Showing posts with label VeloNews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VeloNews. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Random Stuff 06-13-09

I can't buy a bike yet so I don't know why I keep torturing myself by looking through Craigslist. This awesome bike showed up on CL yesterday. It's a Univega Gran Turismo. The seller wants $175 for it.


I've seen some nice examples of what can be done with the GTs. These picture are from The Unofficial Univega Appreciation thread on Bike Forums.



Red Boots Design: When I started selling on Etsy a couple of years ago there were just a handful of people printing t shirts with bike related designs. That number has grown considerably. Red Boots Design seems to be doing pretty well. I have featured their 3 Speed t shirt in the past. I saw their new shirt below on the Etsy blog the other day and thought it was cool.

Bike Love T Shirt

Chainring Capri Tights by RBD

VeloNews: The guys at VN received a set of Mavic R-Sys wheels to test. Things didn't turn out the way Mavic thought they would.

This is Mavic's 2nd generation post-recall carbon spoke R-Sys wheel.

This is the result of the damaged wheel shown above. The tester/ writer ended up with a broken shoulder.

Whale Wars: I don't try to stir up arguments or push my politics or anything else on my blog as I consider this blog a nice form of stress relief. I've recently become addicted to Whale Wars on Animal Planet. It has got to be one of the most entertaining shows on television. I don't know or care if you agree with what the activists on this ship are doing, what makes this show so enjoyable is watching the man in charge, Captain Paul Watson, do everything in his power to kill his crew of clueless volunteers. According to the captains own words, he was kicked out of Greenpeace for being too extreme and aggressive. The ignorance and total lack of responsible decision making by everybody on this ship is incredible! If you've never seen this show before, watch the most recent episode here, it's excellent! The captain, who always seems to be locked in his room when dangerous stuff is happening, ends up getting the ship stuck in ice. The hull of the ship is being crushed by icebergs which leads to a great scene where one of the camera crew abandons his camera below deck to prepare to abandon ship. Good stuff!


Saturday, May 9, 2009

Worn Out

I'm worn out! Work has been draining the life out of me. I haven't wanted to do anything over the last few days but drive home, eat dinner, crash on the bed and drift into a catatonic state. It's terrible. I couldn't force myself to ride, blog, print, or do anything requiring more effort than moving my eyes. I'm starting to recover. I woke up early this morning and watched stage 1 of the Giro D' Italia. That injected a little life back in me. I may actually feel up to riding tomorrow.

If you'd like to watch the Giro you can watch complete video coverage daily on Universal Sports, carried by some cable providers or stream it online. VeloNews live coverage text updates are pretty good also.

This photo of Lance's Astana team makes a great background. It's what I'm using on my computer right now.


Speaking of the Giro, I found the Italian Cycling Journal blog. It might interesting to follow during the remainder of the race.

Lance's bikes are looking a little different. You can read about the artwork here.