It’s a little difficult to divine since the “Event Details” page doesn’t contain any actual event details, but the Heck of the North is apparently a bike race in Minnesota over gravel roads. It’s part of the “Almanzo Gravel Road Series, described as “taking place on some of the Upper Midwest’s finest backroads in some read more
A comment about fixed gear bikes — “They’re groomed like precious poodles.” Seth Godin: Winning on the uphill. Check out this grocery getter bike. Wow. It even folds. Via. Is Sunday Streets the next Critical Mass? It’s illegal to bike to school in James Kunstler’s hometown. Bike Hugger: Disc brake conversion. Tahoe Trail Building: “The read more
This is cool: WIRED lists five iPhone apps that replace bike hardware. I think the most clever is a Cyclocomputer that measures your bike’s speed by counting the sound of a plastic tab on the spokes. Another clever app is a brake light that uses the built in accelerometer. The creation of a carbon fiber read more
$300 gets you a cable housing that’s “Longitudinally compressionless yet laterally ultra-flexible and also totally corrosion free!”
It turns out I didn’t need to work over the weekend; the code change we tried was a completely disastrous failure, which means there was nothing for me to test. Release date is in six weeks, so we’ll need to eliminate this important feature we were trying to fix. It’s Just a Ride has a read more
