Tuesday, November 20, 2007

My Bad


Ummmm...... pictures from the Craigslist ad. But it is reaalllly nice. Deep 6 the BRC BioPace experiment. Who needs a really heavy spare when there is a light Brodie. Too bad about the colour though.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

One Never Knows

Checking my "site meter" is quite interesting, especially when someone has found my blob by doing a Google search. The search parameters that people use are funny at times. The latest one "finding out which neighbour has unsecured wifi", from Surrey, BC, using Shaw Cable internet, and computer particulars include: Keyboard language, UK English; OS Windows XP; browser, Firefox; monitor resolution 1280 x 1024 and 32 bit colour. With the search parameters including "neighbour" spelled properly, its no wonder my blob came so high on the results. But what would be really interesting is to know what other 'hits' this person decided to visit.

Ha! One of the search hits is quite funny, read on.

So I've been riding the BRC for just over a week now. I decided to test it out further. I just couldn't resist 'testing' empirically my BioPace® crankset. I'd heard (read) some pro- some anti- stuff about BioPace, and Bec mentioned a friend of hers who will spout off a big dissertation (anti) at the mention of them, but I really need to find out what my knees think of them. So far no difference from round chain rings, and high cadence spinning seems to be no problem, even fun. The claim that BioPace rings cause chondromalacia made me look up the affliction, and most of it is rather dull. Mainly because most of the sites I checked just say it is ...bla bla bla... joint pain in the knees... bla bla.. soft cartilage..., but one site was different. Pretty funny actually because it states that chondromalacia (soft cartilage) patellae is a misnomer, because the cartilage under the knee is the thickest and softest in the human body in order to cushion the knee, and other details. More on this story as it unfolds...... Nothing more noteworthy to note. "Research" consensus, use BioPace if you like it, don't if you don't. Those who claim it hurts the knees are just saying that they heard its bad, didn't even hear it from an actual source, no actual evidence of it doing so.

B.C. Lions vs. Saskachewan today. Making for limo silliness. Thankfully the rest of the limo biz is slow today, AND my shift is over soon after the game starts. Its alway the mess afterwards that is really annoying.