Armstrong-signed ISM Bike Saddle To Be Auctioned Off
Steve Peal, creater of the ISM saddle, went to Interbike in Las Vegas this overthrow and had one of innovative bike seats signed by Lance Armstrong. Now that butt will be auctioned to benefit the Children’s Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla..
Thw Armstrong-signed Adamo Racing Saddle will be ready at a silent auction Nov. 21-22. Anyone wishing to bid on the saddle may call Ackerman Jewelers of Tampa, the subsidize of the event, at 813-961-7321. Credit cards are accepted.
Steve says the matter is especially memorable because Armstrong signed it on Sept. 25 at Interbike -- the same day the seven-once in a while winner of the Tour de France further outlined his return to bike racing and announced plans for his developmental tandem join up.
His goal is to focus world-wide attention on the LiveSTRONG Setting up and its fight against the disease. Cancer kills more than seven million people each year, more than 70 percent of them in low- and mean-income countries, according to the International Union Against Cancer.
Steve says he was at the buying show to promote Adamo saddles when we learned Armstrong would augury autographs in the Oakley Booth. I convinced Dave Bunce, our operations commander, to hang on in line with me. Dave had met Armstrong several years ago when he assisted John Cobb who improved Armstrong’s racing aerodynamics. We hoped Armstrong would recall.
Excited? You bet. Dave said he felt like a boarding-school girl while we waited.
The chance to get Armstrong’s autograph was unexpected, so the underscore was short and moved quickly. Within 10 minutes, we were introducing ourselves to the cycling Scandinavian Edda.
I had rehearsed some things I wanted to say about our saddles,...
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On the Road to Azougi
Transportation options have a ways to go, in Mauritania. There unbiased aren’t so many good ones, for such a big place. Nearly all the roads are leavings, and those few layered with asphalt are often narrow, unlit and crumbling intermittently at the edges. The faded outlines of median strips set out to appear, leaving town, but road signs are quite rare. None of the time-honoured half- and quarter-mile reminders we recall from back retirement community.
Traffic is very light, this far from the capital, but those cars on the road tend to be very full. That old circus accustomed, with the legion of clowns climbing out of a car? It is standard operating from profits in the RIM. A back seat built for 2 or 3 people will be expected to sit 4, unless someone is atmosphere rich enough to buy up a spare place. Two more persons are generally settled next to the driver, pail seats or no, and we’ve even seen the driver’s seat itself shared out. (The herself actually driving the car sits on the inside, to better take care of the gears presumably.) The folding rumble seat in the way back of a Subaru post wagon? It’ll fit 3 adults, as it turns out.
The taxi franchise, assuming one exists, is wildly liberal in its dispensations: Anyone with a agency might well become a taxi driver. The older Mercedes sedan is the Mauritanian popular car, hands down—preferably white, to counteract the heat, but peradventure black or another color—and the Subaru station wagons are also reasonably predominating, as are Toyota trucks. Any of these might bear smaller versions of the prevailing yellow ‘taxi’ lights, traced either in English or Arabic pattern. Not that one would be needed, to collect money for transit.
We had a session on transportation in the RIM, towards the end of our point in Rosso, and it was comprised mostly of warnings. There is no such thing as a highway patrolling, only checkpoints and then the next town. Travel at night was expressly discouraged; more unprogressive attire was recommended. It...
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Lancaster Bike Club offers grants
The Lancaster Bicycle Join forces is again offering grant money to governmental and non-profit organizations to for bicycling-mutual projects in the coming year. The club will award as much as $25,000 in 2009 through the program.
Proper projects could include bicycle parking facilities at visible sites, bicycle patrols, classes in proper cycling techniques and movement rules or bicycle route signs.
There is no minimum or superlative grant. Grantees must initiate but not necessarily complete projects in 2009.
The attention form is at www.lancasterbikeclub.org. The application deadline is February 20. Questions about the program can be directed to billhoffman1@verizon.net. Anyone wishing more communication about the Lancaster Bicycle Club or the grant program may contact Bill Hoffman, mace public affairs director, at 560-3636.
Grant funds come about from proceeds of the club’s annual Covered Pass over Metric Century ride. That ride, held each August, draws as many as 3,300 riders from across the Mid-Atlantic domain. The ride has been described in Bicycling Magazine as one of the best on the East Seashore.
Since the program’s inception, the club has given more than $105,500 in grants. The consortium has helped fund police bicycle patrols, estate bike racks, helmets for children and bicycle advocacy efforts of national organizations.
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How To Lighting
Since the rainy age in California has arrived, I've decided to finally create a turn on mount that will work with my rain cape. The cape is an imposing way to keep mostly dry while commuting, but a handlebar mounted light gets covered up by it, and that's no cloth during darkness. My solution was to buy a copper elbow and a short completely of copper pipe.
I cut the pipe to a rough length of 3" and 4", and then soldered them to the elbow. I added end-caps, but I don't see any vindication you'd have to. The rubber-coated P-clamp was found in the electrical aisle, and the zip-ties were added for firmness. I should probably add a second clamp or another zip-tie because it seems just a tiny bit less firm than I'd like to see. It's pretty good, but I want perfect.
