Posted January 31st, 2007
Colour. Apart from price it’s the one question or objection that always comes up on the sales floor - for low to mid priced bikes it’s usually a choice of two, at the high end, one. Most of the time when I’m asked what other colours that blue dream bike on the floor comes in […]
Posted in Industry, Marketing by Philip | 6 Comments »
Posted January 29th, 2007
The Cellubike. Really, don’t laugh.
Unlike invasive liposuction or over-the-counter anticellulite treatments, the CelluBike engages the bodies own force to actually eliminate, not disguise or forcibly remove cellulite, from the body. While peddling the recumbent bicycle at 75% of your maximum heart rate, the Certified Technician will position the array of infrared lights onto your problem […]
Posted in Culture by Philip | 6 Comments »
Posted January 28th, 2007
Via Bila + Design
technorati tags: cycling, bicycles, recycling, tubes
Posted in Culture by Philip | 4 Comments »
Posted January 27th, 2007
Given the growing weight of available evidence regarding climate change, I usually ignore the commentary coming from the increasingly small group of op-ed writers who continue to place their denialism on the record. Thundering jackass and right wing blowhard Andrew Bolt is one, Michael Duffy is another. Still, every once in a while it’s fun […]
Posted in The Desk by Philip | 4 Comments »
Posted January 27th, 2007
This is BIG, the World Mountain Bike Championships are coming to Australia in 2009.
CANBERRA has won a bid to host the world mountain bike championships in 2009.
The event will be staged at the city’s new $7.5 million Stromlo Forest Park track, built on the site of a pine forest that was wiped out by the […]
Posted in Race by Philip | 3 Comments »
Posted January 27th, 2007
His bike racing virginity that is.
Around the time I started looking at road bikes last year I developed a little fantasy about doing some racing. A decent challenge for myself, but one that was easier to say “I’ll do that next year”. I started riding with Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club as a step towards […]
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Posted January 26th, 2007
Just a quick follow up to my earlier post on petrol pricing.
The Telegraph is claiming victory and applauding itself in it’s populist (dare I say socialist?) attempt to get petrol prices reduced for the Australia Day long weekend.
Sydney motorists won a long-weekend petrol price reprieve yesterday as Prime Minister John Howard added his voice to […]
Posted in Culture, Advocacy, Energy by Philip | 2 Comments »
Posted January 26th, 2007
Tom Boonen is a bit down.
“I am departing for Qatar but it is without the soul of a rider,” the 26 year-old told La Gazzetta dello Sport ahead of his Tour of Qatar title defence. “I feel that I have come [to Qatar] lacking stimulus and motivation. I am shocked and mortified.”
A string of stories […]
Posted in Race, Dope by Philip | 2 Comments »
Posted January 26th, 2007
It’s a wonderful and amusing animation that displays truth in it’s slight exaggeration. If you want to see how this plays itself out in the real world, Fritz has posted this on a cyclist down in San Fran.
technorati tags: video, motoring, roads, culture
Posted in Culture, Advocacy by Philip | 3 Comments »
Posted January 25th, 2007
At the moment you can’t avoid the wingeing of motorists and their representatives, not to mention the populist ranting of the Daily Telegraph on the issue of petrol pricing. Amusingly everyone is asking for big oil to be named and shamed - how you do that to an industry that has proven to be shameless […]
Posted in Energy by Philip | 7 Comments »