From VeloNews, “Drug scandal changes face of ‘06 Tour” man I don’t know what to think now, the timing of this is amazing. All of my favorites are out even Vinokourov’s team Astan?-W?rth is out due to insufficient riders to race. George Hincapie should have a good chance to win this year tour.
Here is one I saw on Slashdot is this car that got over 3000 miles on a gallon of gas. This is the winner of the Super Milage Competion. Second place is better pretty awesome too.
For the lazy bikers we have one from Engadget a wheel that turns your bike into a moped. If only it was electric, but batteries would be heavier then fuel. With this even aka Steve could keep up with me.
This is so cool a Triple GPS/PDA/Cellphone Bike Mount. This came to me by way of Gizmodo one of my fav gadget blogs. What kind of cool person came up with this idea.
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My favorite part of the day, though it was close with the Gordon Home…
The Oregon Electric Railway Museum the largest Trolley Museum in the Pacific Northwest! The Oregon Electric Railway Museum is owned and operated by the Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society. The Museum is run by volunteers of the Society. In the museum’s and traction equipment.
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Between getting sick and busy and what not I have not gotten a round-to-it. Now I am almost there. These are from the Antique Powerland Museums there are 94 photos in this album whew. Hopefully I can get some riding in this weekend and try out another new toy. That I wil blog about shortly.
I tried to use my new cam this morning on my commute into work. Got everything hooked up ok. Only way to turn this thing off is to open the battery compartment, not a good design. Additionally, when it is turned on but not recording you have a flashing laser pointer to target your subject, very very dangerous. There is no way to disable the laser pointer that I have found, other then the obvious, black electrical tape. Ran into another problem, since you have to open the battery door to turn it off, I dropped a battery just before starting and put it in wrong… So no recording for that ride. Bummer. But I got another shot at it tonight we will see how this goes. I am about to hit the road again, watch out for me.
The big race starts in 2 weeks and 3 days, WHOO HOO! I was just checking out the tour route on BBC’s site. And to get some study time in at sites like Bicycling and the TdF Blog (TdF = Tour de France) I am pretty excited for this years tour, I was certain who would win for each of the last 5 years. This year it is a toss up, but my money is on Ivan Basso who finished 3rd in the 2004 TdF and 2nd in 2005 tour. Bring it on!
