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Cycle to work.

(via HuffPo)

Amazing weather in North Vancouver, late December.

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It’s Ron’s birthday today. December 23rd.

Expedition Idaho Trailer, just released.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Expedition Idaho 2011 was a 6 day, 500mi adventure race hosted by Dave Adlard.

Legendary Randy Ericksen will be releasing the full official video early in the new year.

ExpId winners Thule went on to win the World Championships in Tasmania.

Who are these guys?

And how much time / money did they put into this video?

Yeesh.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I’ve done several, including the standard World’s Most Dangerous Road in Bolivia. I did that with Gravity Bolivia.

Here’s their NEW single track adventure.

… Imagine this: a 78 km downhill with a vertical drop of 3500 meters. You start at 4800 meters altitude and end up at 1300m. The most amazing thing is that you ride on an old and lonesome Inca trail, starting from high altitude landscapes and finishing in the jungle, not far from coca fields.

Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo. (includes 1.5km zip line at the end)

It looks mellow, but it’s not. Rough terrain, even if it’s a road.

One of the best bike rides in the world. No doubt.

Thanks Alistair Matthew from Gravity Bolivia for sending me the link.

(via Pink Bike)

I snapped a lot of pics today on Rockin Ronnie’s favourite Fisherman’s Trail ride in North Vancouver. I got some unexpected interesting effects from motion blur and sunbeams.

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Here’s a terrific short video showing what a week long Adventure Race is like. Top teams sleep only 2-4hrs a day on average.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

All 13 teams made it to the finish. They bike a “victory lap” (3-5hrs) up a mountain to finish at the Booze and Blues fest (PDF) in Kellogg Idaho.

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At the Expedition Idaho Race.

The most comical thing we do day-to-day as a species is thumb typing on a tiny phone keyboard.

Obviously voice control would be faster and easier. But what I really want is brain control. I would text somebody simply by thinking of the message, and thinking SEND.

But that’s impossible … Right ??

… Right. But not for long … For $100 you can already control iPhone graphics with your brain.

And at some fuzzy time in the near future you’ll be able to shift gears on a bike merely by thinking UP or DOWN in your bike helmet.

Click PLAY or watch the (painfully) Toyota sponsored video on YouTube.

(via Mashable – Bicycle Of The Future Shifts Gears Via Brain Waves)

I arrived the night before Ironman France – Nice to surprise Dave Adlard. I’d join his support team.

Much to my surprise, Dave’s not registered!

Turned out he’d registered in another Ironman, … for SOME reason …

Dave Adlard is a tad worried about the start of his first Ironman.

… If he survives the 2.4 mile open water swim, the 112 Mile Bike and 26.2 Mile Run should be a breeze.

GOOD LUCK DAVE.

There are only 2,399 opponents to best. (approximately) How hard could that be?

Stay close to two-time world champion Craig Alexander, Dave, and things will turn out well.

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