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Bike Campers: 12 Mini Mobile Homes for Nomadic Cyclists

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Who said a road bike needs a road?

When Martyn Ashton takes a £10k carbon road bike that won the Tour de France for a spin, he sees no reason to stick to the road, or anything even remotely resembling one.

From the wing of plane to the top of a bridge, Ashton pushes the limits of what one thought possible on two wheels.” via Who said a road bike needs a road? – Holy Kaw!.

15 Minutes Could Save You 15% On Boat Insurance

Happened yesterday near Sarasota.

The “Miss Geico” powerboat burst into flames yesterday at about 5:30pm, 250 yards off shore. No one—including the ubiquitous gecko—was hurt in the accident, according to the Herald-Tribune. The boat was preparing for today’s 2012 Suncoast Super Boat Grand Prix event.

Maybe Mayhem was behind the wheel? Photo via reddit. via 15 Minutes Could Save You 15% On Boat Insurance.

Get Your Exercise Without Going to the Gym

We have so many labor-saving devices these days, it’s no wonder we’re all getting pudgy. But, if we could look at everyday activities as exercises that can help us to reach our fitness goals and avoid paying gym fees, we might embrace them as something more positive than we have in the past.

The number of calories you burn during an activity depends on a number of factors, including your body size and composition, your gender and your age. It will also depend of the length of time you spend doing the activity but there’s no question that you can get your exercise without going to the gym.

via Get Your Exercise Without Going to the Gym.

I used to use living 18 miles from the Y as an excuse for being a fatass — another excuse was that the weather in Algoma sucks 7 months out of the year. I decided to stop making excuses and start power walking at 4.5mph, cycling at 15mph [weather permitting] and doing yoga — YES. Yoga! Deal with it…

Here are the most important tools in my smartphone arsenal:

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If you’re not the lead dog…

…the view never changes as they say — and sometimes, that’s OK! One of my biggest pleasures in life is watching my wife’s long lean legs as we ride and if she thinks she’s going faster than me, who am I to tell her different… :-D

What’s my point? I’m always thinking. Not always about the right things, but I’m always thinking. Yesterday, taking a bike ride with my wife, it occurred to me that having a healthy relationship is a lot like taking a bike ride with a friend…

Let me take you back a year to the first time I read “Codependent No More”. A friend had suggested I might [and that’s an understatement] suffer from codependency. As I read the book, I realized I was reading about me. I shared the book with my wife and she took her own lessons from it. As we drove to Illinois to celebrate my birthday with family and listening to some of our favorite love songs, we started to realize how deeply codependent so many love songs are and as a result, they affect our perspective of love. Here are some great examples of sappy love songs I’ve listened to for decades [sorry to pick on Bread, but they illustrate my point so well]…

So what’s the answer? For me it’s the analogy of the bicycle ride and this gets back to what I was saying about thinking too much some times and looking for lessons. The thought came upon me that love is less like walking hand in hand sometimes and more like taking a bike ride together. When you ride together, each person is responsible for their own equipment [oil your chain, inflate your tires, select your own gear] and their own ‘balance’ — you have to make sure you don’t fall off your own bike! You can’t hold up your partner and ride at the same time…

When my wife and I ride, we choose a general route or direction, but I can’t pedal her bike for her. We each have a different strategy for hills, etc. — sometimes I like to kick them in the butt by charging breathlessly up them; sometimes I drop into first gear and crawl up them — but the point is I have to drag my own butt up the hill and she has to get up there by herself. I do my work, she does hers and when you get to the top of the hill and pull out the water bottle it’s sweet to be together again…

Reading this you now know why I don’t write my own material often but this is a deep lesson for me that I wanted to document for myself…

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Bear Bryant on quitting…

Bear Bryant
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Here is legendary Coach Bear Bryant’s speech to his Alabama football team before a 1974 game:

“Most of you will live another fifty years or more. I hope it’s seventy, but if it’s fifty that’s still a good life, and what happens today you’ll have to live with the rest of the way. You can’t get it back if you don’t win. It’s sixty minutes and over. The losers are the ones who say, ‘Oh I wish I could play it again.’ You can’t play it again.

Well, you’re not really going to have to play sixty minutes. None of you. The longest play in a game is six and a half seconds. The shortest play is less than two seconds. That’s barely a wink of the eye. You’ll average five seconds a play. Five seconds of total effort, going all out, giving a hundred percent. You oughta be able to hold your hand in a fire that long…”

Good quote. He probably said it before losing to Notre Dame in the 1974 Sugar Bowl, though… ;-)

Lake Michigan ride…

Just another beautiful view as my wife and I took a bike ride in our neighborhood…

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I love my mountain bike!

My wife is out of town so that means I can do almost anything I want! I decided to make a good choice and go for a bike ride at Potowatomi State Park in Sturgeon Bay, WI. Here are some impressions from my ride…

Which way do you think I went?

Here’s more…

https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf

Ronald Reagan said “There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.” however, with all respect to the great communicator, I believe there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than sitting atop a good mountain bike…

A mountain bike can reach places that no other bikes can…

No road bikes or hybrids need apply...

You can get to this view by car, but what’s the point. Maybe Steve Jobs was right; ‘the journey is the reward’ he said…

The reward; click to enlarge...
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Nice ride!

Yesterday morning, I took a nice ride on a new [to me] mountain bike at Blackwell Forest Preserve in Warrenville, IL. More thoughts on that later — I just wanted to get the pictures up…

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AGCO
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…but I have been bloody busy with the Agritechnica trade show in Hannover. I set up a social media dashboard in the menubar so you can track the work I’m doing with AGCO in Germany. So sorry, but with doing social media 12 hours a day, I just haven’t been able to maintain my normal editorial schedule for my business. Needless to say, there won’t be a ‘top tactics and tools’ post today — next Tuesday, I hope I’m recovered from jet lag enough to write on ‘tactics and tools’ #5 – Shareaholic!

Why You Should Learn By Doing

Learn to Skate
Image by wuperruper via Flickr

Do you enjoy learning new things? I certainly do.In particular, I enjoy about learning new ways to better myself and my relationships with others. When I first started on this quest I couldn’t get enough. I read about it all the time on blogs, online magazines and in books. There came a point where everything I read was just a slightly different version of the same thing. I was stuck.

I felt as though I had run out of things to read and ideas to try, yet I didn’t feel any better. I didn’t feel as though I was a better person or that my relationships with others had improved at all. There was something missing. It was the doing.

It wasn’t until I actually started applying what I had learned in the personal development realm to my own life that it started to make a difference. All the lessons, all the truths were suddenly having an impact. There was a huge difference in simply knowing it vs. actually doing it.

If you read all the books, blogs and articles on ice skating you would likely think it’s pretty easy, and it is … in theory. But strap on some skates and step on the ice for the very first time and my bets are that you’d be sitting on the ice a whole lot more than you’d be gracefully gliding around on it. It boils down to the old saying that practice makes perfect.

via dumblittleman.com

Here’s another reason I’ve found for ‘learning new things by doing’ — it makes me more sensitive to the learners in my life by reminding me how hard it can be to try anything new. What about you?

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