Learning to ski

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on November 2, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

My wife and I have just done a learn to ski in a day course at SNOzone in Xscape in Milton Keynes. Read more »

All done

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on October 21, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

Those of you who are now bored of reading about my bike-rebuilding antics will be pleased to know that it’s finally all done. Read more »

Stage 2: Just one more bit

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 11, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

As I wrote earlier, I am in the process of replacing quite a lot of the components of my road bike. Read more »

Phase 1 is complete

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , on October 6, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

As I wrote recently, I am strategically replacing parts of my bicycle to address the parts which I currently find tiresome. Read more »

New US rules for reviewing stuff in blogs

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on October 5, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

I just found this blog post which reports that the Federal Trade Commission have issued some new advertising guidelines. The net of it is that if you post a favourable review on a blog when you have been paid to do so (or given free stuff instead), you must disclose that rather salient fact in your post. Read more »

My road-bike renewal scheme

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 4, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

Following up on my last post here, I am investigating how to improve my road bike. As I said there, it will involve a new wider-range cassette and a compact chainset. However I am also going to take the opportunity to fix a couple of other annoyances. Read more »

Long distance cycling is hard

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on September 26, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

New Project

Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

Just a quick post to mention my new project, OpenCycleTeam. It’s the world’s first inclusive cycle team: anyone can be a member, joining is easier done than said. If you want to look official, you can get yourself a stylish Jersey made from the official OpenCycleTeam jersey design.

The website has been fun, particularly getting the Twitter and Facebook integration to work well. Unfortunately it doesn’t look right in Firefox as it doesn’t render SVG background images yet.

On pensions

Posted in Uncategorized with tags on July 21, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

As has been reported on the BBC and elsewhere, my employer has suggested it will close its defined benefit pension schemes to new pension accrual by existing members. Read more »

Mounting the iPhone 3G on a bicycle

Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2009 by Phil Willoughby

The obvious thing to do with a portable device which knows where you are and can display maps as your location changes is to use it for navigation and tracking. This obviously requires that you put the thing where you can see it as you go along. Read more »