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Cycling into summer: Urban cyclists redux

June 21, 2012

Racking up Rides Happy Summer Solstice! I’m away from home for my first holiday in longer than I can recall. Sans bike, I’m walking the beaches of Vancouver Island’s west coast—a long-awaited break from city-slicking. After a less than summery June, all outdoor enthusiasts are ready for some milder weather. Thankfully, the weather prognosticators are […]

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More experiments with the GoPro HD Hero2

June 18, 2012

Bike Boom Yesterday was a beautiful, if windy, day; perfect, I decided, for a spin along the waterfront to test out ideas for unusual on-bike camera angles. During my first test of the GoPro Hero2 camera I determined a better solution, other than simply attaching camera to the seatpost, had to found for shots from the […]

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Shiny new shoes: back to SPD

June 14, 2012

A couple of years ago, I decided to return to SPD cleats, due to the more recreational nature of my riding and ankle flexibility limited by injury. I have owned a great many shoes over the years—with attachment systems ranging from nailed cleats to fancy Speedplay mechanisms—but, like many others, the trusty Shimano SPD was […]

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The Condo Group Bastion Square Grand Prix: 20th anniversary video vignettes

June 11, 2012

The Condo Group Bastion Square grand Prix capped off the 2012 Robert W. Cameron Law Cycling Series on June 3, with plenty of excitement for the thousands who turned out to catch the action on the streets of downtown Victoria. In 2010, I  produced a video of the exciting criterium, after shooting stills of the […]

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Gore ALP-X bibtights review

June 9, 2012

I have yet to test these bibs on a randonnée, or anything approaching a long-distance ride, but my first impressions are good. Up until a few years ago I’d resisted the idea of bib cycling shorts, until a friend presented me with a pair of Giordana bibs. I grew fond of those, until a crash […]

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Blackout speakout for Canada

June 4, 2012

VeloWeb is still here—I haven’t blacked out the whole site—but I am foregoing my usual Monday post in order to draw attention to the critical threat Canada faces from the anti-science, anti-democratic juggernaut of the Harper regime and their corporate backers. Please organize, in whatever way you can, to defend this great nation. Top 5 […]

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