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John discovers lightweight camping gear
a little ludwig goes a long way: Lightweight Camp Gear. Some good links to lightweight camping gear. I totally outfitted last year, but there is always new stuff.
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Ludwig is a nice guy says Boosman
pseudorandom: Meeting John Ludwig. Yup, Frank figured out John is a nice guy. Heck, the best guy in the NBA *is* a Chinese guy isn’t he 🙂
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Ritchey Break-Away
It’s amazing, but there is actually something called *The Folding Society* that reviews folding bicycles. Here are some other notes on the Ritchey Break-Away folding frame. “Excel”:http://www.excelsports.com/new.asp?page=8&major=1&minor=1&description=Break%2DAway+Frame&vendorCode=RITCHEY carries them for $1,100, so quite a bit cheaper than getting an all custom frame with S&S couplers (about $1,600+400 for steel from comotion.com and $2,100 plus 600…
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Polar s720i and Power Output
I got the Polar s720i and got it working. It’s an incredibly complicated watch that is hard to operate. I’ve been using the Campagnolo Ergobrain with a Polar heart rate monitor with good success, but this means just one device (so it is lighter) and also includes power. Main disadvantage is there are an incredible…
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New Favoriate Online Bike Shops
With the demise of a favorable UK exchange rate, I’ve had to switch my purchasing to US stores. Here’s a list of places I’ve been using: * Jenson USA. Fast delivery. They have slight discounts on Campy cassettes (why are they so expensive), Selle Italia SLR seats, Salsa Ti skewers and some other things *…
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Finishing the STP 2003
Cascade Bicycle Club: Group Health Group Health Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic. This was my first ever bicycling event (heck, I think I calculated, it is the second organized event I’ve ever attended…yes, I’m a nerd). In any case, 200 miles or so of riding. It was great to meet the physical challenge. There were…
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Panic! I-90 Bike Route Disappearing!
“Critical Vote”:http://cascade.org/Advocacy/I-90.cfm. If you live in the King County area and think it’s great you can actually get across Lake Washington, start to panic. Ron Sims and Connie Marshall both will vote on WSDOT and Sound Transit (ugh, oxymoron there!) plan to close the I-90 bike lanes for _two_ years and narrow it to just…
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Sony DRU-120A Won't Read DVD9 anymore
The firmware page :: View topic – Sony DRU120A unusable after firmware upgrade. Yuck, I have this exact problem now. I used to be able to read double density DVD9s with the original firmware (1.13, thank goodness I backed up), but now with 1.51, it doesn’t read them. A DVD9 BTW is a double layer…
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DVD Sites
Well, given all this trouble, time to start collecting sites that seem to know what is wrong: * DVD Recordable :: DVD writing reviews news and advice * “Firmware Flash Forum”:http://forum.firmware-flash.com. Good site with information about lots of hardware that needs to get flashed. That seems like it is a big problem with these DVD…
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All DVD Media Not Equal…
SONY DRU-510A 1.0c FIRMWARE REPORTS HERE PLEASE >>> _As this report shows, you have to be pretty careful with what media you buy. Here’s a post the latest firmware report for the Sony DRU-510A_ i finally had a chance to test some differant types of media yesterday With the new 1.0c firmware,here are my findings:…