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Bike Week SB: May 17-25
Posted by Steve on May 14th 2008
Bike Week is coming up next week. The SB Bike Coalition has some cool events planned, I'll see if I can hit any up. Noticing the bike rack at work is getting fuller, that's a good thing!
Music For Hackers - my homage
Posted by Steve on May 12th 2008
I've made a Pandora radio station homage to Music For Hackers, an older streaming radio station that I really loved. I've tried to seed mine with good stuff and will add to it over time. So far, it's sweet! :)
Fixed Gear Trailer Towing
Posted by Steve on May 11th 2008
So we got a new Wike Moonlight Double trailer and today was our first big ride with both boys in it. Works really great, even when towed behind my fixed gear Cross Check. It tows nicely and is really well put together, I have no complaints other than it's already crowded with both boys in it. When they grow it's only going to get worse!
Towing it was fine on the flats, but even with my relatively low 42x16 gearing, going up even modest hills was a pretty good workout. Some were steep enough I had to get off and push. Gears would obviously be a good call... but since I've only got one bike and I really like riding it fixed, not sure what I'll do. Find flatter routes or HTFU I guess ;)
Here's a screenprint from Google Maps of the 17 mile route we took.
Fixed Gear Death Trap
Posted by Steve on May 8th 2008
This is a Craiglist "Best Of" with good reason: Fixed Gear Death Trap
:)
There's no crying in tarck: Tarckbike.com
Posted by Steve on May 6th 2008
I'm not much of one for interweb drama but I love a good insurrection when I see one... the BikeForums.com Singlespeed/Fixed Gear forum (aka BFSSFG) had a moderator-led "ethnic cleansing" (aka mass banning) of a large number of their more "troublesome" members, leading a bunch of the BFSSFG forum regulars (aka recalcitrant hoodlums) to start their own website, Tarckbike.com. (tarck bike definition)
Anyways, the new forum has a much better signal:noise ratio than the old BikeForums forum, and ironically enough many/most of the BFSSFG regulars from BikeForums are being siphoned off, largely due to the heavy-handedness of a particular BF mod named "Brian", who went so far as to "stalk" the former members to their new home on tarckbike.com. The highlight: his threatening that "when I'm done you will pretty much be banned from the whole internet..!"
Ehh yeaaahhhh... A fun read to be had... way better than American Idol anyways :)
Update 5/10:
Nice, I have been banned from Bikeforums. LOL! I did no apparent evil other than linking to this blog entry in my signature there. Awesomeness! Even though a link to a blog or personal site is explicitly permitted in their forum guidelines, apparently I am a great evil and therefore must be banned. They didn't even PM me or otherwise warn... just a stealth lock-out. Good stuff Bikeforums! I foresee a successful future for your competitors :)
Update 5/11:
On a whim I reported one of my posts on BikeForums just to see why I'd been banned. Turns out it was unintentional - there was some sort of 'technical problem' with my profile, which they fixed. So I'm unbanned. Weird. Whatever! LOL
