicycle. She turns 16 next month -- let's see if she continues with the bicycles.
You can buy Trek bicycles @ Amazon.com??
Chris writes about Interbike 2008:
(Ad) Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America.
Orange brakeless fixie photo by me in Las Vegas...
LA Times talks about Sport Utility Bikes.
Ken Conley's Interbike photography experience.
Santa Clara County Trail Count news coverage.
Suzue caps and shirts from Soma Fabrications.
Pedal Powered Tank.
Miley Cyrus still rides a bicycle. She turns 16 next month -- let's see if she continues with the bicycles.
You can buy Trek bicycles @ Amazon.com??
Chris writes about Interbike 2008:
The world does not need this many high-end carbon-rimmed wheels, road or MTB. Who is going to buy all these $2000-$6000 wheels?
(Ad) Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America.
Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy' which he calls 'Geo-Greenism''is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure.
Party like it's 1999
The Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to shed almost a decade's worth of economic growth in a single day today. The DJIA closed today at a level that hasn't been seen since 1999.
The 7% decline today doesn't compare with the double digit declines that marked the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. Over a quarter of the American labor force was unemployed in 1933, with none of the safety nets we have today: no unemployment checks, no public housing, no government welfare of any kind. Back then, though, we had food, we had oil in the ground domestically, we had plenty of home grown resources and we had very little national debt, many of us outside of the High Plains had family farms we could return to and wait things out.
Today, we have monetary inflation of basic foodstuffs in spite of lower real wages for the majority of Americans. We have crippling debt at the national and personal level. It should be an interesting week, and by "interesting" I use it in terms of the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Massive layoffs from all sectors of American business will be announced around Thanksgiving this year.
Some of you might be interested in this article that likens the Borg of Star Trek with our modern financial system.
Elsewhere:
The 7% decline today doesn't compare with the double digit declines that marked the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929. Over a quarter of the American labor force was unemployed in 1933, with none of the safety nets we have today: no unemployment checks, no public housing, no government welfare of any kind. Back then, though, we had food, we had oil in the ground domestically, we had plenty of home grown resources and we had very little national debt, many of us outside of the High Plains had family farms we could return to and wait things out.
Today, we have monetary inflation of basic foodstuffs in spite of lower real wages for the majority of Americans. We have crippling debt at the national and personal level. It should be an interesting week, and by "interesting" I use it in terms of the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Massive layoffs from all sectors of American business will be announced around Thanksgiving this year.
Some of you might be interested in this article that likens the Borg of Star Trek with our modern financial system.
What we are seeing reflects a general insolvency of the global financial system. Part of the problem is that investors, business people and governments didn’t foresee that crude oil production would flatten in 2005 and prices would go from $10 per barrel in 1998 to $100 per barrel in 2008. Or that China and India would consume so much so fast that nearly all forms of commodities would rise in parallel with oil prices.Read the whole post here.
When credit is extended over a long time horizon, as in a home mortgage, the underlying assumption is that the future will be akin to the past. Inflation will be relatively modest and incomes will keep up so that a steady flow of cash can go back to banks and keep up their reserve balances. Obviously this hasn’t occurred: prices rose faster than incomes and the ability to repay debts faltered.
The United States (and other nations with negative trade balances and large foreign held debts) is in a Catch 22 situation. Flows of credit are so crucial for the daily functioning of our economy that it looks as though these will be preserved at all cost.
It is difficult in a panicky time to step back and ask questions about the greater purpose of what we are doing. One of the problems I have is balancing my current anxiety over the unraveling of systems that I depend on, with the knowledge that these systems are highly misguided and need radical change. As a people, we have become very poor at distinguishing between productive and unproductive debts.
Elsewhere:
- Guitar Ted: Economy and bicycles
- Masiguy: Fewer bike racing teams in 2009 because of the economy.
- Cleantech on The Energy Policy Act of 2008.
Caltrain hits truck in Burlingame
Southbound Baby Bullet train number 312 struck a big rig near the Broadway station in Burlingame this morning, delaying up to 15,000 commuters as Caltrain singletracked around the mess.
The tail of the big rig was reportedly hanging over the tracks when the express train screamed through the intersection. Witnesses say the gate crossing and signals were all working when the idiot truck driver, who suffered minor injuries, tried to beat the train through the crossing.
Photo by "AlienVenom".
The tail of the big rig was reportedly hanging over the tracks when the express train screamed through the intersection. Witnesses say the gate crossing and signals were all working when the idiot truck driver, who suffered minor injuries, tried to beat the train through the crossing.
Photo by "AlienVenom".
Slovenia bicycle blog
Marteja here works with Robert Logie at Big Fish Bicycles in Slovenia.
I didn't have a chance to visit their Interbike booth, but caught them on the way out as we left Friday evening. They were out of business cards so Robert and Marteja suggested I take a photo of her back as a human business card.
What caught my eye were the unique folding bicycles they were carrying. I'll write more about them over at Commute By Bike sometime this week (promise!), but they also have a really cute blog called The Big Fish Bike blog. Robert speaks with a thick Slavic accent, but his blog writing is perfect and witty. His English is, in any case, much better than my command of Slovene.
The bikes are not available in North America, but Interbike 2008 was Big Fish's first foray into the American market. Robert tells me dealer interest was strong and they're in talks with a distributor.
The Big Fish Bike blog from Slovenia.
I didn't have a chance to visit their Interbike booth, but caught them on the way out as we left Friday evening. They were out of business cards so Robert and Marteja suggested I take a photo of her back as a human business card.
What caught my eye were the unique folding bicycles they were carrying. I'll write more about them over at Commute By Bike sometime this week (promise!), but they also have a really cute blog called The Big Fish Bike blog. Robert speaks with a thick Slavic accent, but his blog writing is perfect and witty. His English is, in any case, much better than my command of Slovene.
The bikes are not available in North America, but Interbike 2008 was Big Fish's first foray into the American market. Robert tells me dealer interest was strong and they're in talks with a distributor.
The Big Fish Bike blog from Slovenia.
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