I just discovered I can change the title!

One more reason the west coast is better than the east coast

spencer — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:24:44 +0000

University of Washington will provide students and staff electric bicycles to reduce car traffic in and around campus.

http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleID=38255

Bamboo bike project

spencer — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:00:52 +0000

I was reading through the talk titles for the Unite for Sight conference on health and development (at Yale) and thought you folks might be interested in Columbia’s Bamboo Bike Project. Copied from their website, their goals are:

To build a better bike for poor Africans in rural areas.

To stimulate a bicycle building industry in Africa to satisfy local needs.

Here is their website:

http://duck-rabbit.ldeo.columbia.edu/bamboo/Home.html

Biking makes you rich

spencer — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:36:41 +0000

If you bike, you don’t have to buy a T-pass (~$50) or a gym membership (~$50). If you are 25 and invest this money instead at a 4% rate of return, which is rather low, you will have $118,590 at age 65. If you can get a 12% rate of return, as perhaps you might in mutual funds, you will have $1,188,242 at age 65.

Yo uses the gender neutral pronoun

spencer — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:24:38 +0000

Please everyone check out Diary of a Redheaded Cyclist for the utube of the couch bike. Best of all is that the guy who made the bike rode across the country on it with a (scandanavian?) guy who had been his exchange student something like a decade ago–and they hadn’t seen much of each other since. I want to have long lost friends who make couch bikes.

Unrelated to biking, but possibly as useful in everyday life as a bike: I heard on NPR two days ago that a gender neutral pronoun has entered the slang of baltimore high school students. Instead of he or she, students use yo. For example: Yo is riding a bike. Yo’s bike is better than mine.

What, you don’t like pink???

spencer — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:51:46 +0000

CRISIS!

I’d rather be biking

spencer — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:31:16 +0000

but today I am inside counting colonies, which is possibly the most boring task ever, but not as stressful as writing my thesis.

weatherproof

spencer — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:59:18 +0000

Two purchases have revolutionized my winter biking life: a Burton snowboarding jacket that is waterproof and down, and Patagonia fleece pants. Now I am impervious to all weather.

Hello world!

spencer — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:50:54 +0000

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