belt buckle war
phil torrone has a much cooler belt buckle than i have.
i has got me a new bike
this morning i went to finish my latest addition to the pool of bikes i own. and after quite a long time i’m finally able to ride it. my fixed-gear bike: no brakes. one gear, no freewheel. the pedals turn as fast as the rear wheel does and the only way to brake is to slow down the pedals with your leg. watch the tight space between the seat-post and the wheel in the last picture of the middle row!
picture of the week
the grand-raid was really exhausting. renzo and me underestimated how hard it can get to ride 76 km on a tandem. the picture below shows the profile of the race (which we finished as tenth of eleven tandems). we started from Heremence and drove to Grimentz. update: datasport has put the results of the grand-raid online. click here to see how renzo and me finished (look for CTan in the lower part of the page). 10 hours and 12 minutes and a mean velocity of 7.5 km/h, how pathetic :-)
grand raid
tomorrow renzo and me have a new project with his tandem: we’re gonna ride the grand raid christalp (76km mostly up and down :-). i’ll keep you updated on how we manage to compete with the other ten teams. and now i think i’ll just go to bed, cause we got to catch an early train tomorrow morning. maybe i can tell you something about the (surprisingly good) movie i just saw later on. for now i just wish you a good night.
back home
i’m back home, it was wonderful. more on that later on. now i start have to sift through all the mail i got. (i think about 800 mails are actually spam, mostly comment spam on this blog)
/blog in sleep mode
there won’t be any updates here for at least the next two weeks, because i’m on holidays. nina and i will be diving in the red sea and stay at the flameco beach resort in el quseir. have a good time and behave while i’m away. ps: perhaps there will be one or two tiny updates on my moblog, but don’t count on it, because i’m on holidays!
rachel in the news
rachel from the velokurier bern has won the european messenger championships in poland. yesterday she returned and then was superbusy instantly, because she had to give quite some interviews. today she was in some newspapers: 20Minuten, complete with link to the suicmc04 Bund BZ and on friday there will be coming a telebarn-crew to make an interview with her, so she’ll be busy all week long. congratulations rachel!
Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!
This posting is a community experiment started by Minding the Planet to see how a meme represented by a blog posting spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the propagation of memes. The original posting for this experiment is located at: Minding the Planet; results and commentary will appear there in the future.
picture of the week
this was the view after our first dive in the thunersee past friday evening. can you believe how beautiful this is?
hoverbike
now that is a real hovercraft! [via engadget.com]