My First Time...Trial
As you can see from the results, I did not cover myself in glory in my first TT.
It was a short hillclimb TT up Gaglardi way, the main road leading to Simon Fraser University. 3.6 km, and it was the hardest 12 minutes of riding I have ever done. No joke, I was so fatigued from the ride that I rode home and spent most of Sunday in bed.
I wish I had had a camera
Inexplicably, I failed to mention it, but I've been having problems with the satellite dish reception all week. They have a menu in the reciever that you can access to see signal strength on an unspecified scale. 70-80 is a good clear-skies number; you can get reception with a signal as low as 30-something. Ours was running at 20-30 even in clear skies. Time to call the dish merchants.
A braking solution.
I'm using the BMX LX to illustrate a little trick I invented for getting a few mm more reach on caliper brakes.
As you can see above, I have added the spherical washer set from an old set of V-brakes to this ordinary road pad. Note the washer that touches the slot in the brake arm: it is the spherical one, and you can see the considerable angle the other washers are making to it.
So take the old set of brakes and remove the hardware:
This little guy posed for several photos at a range of about a foot. I don't think he was quite up to flying yet, and while I'm not sure, I think this was an immature, only-sorta-flying robin, of the type common around here (except they always have a solid red breast without the black marks on this one). Warning: bigger version is much bigger.
Silence of the Lambs: The Musical
The Internet has many weird things. And then you find out about Silence!
Thanks, keith.
Warning, Boring Ride Report Ahead
No, not really. In fact, this is a fascinating, EPIC ride report!
Monday night, after amusingly destroying Proximate Drea's tire while demonstrating the operation of a Presta valve, I made the plans for the perfect ride.
The problem: doing some work at the Coquitlam campus in the morning, then going to New Westminster, then I want to race at UBC that night.
Too much lamb.
Some fun pictures of the weekend's bacchanal at the in-laws.
A quick captioning of the photos in the link:
lamb, kokouretsi and Tony, lamb;
lamb, The Lovely One, Teo's daughter and Mike.
I feel pretty good considering how much food I ate. One highlight of the party was watching a cook take the lamb down into bite-sized pieces with a meat cleaver.
Wired Cola Reports Second Quarter Results
Earnings per Share Infinituples
BURNABY, B.C. — May 13, 2004 — Wired Cola®, Inc. (VSE: WIRED) today announced financial results for its fiscal 2004 second quarter ended March 15, 2004. For the quarter, the Company posted a net profit of $1.00. These results compare to a net profit of $0.00 in the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $12.99, up ∞ percent from the year-ago quarter, and up ∞ percent sequentially.
