By the time this is posted I’ll be away from the computer, probably for the entire weekend. In the United States we have a three day weekend with our Labor Day holiday, but I have a couple of celebrity bike goodies planned for automatic posting over the weekend. If you haven’t noticed the little teaser […]
The boy from Britain can go go go! I called Cavendish as the winner on a Tweet I sent at 8:02 this morning while sitting on the train, about a half hour before he actually won. For Stage 13 summaries, visit: KWC, FredCast, TdF Blog. VeloNews: Cav Crushes. Speaking of Frank Steele of TdFBlog, hinted […]
At an employee meeting this morning, Trek president John Burke announced that Trek filed a lawsuit to sever the company’s ongoing relationship with three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond. This suit comes on a heels of commentary from LeMond, in which LeMond recently disclosed that Trek pressured him to issue a public apology to […]
MIT cyclists generated 1.2kw to power a supercomputer in response to Google’s “Innovate or Die” challenge. SciCortex is new to the supercomputing field. With their relatively slow MIPs processors they don’t have any contenders in the Top 500 list of supercomputers, but SciCortex is known for their development of very low power supercomputers, which is […]
Mountain bikes Everybody has 29er bikes. Even low-end vendor Dynacraft has full suspension and single 29er bikes for the mass mart market. Read Guitar Ted’s Floor Highlights at Twenty Nine Inches. The Ibis Tranny hardtail mountain bike was an interesting concept. The rear triangle can be completely removed for compact packing for travel. You can […]