In Chinese culture, the number 8 is lucky. The Olympics in Beijing were opened at 8pm on 8/8/2008. On Sunday 19th April at Ironman China, my race number was 8. And now I have 8 sunburnt into my skin!
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Not any photos from the repair-fest this weekend, but I managed to stay plenty busy over the weekend, and met some nice folks, too! Wayne is a truck driver who I met online. Almost daily, he drives more than I ride my bike in some of my best months. Now that his kids are getting to riding age, he wanted some neglected Rockhoppers checked out. I’m not sure of the vintage (mid or early 90s?), but he brought them over to my place for a tune-up. Neither bike had an immediate need for parts. Some ad
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The crocus are done, and now it’s daffodil time! What gets me is that I feel like I put in a ton of bulbs, but when spring comes around, there aren’t that many coming up yet. I obviously need to put in more bulbs! The forsythia flowers are still going strong (despite a storm I thought might knock all the blooms off), and lots of other plants are coming up. I can see the sedum coming back, the salvia, the Siberian iris. The dogwoods look like they’re getting ready to bloom. The magic of
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Given that I am the kind of person who can be motivated by numbers, I decided to pick up a bike computer today - the simplest waterproof model available at MEC. After installing it, I wanted to make sure I had selected the correct wheel size (I think it’s 2174mm on the 700×32c wheels of my Trek 7.3FX). A few kilometres of cycling allowed me to confirm both its measure of velocity and distance traveled against my GPS receiver (a marine unit too big and cumbersome for cycling). Unfortunately, it
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