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Continue reading →: Best car camping gear: coolers, stoves and plates
Well if you are car camping, you have so much more latitude in terms of gear. You don’t have to eat dehydrated food. You don’t need to worry about weight. So for the average mortal it’s way more practical. Here are some things to get to prepare in order of…
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Continue reading →: Bike Touring companies
Again from Brad a good list of touring companies that do higher-end bike tours with decent bikes too: Butterfield & Robinson. Highly recommended by Brad. Backroads. This seems to be the most common group, seem to have many friends who have taken them with great results. They have decent spec…
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Continue reading →: The word from Brad on Bikes
He’s a super smart guy in all things, but the bike advice is terrific, from Bsilverberg.com, he gives a couple of great tips: The Garmin 1030 is great for navigation. You download to it from Ride With GPS. Also get the XERT application so you can constantly see your FTP…
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Continue reading →: Bicycle lights, radar and Strava
Last things first. Wow finally subscribed to Strava for $60 a year. Nice to see the power analysis but they bury the fact they give you a CTS training regime. Buried on the website you can subscribe and you get a daily email on what to do.Requires you to do…
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Continue reading →: Buying power meters and other bike tech
Well now that it’s clear the Stages LR and the Garmin 1030 are great choices, where’s the best place to buy them. It’s pretty clear that like cars, in bicycles technology has taken over. First looking at cashbackmonitor.com, the best place right now is jensonusa.com, they are offering 6% cash…
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Continue reading →: Nerding out on F-15s
Very sad and strange but an Horizon ground staff took a Q400 and flew it. This caused NORAD to scramble two F-15Cs from Portland to intercept which a plane spotter took. Made want to exercise my inner geek and figure what the planes were… These are F-15C, if you look,…
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Continue reading →: Maintaining your Shimano Di2 electronic shifters, PowerTap P1 Pedals and Garmin GPS
Well, it used to be that maintaining a bike was a relatively simple matter of making sure the chain was well lubed and clean and making sure that the derailleurs were tweaked, but now in the 21st century it has gotten more complicated, so here’s a pretty complicated guide to…
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Continue reading →: Quick Mac Screen grabs
OK, I had no idea this was so easy (and so hard to remember). I’m glad the days of function keys are over because remembering these is impossible but from Apple, here’s how to do screen grabs without having to start the screen Grab app: Shift-Command-3 will grab the entire…
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Continue reading →: Protecting your new MacBook
If you’ve gotten a new Mac, you do have to make some te it is safe and sound. Looking at https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-antivirus,review-2588-6.html the big thing is to find a decent antivirus program and then install the following Avast which is free and well rated Turn on the firewall in system preferences/firewall…
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Continue reading →: Back to school PCs for Fall 2018
Well it’s that time of year when kids are going back to school and for those lucky enough to attend college for the first time, it’s time to figure out what laptops to get. Here are the good, better and best recommendations. Good: Dell XPS 13 (2018) $1300 This is…