Needed a new bike in a hurry, bought the cheapest one available at XXL having hydraulic disc brakes.
Quite ok, need to replace the seat sometime, it is to big and soft.
New commuter bike
rblog
Linux – view size of subfolders in current folder
Posted as a reminder to myself on how to use the du
$ du . -kh --max-depth=1
2.0M ./aix
16K ./lost+found
2.0M ./windows
2.8M ./solaris
31G ./linux
In memory of – my bike never used
Yesterday I spent about two hours providing TLC for my new used bike. I moved parts from my other two bikes in order to get a fully functional commuter bike. Foot pedals from my Kona bike, have already bought new ones for it. And light, mud protection and such from my old commuter.
Really enjoyed my own invention, the “double rear mud protection”, and was looking forward to be using it to work this morning. But, when in the garage this morning I did not find it…the bike trolley was stolen. F¤#%!!! Will be getting most of the money worth back on the insurance, but most of all it is really annoying!
So this is the only thing I have left of the bike…a picture…and a posting to be found here terrengsykkel.no/ubb/
Only to be found at jumble sale
Elin bought this … thing … at a jumble sale in Hellesylt yesterday, had to pay as much as 5 Norwegian kroners. I have applied my settings.
While I found this spanner while walking to Hellesylt, the cost of nothing and perfect as a gift to Asle
How much carbondiokside have I saved…
This season using my bike to work:
- You: 376 km, average of 34,2 km per day. All: 196 472,2 km, average of 24,0 km per day.
- Total of 8203 entries made by 446 bicyclists.
- The atmosphere is spared for 30846,14 kilograms of carbondiokside.
Need more space
Or maybe get rid of some stuff
Knapperrittet 2011
Yesterday I attended Knapperrittet, 42 kilometers on gravel and tractor roads at Knapper in Nord-Odal. Elin and the kids joined me, since both start and finish are located at the same place, and since I did not plan to spend more than about 1 hour and 40 minutes they could manage to wait. Elin took a picture of me and the boys just minutes before start. Since my rear wheel is broken I had borrowed Espens bike which is light, fast and expensive 🙂
Quite pleased with myself, managed to hang in there with the guys in lead for almost 15 minutes, and passed the finish line at 1:31:54. Finished as #11 of 27, also good since I always want to be on the upper half of the result list.
Added an extra element of tension since I totally forgot a spare tube.
The shortest ferry trip in Norway – bicycling to Svelvik
After work last Tuesday me and two of my colleagues, Leiv Ole and Phil, took our bicycles and headed for Svelvik. Svelvik, known for many things, but most of all for the shortest ferry trip in Norway. Weather forecast was pretty nice and we had our share of luck, many places the roads where wet after rain showers, but it did not rain on us at all. See the GPS track here http://sykkelspor.no/node/914.
I have also created a draft for an article to be published on our intranet at work, available here
Filmed a short clip when on the ferry
[video:youtube:TB45dd-_QRE]John Olav Nilsen & gjengen – Det nærmeste du kommer
Just had to, have been heard them on the radio so many times so I started enjoying the music.
http://www.myspace.com/johnolavnilsen
Oslo Ess – Uleste bøker og utgåtte sko
Had to find out what the fuzz is all about http://osloess.blogspot.com/
