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Ritchey Break-Away
It’s amazing, but there is actually something called *The Folding Society* that reviews folding bicycles. Here are some other notes on the Ritchey Break-Away folding frame. “Excel”:http://www.excelsports.com/new.asp?page=8&major=1&minor=1&description=Break%2DAway+Frame&vendorCode=RITCHEY carries them for $1,100, so quite a bit cheaper than getting an all custom frame with S&S couplers (about $1,600+400 for steel from comotion.com and $2,100 plus 600…
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Polar s720i and Power Output
I got the Polar s720i and got it working. It’s an incredibly complicated watch that is hard to operate. I’ve been using the Campagnolo Ergobrain with a Polar heart rate monitor with good success, but this means just one device (so it is lighter) and also includes power. Main disadvantage is there are an incredible…
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New Favoriate Online Bike Shops
With the demise of a favorable UK exchange rate, I’ve had to switch my purchasing to US stores. Here’s a list of places I’ve been using: * Jenson USA. Fast delivery. They have slight discounts on Campy cassettes (why are they so expensive), Selle Italia SLR seats, Salsa Ti skewers and some other things *…
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Finishing the STP 2003
Cascade Bicycle Club: Group Health Group Health Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic. This was my first ever bicycling event (heck, I think I calculated, it is the second organized event I’ve ever attended…yes, I’m a nerd). In any case, 200 miles or so of riding. It was great to meet the physical challenge. There were…
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Panic! I-90 Bike Route Disappearing!
“Critical Vote”:http://cascade.org/Advocacy/I-90.cfm. If you live in the King County area and think it’s great you can actually get across Lake Washington, start to panic. Ron Sims and Connie Marshall both will vote on WSDOT and Sound Transit (ugh, oxymoron there!) plan to close the I-90 bike lanes for _two_ years and narrow it to just…
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Sony DRU-120A Won't Read DVD9 anymore
The firmware page :: View topic – Sony DRU120A unusable after firmware upgrade. Yuck, I have this exact problem now. I used to be able to read double density DVD9s with the original firmware (1.13, thank goodness I backed up), but now with 1.51, it doesn’t read them. A DVD9 BTW is a double layer…
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DVD Sites
Well, given all this trouble, time to start collecting sites that seem to know what is wrong: * DVD Recordable :: DVD writing reviews news and advice * “Firmware Flash Forum”:http://forum.firmware-flash.com. Good site with information about lots of hardware that needs to get flashed. That seems like it is a big problem with these DVD…
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All DVD Media Not Equal…
SONY DRU-510A 1.0c FIRMWARE REPORTS HERE PLEASE >>> _As this report shows, you have to be pretty careful with what media you buy. Here’s a post the latest firmware report for the Sony DRU-510A_ i finally had a chance to test some differant types of media yesterday With the new 1.0c firmware,here are my findings:…
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DVD to DiVX Backup Updated
Doom9.net – The Definitive DVD Backup Resource. The latest on how to BAckup DVDs to DiVX. They now have a nice set of codec and other packs.
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Sony DRU-120A Firmware Upgrade on Windows XP
Burning has been pretty unreliable with my own Sony DRU-120A drive and I’ve been tearing my hair out trying to upgrade the firmware. Here is what you need to do: # Download the firmware update that is latest for the DRU-120A from the Sony site. The location keeps changing, so I’m not going to hard…
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Sony DRU-510A Required Update for Windows XP
Firmware 1.0C Update. Doesn’t seem to be well documented, but the DRU-510A CD-RW and DVD-RW drive. I got my dad had terrible problems with hanging Windows XP. I finally in desperation updated it to the 1.0c firmware and the latest version of Nero. Seems to work now, so you are warned. If you have this…
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Japan Inc and Cell Phones
Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Sharp is coming. Satoshi points out that the Japanese market is super competitive and leading to some great products that will eventually threaten the leaders like Nokia and Motorola. Personally, I kind of agree. It happened with cars, consumer electronics of all sorts. That it didn’t happen…
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Great Italian Restaurant
* a little ludwig goes a long way: Firenze at Crossroads. A great Italian restaurant that I’ve been to and it is amazing to find a little Italy in a strip mall. * Other places that we love are Machiavelli in Seattle. Lots of garlic. Also, Serafina as well as Cafe Lago. There are really…
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Tour de France on TV and Internet Audio
Outdoor Life Network – Tour de France – 2003. The Tour de France is on 6-8:30 PT everyday. Nice to have this kind of coverage. Also, there is a live link to audio as well at “Listen Live”:http://www.olntv.com/tdf03/listenlive.html.
