Category: Photos
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Cycling: Transit for Women with Groceries
There has been much debate in America over the years on how to integrate bicycling into urban transit. There is debate among cyclists about the value of multi-use-paths (MUPs). This article seems to draw the current trend, to design cycle oriented transit towards a typical user being a sixty year old woman with groceries. http://www.humantransit.org/2010/04/can-we-all-cycle-the-last-mile.html…
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Cycling Power in Watts
If you had to generate electricity with a bicycle, how many light bulbs can you power? Well, consider that an average bicycle on level ground in still air needs 100 Watts of power to cycle at 12mph. If you wanted to add an electrical generator to your normal cycle, the effect would be like going…
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Trikes Safer Around Cars?
Just stumbled across this post describing how recumbent tricycles feel safer around cars because they’re given wider berth.
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Quake Rattle and Roll
Email from my mom today, she writes: We got a real roll from the 7.2 quake in Mexicali earlier this afternoon. We swayed and rolled for nearly 45 seconds; the dining room chandelier swayed for nearly 5 minutes afterwards. Both Dad and I felt a bit seasick for a while afterwards! Kind of a strange…
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Fastest Bicycle Found at Bellingham Farmers Market
Here we have the Juice Peddler at the Bellingham Farmer’s market. This rocks!
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Finding Ada
Was listening to FLOSS Ep. 114 and the topic is Ada Lovelace Day. Neat concept. Who would you put on the list?
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Good weekend rides
Going up Ferndale road has been quite nice. It was fun to see the Saturday packs of riders. Where were all the Sunday riders? Duh: church? Looking forward to corned beef tonight!
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Foundation Bolt, 2010-01-26
So after listening to that podcast about digital color, I’m not so concerned (in fact, I can happily prefer) to use somewhat over-exposed images. It’s much easier to darken and add contrast than it is to safely reduce contrast. Unless you actually blur the picture and add more artificially gradated pixels, you cannot add color…
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Keep a Chain Tool On Hand!
This morning as I was on may way to to the store before work, I got to Conneticut and Northwest and .(This being my lucky corner) my chain failed. This is only 2-3 blocks from my house, so like the time it was 18F outside when my freehub died at the same intersection, I was…
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