I've not been on Facebook: somehow, I thought it was only for college undergrads, but someone set me straight on that (Cyntata, perhaps).
I did take a gander at one of your digital Q&As. I don't think I would be very productive working from home either, as much as I like to complaing about my commute to work and the micro-management in office life. I'd always have the sense that I could -- or should -- be working. You'd get a kick out of the messenger bicyclists in NYC: their bikes have super-thin tires, and they manuever either recklessly or admirably, depending on what type of risk-assessment person you are.
Bicycles. My local coffee shop attracts a lot people with cool bikes: from cargo bikes, to fixies, to Swedish commuter bikes, to vintage cruisers, to $10000 carbon-titanium-whatever sport bikes.
I just bought a road bike set up for touring. I plan to try randonneuring (long distance rides of 200 /400 / 600 or more kilometres) and some bike touring (maybe the French Alps, the Pyrenees, or the US west coast).
Are you familiar with Lucas Brunelle's bicycle videos? I saw a film he did set to Guns n Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" of messengers tearing through the streets of Manhattan (I assume). In a theatre it was amazing -- more visceral than any movie car chase
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re Brunelle's Dragrace in NYC: vertigo-inducing, but exciting. There was a particular moment where the biker was trying to squeeze between a FexEx van and a white Lexus as it was yawing into the cyclist to clear way for another car on its passenger side. It was extremely, extremely close.
I'm more of a weekend-warrior distance runner: I can run 40mins, 2x a week without stretching (tsk-tsk) and manage to completely elude shin-splints and joint problems. But put me on a bicycle, adjust the seat and handle-bars meticulously, and I'll still wind up with sore knees (or getting the cuff of my jeans caught in the front derailleur). I would like a banana seat bicycle that one back-pedals in order to stop. Those seem to be ergonomically more suitable for me; but I don't really see them around anymore
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I've not been on Facebook: somehow, I thought it was only for college undergrads, but someone set me straight on that (Cyntata, perhaps).
I did take a gander at one of your digital Q&As. I don't think I would be very productive working from home either, as much as I like to complaing about my commute to work and the micro-management in office life. I'd always have the sense that I could -- or should -- be working. You'd get a kick out of the messenger bicyclists in NYC: their bikes have super-thin tires, and they manuever either recklessly or admirably, depending on what type of risk-assessment person you are.
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I just bought a road bike set up for touring. I plan to try randonneuring (long distance rides of 200 /400 / 600 or more kilometres) and some bike touring (maybe the French Alps, the Pyrenees, or the US west coast).
Are you familiar with Lucas Brunelle's bicycle videos? I saw a film he did set to Guns n Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" of messengers tearing through the streets of Manhattan (I assume). In a theatre it was amazing -- more visceral than any movie car chase ( ... )
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I'm more of a weekend-warrior distance runner: I can run 40mins, 2x a week without stretching (tsk-tsk) and manage to completely elude shin-splints and joint problems. But put me on a bicycle, adjust the seat and handle-bars meticulously, and I'll still wind up with sore knees (or getting the cuff of my jeans caught in the front derailleur). I would like a banana seat bicycle that one back-pedals in order to stop. Those seem to be ergonomically more suitable for me; but I don't really see them around anymore ( ... )
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