For anyone knows about the Tour and wants to have a little fun. Its a great way to potential win some sweet gear and give to a great scholarship. This contest used to be run to raise money for the endowment fund for the Jason Lapierre Scholarship. Since we have reached our endowment fund...
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I think i post more youtube videos on my site than actually “blog” posts…. oh well… I enjoy them at least one other person must as well. Here’s another one.
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Taken from http://www.popsci.com/ Dreams of Olympic glory could make athletes risk their lives on an experimental procedure Steroids seem so last-decade, now that gene therapy has caught the eye of athletes looking for a competitive edge. But scientists warn that gene therapy still represents a high-risk, experimental practice even within medicine, and that athletes...
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More and more people are getting iPhones these days and ever now and again I hear of someone getting theirs stolen. I was doing a little research on how you could recover your stolen iPhone if it ever happened to go astray and came across this story. It’s goes over how one guy tracked...
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This email was passed onto me from a friend of mine. I am not sure how true this story is but its cool none the less. SR-71 Blackbird In April 1986, following an attack on American soldiers in a Berlin disco, President Reagan ordered the bombing of Muammar Qaddafi’s terrorist camps in Libya ....
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Most of the stuff i put on here has something, at least a little bit, to do with sports. Whether you consider it a sport is up to you. Not to sure if everyone will consider this a sport, i assume all he had to do to complete this ‘mission’ was just jump once…. and...
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I don’t know how I found this boat but, I can tell you I was blown away when I did. The BMW Oracle Racing team is an American sailboat racing syndicate and has some of the most cutting edge technology to help them go fast. The boat is a 90-ft. LWL, 90-ft. beam sloop...
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I know it’s been a while since I have posted something (thanks for reminding me Bird), but I have been damn busy over the holidays. To keep all you avid TripleC readers satisfied here are some vids. This one is from some footage I took on New Years Ski trip down to Fernie soon. I...
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This was passed onto me today by a fellow cyclist. Some interesting stuff down at Interbike. While a power meter is certainly an important tool for a professional cyclist, the bulk of them are of course sold to amateurs who misinterpret their amateur status and poor results as signs that they need to spend...
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Some facts to ponder. Put together by JCB. In the developing world, people who climb out of poverty change their diet from grains and beans to pork and beef. Since 1950, per capita consumption of meat worldwide more than doubled. In the 70’s, people in the US ate 90 lbs. of red meat per...
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Just because I am working (or supposed to be) while all the action is happening in the Tour de France, and I don’t have a TV at home, doesn’t mean that I have to miss all the action. I did a little search on the ‘interweb’ and found out that Versus has a live...
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Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating — but not for the squeamish.
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Found this via twitter on cool hunting.. i need to get one. A few months ago the LightLane personal bike path was merely a competition entry in conceptual phase. Using high powered laser beams mounted to bicycle seat posts, the light generated so much interest that the designers took it into development. Alex Tee, a...
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Have you ever wondered if you could make your own carbon bike frame? With the costs of carbon bikes these days you might think it would just be easier and/or cheaper to just head down to home depot, get some carbon and start shaping up your new frame…. with a few more steps of...
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On my google homepage (iGoogle) I have a link that searches google news feeds and gives me the most popular cycling articles at that moment. It a cool thing to have, and it keeps me up to date with what’s happening in the cycling world. Now that summer is here I am paying a...
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I found this via the Google news page the other day and thought it was really cool – http://www.wolframalpha.com/ I am planning on going back to school sometime and think this page could be very useful as it expands. Is Wolfram|Alpha a search engine? No. It’s a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing...
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Here is part II of the Cervelo videos. This deals more with the technology and wind tunnel testing. I have never seen a wind tunnel but it would be a blast to see everything that goes on in there. Aerodynamics is so important in cycling these days I can see why Cervelo puts so...
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Another great post from cyclingtipsblog.com Check out the intense helmet cam race wade went to. I wish we got that turn out at the races here in Canada. I got myself a new MinoFLIP HD the other day and might have to give the whole helmet cam thing a try. Now if only I could...
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I have been lucky enough to work in a bike shop and know how to fix the majority of the bike issues that I come across. I worked at Soma Cycle a few years back and was able to learn a lot about road bikes and how to maintain and repair them (though you...
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I should finally find out about school this week. For those of you who have been watching the countdown clock at the bottom of the page you might have noticed that it is a bit overdue. I guess the architectural office here at Dalhousie was moved into a new space last week and they...
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