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Answers: Threading a Derailleur Cable
Eureka. The rear derailleur cable is threaded. OK, thanks to great folks like Peter Westerholm and Skip Echert, I’ve think at least I have some strategies for getting the darn rear deraileur cable through a chain stay: * Here is my technique. I noticed this rear derailleur cable is at the exact center of the…
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REviews of Power Meters
Bike.com – Power Meter Reviews. Basically this says that the Polar is the cheapest and least accurate. The PowerTap is probably the best value given its accuracy. It does sound like his installation wasn’t quite right given the issues discussed about how wattage varied by gear.
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Wattage Training and Polar S-720i Installation and Comparison
I finally sprung for a bike computer with wattage in addition to cadence and heart rate. It’s a Polar S-720i and I’ve finally gotten it to work. Here are some tips and what I’ve learned so far about training with wattage: h4. Tips on using the Polar S-720i After you follow the directions carefully, but…
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Close to perfect: Buffalo Tech WLA2-G54
Tom’s Hardware Guide Networking: Review: Buffalo Tech WLA2-G54 AirStation 54-Mbps Wireless Compact Repeater Bridge-g – Closing Thoughts. This is close to the perfect wireless access point. The main issue is that it has a pretty bad user interface. Also note that the WLA2 uses Broadcom’s BCM4702 Wireless Network Processor which is the same as used…
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Cheap DVD Recorders
_Been looking for a new PC Brain for Aunt Jennie and Adrianne. With the shipment of the AMD 64-bit in a few weeks, it’s probably not at good idea to buy a new processor and we’ll see the new Prescott chip from Intel at the end of the year. So upgrading should happen post the…
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Verbatim 2.4x don't work, Memorex 4x does
Well, I’ve been experimenting. I’ve been getting perfect burns with the Memorex 2.4x DVD+RW and the Memorex 4x DVD+R blanks, but having lots of trouble with Verbatim 2.4x DVD+R blanks. So, the folks on the various forums are right. The media does seem to matter at this stage. With the Verbatim, I get hangs and…
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Kid Cars Galore
Well, its almost the school season and we need a car that can carry 4-5 kids in addition to grownups. We looked at a ton of cars, but Connie really liked: * “Volvo XC-90”:http://volvocars.com. They did a great job designing a car for someone who doesn’t want a minivan (I’m not really a mom!) or…
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No more coasters…now I need software
Well, the conversion of my Sony DRU-120A to use the Ricoh MP2125 firmware has been an incredible success. Been great to burn DVDs without creating coasters and artifacts. Not sure whether it was the firmware burn or the use of SiS IDE drivers. But now MyDVD bundled with the Sony has given up the ghost…
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Blue Angels are in town
The Blue Angels are in town. Calvin is having a party, here are some great photos we used for it: * “Blue Angel images on Google”:http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=blue+angels&sa=N&tab=wi. A good list of images from google * blueangels fat albert. Cool pictures of the Angels * “Planes in general”:http://www.photohome.com/photos/aircraft-pictures/aircraft-pictures.html. * “Official Blue Angels Web Site”:http://www.navy.com/jsp/explore/comunity/blueangels/index.jsp?cid=28&pid=2. Low resolution pictures…
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MountainBike on the Trek Madone 5.9
More Madone reviews and also a CAD article about how it was designed: Mountain Bike – News – News. This is Trek’s first all new OCLV product in ten years and it’s a bike that Trek and Lance have been working on for the last year. The idea was to build a single bike that…