02.07.06 blue plate special. I mean blue tape special

first race...

yeah.. so we had that race this weekend... it was cool... we didnt win or anything... but it was fun... we got a good group...

the race went by quick and everybody really dug on the 100k thing...

KCBD - NewsChannel 11 / Lubbock, TX: Does It Work Story Archives

KCBD - NewsChannel 11 / Lubbock, TX: Does It Work Story Archives this is a damned good website... saved me some money...

boondocks sucks on tv...

the official eriksaunders.com best show on tv...

project runway... i dont know why i havent said anythig about this show before... its damned good... so i am gonna start writing about it...

i think kara is the next off... and santino wont win... i like chloe and nick to win.. but now i am really seeing something nice in daniel...

i like this show because it remind me of art school...

Oh, I'm hooked alright - HOOKED ON A FEELING!

He shoulda stuck to Knight Rider...


Oh, and this one is good: pwned!

Rohff, La Puissance, clip video, nouveau single

Rohff, La Puissance, clip video, nouveau single

this guy is right now the heat in france... and that aint son cite'... its LA..

Mile High Atlanta

Mile High Atlanta

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bolivia leader halves his own pay

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bolivia leader halves his own pay

Ksyrium Elite Wheels

i have some silver shimano mavic ksyrium elite wheels... they have not been ridden and i will sell them for $350 including shipping... e mail me if you want them... help me pay my mortgage... thanks...

first race this weekend at the CBR crit

am i ready?.. hell no.. but that wont stop me from showing up...

its gonna be the first race for our team together... its gonna be a good team building day... i am always optimistic about being able to work together but its never seemed to happen yet... the best was me and J.Al and Devon and Bahati at superweek last year in the McGuire team...

with hegg and ken yamakoshi and ryan yee and the other guys being so goal directed and open i think its going to be the year... the thing with this group is lack of individualist attitude.. it doesnt seem at all that there are any overly selfish or ambitious riders... and they are all in fact useful on the bike.. which is the main thing...

we had a conference call yesterday to keep in contact and reiterate team goals.. we will be doing this twice a month to keep things on track and the communication open... my goal for the young riders is that they should all year just learn their trade... to be pro at anything you have to know what you are doing... a lot guys dont have much of an idea.. and if no one is there to help you its hard to learn.. you lose years in a career that is short as it is... a key to success is good mentorship...

for all the stuff i have done and experienced people i have been around not many of them have taught me a damned thing even when it should have been their job... so i want to make sure that what little i have been able to put together i can pass along to as many of these guys as possible...

Random Chuck Norris Fact: Top Thirty Facts

Random Chuck Norris Fact: Top Thirty Facts

CNN.com - Rocket on two wheels - Jan 24, 2006

CNN.com - Rocket on two wheels - Jan 24, 2006

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2006 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah

World class professional cycling is coming to Utah August 7-12, 2006 at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. The event consists of a six day, nearly six hundred mile stage race, and is being backed by the Larry H. Miller Group, owners of the Utah Jazz NBA franchise, and the Utah State Sports Commission. The event will be covered for 30 minutes each night by local television network KJZZ, and will feature a $40,000 prize purse for Professional and Category 1 men.
Billed as “America’s Hardest Bike Race”, the event will utilize the close proximity of downtown venues and high altitude climbs to create an extremely challenging and exciting race. Stages have been proposed for downtown Salt Lake City, the Miller Motor Park, Provo, Mt. Nebo, Park City, and a final stage of over 115 miles with nearly 17,000 feet of climbing.
Race Director, Jason Preston states, “We are honored to have the Larry H. Miller Group on board for our event. Our aim is to bring all of the top US domestic teams to Utah to do battle on our unrelenting climbs”.
For more information contact info@tourofutah.com and visit the website www.tourofutah.com, and please check back frequently for updates.

Things went wrong for hand-holding partners Chad and Mike at the International World Cup of Hand-Holding...

