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Planes on final approach

11:28 pm, January 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, geekery, photography by Jarod

Since moving to the inner west I’ve wanted to head down to the north end of the north south runway at Kingsford Smith Airport. You know, to generally be a camera nerd and take photos of planes rushing 50 odd metres overhead. This morning, I finally go around to it.

I know I know, that photo is tiny. Smash this link to see it bigger though.

Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009

11:07 am, January 1st, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, local by Jarod

Yay for sky explosions!! And Damish for once again letting us invade their rooftop!! And the City of Sydney for lashing out with 6 million dollars of fireworks in these times of financial crisis!! And to the sky writer who wrote ‘The Creator is Jesus‘ at about 8pm over Sydney Harbour!! And to horrible traffic coming back over the Harbour Bridge!!

Here’s to another fantabulous year on this humble little planet we call Earth.

I’ll be damned if I’m not having a much more quiet NYE in 2009.

Goosync… three weeks on

11:20 am, December 31st, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, geekery, internets by Jarod

A little while ago I did a little mini review on Goosyncing Google Calendar to my Nokia E71. Well this is the even shorter review which takes place after using it every second day or so.

The only negative that both Liz and I found is that a week or so ago we both couldn’t sync for a few days. An error message stating that a connection couldn’t be established or something. We presumed their server was down and were just patient and things returned to normal pretty quickly. Other than that it’s been a bundle of joy which works nice and seamlessly such that you don’t know it’s there.

If you want to sync your Google Calendar to your E71 (or anything on the S60 platform), get Goosync. Don’t worry about the subscription version unless you’re a super duper mega power user, the free version will do fine.

Rear brakes and rides through the City on foggy mornings

11:58 am, December 28th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings by Jarod

Did I mention that I chucked the rear brakes on the Single Speed? Thought so. Well I did.

Even took it out for a 20km cruise into the city & toward the Opera House yesterday. Was quite foggy… so I photographed the said fog!

Oh how far you’ve come

9:36 am, December 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in bikes, boythings by Jarod

Took the newly built up Single Speed for a cruise this morning around the burb’s. It definitely gets my tick of approval in the new colour and with the new components. Maxxis High Rollers are awesome for those easy to find jumps up and down gutters. Avid Codes are stunning… even with only the front brakes on (oops!) the stopping power is intense. Longer stem and flat bars are maybe a little bit too far forward, but geez they make the bike chuckable. Yep. All in all I’m super happy with how the paint and build has turned out thus far.

It’s also never looked better in my books. Lets finish this post with an old/new comparison.

The old. Taken at Manly Dam circa 2002

The new. Taken in a laneway in the Inner West.

Single Speed in Matte Black.

1:47 pm, December 20th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, local by Jarod

As Harley would put it, as black as the devil’s heart.

So yes, it’s (finally) back from the painters. Peter at Star Enamellers did an absolutely awesome job. A little too good a job really cause I’m considering chucking slicks and a fixed front end on the frame and never letting it see dirt, ever. Stone chips would make it less tasty.

Speaking of tasty…

All the awesomeness

Bottom Bracket

Seatpost welds came up a treat!

Rear drop outs are awesome

Headset

The space above our kitchen cupboards

3:21 pm, December 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, geekery, local by Jarod

Knobbies on the 29′er

4:41 pm, December 4th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings by Jarod

The single speed frame is still being painted. It feels like it’s already been forever but it’s only been two weeks. Another two and I’ll hopefully have it back and built up. Fingers crossed.

The flip side is that I’ve been riding my Gary Fisher Cobia a whole bunch more. Although mainly as a commuter with road bike tyres on it. The skinny tyres convert it into a heavy, flat bar’ed road bike with suspension on the front end. Handy when you need to cover a bit of distance.

All that changed last night when I whacked the bontrager mountain bike tyres back on and pumped them up to a whopping 20psi. Compared to the ride I did earlier in the week, this morning’s ride was cruise’y. Like, really cruise’y. I covered not even half the distance, with an average time that was well under that of Monday’s ride. But these two facts are both okay cause it was hellishly fun to go looking for kerbs and potholes to ride over. Seems I’d forgotten just how easily a 29′er rolls over bumps.

Looking forward to keeping the knobbies on and hitting some dirt in the next week or so.

Copenhagen Bicycle Commuters

4:55 am, December 3rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings by Jarod

If Liz and I disappear unexpectedly, we’ve most likely eloped to Copenhagen and are spending our honeymoon riding bikes on their awesome bike network. Why? Cause it’s what all the smart commuters do there.

Seriously awesome stream of bicycle commuters via Copenhagenize.com

Bike Porn

6:08 am, November 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings, geekery, photography by Jarod

BikeSydney’s Bike Plan

7:54 pm, November 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in bikes, boythings by Jarod

In other local bike advocacy news, BikeSydney’s just released Bike Plan is a darn good read. So get to it!