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Continue reading →: Supergo coming to Seattle
Mountain Bikes,Bicycle Parts, & Accessories from Supergo Bike Shops. Supergo is a discount bicycle store down in California. They are going to open up a store here in Seattle. Don’t know where yet, but nice to know folks like coming up here!
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Continue reading →: Who Was Deep Throat?
Deep Throat: Uncovered | Department of Journalism | University of Illinois. In the days of covers being blown and senior white house officials saying this or that about CIA officers, its kind of interesting to ask, who was the Deep Throat of Watergate fame. Here’s a website all about it.…
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Continue reading →: USB and Empower Airplane Chargers
_Learned this from the Boingo mailing_ You can buy USB chargers now. Some laptops actually let you push from a USB connector and charge the battery if you can believe that, so you don’t need your brick. See Advanced Accessories for Mobile Electronics (Cell Phones and PDAs) for some connectors…
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Continue reading →: Cool Cell Phones
Been spending a bunch of time in Europe lately, so it has been fun to compare the different cell phones in the US and here. Here’s quick scoop on cool ones: * a little ludwig goes a long way: My new phone — Siemens SL56. This has been in Europe…
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Continue reading →: Ultra-lightweight Cyclocross
InterBike: Five of my favorite bikes _Another amazing find at InterBike, a 16 pound cyclocross bike!_ Moots PsychloX-SL Even though it is a cyclo-cross bike, at under 16 pounds the PsychloX-SL may be the lightest bike in the Moots booth! The clean and elegant frame is welded out of Reynolds…
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Continue reading →: Bike Lust: Titanium Ritchey Break-Away
Five components that caught Andrew’s attention _Here’s #5 that caught Velonew’s attention at Interbike 2003. Man what I wouldn’t give to have a Titanium Ritchey Break-Away with Dura-Ace 10 components and have it weigh 17 pounds_ 5. Ritchey BreakAway Ritchey’s new foldable BreakAway bikes are full size, standard geometry steel…
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Continue reading →: Incredible Traffic
Site Meter – Counter and Statistics Tracker. I can’t quite believe it. I think the statistics must be wrong. In any case, I use Sitemeter to record page views and visits and have some history there. In July, I changed Sitemeter to record all hits across all pages of my…
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Continue reading →: A weekend in LA
Spent a great weekend in LA escorting Connie to her class reunion. Here were some sites and things to do: * Universal Studios Hollywood movie theme park Los Angeles L.A. CA. Hadn’t been to Universal Studios in a long time. Say 20 years. Man, how has it changed. I highly…
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Continue reading →: Intense Spider XVP Desire
Johnny Vanderlinden 20Lb. Spider. Well, Brad and I both agree the Intense Spider XVP is the bicycle to lust after. HEre is a one that is just twenty pounds. The frames are super hard to get. List for $1950 and Brad says they are backordered 3,000 frames. All handmade in…
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Continue reading →: International Calling to the US
OK, I just went to the UK and Germany and realized that even with a wonderful world phone, it is very expensive to call given the roaming charges. Here are the ways around that: * CogniCall Long Distance Calling Card. This is an international long distance calling card. Nice thing…
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