January 2012
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NWTA's trail building tools, trailer recovered!! →
Super sweet way to end the year. They recovered the stolen trailer and tools! Awesome.
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2012 Resolutions
Last Year’s resolutions were pretty decent and I made it through most (Race CX, and balance of Life) I missed out on a couple (Buying a FS 29er) but I will just push that one forward to this year.
For 2012 my resolutions get a little more specific as they are already materializing.
Enjoy my family. I am a lucky man with a beautiful Wife and children.
Be the father my children think I...
pixlr is a nice replacement for photoshop! →
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Get paid to ride. →
Get paid to ride. I’d like to see this in action. I wonder how the shop is doing this? Can it be replicated through out the bike industry?
Shop’s promotion targets resolute riders WOODLAND HILLS, CA (BRAIN)—Santa Monica Mountains Cyclery is looking to help customers stick to their New Year’s riding resolutions—and sell a few extra bikes in the process. Cyclists who purchase a bike from...
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Cycling job fair seeks industry partners →
FYI - Go to Eugene February 26th for bike jobs.
Cycling job fair seeks industry partners EUGENE, OR (BRAIN)—Collins Cycle Shop is seeking industry participants for the inaugural Eugene Bike Fair, aimed at connecting job seekers in the Pacific Northwest with human resources representatives from cycling companies. “It’s a way to give back to the community, to let people who are unemployed know the...
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”if you add value to universe, universe will reward it by creating more potential in your life to add yet more value. In this way, terrestrial beings may manifest personal power”
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Watchanothershittybikeblog:
do what you love.
(via. prolly)
The Holstee Manifesto makes a great motivational video
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A (Cyclist’s) Christmas Story (redux ad absurdum) →
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Ready and waiting for 2012
zendoughnut:
I don’t know about you, but I am excited for 2012. The more I talk to people about this little adventure the more excited I get for it.
Have a Happy Holiday and we will see you on the flip-side of the new year.
Focus on the doughnut,
Jeremy
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New Salvagetti shop gives commuters their fix →
Congrats to Scott, Salvagetti is by far the best little shop in Denver.
New Salvagetti shop gives commuters their fix DENVER, CO (BRAIN)—With an emphasis on quick repairs for transportation cyclists, Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop will open a small satellite shop in 220 square feet in Denver’s Baker neighborhood, four miles from its main location. Salvagetti owner Scott Taylor said the new shop,...
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Update from my shaving post in April, I have been using the technique in the video of honing the razor blades before every shave and have made my disposable razor last a couple months as apposed to a week.
There is one caveat though, I started working from home shortly after the post and had less of a need to shave. Now the only reason I shave is when it gets too itchy, or when the girls stop...
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San Diego's Velo Cult is Portland-bound →
San Diego’s Velo Cult is Portland-bound SAN DIEGO, CA (BRAIN)—Velo Cult owner Sky Boyer is the first to admit that life in Portland, Oregon, will take some getting used to. “My reflex reaction to rain is to stay in and sleep,” said the Los Angeles native, who will shut down his San Diego shop effective Jan. 1 and relocate with his four employees to a new space in the Rose City midmonth....
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Gates sponsors design contest →
Gates sponsors design contest
DENVER, CO (BRAIN)—Gates Corp. is sponsoring a design contest at the 2012 North American Handmade Bicycle Show and is bringing in a panel of well-known bike innovators as judges. The show is March 2-4 in Sacramento, California.
The judges are Joe Breeze, Scot Nicol, Steve Potts, Joe Murray, Ross Shafer and Paul Sadoff. The panel will vote on the most innovative...
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WatchOpen Source Ecology. Living practicing post-scarcity.
I have been following these guys since I first saw the TED talk and I LOVE the idea. For more please check out their blog. I am excited to see the final product.
Also, they dump the XML of the Wiki everyday. Click here to download it. It is a MediaWiki site so if you know how to set one up you also can have the wiki.
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team zendoughnut: Whoa Whoa Whoa hold your horses,... →
zendoughnut:
I am amazed and humbled at the outpouring of support for this little adventure. Seriously I did not know where the idea would take us. My fist post was to garner support and boy have I received it. Thank you all for your kind words and support. I believe when humanity comes together we can achieve…
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Watchjennlevo:
It’s so fracking awesome to have “Battlestar Galactica” and “Portlandia” together at last that we’re not waiting any longer.
i totally had my birthday dinner at the Screen Door.
Portlandia just called my wife and I out as BSG fans.
Cyclocross: Cycling’s George W. Bush →
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"I thought I’d just killed a good friend in the...
I think this may be the best quote from a bike pundit this year.
From the VeloNews article about disc brakes coming to road bikes soon.
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team zendoughnut: Will you ride with me? →
zendoughnut:
I am trying to start something, but realize it is bigger than one man and a computer with a love to ride his bike. I am trying to now start a 501c3 non-profit corporation and would like the proceeds to go to fighting children’s cancer. I think of what I went through more than five years ago and…
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'Bicycles are welcome,' Parkway super says →
ASHEVILLE, NC (BRAIN)—Blue Ridge Parkway superintendent Phil Francis told Bicycle Retailer on Tuesday that the Parkway’s managers have never considered banning bikes from the road. He said that a draft management plan, which the public can comment upon until this Friday, has been mischaracterized. But he also said that severe budget cuts at the National Park Service property mean it’s unlikely the...
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Looking for a new Moab
I am looking for a new Moab to ride. One like Moab before the tourism and hub-bub. One that has a gas station, a camp ground, a motel, and the ability to ride monumental singletrack from town. There will be no cell service, no Internet and guy named Gus that sits at the diner all day sippin’ coffee wonderin’ why “people gotta have such expensive bicycles ‘round...
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Diagnostic accuracy of canine scent detection in... →
Note to self: get a dog.