Month: February 2016
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I’ve got a bike!
Fearless leader Joe has located a bike in London for me, so I don’t need to cart Ol’ Paint half-way ’round the world. This is excellent news! Details to come.
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Brighton microdirections
Ride along Brighton seafront (there’s a cycle lane) as far as the marina. Continue straight through the marina leaving Asda on your left. At the end cross the bridge over the lock and turn right towards the sea wall. Take the path behind the chandler’s inland towards the undercliff path, then swing right and follow…
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How to Travel with a Bike on Eurostar
Friend Jonathan points to this link. If you’ve got a bag and can fit your bike in it at less than 85cm total length (both wheels off, and perhaps the handlebars, methinks) then it travels with you at no extra cost. Options for the bike traveling separately in a box are available for reasonable rates.…
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Paean to the lowly onigiri
Onigiri, or rice balls, have got to be about the ultimate biking food. Compact, cheap and readily available with a variety of fillings, onigiri provide upwards of 170 calories in a prepared meal that you can eat one-handed in a couple of minutes. A representative of MLB in Japan told me that when Matsui went…
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Practice!
Où est la Tour Eiffel? As the famous joke goes: How do I get to Carnegie Hall? Practice! I had two years of French in junior high school, from an American teacher whose accent was indubitably far from formidable. Since that time, I’ve had a year of college German, and then more than 25 years…
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Hominid vs the elements
It’s a sad commentary on the state of pro cycling that a competitor in a sanctioned race using an electric motor is termed “mechanical doping”. The technology has been around for years, of course, and recent advances in batteries bring us to the point of packing 100W of power into a water bottle-sized package. That…