My wife and I have just done a learn to ski in a day course at SNOzone in Xscape in Milton Keynes. Read more »
Learning to ski
Posted in Uncategorized with tags ski, skiing, snow, snozone on November 2, 2009 by Phil WilloughbyAll done
Posted in Uncategorized with tags 105, chain, compact, cranks, Shimano, sora, SRAM on October 21, 2009 by Phil WilloughbyThose 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 »
Phase 1 is complete
Posted in Uncategorized with tags brakes, cables, gears, Red, review, Rival, shifter, Shimano, sora, SRAM, tiagra on October 6, 2009 by Phil WilloughbyAs 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 blogging, fine, ftc, Shimano, SRAM on October 5, 2009 by Phil WilloughbyI 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 105, bike, cassette, chainring, chainset, compact, derailleurs, doubletap, Force, Red, Rival, safety, Shimano, SRAM on October 4, 2009 by Phil WilloughbyFollowing 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 bhf, bike, cycling, gears, hills, isle of wight, sponsored on September 26, 2009 by Phil WilloughbyLast weekend I completed Cycle the Wight for the British Heart Foundation. Read more »
New Project
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2009 by Phil WilloughbyJust 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 pensions on July 21, 2009 by Phil WilloughbyAs 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 WilloughbyThe 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 »