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Tyler Hamilton Grits his teeth
VeloNews: 2003 Tour de France Special CoverageIf you can believe it, Tyler Hamilton has a cracked collarbone and is muscling his way through the Tour de France, now that’s inspiration. Here’s what he says about it “Sometimes I was wondering if I’d finish with the front group, but I grit my teeth and kept going,”…
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Brad's Website
Bradley McGee Official Website. Wow, a real live blog by a Tour de France competitor. Hat tip to “Serge”:http://www.kilic.net/weblog for finding it. I’m all eyes on that one.
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Bike Tires
Well, with the bike almost done, need to get good on-road and off-road tires. With the dollar high, I found a local source that seems like they ahve pretty good discounts at Bike Tires Direct. Here are some of the tires I got: * Continental Grand Prix 4 All Season. For the wet weather that…
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Long Reach Brake Calipers
I’ve been looking for brakes that can work with my old Trek 520. These are the so-called long reach brakes. The frame is older so you can put larger wheels on it, but it does require different brakes. I managed to lose a piece of the old brake set, so this gave me an excuse…
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Wedding Registies Online
Wow, weddings have really gone online. Heather is getting married and what used to be an amazing hassle is now super easy. Checkout: * WeddingChannel.com – view a couple’s registry. You can get registered at all those great traditional sites like Williams-Sonoma. Much more convenient than having to trek to Macy’s, then Pottery Barn, etc.…
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Lance-wannabes: New Trek and CicloSport
VeloNews: 2003 Tour de France Special Coverage h4. Trek aims for new heights with Madone Waterloo has been particularly tight-lipped about its latest high-end road racer, which will replace the 5900 Superlight. Lucky for us, information has just leaked out on the bike that Lance (and possibly his teammates) will race on in certain stages…
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Tour de France Starts Today!
Yippee, the Tour de France starts today and so does my collection of TdF blogs and other sites. Here we go: * Jeffrey A. Cross: Tour De France Trivia. Jeffery has got all the trivia about the 100th anniversary TdF * “canal OLN site”:http://www.letour.fr/2003/us/index.html. The officical site for OLN. Too bad Lance lost today. Placed…
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Rivendell Review…
PR3. One of my favorites sites, Roadbikerider reviews a all-purpose bike calledl the Rivendell Rambouillet. I almost bought it just because I’m a Lord of the Rings fan. In any case, for $2K, you get a 22 lb bike that is indestructible. Something to think about. Doesn’t have couplers though.
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iRider
a little ludwig goes a long way: iRider. Ludwig like iRider as a browser. Gary likes Firebird. I’ve tried Firebird. A nice one, but it is kind of true that I’m satificed on browsers. What more is there. Now when you ask me about PTP programs its a whole different story. Or photo management.
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Why Aren't PCs Faster?
a little ludwig goes a long way: Partitioning of processing power. Great thoughts as usual by John. Main question is, why when we’ve moved from 300 MHz to 3 GHz processors, standard Windows and Office applications aren’t 10x faster at all. But, with video games, we are seeing incredible advances. Maybe it has to do…
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Error blog
a little ludwig goes a long way: Audit Blog?. Another great idea by ludwig. A blog makes much more sense than the system event log. Error should really be free form text rather than forcing things into fields that don’t mean much. Just look at the audit log of XP sometimes as an example. Then…
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United Airlines — Not!
united.com. Yikes, after flying with them this week, I won’t do it again for a long time. It took us hours to get out of O’Hare but the scary thing is why given that it was clear and beautiful and it wasn’t about weather, but I think about minimum maintenance and a totally demoralized workforce:…
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Campy 2004 and other cool hardware
Well, the Tour de France is about to start and delightful new gear is appearing. First there is the new Shimano Durace 10-speed coming out. No word on whether they are going to do a triple, but given that it is 1/3 less than Campagnolo Record, good to hear. Also, Campy Chorus is going to…
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Ritchey Break-Away
Google Groups: View Thread “Ritchey “Break-Away” bike — opinions?”. Been looking at a bunch of custom bicycles with S&S couplings. Great in the $1300-1600 for the frame plus $400 for the couplings. The Break-Away is an $1,100 frame, but what about the quality. Here are some notes from rec.bicycles.tech. Great the way google caches and…
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PTP and Information Hiding
While researching the latest move by the RIAA to “sue”:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10195 individuals, I ran across some interesting papers: * CSC 8990 Seminars. The first paper is on how PTP actually works and a good description of how to use conventional digital signature techniques to hide who is talking to whom and about what. Also learned a…
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Campagnolo Derailleurs Explained
CAMPAGNOLO 2003 RANGE – INNOVATION. _It’s been confusing which of the three different derailleurs you should get. Here’s a simple explanation_ The Campagnolo Record, Chorus and Centaur groupsets offers three models of rear derailleurs with short, medium and long cage. The rear derailleur with the short cage is for equipping the 2×10 drivetrain, while the…