January 2, 20176 Comments on How to download your Relive.cc ride video
Relive.cc connects to your Strava profile to create ride videos after each Strava upload. It’s a fun toy to review the terrain of your ride, but sometimes I want to add audio to share the video with friends. How can I download the source video so I can create these edits?
December 14, 20162 Comments on My naive psychology of traffic violence
You’re in a crowd somewhere and large, 64-year-old dude begins to yell antagonistically at you from across the room. You try to be cool and ignore him but your adrenal glands automatically squeeze their juices in response. Your body prepares for fight or flight by increasing heart rate, respiration, and diverting blood flow to the muscles by restricting blood flow from other parts of the body such as digestion and higher brain function.
[ Note: This “BE UNSTOPPABLE” graphic is not an ad, as you’ll see below. ]
November 22, 20167 Comments on Your favorite Koch brands: Lycra, Coolmax and Thermolite
I and many of you favor high-tech fabrics for your active wear apparel. If you see trademarks like Lycra, Coolmax, Thermolite and Cordura on your cycling bibs, jerseys, jeans, jackets, backpacks and saddlebags, you’ve done your part to Make America Great Again.
These brands are produced by Invista, an important manufacturer of textiles and chemicals that was spun off from DuPont and sold to Koch Industries in 2004. Although headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, most textile manufacturing takes place in Mexico, Brazil and India.
The more you know!
November 18, 2016Leave a Comment
Puck, published from 1871 to 1918, was America’s first successful humor magazine. This Victorian forerunner of Mad and Cracked began life as a German language humor weekly published by German immigrants in St Louis.
In 1883, they published a drawing of their eponymous mascot (named for the character in Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream) “going to the bicycle tournament … with all the modern improvements.”
The cherubic Puck carries crutches, a large “Medical and Surgical Directory” book, bandages, splints, and a bottle of Arnica as a long line of cyclists follow behind.
Detail of the cover from Puck, volume 13, number 326, published on June 6, 1883 from the Library of Congress online collection.
November 8, 2016Leave a Comment
Cranksgiving is a food drive on two wheels. Part bike ride, part food drive, and part scavenger hunt. This is our first year holding this event in San Jose.
All you need is a bike, a bag, a lock and about $20 to purchase groceries. Our goal is to provide hundreds of needy families with relief during Thanksgiving.
This event takes place this Sunday, November 13, 2016. Learn more at Cranksgiving San Jose.
October 25, 2016Leave a Comment
A couple of photos of passive-aggressive notes taped to car windows have gone viral over the past couple of days on various social media. These remind me of a note pasted to a half-dozen cars I saw while cycling in rural Santa Cruz County (the San Lorenzo Valley for those who know the area) a couple of several years ago.
