Instructables has an interesting article on building a bicycle powered USB generator so that you can charge or run USB driven devices (like your iPod, Garmin, etc) while you are pedaling through the city (or countryside as it were). “The basic idea for the USB Bike Generator is to use a suitable stepper motor as [...]
Category Archives: Biking
New Belgium’s Tour de Fat Saturday at Palmer Square
This looks suspiciously hippie-like to me, but, regardless, I may roll down and check out New Belgium’s Tour de Fat at Palmer Square on Saturday. That is if I’m not too beat up from the Ween show the night before. Shit, I still need to post the review of the Beer Hoptacular.
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180 Degrees South
I’ve spent the last few weeks fighting general malaise, mostly with general anesthetic, who is much more interesting if less useful than general semantics. Love that joke. Anyway, I don’t mean to get overly personal but I’ve had trouble finding much inspiration recently which is not a happy place to be. Last night I was [...]
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Bike to Work Week Chicago
Holy crap, apparently it’s bike to work in here in Chicago. I suppose that means I should drag my ass out of bed and bike to work. Shit! Shit! Shit! Well, I’ll be happier once I do. I may also go try and check out David Byrne talking at Daley plaza on the 18th. Happy [...]
Chicago Cycling Club
After returning from two weeks in the beer-puddled paradise of Belgium, coming back to the well worn grooves of my ‘real’ life, I’ve found myself in a very real and tangible depression. I’ve had to stop drinking due to some unsurprising health concerns (‘stop drinking’ = only drink 3 days a week, though this will [...]
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Chicago Ranked 10th Most Bike Friendly City
From the Chicagoist blog: Here’s the entire top 10: 1. Minneapolis 2. Portland 3. Boulder 4. Seattle 5. Eugene 6. San Francisco 7. Madison 8. New York 9. Tuscon 10. Chicago The magazine cited Mayor Daley’s enthusiasm for cycling, a growing network of bike lanes, and amenities like valet bike parking and indoor bike racks [...]
Google Maps Now Has Bicycle Option
Google Maps has added “bicycle” as an option for map routing, theoretically helping you avoid hills, traffic, etc. It also has trail options as well. That’s a nice surprise to get spring jumpstarted a bit. Now we just need to see if it will work.
Winter Sport in the North Country
I recently got back from a trip up to northern Michigan and on the way we drove through a few small towns built on the shores of lakes. It drifted me back across the frozen landscapes of my childhood, staring out at tiny little houses dotting a barren white expanse, hard water as they call [...]
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Kevin Pearce Recovering
From TransWorld Snowboarding: SALT LAKE CITY, UT (January 13, 2010) Snowboarder Kevin Pearce (Norwich, VT) is continuing to recover at the University of Utah Hospital. He consistently encourages his doctors and family with the strides he is making. Elaine Skalabrin, MD, Medical Director, Neuro Critical Care, and one of Kevin’s doctors, states, “Kevin continues to [...]
Full Outsider’s Almanac Website Still Coming
Don’t lose hope dear internetting ones, we still have every intention of launching the full Outsider’s Almanac website in the near future, it just won’t be quite as soon as we had hoped. We’re pretty insanely busy these days, between writing projects, client needs, body/mind/spirit rehabbing and the pursuit of winter in it’s many splendered [...]
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