February, 2006

February 28th, 2006

Technology Tortoise

Nokia has today regained it’s position as market leader in mobile phones.
I fail to see how.
I had a Nokia 6510 that made and received phone calls. It had a calendar that allowed me to set reminders to call people at certain times. At the specified time I just pressed one button to call them. It […]

February 24th, 2006

Swobo are back…

Image © & courtesy Matt Booth

…in the UK at Stif.
My own Swobo top is no longer royal blue but baby blue. Even so it still finds it’s way into my kit bag for 24 hour races.
At the time I was given (thanks Chipps!) my Swobo top the choice was Swobo or, er, Swobo. These days […]

February 24th, 2006

The truth will out

In the latest developments in the sad tale of the Australian cyclist killed by a lorry in London, her father, Eric McIntyre has come out strongly against claims that it was her use of an iPod that was responsible.
The fact that Jacques Poullard has implicated Patricia’s use of her iPOD with her death is totally […]

February 21st, 2006

Back to Racing - Woohoo

Just read over on Singletrack that the entry forms for the TwentyFour12 are out.
Disappointed that there’s no solo 24 category, so I’m contenting myself with a solo 12.
Entry form downloaded and in the post.

February 21st, 2006

Join the Real World

Following a link in my webstats I discovered that some web-geek has decided that you can ‘trade’ website names in a fantasy stock-market, and we’re on there.
Turns out that in over a year that I’ve been listed just 4 visits to this site have been a result of the nerds playing the game.
I know that […]

February 20th, 2006

Thomson on Flickr

I’m probably one of the few people around who still prefers hinged stems. It’s an aesthetics thing. Tell me that the proper made in Canada (eh!) Syncros hinged stems and the old style Easton EA70 hinged stem aren’t more beautiful than the current fashion for faceplate stems.
So, when pondering what to put on […]

February 20th, 2006

Gift Horses

As I posted a couple weeks ago my lovely wife just bought me a new TNT linkage Turner Five Spot frame from Sideways Cycles. That week we got home we rang the shop with a list of parts to get in for us - all in black or silver. This last Saturday we ambled back […]

February 13th, 2006

The Rules

Rules for 24 hour Racing

February 9th, 2006

Safety Partnership?

Further to my post yesterday the Lancashire Partnership for Road Safety have been kind enough to send me the current criteria they follow for camera placement.
So I’ve assessed the route I used for nearly ten years, and the route that I now follow against these criteria. The collision data is Lancashire County’s own, taken from […]

February 8th, 2006

commute

Finally crawled off my winter lardy backside and started commuting again. It’s less than 10 minutes each way so I treat it as sprint training.
Despite having plenty of cycle lanes along the way I’ve already encountered some car drivers who seem to think that they’ll get to work faster by driving in them and holding […]

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