(from Velonews)

CBR is the shit

so yeah... California Bicycle Racing is the shit... all of their crits are 100k this year.. i remember 2 years ago i was talking to Chris Lotts (the worst shit talker in socal) about doing it... its better for the elite riders who travel to have longer home races.. and its better for the young guys to do a longer race since it gets them ready for the distance in bigger races that they want to go do... for a 21 year old to go from 60 min crits to 100k at superweek, or the standard 50 milers on the east coast, or a road race its a shock... so for the sake of development i think doing 100k crits in socal will be way better... i think though that he should kill his 30+ open and make the 30's who are 1 or 2 race with us... for 100k the older riders have an advantage i think... we have VERY good 30+ masters... and leave the 30+ to be a 3/4 for begining riders.. but hey.. i am just happy to have 2 hours of racing when i slog into LA instead of just one stupid hour and i cant do the masters to at least make it worth my while to kill the day at a local race... so good on CBR for stepping it up...

my favorite girl biker sarah hammer wins again

she won the pursuit with a track record in qualifying and she won the scratch race ahead of becky quinn who is my second favorite girl biker... sweet...

NPR : Dave Barry Explains the Value of a Dollar

NPR : Dave Barry Explains the Value of a Dollar funny shit.. how this guy just doesnt answer people's serious questions... and the best advice is to not buy a house because its made of wood and insects eat wood and you spend all this money on something that is really just food for insects...

i made some yam fries.. they are damned good... make some yourself...

NPR : New Data Suggests Coca Benefits

Why Coca is good for you... new scientific research suggests benefits!... and... what scientists learned from the outstanding health of the indigenous peoples of Panama... hate to say i told you so...

for those of you who want to hear about biking i will now tell you how great my E-soles are...

at our team meeting at steve hegg's house we got fitted for these custom foot beds called e-soles... by bill peterson himself who is the master of footbeds... this is bill hooking up jeremiah wiscovitch the czexican national champion...





yeah.. they misspelled my name, probably because i chicken scratched my name on the form you fill out when you get them made... i rode them today for 5 hrs and they worked good and i didnt have any pain or discomfort... i felt a bit more powerful and for sure i felt like i had a more solid interface with my foot on the pedal... my foot is fully supported in the shoe

Chain Driver

This is the Chain Driver.. the most kick-ass trainer ever... Do i still use it?... No... they all belonged to the team... but i wish i still had mine.. they sponsored the OFOTO team and thats how i found out about it... its a flywheel that takes teh place of your rear wheel.. this thing is really stable and you can dial up good progressive resistance... it mimics the feel of cycling better than anything and it provides a lot of resistance at high rpms that feels smooth like you are out on the road... i wish i still had this thing... its like a scientific ergometer for your house... i dont know why nobody made one of these before...

Keepin' It Real with Evo Morales

LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - In his diplomatic debut in Europe this week, leftist Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales has made waves fashionably as well as politically.

Morales, the first Indian elected president in Bolivia, unsettled many at home and abroad by breaking protocol and visiting Spanish King Juan Carlos wearing a striped, multicoloured sweater, local media said on Friday.

"Evo's attire sparks international controversy" ran the headline of daily La Razon, before describing criticism of his informal look in the Spanish media.

Morales, who herded llamas as a youngster before becoming a coca farmer, has shunned suits and ties during his world tour, favouring short-sleeved shirts, leather jackets and casual sweaters to greet the likes of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana.

Many Bolivians think the 46-year-old bachelor is only staying true to his humble roots.

"He is sending the message that he is a modest man who wants to stay close to his indigenous people," Bolivian designer Beatriz Canedo Patino told Reuters.

Morales, who takes office on January 22, visited Venezuela and Cuba before crossing the Atlantic for the European leg of a tour that will also include China, South Africa and Brazil.

On Friday he was in fashion hotbed Paris.

"We should respect his wish not to wear a tie, although it would maybe be nice to see him wear something a bit more elegant," Canedo Patino said.

hour record for George?

The latest Discovery Channel hot rod project to come through Trek was this fixed gear track bike for George Hincapie. Apparently, George's coach said he needed to do some training on a fixed gear bike so team liaison Scott Daubert had this Madone frame modified with some one-off track specific dropouts (w/ 120mm spacing) made by our Advanced Concept Group. Look for the inside scoop from George on the next Exit 180 newsletter after we chase him down at the team training camp in Solvang.

Why does Erik care about sloppy seconds?

