Ride Lugged

Everything about shants just seems lazy to me. To lazy to finish sewing this pair of pants so just stop 3/4 of the way. To lazy to roll up my pant leg. And I know what some of you are thinking, shants have been around since olden times. Well so have pantaloons. I don’t see that as an excuse to wear them though.

So I think that someone (not me, I don’t live in Portland) should rebrand pantaloons as, bike messenger hammer shants. I’m sure they will be a hit, they look retarded and you can carry all kinds of crap in the extra space around your knees, 40’s, hotdogs, tempeh.

And if that doesn’t fly then someone should be able to make a killing selling after market shant extenders

BIKE, originally uploaded by Ben Wilson Design.

So is it an ill omen to ride a ghost bike before you are dead? Irregardless, these guys have some interesting stuff on there site.

When Chuck Harris looks in a mirror the mirror shatters, because not even glass is stupid enough to get in between Chuck Harris and Chuck Harris.

Anyway, John G, brought up an interesting fact that the beer-view mirror is basically a rip off of the Chuck Harris mirror. Unfortunately Harris doesn’t have a very large internet following so getting links to his stuff is kind of hard. Couldn’t find a website but it seems like he has a sort of cult following. John, feel free to elaborate on this if you have more info. The nice thing about the Harris mirror is that it doesn’t effect the integrisity of the helmet.

This type of crash occurs when a bike and a car race to the same buried treasure. Who will win?

This site has a bunch of PDFs that describe how different bicycle accidents occur.

Approximately one out of six highway fatalities in the United States is a bicyclist or pedestrian each year. Estimates for 1995 indicate that 61,000 bicyclists were injured and 830 were killed in traffic crashes. These crashes can be classified or “typed” by their precipitating actions, predisposing factors, and characteristic populations and/or location that can be targeted for intervention.

The information provided in the following guide is the result of a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) research study that applied the basic National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) bicycle and pedestrian typologies to a sample of bicycle-and pedestrian-motor vehicle crashes from six States with the purpose of refining and updating the crash type distributions. Particular attention was given to roadway and locational factors in order to identify situations where engineering, educational, and/or regulatory countermeasures might be effectively implemented to reduce the frequency of the crashes.

While I would not advise men to do the stretch seen above, affectionately known as the “I dropped the soap” stretch, this site seems like a pretty good resource for bike focused stretches.

This is pretty ghetto. And I’m kind of worried about how jamming shit into your helmet might effect it’s integrisity. I’m guessing that helmet companies wouldn’t approve since they think you should do two things with a helmet, wear it and rub it with a diaper.

Carlyn Davis Casting will be casting 2,500 extras for Jerry
Bruckheimer’s “National Treasure 2: The Book of Secrets”

We need the following types of extras:

- Real Sting Quartet
- Bomb Detection Units w/dogs
- Dog Walkers w/dogs

- Real Bike Messengers

- Real Catering Bartenders, Waiters/Waitresses and Chefs
- George and Martha Washington look-alikes
- Diplomat couples in formal attire (Scottish, African, Japanese, French and Middle Eastern)
- Cigar smokers to play Senators
- Hot Dog Vendor with cart
- Secret Service / FBI / Police / Security Guards
- Military types to include 2 Generals and 1 Major
- Park Rangers
- Lots of GOOD Drivers w/Cars
- Beautiful Model types 25-40 in age for a formal scene
- Men and women with formal wear for a party scene
- the First Lady
- College professors and teachers
- College students
- College aged skateboarders and some hacky sack players
- Lots of Business and Tourist types
- Librarians and Library Patrons
- Treasure Hunters
- Joggers
- Seniors
- 18 and older who look 15-17
- Bicyclists w/ bikes

Shooting will begin in the DC area late March and go through mid April.

If you fit any of the above types, please send us hard copy current
photos of yourself looking like the type you want to be. Be sure to
include your name, phone numbers and email address. Photos should be
received by 12thMarch and sent to:

Carlyn Davis Casting

207 Park Ave, Suite B6
Falls Church, VA 22046

ATTN: NT2 - role or type you want to be

For further information on this movie, please keep checking our web sites:

www.carlyndaviscasting.com

www.extrasnow.com

NO PHONE CALLS, PLEASE.

some pics i stole from cyclofiend from the super recent NAHBS.

the super hot return of the handmade rod operated ft mech. oh i want one.

undesided about this front rack. i think i like it, but i think i would like it more if the tubes were a bit more svelt.

i’m not too sure about this BB situation. part of me says yes, part of me says that bullet thing isnt happening.

bruce gordon ti rear rack. likes it.

So after the last ramble there was a brief discussion about how accurate the calorie counters on things like stationary bikes or treadmills are. I was trying to explain the physics of calories but since I couldn’t remember exactly how the whole calories = a unit of energy thing works I probably just sounded mildly retarded. I still think it’s an interesting topic though so I’ll put forth some knowledge / trivia.

A calorie “approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 °C. This is about 4.184 kJ” -wikipedia. So if you were to take that candy bar and light it on fire under a beaker filled with a kilogram of water, then every degree that the water rises is equal to a calorie.

So my thought was if you are lifting a weight, it takes X amount of energy to move that weight. That much should be constant since were on earth with gravity. So I thought the same thing would apply to stationary bikes or elliptical machines. So every time you make a rotation on the elliptical it takes X amount of energy to push the machine through a rotation. I assumed that amount would be known by the manufacturer and they could then calculate the calories. But according to this article, I was wrong, those things aren’t accurate.

This is a basic explanation from wikipedia about how calories relate to fat:

Human fat tissue contains about 87% lipids, so that 1 kg of body-fat tissue has roughly the caloric energy of 870 g of pure fat, or 7800 kcal. Therefore one has to create a 7800 kcal deficit between energy intake and use to lose 1 kg of body-fat. (In U.S. customary units, that is about 3500 cal per pound.) [2] In other words, if you eat 3,500 Calories more than your body needs, you will put on about 1 pound of fat. If you use up 3,500 calories more than you eat, you will lose about 1 pound of fat. These approximations assume that there is no net gain or loss in muscle, which can also be built using food energy, or metabolized as a source of energy.

This calorie calculator can tell you how many calories you burn brushing your teeth. I don’t know how accurate it is though. It says that you burn more calories in a minute of brushing your teeth than you do in a minute of sex.

Here is some more pointless trivia:
Does drinking ice water burn calories?
How many calories does a person need daily?

fender bender tail end, originally uploaded by fast boy.

Just browsing around and ran across Fastboy Fenders. It looks like your run of the mill wood fenders. So after searching around a bit I found the guys flickr site and he has some cool images of this fender bender, oh yeah, and some naked pictures of his girlfriend.