Category: Cycling
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Decarbonising Home
A little background I recently listened to this excellent Ezra Klein interview with Bill McKibben , The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate1, on the status of renewable energy and climate change. It not only highlighted just how different the conditions here in Australia are compared to what they described in some of…
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20 Years
20 years ago in the (northern hemisphere) spring of 2006 I bought a used Stirling Silver 2001 Gunnar Crosshairs from Karl at Klunk Cycles in Columbia, MO. It was my first dropbar bike, and I rode it off-road far more than on anything paved. In mid-Missouri there was the MKT and Katy Trail, somehow both…
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Drivetrains
I recently read a fun article by Rob English over on Escape Collective about assembling various mechanical and electronic drivetrains in useful, non-standard ways. While my drivetrains aren’t quite as exotic as most of these, some are quirky in their own ways. I’ve included only complete or soon-to-be-completed bikes and only bikes that I regularly…