-The question was spurred on by the famed Alien vs. Predator paradox
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Erik asked me to post this (abridged) discussion he and I had offline about the topic. I realize most of you don't care. For those that do:

Parke:
As I recall, the second is a break-down of the arc, as defined by the
time it takes the sun to travel across the sky, meaning the sun (from our
primitive geocentric perspective) travels overhead sixty seconds of arc in one
minute.

Anticipating your motive, this is what pisses me off about your AVP
postulate. Even if they gave us the base-60 method of measuring time, could some alien culture happen to have exactly the same rate of rotation on their home planet? What are the chances? 1 trillion to one? It's practically guaranteed that the speed of our rotation would be faster or slower than any other planet within several light-years. You think they came here back in Babylonian times, walked out with a stop watch, realized we were 15% too slow and called out the intergalactic tow-service to speed up our rotation until we were in sync with their clock?
I call bull.


Erik:
i stumbled across that explaination googling this s$%t instead of riding
my bike...

but what is amazing to me is that they even bothered at all... it seems
utterly useless... and until very modern times was not even practical to
measure seconds!... the concerns of ancient people as far as measuring
time went probably didnt revolve around the order of a unit so small as
the second... hey.. but its thorough... people are a trip man...


Parke:
Oh time was VERY important.
People wanted to predict things (or more accurately, better anticipate the cyclical nature of life) and the observation of the celestial heavens was tantamount to knowing the gods, gazing into a crystal ball, or at least making a better farmer's almanac. Ptolemy's work calculating a more precise mean second/division of circle gave us a new calculation of pi to 3.14166, which is startlingly accurate (3.14159 by SI).

So what?
Well think of what this new tool did to manufacturing-how much more accurate could wheels and gears be? How about architecture? The pyramids in Egypt were built based on ratios of squares and triangles inscribed inside cirlces to an accuracy of only two decimal places. (Still damn amazing).
The circle is one of the three vitruvian forms, and knowing it better and relating it to the real world is big stuff. Ditto for time. And relating time and spatial measurements... that's everything. We're still working on that today.

You might also find Hero's engine to be interesting... A steam turbine some 2000 years before anyone had a use for it.

{End Transmission, remove soap-box}

Have at it folks. Please be gentle, though, all my reference texts are packed to be moved to my new house...

Community Data Center

Community Data Center this site kicks ass for statistical info on new orleans... simple...

why is a second as long as it is?...

for how long has it been the duration that it is now?... how lng has the second ben in existence?... what ancient societies used the second?... how long has the second even existed?

training camp

ok.. yeah. we had a fun weekend meeting and did some nice bike rides in san diego county... the team is mostly local guys so we will be able to race together a lot thats good... we are doing som media camp in february to really kick it off...

banned from disneyland...

Really extending the debate of vehicular design

18 and over! You kiddies no clicky!

Pogo Stick

Would that be then new Yugo screwyerself?

I am surely going to hell for posting this.

/window seat, please...

extending the debate of vehicular design

Better than an Elite 50? Go here.

press releases

clubs and people send me press releases about your activities in cycling and i will put them up where tens of thousands of people will see.. seriously... low tens of thousands...

corrugated metal fence

here is a nice fence made of corrugated metal... this isnt the fence that i would like to build, but its still a very cool fence... i am going to have to convince my babe that its going to look good... otherwise she is going to cry about it and make my life miserable... i am going to plan a field trip to corrugated metal fences... she thinks it "doesnt go" with an older house... but i like the mix of old and new... i like in europe how there is that mix everywhere... and also this house is a modified pre-war bungalow (not a craftsman with all the embellishments... its much simplified)... at the time this was a style that sought to bring what was at the time a modern sensibility to american homes... natural light, large windows, simple floor plan with no hallways and a nice flow from room to room... the idea was that a beautiful home that was well conceived and designed could have a positive effect on the mental and physical health of the people that lived in it.. this was style and modern design for the masses.. the bungalow was decidedly affordable and middle class... it seems like these ideals were lost... and are just now regaining steam... so i can continue with the theme of a home like this and keep it smart and modern... or i can think of this house as an older style built before ww2 and treat it in a more conservative manner, which i think would be a betrayal of both my personal style and the spirit of the design... i dont think of myself as doing a preservational renovation... i am furthering the original ideals of the design... first on the list- fence... bump out the kitchen...

