Archive for September, 2006

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Escape Velocity Grand Prix of Cyclocross video

The EV GP of Cyclocross, right there at the West Point Grey Academy in the heart of Vancouver. I’d like to thank Stephen Cork for setting this up, and David Penner and Jeff Ain for doing a bunch of supplementary video, too. Once again, this is the Men’s A race, but there’s a pretty good […]

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Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Customary weekly note

Let’s do some follow-up and ruminations. Item: the Fort Langley CX video was one of the most popular things I’ve ever put here. Glad you all liked it. There will be another one after next weekend’s Grand Prix of Cyclocross. Item: my mother-in-law is so addicted to Brain Age that she’s going to get her […]

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Monday, September 11th, 2006

Cyclocross Video: Fort Langley Cyclocross Classic

For your delectation, the Men’s “A” race in just over 5 minutes: This is the Fort Langley Cyclocross Classic, race #1 of the BC CX Cup, which happened September 10, 2006. I rode in the B group just before filming this, and can assure you this course was as fun as it looks, though very […]

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Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Cheap NiMH batteries: I’m telling everyone!

This isn’t a shopping blog, but I actually found a deal so good I feel like using this space to endorse it. Or brag. Either way. My club-mate Johnny Cheung suggested an entirely gimcrack website called LED Shoppe as a source of a cheapo Bluetooth USB thingy. And he was right! The sucker cost me […]

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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

Ulturducken!

Ulturducken!. The logical extension of Turducken. Ernie took pictures. I’m hungry now.

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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Two Nines of service: a Telus promise!

My click-through rate on online ads is somewhere around zero: maybe one every couple of months (but hey, advertisers, keep spending the ad dollars on the Internet: it’s the easiest way you can get impressions from me!) at best. But then a Telus ad made a promise so absurdly underachieving I couldn’t believe it: If […]

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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

On Bike Interviews 2

Once again, in association with Team Escape Velocity, it’s time for On Bike Interviews. If you hated the last one, you might dislike this one less: tighter editing, funnier visual bits. I think I ought to get a better camera, though.

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Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Bike parts shopping is fun

So, in between bouts of procrastinating the creation of my new cyclocross bike (working title: Azzuri Sporco), the new MEC catalog arrived. Always fun to see what’s in there. The best find in the bike section is probably these Freddy Speedeez. The Speedeez are total knock-offs of the popular and useful $50 SKS Race Blades, […]

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