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Kim is a an accountant (soon to be CPA), and triathlete, currently training for Ironman Coeur d'Alene. Steve is a software engineer, photographer, and cyclist on the Platinum Performance Cycling Team. We live in paradise a.k.a. Santa Barbara. Read More
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Blogosphere
Marco off the Mark. A guy who likes to hang out with family and friends, pedal his bike, dig in the dirt, and live life healthily and happily.
The Young and Restless. 22 year old kid who loves to ride his bike.
Happenings in SoCal. Ass-kicker extraordinaire...
Through Z's Eyes. Bikes, rants, ideas, and more!!
Of Dogs and Bike Racing. Aka. Dr. Kim. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara.
On The B Team. The Chicken Ranch aka B Team's site for local cycling information and trash talk.
Lint Trap. Nothing to see here, move along now.
A New Hope. Sean
Pedal More. Overweight Underpowered Nor-Cal Pack Fodder.
George's Epic Adventures. Ultra Cyclist and father who recently completed 2- Person Race Across America (RAAM) and Furnace Creek 508 Fixed Gear.
Suffer-O-Rama. Eric’s blog about cycling and bike racing
Riders Ready. Jamie Smith's blog devoted to roadies, road cycling, and his book, Roadie: The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer. Go buy it NOW at VeloPress.com!
Think Fast. Quarq
Old Guy Racer. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll write bad cheques.
Wheels Rolling. Brandy
Sprinter della Casa. Carpe Diem Racing
Ryanf. It comes down to doing the above, or being a chump. your choice
Cat3 Phenom. "I'm kinda a big deal"
My Shaved Legs. The fine art of failure. Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
To Be Honest With You. Thirty something and searching for my next obsession.
The Brenda Report. The journeys and thoughts of an adventurous woman
The Tour de Chris. This blog is all about Chris. Fueled by espresso and metal.
The Incidental Cyclist. Cycling in and around Union County, NC
Everest Challenge x2. My wife and I have committed to enter the [Everest Challenge] Tandem division this year. This blog will chronicle our preperation, and ultimately our race experience.
Cycling in Seattle. The ride is the destination
As the Crank Turns. I attmept to ride bicycles...often
Cycling
Platinum. The Platinum Performance Cycling Team is a Santa Barbara based team with a diverse group of talented riders. The teams main focus is acquiring cross country results and new for 2008 is the addition of a road race team.
Echelon. Echelon Santa Barbara is a road bicycling club based in Santa Barbara, California. Echelon welcomes dedicated new riders and experienced racers, men and women, old or young, and all those who want to expand their cycling horizons. With a history our History in Santa Barbara bike racing since 1984, we are a USCF registered club.
Bikeforums Road Cycling. Road cycling internet message board. Discuss equipment, rides, races, and all cycling-related discussions.
SCNCA. Southern California Nevada Cycling Association
NCNCA. Northern California Nevada Cycling Association
BiciCORSA. An online group for cyclists of all levels--from recreational riders to weekend warriors to aspiring and professional racers.
Yehuda Moon. Yehuda Moon works at the Kickstand Cyclery, lives on his bicycle, and dreams of a day when everyone does likewise.
Everest Challenge. The hardest two-day USCF race. With the spirit of the "Death Rides" and the dramatic scenery of the Eastern Sierra, this bicycle race and ride will test your perseverance going uphill. We have three climbs each day with gains of 2,600 feet to 6,200 feet.
Local
The Restaurant Guy. John Dickson's Food News
Santa Barbara Independent. Delivers fresh news, arts, and entertainment news and information online all day, every day. The weekly newspaper is published every Thursday morning, with Santa Barbara county's largest circulation of 40,000.
Edhat. One subscriber suggested that the name came from "Every Day Happenings Around Town".
Vita Bella Photography. Local journalistic-style wedding photography
Miscellanea
Adam Szary. Freelance illustrator who is strongly interested in fantasy and comic art.
Virtual Dub. Proof that Avery had too much free time in college...
Liō. Daily comic strip created by Mark Tatulli that focuses on the adventures of a strange little boy named Liō. Most of the story is told visually, with little or no dialogue.
whilshire|one. this site covers topics including web standards-based development, web application development, Textpattern and other miscellany
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cool pics man, but i dont get the running with the bike thing. i will run, but without the bike. :) happy holidays.
psimet (Santa Cross Mens 4 Pictures)
That remount looked kind of ackward (welcome to the club). Best advice I ever got on remounts was to some at the bike from …
Welcome to cross. It is a mental game more than a physical one at times. Other times it is all out warfare. …
Patrick (Everest Challenge Day 2 Pictures)
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I would like to order some E.C. photos.
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Love the “Shelf-o-Hammer”. Mine was relegated to the top of the fridge.
chester (150 Square Feet of Hardwood Floor)
I never thought I would ever see the day! What did you do with all the stuff that was there?
Neat idea. Besides California I’ve ridden in Itay, Arizona, Utah.
too hawt! nice work man.
Sep 28, 08:38 AM by Steve | Clavicle Update
Posted in Cycling & Accidents | Comments [11]
The clavicle (collar bone) is definitely broken. Doc said it is overlapped 4cm, and I need to have surgery to “fix” it. In other news, she looked at my ribs on the xray and said they appear fine.
