Category: Cycling

  • Crosshairs: Trail to Road

    Crosshairs: Trail to Road

    Since moving to South Australia, the Gunnar has been used exclusively on the road.  However, the Gunnar has always been set up primarily for trail use.  The small frame and low handlebars are great on the trail, but can be quite tiring and painful on longer road rides, especially on the descents. Prior to Amy’s…

  • Amy’s Ride 2009

    Amy’s Ride 2009

    Photo Credit: Adelaide Now Yesterday I rode in the BikeSA 2009 South Australia Amy’s Ride tour from Adelaide to McLaren Vale.  From the Amy Gillette Foundation: Amy’s Ride provides the Amy Gillett Foundation with an opportunity to proliferate key messages of safe and responsible road use, increase awareness to the need for more shared respect,…

  • What to do with a Pentium III?

    What to do with a Pentium III?

    A few months ago I found another PC in the garbage.  Much like Trash Server, this one was (mostly) functional.  But unlike trash server, I didn’t really have a use for it.   This beige mini tower sports a 733MHz Pentium III CPU, a couple smallish hard drives, and a dead CD drive.  After sitting…