What will you be doing to celebrate the New Year?
I’ll be performing the same ritual as last year, and the year before, and ….
Tomorrow, I’ll roll out a few kilometres to re-assert my dedication to the best invention to come out of the industrial revolution.
Looking back over the labours of 2011, I’ve pulled from the VeloWeb archive posts that were/are popular by comment, sustained traffic … or my own bias. I hope you enjoy discovering or revisiting them below. They are listed in reverse chronological order.
The Best of Veloweb, 2011
Albert Einstein: genius on a bike
The Meadow: Paradise in the Purcell Mountains
A closer look at the Marinoni Sportivo Ti “Randonnée”
How to organize a brevet: a guide for randonneur club volunteers
Victoria International Cycling Festival roundup
Powering electronic devices with a bicycle generator hub
A long road to Paris-Brest-Paris
Memories of Paris-Brest-Paris, 2007
General Motors’ “college program” ad campaign backfires
Zen and the art of slow cycling
Endurance sport: the temple of pain
Kobo, Kindle, iBook, ePub, XHTML; it’s all Greek to me
Auld Lang Syne
I’m reminded today, on the last day of the year, by a comment from another old acquaintance, that I am not the best at keeping in touch, and yet VeloWeb has served to bring me together with more than one lost friend.
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne
CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
and surely I’ll buy mine !
And we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have run about the slopes,
and picked the daisies fine ;
But we’ve wandered many a weary foot,
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine† ;
But seas between us broad have roared
since auld lang syne.
CHORUS
And there’s a hand my trusty friend !
And give us a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll take a right good-will draught,
for auld lang syne.
CHORUS
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