Archive for February, 2007

February Biking

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Proper rides: 0 miles (pathetic!)
Business miles: 9 miles (1 trip, road)
Commuting: 80 miles (15 days riding to work and back (twice on the day I forgot my lunch))
Misc: 20 miles (guestimated)

Total: 109 miles

A tragically small number, especially given that I had a week off this month. Must try harder.

Low Energy Bulbs

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

australia has banned the normal light bulb. so in the future you will only be able to buy low energy light bulbs in auz.

europe aren’t going to follow, they just pledged to reduce carbon emissions by a further 20%.

although a positive move, it’s not the clear and simple message australia have sent out to their […]

Vintage cyclocross

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

A post on STW linked to a Fixed Gear Gallery page, which contained some photos from this site on vintage cyclocross which contains a link to this cyclocross article by Eugène Christophe, which I’ve probably linked to before, but deserves to be linked again.

Bikepacking

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

The goal was simple: go as light as humanly possible and take bike travel to the mountaintops. By utilizing the latest breakthroughs in ultralight gear, we — Matthew Lee, Bob Allen, and myself — were each able to ride with fifteen pounds of equipment or less (not including food) for a four-day ride along a […]

Splashing

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

Want free books?

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Why not mooch them off me?

You’ll need to sign up and register some books first, have a look at the website.

[via Tom]

Hamster VI MTB Enduro

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

6 hour mountain bike enduro event in Hamsterley Forest
Event held on 20th May 2007
(Practise and Registration on 19th May)

The venue is set in the Northwest part of Hamsterley Forest, with fantastic views from the highest part of the course. The course is about 8 miles in distance consisting of fireroad climbs and singletrack descents.

The Event […]

The real reason you’re broke

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

If you’re constantly broke and can’t figure out why, the answer may be sitting in your driveway.

- The real reason you’re broke

[via Dave Nice, via Kent]

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.

Unhappy Meals by Michael Pollan (and an annotated summary of the article at Megnut) [via Kottke]

William Spencer Hollarado!

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

If Chris can post loads of snowboarding videos, I can post this cool skateboarding video. I don’t think I’ve heard Bon Jovi in a skate video before. There are some great tricks in this video, like a cross between skateboarding, parkour, snooker trick shots and The Matrix.