Of course you can't go anywhere in this town without running into someone you know and Nikola slowed down to chat with a friend who was leading a group running through Painted Cave Village.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Painted Cave Road Ride - Aug 11
A couple photos from remnants of Team Polli Veloce, (Nikola, Mike, and I), got out for a little hill climbing over the top of the ridge on another beautiful day in Goleta.
Funny how when you turn the camera just right it can make a 10% uphill grade appear to be downhill. Nikola's happy face contributes to the illusion making you think he's rolling downhill rather than hammering up lower painted cave.
Of course you can't go anywhere in this town without running into someone you know and Nikola slowed down to chat with a friend who was leading a group running through Painted Cave Village.
Of course you can't go anywhere in this town without running into someone you know and Nikola slowed down to chat with a friend who was leading a group running through Painted Cave Village.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Road Bike Climbing in (and to) Paradise
A little wetness made the descent down Old San Marcos just a bit interesting. The sloppiness really did cap off a pretty awesome road bike outing with Fastrack, Cutler, Coach Doyle and myself. We all just needed a bike wash after.
Dave somehow managed to bust a spoke nipple loose on his front wheel w/o losing its true or slowing him down at all.
My Garmin showed 38 miles and 4500 feet of climbing in 2 hrs, 45 minutes, fun stuff. Thanks for a nice outing boys.
Picasa Gallery, Road Bike Climbing in (and to) Paradise
Photo Gallery (sorry for the lousy focus on a couple images, operator/rider error):
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Happy 4th
Another jaunt up Old San Marcos, this time a little cooler with the marine layer settling in. Hopefully it clears up a bit for fireworks tonight!
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Friday, June 29, 2012
Local MTB Action
A great Saturday morning front country hill climbing and trail ripping with Mike, Jonathan and Eric was topped off with some More Mesa cliffside singletrack, very nice!
Monday, September 5, 2011
SOLD - Bike Friday New World Tourist For Sale
My beautiful Black 2010 Bike Friday New World Tourist has now been reduced to a "Labor Day Blow-out" Sale price. NOW SOLD
A change in work location and travel schedule has prevented my essentially brand new NWT from being ridden as she deserves, so it's time to pass her along to some lucky owner who is willing to accept a few cosmetic blemishes in order to get an incredibly good deal.
I’m 6’ tall with "average torso/leg ratio" ( 34” inseam) and the ~55cm custom frame fits me perfectly, but the bike can be tailored to fit folks a good bit taller or smaller than me.
The upgraded 1x10 SRAM index shifting setup provides a wide range of ratios, is very responsive and allowed for a chain keeper to be installed which prevents dropped chains during folding & unfolding.
Upgrades/Accessores:
- 1x10 Speed SRAM drivetrain
---- X9 MTB Style Trigger Shifter
---- Rival Rear Derailleur
---- 11x28t SRAM PG1070 Cassette
---- X9 MTB Style Trigger Shifter
---- Rival Rear Derailleur
---- 11x28t SRAM PG1070 Cassette
---- Rival Crankset with 56T chain-ring & protector
- Velocity Aeroheat rims
- Shimano Alfine Dynamo front hub (disc compatible)
- SRAM Disc Brake Compatible Rear Hub
- Chris King Gripnut Headset
- BF Foldable Stem
- Upgraded Avid Single Digit 7 V-Brakes
- Scwalbe Stelvio tires
- Ergon GC2 Grips
- Ergon GC2 Grips
- Disc brake and front derailleur braze-ons on frame to be “future-proof”
- BF Flite TravelCase Black + BF packing system
- BF Flite TravelCase Black + BF packing system
- BF Travel Bag (to enable ‘smuggling’ your baby into non-bike friendly offices, buses etc)
- Fenders (Pocket Llama style for increased rigidity & clearance compared to NWT fenders)
- BF Low mount packable front rack
Cost over $2500 new, asking $1450 "cash" picked up in Southern California or $1575 Paypal Shipped via UPS ground to lower 48 US.
Email: paul at pdonohoe.com or call eight O five 68O O741
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Walk, Bike, E-Bike, it's all good!
Original Post at Ecovelo.info:
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS
In her Life Cycle Assessment of Transportation Options for Commuters, Shreya Dave at MIT analyzed the complete life cycles of various modes of transportation to compare their environmental impacts.
As you’d expect, human powered forms of transportation are much less polluting than those involving fossil fuel. One surprise in the report is that the differences between walking, conventional bicycling, and e-assist bicycling are negligible. From the conclusion:
The results reported in the previous section show the significant environmental as well as economic (in terms of energy purchased) benefit of using human-powered forms of transportation. According to this study, walking, conventional bicycling and electric bicycling are release exactly the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions. While an electric bicycle consumes more energy (both to produce and to operate) and releases the associated greenhouse gases, a conventional bicycle requires the operator to work harder and breathe more heavily. In effect, the impact of the electric bicycle is entirely negligible. All forms of personal transport are at least three times better than any other form of commuter transport.
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