Posted May 25th, 2007
Bike Hugger has posted a highly amusing rant about life in bicycle retail. It’s something I’ve riffed on about before here but never this good. Here’s a taste.
Hi. Thanks for coming into my shop and taking part of the consumer experience. Your disposable income is the sole source of our meager profit margins that support […]
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Posted May 25th, 2007
Via Wired. How to make an iPod Nano case from an inner-tube.
technorati tags: cycling, bicycles, make, wired,
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Posted May 24th, 2007
Dietz, Henn and shortly, Aldag.
BONN, May 23 (CP) - In an interview with the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, T-Mobile General Manager Bob Stapleton has revealed that Sports Manager Rolf Aldag will admit to having doped as an active rider. “Rolf had a weak moment,” Stapleton said.
Any other weaklings out there? Say it ain’t so Eric? […]
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Posted May 23rd, 2007
It’ll be interesting to see how this plan by Fairfield Council plays itself out over the coming months.
Fairfield Council will launch the first bicycle loan scheme in NSW this week where residents will be able to borrow a bicycle for at least two months to explore the area’s cycling paths.
About 100 bikes have been donatedand […]
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Posted May 22nd, 2007
Is it just me that thinks Oscar Pereiro, should not be allowed to wear the Yellow Jersey until he gives a DNA sample.
And.
Is it just me that finds Will Geoghegan’s beer defense not only oddly amusing but highly ironic?
That’s all for today, back to what you were doing.
technorati tags: cycling, bicycles, asshats, oddballs, […]
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Posted May 21st, 2007
There probably isn’t a bike shop guy in Sydney that hasn’t had a yarn with Owen Denmeade about his obsession for Malvern Stars, so it was great to see him get a well deserved fifteen minutes (5:29) of fame on The Collectors. I’ve seen a few of the bikes up close, not only are they […]
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Posted May 21st, 2007
Awesome, the Bike Sydney site just got a nice bloggy makeover.
technorati tags: cycling, bicycles, sydney
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Posted May 20th, 2007
You wouldn’t know it by the headline and lead paragraph, but today’s Sunday Telegraph spins a story about Clover Moore pledging to turn Sydney into a scooterised version of Rome on the Pacific without a single quote by her on the topic - instead, Moore is quoted talking about cycling.
Clover’s scooter crusade.
LORD Mayor Clover […]
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Posted May 20th, 2007
So, Landis was in the room when Geoghegan made the call to Lemond but didn’t hear it. It’ll be interesting to see if this holds up under further scrutiny. Either way, in the battle for hearts, we have a self inflicted wound that no amount of winning may heal. Increasingly Landis is looking like the […]
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Posted May 20th, 2007
One of the outcomes with the current job is that my cycling commute is now longer, much of which is on the locally famed Cooks River Cycleway, marked connecting back streets, to and through Olympic Park, then via Sliverwater Bridge and more cycleway and marked back streets to Rydalmere.
Not having been a regular cycleway […]
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