Rocky Mountain RC50 Review

January 30, 2007 at 1:34 am · Filed under Just Stuff, Sports

I’ve had this bike for about 8 or 9 months now. So far I’ve primarily used it for commuting, which was my intended use. It replaced another RM bike that I had, a Summit RL. 1399The summit was also my commuter bike, although I also used it for some cycle touring in the Columbia River/Wenatchee area of Washington State and Continental Divide Route through Colorado.

So here’s my brief, non-technical description of the bike. It is an aluminum mid-weight frame with a lower to mid spec groupo and lowish end mechanical disc brakes. I have 700cc wheels with fairly narrow road tread tires and I added some clipless/hybrid pedals to it. On top of this, Read the rest of this entry »

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I like to read

January 26, 2007 at 1:04 am · Filed under Just Stuff, Photos, Sports, Tern 14 kayak

Well, at least I used to. Now I’m usually too busy in my spare time doing one of my many hobbies such as boat building, scanning my slides, recording my vinyl, or riding a bike. And if I’m not doing one of my hobbies, it’s a sure sign that I’m too tired to read. Every now and then I get into a reading kick and I’ll consume a book within a day or two. So why am I telling you this? Because I’ve entered my library on-line. You can check out all of my books and even ask to borrow some. Of course I’ll probably say “no” but it doesn’t hurt to ask.

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wacky weatheritis

January 24, 2007 at 10:32 pm · Filed under Just Stuff

I don’t know about you, but we’re suffering from a bad case of wacky weatheritis here in Vancouver this year. We’ve had snow, what, four times this winter. After each snowfall the snow stuck around for many days which made it quite difficult for me to drive my scooter to work, and resulted in causing people to make strange faces.
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In between snow storms, in December we had the heaviest rains I’ve ever experienced outside of a monsoon. Too be honest, the rain even challenges the monsoon I experienced on my trip to India.

And and let’s not forget the crazy wind storms. Twice our power was knocked at home, and I saw trees move that frankly they just shouldn’t have.

I think the most ironic event was when a local NDP function that was to address global climate change had to be cancelled due to weather and storms.

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Gallery facelift and new photos

January 15, 2007 at 9:43 pm · Filed under Just Stuff, Photos

[edit] it looks like I still have some work to do on this, you can always link directly to the gallery using the link “Photos” in the header at the top of the page
I’ve given the photo gallery a facelift and got rid of the embedded gallery. I think it looks a lot better and I was never really happy with the embedded gallery.

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check it out

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