Ride Lugged

It’s just like watching the fast and the furious.

But if you want to learn how to be as cool as this guy you can check out this skid slide tutorial thing.

9 Steps to Skid-Slides
1 On a smooth, flat area, ride in a straight line at 10-15 mph.

2 Decide which way you want to turn. Take your foot off the pedal on that side.

3 Float your foot about 2 inches off the ground.

4 Turn the handlebar and the front wheel becomes a rudder; if you turn the handlebar left, the rear wheel will slide right.

5 Lean the bike into the inside of the turn. The angle should be about 20 degrees from upright.

6 Aggressively apply the rear brake with one or two fingers to lock the rear wheel. Hold the brake as the back of the bike comes around and the whole thing gets sideways.

7 As you start to slide, let your foot drag the ground. Balance your weight between the wheels and your foot. Think tripod.

8 Continue to lean and drag your foot as the rear wheel slides sideways to complete the turn.

9 Finish the change in direction by straightening the handlebar and letting off the brake.

I always prefered the trash skid myself.

TRASH SKID:
“Ride over a smashed can or piece of cardboard on the street, then slam on your brakes as soon as your rear wheel hits the debris.”

I’m all about women’s empowerment and stuff. So I thought that I would give a quick shout out to www.jettgrrl.com. While I personally find the term grrl derogatory I was willing to look past that. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get to deep into the site because the colors made my mind explode and I passed out in a pool of vomit but I think I got the gist. I’m guessing that this is a chick who knows how to fix bikes and she has a website. Exciting stuff right? I think you should check out the site anyway. The experience is sort of like licking a toads ass, mildly hallucinogenic and leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.

jett grrl bike studio’s mission is to empower women on their bicycles (and yes, men are welcome too!). if you have ever wanted to learn to do your own bike repairs, or at the very least would like to be armed with enough information to feel knowledgable when you walk into a shop, jett grrl is the place for you. it doesn’t matter if you are a commuter, road racer, or mountain biker…jett grrl offers classes for all types of riders and all levels of mechanical ability. all classes are hands-on, with a maximum class size of 4 people, taught by a certifed woman mechanic in a relaxed, friendly, grrl positive environment. and every class is guaranteed to satisfy, or your money back.

This thing kind of makes me retch. Maybe it’s because I can only imagine some H%#*@!R girl in tube socks and 70s running shorts riding around on this. Although, maybe gratuitous camel toe is the only thing that could make this bike cool.

How to be an Urban-Fixed Gear Hipster drops so many jewels of wisdom.

The Riding Outfit

A too-small T-shirt emblazoned with an obscure high school sports mascot is de rigeur, as is some sort of hat–either a vintage cycling cap, a Kangol-style Ivy, or some quasi-military khaki cadet cap.

Rolled-up jeans are required, and retro Vans slip-on shoes both look cool and eliminate the risk of laces getting caught in the chain.

Socks are optional, but if you go that route, it’s argyles or nothing.

Plastic-framed Buddy Holly glasses complete the look.

If you add Asian-themed tattoo “sleeves,” you get to move to the front of the hipster line.

I’m kind of surprised that there was nothing about drinking PBR.

click over to the reuters story

So Nick linked this picture in the post about Randonneurs of China

I’m curious about what you could possibly do with that much gas. My initial reaction was that you could maybe cook a pot of soup or something minor like that but it looks like I was wrong here are my findings.

I’m going to guess that his gas worm is about 1000 cubic feet of gas ( V = pi * r^2 * h) -> 3.14 * 16ft * 20ft. According to wikipedia,

Natural gas in the U.S. is measured in CCF (100 cubic feet).

He has 10 CCF.

To raise a 40-gallon tank of 55°F water up to 105°F would require 40 x 8.3 x 50 / 100,000 BTU, or approximately 0.17 CCF

So it looks to me like he could get ~2300 gallons of hot water out of that sack.

I haven’t really been keeping up with my basic math skills lately so if I screwed something up feel free to correct me. and if anyone wants to get into the natural gas worm business let me know, it looks lucrative.

Another interesting way to look at that worm would be that with a standard flow shower head (2.5 gallons per minute) he could have 92 ten minute showers.

I will have to read the book (not really) to be sure but it looks like this dude had a really ugly recumbent with a huge “computer” strapped on the front that cost a shit load of money because it was in the 80s, or 70s, not quite sure.

For 11 years, I dedicated all available resources to the pursuit of high-tech nomadness

What does this all imply? How does it work? What’s the point? And why does nomadness continue to be such an alluring lifestyle?

I’m a wealth of information on the subject as you can see. So go look at the site I think you can read the book online or buy it for 2 bucks on amazon. I heard they’re going to be making it into a movie¹.

For a million dollars, that thing had better have some lasers, or at least a wet bar.

¹ I just made that up.

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Who would have thought that a country with more bikes than people¹ would have an interest in long distance bicycle competitions? I’m down for a 2007 brevet. Now I just need someone to donate $1500 so I can get there.

¹ completely made up fact.

This thing looks fucking creepy. thanks treehugger