Hanzi Smatter 一知半解

Hanzi Smatter 一知半解

laugh at people's jacked up tattoos

Horsepower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Horsepower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
check this out regarding horespower.. interesting.. the smarts are more powerful than you think by this explaination of bhp vs sae hp which is what we are more used to seing these days...

i have an idea

to do a fence made from corrugated metal... i did an internet search and i didnt find anything regarding such a fence or wall.. so its something that isnt really done often... i have not seen much fencing made from metal.. but i have seen some stuff... i am going to ride now and i am gonna ride past some cool places with metal fences and i will take some photos...

corrugated metal double sided fencing on wood 4x4 posts with 2x4 rails... and a metal cap... i photoshopped one in on a picture of my house and it looked damned good... with sliding gates, not gates hung on hinges... in my head it looks real good.. but the challenge now is to find corrugated metal in the right configuration for well under $1 per square foot... its possible... vertical wide sine wave...

anyone have any experience with something like this?

www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis

www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis

CPA considering legal action against Pound?

pound is a tactless jackass, yes.. but what a bunch of little bitches in the riders assiciation!...

pound says:
"This drug use is not the accidental ingestion of a tainted supplement by an individual athlete," Pound said. "It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it. All this cheating goes on under the supposedly watchful eyes of cycling officials, who loudly proclaim that their sport is drug-free and committed to remaining so. Based on performance, they should not be allowed outdoors without white canes and seeing-eye dogs."

pretty funny if you ask me...

i mean seriously... what in this statement is so controversial?... and why are euro pro bikers such little bitches to whine and say 'you are hurting our feelings'.. well you little skinny bobble heads, the truth hurts... suck it up...

what in this statement of pound's is libelous?... i dont get it... somebody in the CPA needs to get a clue and just let this kind of thing ride... you just cant knee jerk react to every time somebody says something you dont like just because you dont like it... these cpa guys gotta think a bit about this shit before they shoot off like a bunch of spoiled snotty nose children...

smart.com - special editions

smart.com - special editions

smart.com - models

smart.com - models

i am also very interested in the new honda fit

we have a weekend meeting for the successful living team...

i'll take some photos...

exciting times for auto design...

i have thought for a while that the the concept behind cars like the element and xb will have to make their way up the scale in the coming years... these two cars have a level of functionality , ergonomic comfort , and style that is desirable to today's life and sensibilities...

And you thought your day was bad...

-Something to wince at to fill in the gaps between Erik's posts...

saunders to star in and produce his own on-demand reality TV series...

yes this is true... i am starring in and producing my own monthly tv reality series available on demand to viewers through this website.. the show will also be supported by interactive features on this website using audio blogger technology and other gizmos...

follow the adventures monthly on DVDs that i record with my own video recorder... once i get one... team camp is next week so i hope i can get one by then... the dvds might be free because i cant imagine anyone would pay for it... but it depends on how good the shows are and how broke i am... but probably i dont do this at all...

i have to say that i think the christian science monitor is one of the best news sources... they consistently report the news in a matter of fact and non-sensational way... good on these guys... i have thought this for a while but i just remembered it... i used to catch their radio news now and again and i even found it dry.. but thats their goal...

here is a page about the paper... Go

so yeah...

yeah... ok...

as cycling's foremost spiritual philosopher and civil libertarian i will stand up and say that i believe in evolution as a scientifically plausable and 99.9% incontrovertable theory who sees also the possibility of divine involvement in the natural world... although i have not heard directly from god himself i doubt that he is a flying spaghettio monster... or a girl.. so i will continue to say "he"... i hope that he will one day tell me what its all about becuase it would be cool to know... but that might not ever happen... i am agnostic... but i do like the idea that a god has provided for humanity a means for happiness and order in a chaotic world... i also like the idea that people should be nice to eachother and that it has an essential cosmic importance...

big neal was one of the most important stories of 2005 according to NPR on the Media...

this was the banner on my site that i did for him a long time ago before he was big time...

this is a link to the story- GO