Crazy Brucie's
I want to sell off some wheels and have no idea how to set prices. At work we pull prices for products out or our butt. Manual-rectal retrieval.
Don't wanna screw anybody, 'specially myself.
The point of selling off unused wheels, apart from making room in the cellar, is to buy some lighter, spiffier wheels for the Surly winter bike. I'd like to do some trail/off-road stuff and want stout wheels that can take fat tyres but not add too much weight to an already portly bike-rider combo.
What ya think?
Anybody but GeWilli read this thing?
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Skeleton Brakes
I'm not sold on the mega-ultra-PeterTork crank set Campy is selling. It looks klugy to me and I bet the fred shade tree mechanics will figger out all sorts of ways to screw it up.
Their new brake design is Exta-klugy. Looks like a step back into the CNC age. I wonder if they will anodize them graple.
http://www.campagnolo.com/groupsets.php?gid=2&cid=10&pid=46
I'm not sold on the mega-ultra-PeterTork crank set Campy is selling. It looks klugy to me and I bet the fred shade tree mechanics will figger out all sorts of ways to screw it up.
Their new brake design is Exta-klugy. Looks like a step back into the CNC age. I wonder if they will anodize them graple.
http://www.campagnolo.com/groupsets.php?gid=2&cid=10&pid=46
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
What it’s all about
I pulled the plug on the Tuesday night rides. Just too aggravating. It just wasn’t fun having t ride heard every week.
So instead of going in circles, literally and figuratively, I rode with GeWilli and Giulia. We rode the EBBP to Warren then took a tour of Touisett. Just lovely.
I shan’t miss the paceline. Maybe I’ll do them again next year but 5 years of herding pussies is plenty for now.
I pulled the plug on the Tuesday night rides. Just too aggravating. It just wasn’t fun having t ride heard every week.
So instead of going in circles, literally and figuratively, I rode with GeWilli and Giulia. We rode the EBBP to Warren then took a tour of Touisett. Just lovely.
I shan’t miss the paceline. Maybe I’ll do them again next year but 5 years of herding pussies is plenty for now.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Effin' Floyd:
LONDON (Reuters) - Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has tested positive for the male sex hormone testosterone, the U.S. rider's Phonak team said on Thursday.
"The Phonak Cycling Team was notified yesterday by (world cycling body) the UCI of an unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone ratio in the test made on Floyd Landis after stage 17 of the Tour de France," Phonak said in a team statement.
Landis produced a remarkable effort a week ago to win the 17th stage of cycling's showpiece event following a disastrous 16th stage in which he dropped from first to 11th place.
Phonak said Landis would not ride until the matter had been clarified and said that if the B sample analysis confirmed the result of the A sample, the rider would be dismissed.
Phonak added: "The team management and the rider were both totally surprised by this physiological result.
"The rider will ask in the upcoming days for the counter analysis to prove either that this result has come from a natural process or that this is the result of a mistake."
Landis had earlier pulled out of a race in Denmark on Thursday. He also did not ride in a scheduled race in the Netherlands on Wednesday.
LONDON (Reuters) - Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has tested positive for the male sex hormone testosterone, the U.S. rider's Phonak team said on Thursday.
"The Phonak Cycling Team was notified yesterday by (world cycling body) the UCI of an unusual level of testosterone/epitestosterone ratio in the test made on Floyd Landis after stage 17 of the Tour de France," Phonak said in a team statement.
Landis produced a remarkable effort a week ago to win the 17th stage of cycling's showpiece event following a disastrous 16th stage in which he dropped from first to 11th place.
Phonak said Landis would not ride until the matter had been clarified and said that if the B sample analysis confirmed the result of the A sample, the rider would be dismissed.
Phonak added: "The team management and the rider were both totally surprised by this physiological result.
"The rider will ask in the upcoming days for the counter analysis to prove either that this result has come from a natural process or that this is the result of a mistake."
Landis had earlier pulled out of a race in Denmark on Thursday. He also did not ride in a scheduled race in the Netherlands on Wednesday.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
My second fifteen minutes of fame has been postponed.
I was scheduled to tape a public access show yesterday promoting National Trails Day http://www.trails.com/national-trails-day.asp & cycling. I was, along with a DOT representative, going to be on a show hosted by a local legend (86 years old) and we were booked by another local legend and bike path advocate (82 years old). Well 168 years of life experience is a wonderful thing and both men have made their mark on the Rhode Island landscape but the all that living has taken a toll on the memory banks.
We arrived to a dark studio and our camera operator rushing off to shoot a local town financial meeting. Our 86-year-old host had forgotten that we were coming. We had to cancel. The taping schedule at the cable company will not allow for getting it shot and on air before Trails Day, June 3.
I wasn’t really looking forward to the taping but I had taken the time out of work and figured I’d do my best. I felt bad for G who had put the thing together. The East Bay Bike Path exists due in no small part to his efforts and it meant a lot to him. He was very disappointed. We drowned our sorrows in a couple of Del’s and he perked up a bit.
We may give it a try again as a retrospective on the event.
I was scheduled to tape a public access show yesterday promoting National Trails Day http://www.trails.com/national-trails-day.asp & cycling. I was, along with a DOT representative, going to be on a show hosted by a local legend (86 years old) and we were booked by another local legend and bike path advocate (82 years old). Well 168 years of life experience is a wonderful thing and both men have made their mark on the Rhode Island landscape but the all that living has taken a toll on the memory banks.
We arrived to a dark studio and our camera operator rushing off to shoot a local town financial meeting. Our 86-year-old host had forgotten that we were coming. We had to cancel. The taping schedule at the cable company will not allow for getting it shot and on air before Trails Day, June 3.
I wasn’t really looking forward to the taping but I had taken the time out of work and figured I’d do my best. I felt bad for G who had put the thing together. The East Bay Bike Path exists due in no small part to his efforts and it meant a lot to him. He was very disappointed. We drowned our sorrows in a couple of Del’s and he perked up a bit.
We may give it a try again as a retrospective on the event.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
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