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The EV GP of Cyclocross, right there at the West Point Grey Academy in the heart of Vancouver. I'd like to thank Stephen Cork for setting this up, and David Penner and Jeff Ain for doing a bunch of supplementary video, too. Once again, this is the Men's A race, but there's a pretty good chance I'll do a follow-up video for the other categories.

Let's do some follow-up and ruminations.

Item: the Fort Langley CX video was one of the most popular things I've ever put here. Glad you all liked it. There will be another one after next weekend's Grand Prix of Cyclocross.

Item: my mother-in-law is so addicted to Brain Age that she's going to get her own Nintendo DS.

For your delectation, the Men's "A" race in just over 5 minutes:

This isn't a shopping blog, but I actually found a deal so good I feel like using this space to endorse it. Or brag. Either way.

My club-mate Johnny Cheung suggested an entirely gimcrack website called LED Shoppe as a source of a cheapo Bluetooth USB thingy. And he was right! The sucker cost me about $8.25 in Canadian funds, shipped.

From Hong Kong. Or to put it another way, I don't know how they're making money, except to assume that their unit cost on these little electronic bits is, to a first order, zero dollars.

Ulturducken!. The logical extension of Turducken. Ernie took pictures.

I'm hungry now.

My click-through rate on online ads is somewhere around zero: maybe one every couple of months (but hey, advertisers, keep spending the ad dollars on the Internet: it's the easiest way you can get impressions from me!) at best. But then a Telus ad made a promise so absurdly underachieving I couldn't believe it: If they drop 1% of your calls, they'll give you a small credit on your bill.

Once again, in association with Team Escape Velocity, it's time for On Bike Interviews.

If you hated the last one, you might dislike this one less: tighter editing, funnier visual bits. I think I ought to get a better camera, though.

So, in between bouts of procrastinating the creation of my new cyclocross bike (working title: Azzuri Sporco), the new MEC catalog arrived.

Always fun to see what's in there. The best find in the bike section is probably these Freddy Speedeez.