• Weekend Update

    Eagle Park

    I finally got in a decent ride on the Gunnar.  This morning (Sunday) I rode from Glenelg to West Beach and then up the River Torrens to the Zoo, which is a little north of the Adelaide central business district.  The 43km ride was mostly on paved trails with some road, dirt and gravel and took about one hour forty-five minutes.  The weather was cool, around 10°c with light rain.  In my opinion, this is great riding because it cuts down of traffic and washes the mud off of my helmet and shoes, which I also use off road and on recently muddy trails.

    Speaking of which, I took the Eriksen out to Eagle Park again on Saturday afternoon.  This time I took a lot of video both on the bike and off.  I have several videos I’m working on now, but this one should be done soon.  The ride at Eagle was better than previous rides, mostly because of greater familiarity with the trails, I found some good climbs, and I didn’t break my chain.

    If this is all too boring for you, here is an article from the Museum of Mountain Bike Art & Technology (MOMBAT) on The History of Manitou.

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  • Eagle Park: Videos

    These videos were taken at Eagle Park on August 1, 2009 with the ATC3K camera. Being Australia, this is winter and temperature was a nice 13-15°c. I’m going to experiment with different on-bike and off-bike camera mounting and angles, but until then these bike-mounted angles will have to do.

    This video has a pretty good sampling of the terrain at Eagle Park. The trails in the video include “Top Deck”, “Jammin”, “Sunset Blvd”, “Tunnel Vision”, “The Mixer”, “Overlocker” and “Hawkeye”, but not necessarily in that order. Trail difficulty ranges from green/easy to blue/intermediate and black/difficult. The trails are mostly clay and rock singletrack with some sandy sections.

    This shorter video is uncut beginning from near the parking lot, down the green/easy “Top Deck” trail, then onto the black/difficult “Jammin” trail, and ends when I broke my chain.

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  • Crossgeared.com

    Koalas

    Welcome to Crossgeared.com, the new home for my blog.   My blog has existed under a few domains, on more than a few platforms, and as part of some of my other sites.  Here you will find my complete blog archive back to early 2006 as well as the various bits of information from my other sites.  As of this post, Crossgeeared.com is based on WordPress 2.8.3 and a theme developed by Eric and myself.

    While some of the pages loosely resemble content from my other sites, all of the content has been imported into WordPress.  This may seem lazy, and it is, but WordPress is a very good content management system and makes site management far simpler than my old mix of php scripts and static code.  Anyway, enjoy the new site.  Don’t bother looking at the old sites, I’ve deleted the content and they just point here.  For those looking for the old VW-related 251.org, I’m sad to say that after over thirteen years it is no longer available online.  251.org will be back up at some point, but don’t expect much VW content.