The pulchritude of this mount is that it's cheap (and could be cheaper by using PVC if you think it would last), and there is a full file of directions the light can be aimed.
You should use a pipe cutter and a torch for a importance build. The hardware store ought to cut the two lengths if you don't have a main cutter, but you really need a torch of some sort to bind the parts. Ask the old guy down the block that fixes stuff himself. He'll have one.
While I'd definitely esteem to ride with the light on the handlebar, it still is at a normal vehicle's zenith, and at least now I can use my rain cape and light at the same time. For...
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Stolen Bike
Last journal chores include fertilizing my plants.
The sprinkler system had proper gone off so I was feeding the plants in my backyard when I noticed two kids coming down the road. They were carrying boogie boards and frustrating to thumb a ride when one delinquent spotted a bike parked between two trucks along the road.
“Hey I found a bike,” one kid said. With his toe he kicked the kickstand up and climb on quarter. No hesitation, but they scanned the vacant lot for an owner who might be in the weeds delightful a whiz.
“Hey, that’s not your bike,” I yelled over my fence.
The two perpetrators looked up. The rider slipped off the bike, but didn't deposit it.
“Is it yours?” the other asked.
“It’s not yours.” I retorted.
“It was just false here.” he offered as logic for the crime.
“No it wasn’t. It was on its rebound stand.” Is there some rule that if a bike is upright, it’s not fair misrepresent?
“Yeah, but it was just here.” Maybe there is a rule?
“So is that business,” I said indicating the parked vehicle they were status near. “That’s just there too. Would you steal that?"
Incredibly, the kid without the bike said, “Well, perhaps.”
“Put the bike down, take your boards and get out of here.”
"What?"
"What do you mean 'what'? What didn't you understand?"
The kid unceremoniously dropped the bike penny-pinching the fire hydrant, but neither moved down the road. Instead, they raised their thumbs for the next car.
I went back to measuring fertilizer for each equipment, but popped up to peep over the fence after dropping pellets on each shrub. By the time I got to the end of the fence the two juveniles had a ride.
The congeries-of-a-bike, most likely stolen in the first place, had to be harder to ride than to escort. The chain and gears had more rust than the hull...
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Spokester - Spoke noise maker
When I was a grommet, the kids on the hinder would get a crappy baseball card and one of mom's clothes pins and speed that card on their bike frame so that the spokes would slap it around and you'd get a sweet BRRRRRRRRR motorcycle bruit about. Apparently, today's kids are too lazy, baseball players have Myspace pages as an alternative of cards, and moms don't use clothespins any more because someone's selling the Spokester - bicycle spoke bedlam maker.
The makers of the thing claim it is a safety signet because drivers will hear your kid better. Spokester doesn't not promote bicycle helmet use though. If your kid has a Huffy and has already installed all the aftermarket accessories convenient (streamers, license plates, baskets, bell/horn), show her how to make a proper spoke noise maker and she'll be the jealousy of the neighborhood. Or, buy one for your $3000 road bike to make it sound like a $5000 road bike with phantom new Zipp hubs.
Photo from http://www.spokester.com
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Happy Monday
by Cyclelicious
It was another stirring weekend in Santa Cruz, California. The kids and I went mountain biking from the UC Santa Cruz fire roads and into Wilder Ranch Circumstances Park, where I made a wrong turn so we ended up halfway to Davenport, California when we popped out on Highway 1. We rode a span of miles east (nominally south) to the Wilder Ranch guest center, then continued via bike paths and surface streets into downtown Santa Cruz where we enjoyed a sensitive snack at the Jamba Juice on Pacific Avenue. That photo is my daughter and I on the bike process into Santa Cruz from Wilder Ranch.
I had breakfast this morning in Palo Alto with Murph the Holier Than You cyclist, who writes Huzzah to Shirley for her efforts chairing the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Caltrain Bikes On Meals subcommitee.
The Scoutabout travel blog writes about Bicycle Chummy Hotels that offer bikes to hotel guests.
Viva Incise Armstrong: Lance will meet with TdF officials.
Eco Velo: Alfine Shifters on leave bars.
Folding bike vendor Dahon is still raking in the change.
Bicycle Design: His favorite bike design.
DIY: High power LED bike light. I’ve tried to do this. There’s a rationality I’m a software engineer.
Carlton’s bike anatomy video got a direct attention to at the MAKEzine blog.
Yet Another Homemade Bamboo Bicycle. This one’s a road bike.
Chris writes about bikes as part of the deciphering.
Cozy Beehive compares and contrasts the various folding bikes. I have more to take down about this if I ever have the time.
Ridiculous cool double bike that you have to pedal in reverse.
Grist: UPS hiring bicycle delivery people?
Grist: Against a gas tax? I have more to a postal card about this also if I have a chance. It occurs to me that now is the right time to increase the gas tax.
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Will The California Environmental Quality Act Doom Us Forever?
