Posted June 30th, 2006
Jan Ullrich, teammate Oscar Sevilla and Rudy Pavenage are gone from the Tour de France. T-Mobile has take the only responsible course of action given the information and negative fallout from Operacion Puerto and thrown their best rider an anvil.
“Our stance was always unequivocal”, emphasizes Christian Frommert, director of sports communication for T-Mobile International. “If […]
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Posted June 29th, 2006
Go to Instructables for the tutorial.
Technorati Tags: cycling, panniers, recycled
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Posted June 28th, 2006
Dick Pound.
Gazette: Have you read the Lance Armstrong letter? He calls you a “recidivist violator of ethical standards.” What’s your response to that?
Pound: I read it. Nice to see he has rented a thesaurus. Too bad that he got his facts all wrong.
Funny guy. I also enjoyed his answer to an interesting question.
Q: What is […]
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Posted June 27th, 2006
It’s grainy and it’s in black and white, but who the hell cares! This is absolute You Tube gold. Frank Zappa plays the bicycle on the Steve Allen Show in 1963.
Part one (embedded here) gives you the lead in, Part 2 is where all the action is. It’s around 16 minutes in total. Watch ‘em […]
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Posted June 27th, 2006
Neat-o.
Australia TV broadcaster is organising a special Tour de France ride through Sydney on Friday, June 30, at 7am. The meeting point will be Café Latteria (320 Victoria St. Darlinghurst), for a stroll through the CBD out to The Rocks, flanked by SBS vehicles all the way. The first 25 participants to gather will receive […]
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Posted June 27th, 2006
You have nothing to lose but your bicycle chains!
Just over a week ago I floated the idea of a Sydney bicycle bloggers meetup.
I’d like to propose a Sydney cycling bloggers meetup next month at a venue and time to be decided by consensus. I’m thinking the midddle of July when TdF heroics are concentrating our […]
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Posted June 26th, 2006
The bicycle industry supershow Interbike has launched a blog called the Interbike Times. Thankfully I don’t have to write on the meta blogging possibilities about this because Go Clipless has already posted a lengthy summation on this terrific development and the possible implications for bicycle blogging as media. He’s got a few ideas.
One thought I […]
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Posted June 26th, 2006
Welcome to the cycling Wikia. So, what’s a cycling Wikia? Well it’s a knowledge base for everything related to cycling based on the Wikipedia method of user contribution, collaboration and editing. Of course anyone who uses internet resources regularly will know how indispensable Wikipedia has become, Wikia takes this into a new and interesting direction.
A […]
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Posted June 25th, 2006
Michael Duffy continues his love affair with the automobile and the possibility that more roads will be built in and around Sydney - anyone know where we’re going to put them?
Why is light rail always urged as the solution to Sydney’s traffic woes? Its record overseas is dismal. What this city really needs is roads, […]
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Posted June 24th, 2006
Velorution posts on an interesting proposition.
When one parks a bicycle on the street, one is adding to and editing the cityscape. That implies a responsibility: the public duty to make the public realm attractive, by parking a beautiful bicycle. Just as we don’t think it is appropriate to go to a nice restaurant dressed in […]
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