Category: Cycling
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Lance Armstrong “Twitter Ride”
This morning (Saturday), I was planning my day at the 2010 Australian MTB Nationals when we noticed some helicopters circling near our house. Normally this could be a shark sighting, but the helicopters were too far inland. I checked the news, a rare event for me, and saw that Lance Armstrong was having a small…
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2010 Australian MTB Championships Map
The 2010 Australian MTB Championships will be in Adelaide this year. While I won’t be competing (I can lose sufficiently well at the local level), I did put together this map of the 2010 Olympic XC (XCO) course from some GPS data, track descriptions and several weeks of riding the course. While this map isn’t…
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UK-14’er: When Brakes Break
I’ve always liked v-brakes. They are simple, they work, and they are reliable. But, recently I’ve been having some issues with my favorite v-brakes, my Paul’s Motolites. The first problem really isn’t a problem with the brakes, but more the wheels. I managed to flat-spot the rear Crossmax ST on the UK-14’er (aka Kent Eriksen…