Urban Velo and Princeton Tec have a new bike photo contest. You can win a bike, among other cool prizes by posting your cool lights on bikes photos. Three winners will be selected from each of the categories Best Overall Lights On Bikes, Best Action, Best Lifestyle, Most Dramatic and Most Creative. The top three […]
EcoVelo is holding a photo contest with cool prizes. I don’t want the prizes (I get plenty of schwag already — if I get something I’ll just pass it along to somebody else), but I think I’ll submit these photos to the contest. Green bike socks. Mrs Fritz with her Breezer Villager. “I pity da […]
Some of you in the South Bay and Santa Cruz have seen me riding this Jamis Commuter 4.0 around this past month. I hope you like my milk carton kickstand. I reviewed the Jamis Commuter 4.0 for Road Bike Review. Note that this is the 2008 model. There are a couple of substantial additions in […]
The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission meets Thursday, March 5 to discuss how to allocate the Santa Cruz County share of the transportation funds authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA — the Federal stimulus funding act signed into law in February). The Transportation Commission will meet in the Santa Cruz County […]
DWR stands for Durable Water Repellent and is the coating used on breathable but waterproof outerwear. All of my raingear is a few years old. If you’re riding in the rain like I am this week, you may be discovering that your DWR raingear is not has durable or repellent as it used to be. […]
This is a cycling blog, but several people have asked how to rip an ESXi ISO so you can install it from a PXE server so I figure this is as good a place as any to dump the information. ESXi Installable is VMware’s “thin hypervisor.” There’s no Linux, no Red Hat Anaconda scripting, and […]