Posted April 30th, 2006
Yeah this is a fan letter.
I’d really like Jan Ullrich to win another TdF and I’m pretty annoyed by all the slagging off we’re seeing about his early season fitness, not to mention the seeming mass hysteria the bandwagon jumpers are having over Ivan Basso. Cripes! Has everyone swallowed the CSC Kool Aid?
And […]
Posted in Race by Philip | 5 Comments »
Posted April 29th, 2006
At the risk of creating an echo chamber of links I’d like to point readers to Senator Andrew Bartlett’s post on the plans for two tunnels in Brisbane.
More pollution, greater traffic, bigger debt for the Council – it’s amazing what politicians can get away with just by promising a few minutes off the trip in […]
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Posted April 29th, 2006
The transforming bike. Gizmodo
technorati tags: bicycles, carrybike, gizmodo
Posted in Tech by Philip | 2 Comments »
Posted April 29th, 2006
The Gyro Bike.
The GyroBike™ uses Gyroscopic Precession to provide a kid’s bike with the same natural stability of a much faster moving bicycle. When the child leans to one side, the precession of the flywheel causes the front wheel of the bike to turn in the direction of the child’s fall, correcting for the imbalance. […]
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Posted April 28th, 2006
Well so says Melbourne columnist Andrew Bolt in his emotive and inarticulate call for the Government to lower petrol excise.
It assumes we still share the dumb notion that petrol deserves to have the life taxed out of it — that cars are a sinful luxury that choke the air and clog the roads. Tax […]
Posted in Energy, Transport by Philip | 3 Comments »
Posted April 28th, 2006
Bicycle Retailer and Industry News.
The bad news about carbon fiber bicycles is that supply is likely to remain constrained and prices high until at least 2010. The good news, one factory official said, is that there will be carbon fiber bikes at all.
The context for the supply and demand problem comes at the bottom.
A single […]
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Posted April 28th, 2006
Today’s Bike Love segment on Radio 2SER is on SYDBMA’s Screamroller racing night. Listen.
technorati tags: cycling, rollerracing, sydbma, bikelove, 2ser
Posted in The Desk by Philip | 2 Comments »
Posted April 27th, 2006
The Pleasant Revolution has some thoughts and links on pertol price tipping points as it relates to cycling. It’s based on American attitudes, but still very useful to those interested in looking out for changes in consumer sentiment.
What neither of these studies show, and perhaps what is unknowable, is how the psychological impact of Peak […]
Posted in Energy by Philip | 2 Comments »
Posted April 26th, 2006
At the moment, there isn’t any conversational media being generated by Australian bicycle industry importers/wholesalers, although importantly there is a growing business to business (B2B) presence online.
Quite a few wholesalers like Shimano, Cassons, Netti, Bicorp and Avanti have moved beyond a corporate web portal and launched, or are about to, business to business (B2B) […]
Posted in Industry, Meta by Philip | 3 Comments »
Posted April 25th, 2006
It’s often fun and interesting being on the giving end of the cycling is the new golf phenomenon. Sure, it’s a pretty easy sell pushing the really sexy kit, I mean, what else are you going to say? “Nah mate that Dura Ace carbon bike is crap, I think you should take the wayback machine […]
Posted in Industry, Culture by Philip | 4 Comments »