Showing posts with label Sweet Georgia Brown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweet Georgia Brown. Show all posts

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Thanksgiving and Some Random Stuff

While my wife and daughters were busy preparing our Thanksgiving feast, me and my son ( the twelve year old) slipped out for a quick ride. Since we were in a hurry we drove to the our starting point, the southern part of the Trinity Trails. I think this pre-feast ride will be our new tradition. After a short ride we returned home and had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal. It wasn't long after that someone broke out the Charlie Brown Christmas CD. In this house the Christmas season begins when you're finished eating Thanksgiving dinner.


My son checking out the Trinity River.

Randomness follows:

Courtnee-Globe Experience: Courtnee, aka Sweet Georgia Brown, is the lucky recipient of a free Specialized Globe Live 2 Mixte. Courtnee was contacted by the Globe Project Manager from Specialized and asked to blog for them. I've been following Courtnee's original blog for a while now. She's a nice young lady riding her bike in an area where that's a rarity. If you can, please show her some support by following her new Globe blog.

Courtnee

The Friday Cyclotouriste: This is a blog that I stumbled upon the other day when I was doing a Google search for friction shifters. This guy takes some great photos.

The author's Ebisu equipped with a custom made handlebar bag.

He also has an awesome old Guerciotti.


Bemz: If you need to freshen up that old sofa or chair you picked up at Ikea a few years ago, you can buy a new made to fit slipcover over the internet from Stockholm based Bemz. Here's a link to their blog.



The Indian rope trick: Here's a story I read about a traditional Indian magician who was able pull off a version of the legendary rope trick. His video is the second one below.

My daughter thought this was kind of creepy.


Saturday, July 26, 2008

103 Degrees

It's been pretty darn hot and miserable the last few days with no real relief in sight. The weather forecast says that its going to be 104 degrees tomorrow. I've avoided screen printing the last few days. The heat from the dryers (to heat set the ink) makes my garage unbearable. All this means that I've spent more time online than usual. I thought it might be nice to point out some interesting blogs and websites I've come across over the last few days. The theme for this post is slow.

The Slow Bicycle movement
Just what the title suggests. Relaxed riding in regular clothes, no lycra here. The two blogs below are members of this new group.




Sweet Georgia Brown

Nice little blog by "The Bronze Bombshell" (cool name). All about riding in style. I'm sure it's a little warm in Georgia right now.





2whls3spds
This guy restores these old bikes to ridable condition.





Peter White Cycles
Lots of neat stuff, Carradice bags, lighting systems, and the super serious Tout Terrain touring frames.