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Mountain Bike to Cyclocross/Touring Conversion
I need a touring bike, and I’m on a budget. My old Barracuda AM2, aluminum-framed mountain bike frame is tapped for rear pannier mounts, so perhaps a conversion is in order. As I quickly found out, there’s a lot more … Continue reading
Finding the Black Rock Mountain Bike Area in Falls City, Oregon
Since I managed to get lost trying to find the Black Rock Mountain Bike Area in Falls City (despite being more or less a local), I thought others might benefit from a clear guide. This follows the route from Salem. … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling, Travel
Tagged Black Rock, Black Rock Mountain Bike Area, Falls City, mountain biking, Oregon, Salem
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Ecco Track Elite: Best Boots Ever
The Ecco Track Elite, model 24604, is easily the best boot I’ve ever owned. It’s far taller, and provides much more support, than any of the other Track series boots. Ecco’s soles are soft and comfortable. While this results in … Continue reading
Posted in Backpacking
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Bummer!
In addition to my Halloween plans falling through, I just found out that independent hiking on the Inca Trail is prohibited! Since June 2002 trekking independently on the Inca Trail has been prohibited. Regulations state that each trekker must be … Continue reading
My Fantastic Contraptions
A collection of solutions for Fantastic Contraption: My Solutions: Tube – a minimal tube crawler. U-Turn – a floppy, crawling chariot. U-Turn (again)) – a simple cart which uses leverage to apply force on the ceiling. Back and Forth – … Continue reading
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Neat Flash Games for Nerds
These three games present interesting logic puzzles: Fantastic Contraption – build a machine to get an item into the target zone. Light-bot – provide simple commands to make your robot traverse obstacles (publisher site with annoying, talking banner ads is … Continue reading
A Good Orthopedist in San Francisco
I needed to see someone about my shoulder/neck injury. On the recommendation of a coworker, I went to see Dr. Jon Dickinson. He seems to be very nice, knowledgeable, and happily explains what he’s observing, rather than just writing a … Continue reading
Posted in Injury
Tagged bay area, orthopaedics, orthopedic, orthopedic surgeon, orthopedics, orthopedist, sf bay area
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Photographer’s Rights
The Bert P. Krages website has a handy, downloadable PDF version of the “The Photographer’s Right”. If you object to the recent harassment of photographers in public places, I suggest that you download this, print it out, and carry it … Continue reading
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Bicycle Weights
I bought a super-handy digital hanging scale from DealExtreme ($10.84, by far the lowest price on the ‘net). The most useful weights to post that I can think of are those of my bicycles: Cannondale Synapse Carbon 2 60cm (2007) … Continue reading
Posted in Cycling
Tagged allez, allez elite, cannondale, dealextreme, digital hanging scale, hanging scale, raven, specialized, synapse
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The Thunders at Elbo Room
Ellie and I went to Elbo Room to see Crepe-Sensei Shinji’s band, The Thunders. Before them was Clouds and Cannons, which proved to be a great bonus for the night. As their 11:00 showtime approached, the hipster crowd dissipated and … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Music
Tagged band, Japanese, live music, Music, punk, rock, San Francisco, The Thunders
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