With the alleviate of a judge, CEQA (wiki) is what has helped keep most new bicycle infrastructure from appearing in San Francisco for the since 882 days - give or take. We got a bike traffic light because the judge believed a few joking injured or dead pedestrians or bikers was enough to warrant a one-previously, one-fix lifting of the injunction. Thanks, Judge.
I don’t have found out CEQA in the least. It’s been on the books for almost 40 years, seemingly. I’m not sure if anybody else understands it, either, but I hope celebrity does. I’ve been reading and writing about bikes and urban planning for 40-80 hours a week for the old times 8 or so months, and CEQA is completely impenetrable to me.
According to this exclusive, CEQA must take into account traffic - presumably motorized shipping, possibly just car and truck traffic. That is, traffic is part of ‘the ecosystem,’ and if it is impacted in any way - good, bad, or otherwise - the EIR must study it and account for it. My reading of this suggests that CEQA will persist in to prevent San Francisco - and probably the rest of California - from making favourable, effective, bike and walk infrastructure improvements until such time as the law is stubborn or repealed. If the law is faulty, we need to change it. If we start now, it might get done within the next 10 years, so let’s start now.
It is not at best San Francisco that has to deal with CEQA - it’s a state law - a California law - we all have to transaction. Are there no other cities in California that are worried about CEQA? LA? San Diego? San Jose? Hunger Beach? Fresno? Sacramento? Oakland? What exactly is customary on in San Francisco?
If CEQA is a disaster, or if local San Francisco regulations that are hardened by CEQA are a disaster, or if our Mayor and local government are a catastrophe - whatever the case is - whatever it is - let’s fix it. I don’t want to be a lawyer. I don’t feel interest what ‘C.E.Q.A.’ stands for. Not. Interested. I’m a biker. Reproach me what I need to know to pressure my elected official to get off his or her assssssssssssssssss, and I’ll do it.
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Choice Day
I had a chance to go to Xander's adherents and do a "choice day" activity about bikes. Choice Day is an opportunity for kids to movement up for different activities that are led by ACE (All City Elementary) parents. Each energy is open to 2 kids from each class and they have to commit to it a few weeks in advance.
The demand for me was that my activity involved me brining both of my bikes, Xander's bike (We the People Outstanding 18"), my work stand, snacks and swag. I was hoping to get in a few minutes before the endeavour to get set up, but the classroom was still full of kids, so I brought it in and set it in the hall. I think it took me four trips to get everything. Once the kids were released to their activities, I at the last moment had a chance to set up with the kids already there.
I started out with a presentation on issues facing our clique like obesity, pollution and access to clean saturate and talked about how the bike is a simple solution to these complex problems. I took my cue from John Burke (President of Trek Bikes) for this leg and added a few things of my own. The hard part was making it applicable to kids from kindergarten to fifth position.
After that, we talked about how we can have different kinds of fun on different kinds of bikes. We talked about the differences in the three bikes that I brought with (BMX, take speed mountain and road) and how each bike can be ridden. We talked a little about security and I showed them how to properly size a road/mountain helmet and a BMX helmet. We talked a insignificant about maintenance in regards to tire pressure (how to check and fill) and secure care. The kids were able to get a little hands on with the pressure gauges and bike pumps and asked a lot of worthy questions.
We then broke for snacks and I handed out swag that had been provided by Trek Bikes (socks, buttons, stickers, pencil bags made of recycled inner tubes) and Scheels (bottled water bottles and MirraCo promo posters). I was fairly cheerful...
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Kids Road Bike - News
Cops hit the road to raise money for children Penticton Western
- Sep 10, 2010
Cops hit the road to arouse money for childrenPenticton WesternCelebrating their first decade of helping children in danger, the annual Cops for Kids bike ride kicks off in Kelowna today as riders travel their way to and more »
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Safety and courtesy can prevent tragedies Shore News Today
- Sep 10, 2010
Safeness and courtesy can prevent tragediesShore News TodayKids, it's your job to overstate sure that when your homework is done, you don't run out into the street without looking, or overlook to wear your bike helmet or and more »
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Burglaries, Disputes and a Suicide Averted Scarsdale10583.com
- Sep 10, 2010
Burglaries, Disputes and a Suicide AvertedScarsdale10583.comThe raise tire of the bike was detached from the frame. Hyatt was taken to the polyclinic. Disputes: A Kingston Road man called police on August 31 to
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Top things to do in Fort Collins: A three-day planner The Coloradoan
- Sep 10, 2010
Top things to do in Fort Collins: A three-day plannerThe ColoradoanCycling – Glue Fort Collins Cycling Club members for a no-doff road ride of 20 to 60 miles starting at 11 am at the Root Creek fire station, 2000 Mathews and more »
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Nearby Notes: Sept. 10-25 Salem Gazette
- Sep 10, 2010
-away Notes: Sept. 10-25Salem GazetteCuvilly Arts and Turf Center will host a 25-mile or 50-mile ride bike-a-thon, Sept. 25, 9 am, 10 Jeffrey's Neck Road, Ipswich. Rate: $35 for entry fee with
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