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Sep 27, 05:20 PM by Steve | My name is Steve
Posted in Cycling & Accidents | Comments [4]
My name is Steve, and I have a problem…
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Sep 11, 03:03 PM by Steve | Broken Ribs
Posted in Cycling & Accidents | Comments [5]
Some of you may have heard, either through the grapevine or emails or bikeforums that I was hit by a car yesterday morning. The all-too-common right hook. I didn’t feel too bad at the time and after getting the woman’s information I continued on to work. Throughout the day I felt progressively worse and evntually called Kim to come and get me and take me to the ER. After a lot of waiting, poking, prodding, peeing and scanning, my prognosis was that I had 2 or 3 broken ribs. You can see one of them (marked #10) pretty clearly in the x-ray. The other one (#8) is hard to make out in this scan of the printout.
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Jan 28, 01:34 AM by Steve | Car-nage
Posted in Cars & Accidents
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Oct 1, 04:40 PM by Steve | Cranky
Posted in Cycling & Accidents
Imagine my surprise when I was accelerating out of a turn on Sunday Worlds and my foot didn’t stop at the bottom of the pedal stroke, and instead it hit the ground. It took me a moment to realize what happened—I thought my shoe somehow came unclipped at first. But when I look down, I didn’t see the pedal. I look around and find it, still attached to my foot. With a little bit of crankarm attached to that.
So I signaled and moved out of the group and coasted to a stop in front of Carpinteria High School. Took a moment to assess the situation and called home. I think it went something like this:
Hi honey, I need you to pick me up.
Where are you?
Carpinteria
What happened?
Crankarm broke
Oh
So I gave her directions and watched the Carpinteria Triathlon unfold in front of me. For some bizzare reason, people coming by, in a race, felt compelled to ask if I was okay and had everything I needed. I thought that was funny. You are in a race people!
After about an hour wait, Kim came and got me and drove me back into town. We hung out at Northstar until it was nearly noon then dropped in on Dave at FasTrack. He supplied me with a spare crankarm for the time being and is going to sent that one back to TruVativ for warranty replacement. He had never seen one break like that before (keep in...
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Sep 11, 06:06 PM by Steve | The Day After
Posted in Cycling & Accidents
Feeling like…. I got hit by a car…
But seriously, I feel pretty good, ankle hurts when I walk but not on the bike. Knee hurts on the bike, but not so much when I walk. Funny that. I bought some new wheels. Kim didn’t think we needed 3 sets of Ksyriums (I’m going to have the other 2 sets rebuilt) so I got the new Mavic R-SYS. Carbon spokes, about 1/4lb lighter than my Ksyriums, very cool.
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Sep 11, 12:47 AM by Steve | Pertinent Information
Posted in Cycling & Accidents
More analysis tomorrow, here’s the rundown…
- I got a PR in the time trial, but was still dissappointed because I didn’t break 25 minutes. I was so close.
- I was hit by a car after riding to the Echelon board meeting at Los Gallos. I was travelling eastbound on Cathedral Oaks and the car that hit me was travelling westbound, turning left onto Ribera.
- There were lots of witnesses, including Scott who I was riding with.
- I was able to get up (with help) and walk around. Ankles and knees sore, neck stiff.
- Bike toast. Good thing it was my TT bike and not my everyday bike. Unfortunately my wheels are also messed up. My new wheels. From the last accident.
- I was given the option by the fire department to go to the hospital or not. I declined initially but was convinced otherwise.
- The guy that hit me was old. Scott said he could see that the guy didn’t even look before he turned. Scott saw the car a split second before I did and was able to stop in time. I tried to evade but got clipped.
- In my absence, everyone elected me President. Thanks guys…
We will see how I feel tomorrow. Right now my heel hurts when I walk but thats the worst of it. My experience with this sort of thing tells me that won’t affect me too much on the bike. My knee is still a little sore so I’m hoping it won’t sideline me for Everest.
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Sep 10, 11:17 PM by Steve | That's Gotta Hurt
Posted in Cycling & Accidents
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Jun 17, 08:07 PM by Steve | Priceless
Posted in Cycling & Accidents | Comments [1]
Mavic Ksyrium ES wheelset … $1,000
SRAM Force group … $705
Bontrager Bars … $65
Ritchey WCS 4AXIS Stem … $85
Ritchey WCS Carbon Seatpost … $170
fi’zi:k Microtex Bar:tape … $15
fi’zi:k Aliante Sport … $80
Upgrading because I was hit by a car … Priceless!
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Jun 13, 08:01 AM by Steve | Metal Magnet
Posted in Cycling & Accidents
Its a small town and word gets around fast, so some of you probably already know about this, but I was hit by a car again last night. I had just left FasTrack and was heading down Castillo on my way to Nite Moves. A big old Suburban turned right into a driveway right on top of me and, well, I had nowhere to go but into it. The situation was exacerbated by a huge lip on the driveway, and when I hit it, that’s what finally took me down and I was thrown into the mirror which sliced my neck (superficially).
I’m mostly OK, a sore knee and wrist are the worst of the damage, I iced my knee at Nite Moves, and I’m sure it will be difficult up Old San Marcos today, but it should be fine by the weekend. I got his driver’s license, license plate number, and insurance info. He was actually really nice and took me back to FasTrack and offered to pay for everything, and then took me and Kim out to dinner1.
My bike is trashed—The wheels bent, the saddle and bars are askew. Dave is worried that the frame may be damaged so he is going to check it out and let me know. Fortunately he is letting me borrow his bike for now2—I can’t let a silly little thing like getting hit by a car keep me off the road for too long! It’s interesting that as many times as...
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