Musings about life on two wheels

Tl;Dr – traveling to and with friends is lovely A few folks from my book club went to visit a member who’d moved to the Twin Cities. High: Low: Buffalo: But mostly it was just fun to hang out with my friends and slowly amble from experience to experience. And we experienced a lot! State…

Tl;Dr: Kid2 now lives in Colorado, we had a great trip to Greely This is a brief brain dump. J, M and I flew to Denver to take J to college. The trip out was uneventful. We had good food in Denver, ‘Chili Verde’ and Sunny’s. We stayed in “LoHi” – the lower highlands of…

Tl;Dr: Muscle burn isn’t caused by lactic acid, but it might be OK to think that anyway When you exercise hard your muscles feel like they’re burning. Most people think of this as ‘Lactic Acid’, annnnndd… that’s wrong. Here’s a very good article, backed by this scholarly research. The short version is: Lactic Acid is…

Tl;Dr: it’s complex and amazing Read this. The amount of physics needed to understand propulsion, tires, wheels and frames is just incredible

Tl;Dr: Great trip with the merry bikers to Oliver, Canada B.C. I’m just back from 4 days of bike touring near Oliver in British Columbia. I’m really impressed with the beauty and bike facilities! Oliver, Penticton and Chute Lake are on the east side of the Canadian Cascades. All three places are on lakes: Chute…

Akrasia is acting against one’s better judgment. There’s a better definition at the link, but I am using it here in the gross sense stated above. For example: Eating late night icec ream while trying to lose weight. I think this happens pretty often – not so much because people intentionally decide to act against…

Tl;Dr: Data nerds want to check if they’re doing their plan. Todoist data should help. I’m a data nerd – always have been. Data is great to understand how systems are working, especially systems that have expectations associated with them. For example: I have 37 different ‘projects’ in ToDoist, and I expect to things on…

Tl!Dr: thieves value e-bikes more than analog, so park near them A time-honored bicycle security measure is to make your bike less attractive to thieves. But this is not the only way to make your bike less desirable. You can also park near people with more attractive bikes. And the most attractive bikes (for bike…

Tl;Dr: I do it, you do it. Even the most GTD’re uses it often Earlier I was writing about the 2nd  simplest Getting Things Done tool: Ranked List (the first simplest is something I call The Compost Pile). A ranked list is just things labeled 1 to n in order of importance. The hard this…