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// June 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // Cycling, Local (Raleigh Durham)
So I’ve become a regular contributor over at The Official Email Blog (iContact.com/blog), now adding my third entry — this one on the topic of my experience with the Durham Ride Across America mirror event. Check out the post below.
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// June 17th, 2010 // No Comments » // Local (Raleigh Durham), News
Check this out. This interactive map allows you to overlay the current mass nastiness that is the Gulf oil spill. Overlaying it locally over the Raleigh-Durham area, it’d also reach Winston-Salem, Fayetteville and up past Richmond. It really puts it in perspective. Overlaying over your local area really gives you an idea of the size of this disaster in a way that a number of gallons just doesn’t do.
// June 3rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Cycling, Local (Raleigh Durham)
DurhamCares is mirroring the Race Across America event — riding stationary bikes for DurhamCares partners who are courageous enough to set and publish goals! It’s at the American Tobacco Complex from June 12 to June 19.
So far, I’ve signed up for a two hour block on the Tuesday Night, and I’d consider doing more if anyone wants to throw some support my way. I’m riding that two hour block for Habitat for Humanity.
If you’d like to help support me, please make a donation in my name via this link:
http://www.durhamcares.org/give/raam/rHQfnoNy
Or, if you’re local and want to sign up for some stationary bike ride time, sign up here
// May 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Cycling, Local (Raleigh Durham)
The 6th Annual Ride of Silence is being held on Wednesday May 19th. Research Triangle Park’s ride will start promptly at 7:00 p.m. from the Triangle Life Sciences Building – 86 TW Alexander Drive, RTP (Corner of Alexander and Hwy. 54). This ride is in memory of fallen cyclists and to promote bicycle safety and motorist awareness. The Ride of Silence will be escorted by Durham Police Department Reserve Officers. It is a five mile ride in complete silence — using only hand signals. Helmets are required, lights suggested.
We’ve lost so many this year, please come honor their memory and show our solidarity to the community. Please arrive early enough to sign waivers and have your bike ready to roll out at 7:00. There will be a short reading of the Ride of Silence poem and a moment of silence before we roll out.
// April 24th, 2010 // No Comments » // Cycling, Local (Raleigh Durham)
Organically and slowly, it seems North Carolina’s capital city is becoming more and more friendly to the two-wheeled riders on its street, though the article linked below is linking bike-friendly and bike lanes as virtually one and the same, which in some ways is true. If more government money is being used on projects for on-road cycling, that is a step towards making the tarmac more bike friendly. But for me, the real litmus test has to do with motorists’ on-street attitudes when encountering, passing and interacting with us on the road. Regardless, kudos to Raleigh for funneling more money to bicycle safety.
// April 20th, 2010 // No Comments » // Computers, Local (Raleigh Durham)
I really really hope Amazon wins this suit. If my good ol’ home state wins this lawsuit, it’s bad news and an even worse precedent set for Internet eCommerce vendors. I’d like to add that I love our Amazon Prime account and really wouldn’t like the State of North Carolina (or anyone else) to get access to our order history.
// April 16th, 2010 // No Comments » // Cycling, Local (Raleigh Durham)
I have ridden my share of road bikes, and a few different mountain bikes, but I’ve never ridden a time trial bike. All of my TT efforts have always been on either my Specialized Allez Comp steel frame with clip-on aerobars or my carbon fiber Specialized Tarmac Expert.
I’m interested in the future in doing more time trials, and maybe some duathlons down the road, and that’s made me consider a TT-specific bike. I’ve got several saved searches/RSS feeds at the local Craig’s List. In a perfect world with zero debt, being the Specialized fanboy I am, I’d love to get a Specialized Transition, but I’ve run into a bit of a stumbling block trying to test ride one.
// April 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Local (Raleigh Durham), Sports Stuff
This was rumored to be true yesterday. Now it’s official. Back in 2004, the NHL Entry Draft was held at the RBC Center, but now the NHL has announced that Raleigh will host the NHL All-Star game in January 2011. Pretty cool. I just hope everyone coming into town for the game can figure out where to go to eat, as the area around the RBC is a wasteland — removed from downtown Raleigh and requiring a vehicle to get to just about any entertainment and grub outside of the RBC Center itself.
// March 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // HDTV Bits, Local (Raleigh Durham), TV Talk
This could be interesting — it seems Time Warner Cable is going to be remapping its channel lineups in the area over the next few months. This could either end up being a big nightmare, or a mere blip of inconvenience. We shall see.
// March 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // Cycling, Local (Raleigh Durham)
Come join the Tri-Cyclists for the third annual time trial 10.5 mile course at Iron Gate Winery in Mebane, NC.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Start Time: 1:00pm
Register online at Active.com.
(On-line registration closes on April 9th. Registration cost will be an additional $5 for late registration. It’s best to pre-register but registration is open up to 12:45pm on the day of the race at the Winery.)
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