I went to the prologue for the Tour of California yesterday in San Francisco. The prologue was a 1.9 mile ride along the Embarcadero that ended with a climb up Telegraph Hill to Coit Tower. My wife and I managed to get a great spot about 200 feet down the road from the starting gate.… Read More »
Not a mad German, actually, but mad skills (I refuse to write skillz, damn it, I just did) demonstrated by a German woman from Universität Würzburg. She performs some amazing stunts while riding a fixie in a gymnasium. I’ve seen guys do some of this stuff on stunt bikes, but I think it’s a lot… Read More »
A friend of mine here in the East Bay had four bikes stolen from his garage recently. If you see any of the following bikes at a too good to be true price, please let Jeff or me know: Moots Compact SL 56cm with Shimano Dura-Ace 10 Habanero Team Issue 56cm with Shimano Dura-Ace 9… Read More »
My brother sent me a link a few weeks ago to yet another cool Google Map mash-up. This one allows you to measure the distance between two points on a map via connected line segments. This is particularly useful to me in estimating the length of a bike ride on a route I haven’t yet… Read More »
Sunday was the T-Mobile International bike race in San Francisco. Below are some thumbnail images of the photos I took with the camera on my Treo 600. The full-sized images are on another page.
Assuming the traffic light at Redwood and Skyline has a camera, I would love to get a copy of any shots it took around 3:30 pm today. About twenty minutes into today’s bike ride, I was cruising downhill on Skyline towards the intersection with Redwood. I slowed down to around 30 mph so that the… Read More »
Eat your heart out, Sarah Jessica Parker. Now, these are shoes to die for. My new Sidi Genius 4 Lorica cycling shoes are the closest thing I can imagine to a glove for your feet. Well, a glove with a really hard bottom surface, but the fit around the top and sides of my feet… Read More »
Somehow, I managed to “sleep” at least ten hours in a sleeping bag on top of a thin therma-rest pad on a hardwood floor in the loft. Perhaps so much time was able to pass between when I went to went to bed and when I got up because the luxurious and sensuous feeling of… Read More »