Category: News
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First Bike Flat of 2013-14 School Year
It isn’t even officially the school year yet and I am setting up my classroom, labs, and servers and as you see here am repairing my first flat. I picked up a small wire, ?steel belted truck tire?, but all good now.
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Simple Tour de France Guide
If you want a simple and accessible online Tour de France guide, here it is. There’s a concise preview of every stage, with my quick take on the day added. Use the links at the top of the page here to find your way around the stage previews, the start list and the other points.…
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Cycling Is the Top Sport for Head Injuries
In a post today on the NYTimes there was an interesting piece on the nature of cycling and head injuries. I still object to laws requiring a helmet to be worn at all times and wear my helmet constantly for touring and commuting. Assumption of risk, and cost, is an issue and not one to…
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Lego Bicycle
If you imagine riding it, then pictures are not to scale. From The Brothers Brick Flickr user Vasil Vasil (Silvavasil_LEGO) takes a different approach than Chris did on the subject matter of bicycles. He has created a delicate and extremely elegant road bike where the vivid colours combined with the creative parts usage makes for…
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Hack an IKEA Stool to build a bike
In November 2012, Core77 made an article on their blog about one of my projects, a collection of 3D printed lampshades made to repair IKEA lamps. At the end of the page, the writer (Ray) made a suggestion : “Where Andreas Bhend’s recently-seen IKEA hacks included instructions à la the Swedish furniture giant’s pictographic booklets,…
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Be Careful Out There Using Strava
Disclosure: I am a Premium Strava Member who has some KOM and CR achievements on Strava. Disclosure #2: I own a Garmin watch and find it fun to run and ride virtually with my kids, so I gave them each a watch as well. I do understand the need for everyone to have someone to blame for…