Registration is now open for the second annual Webcor King-of-the-Mountain Ride taking place Saturday, February 16, in San Jose. The Webcor San Jose King Of The Mountain Ride will feature a 26 mile ascent up San Jose’s Sierra Road. The best and the hardiest cyclists will compete for honor of being King of the Mountain. […]
Dorky Doug commutes to work on mountain bike sensibly equipped with fenders (clip-on, alas), lights, and street slicks. He wears a helmet, high vis yellow jacket and reflective pant straps. At one particular intersection, there are often three or four cyclists stopping at the red light. I queue up behind whoever stops ahead of me, […]
A busy day for me so I’ll post a handful of links for you all: That’s Agyness Deyn on a bicycle. I think she was featured in Teen Vogue magazine in their green issue, or something like that. Does anybody know the details? Velorution in London has some nifty stylish leather ankle straps. European cities […]
I mentioned TechShop last week. TechShop is the open access workshop where they provide the tools like welders, laser cutters, CNC lathe, powder coating oven, sign making machines, industrial sewing machines, and other industrial tools for the kinds of projects you see at MAKE. Jim G was kind enough to point me to his review […]
Everybody is ooohing and ahhhing over the news mapping functionality for the iPhone. If I understand correctly, the iPhone can triangulate from the location of 23 million mapped WiFi hotspots as well as off of the cell phone network to determine the location of your iPhone. That’s cool. The other big news was the expected […]
Presidential candidates from the Republican and Democratic parties have been invited to a Presidential Candidates’ Forum on Transportation and Infrastructure. This forum, scheduled for Thursday, January 31 2008 at the Kimmel Center in New York City, is hosted by the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. Sponsors include the League of American […]