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May.20.2013
For years, I've been carrying around in my head thoughts, observations, and personal tips on exercise. I've started to keep a list--one a day until I finish my book. I call them "Sweat 101s."
#1: Try to learn something new every time you exercise. Start today.
#2: The gym is one place where copying...
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Apr.05.2013
When my teenage daughter broke up with her boyfriend recently, her Awesome Grandma sent her a t-shirt with this slogan:
A WOMAN NEEDS A MAN LIKE A FISH NEEDS A BICYCLE
It’s an old maxim, one that I can remember seeing on t-shirts back when I was in high school. I hadn’t seen or heard it...
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Oct.03.2011
For months I scoured tips, quarries, derelict land, and gathered the parts of my Frankenbike. The wheels were the hardest to find, because once twisted it was all but impossible to hammer them back to true. Finally, one of my mates swapped me my entire birds egg collection, fifty-eight eggs, for a...
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Aug.16.2011
Reading journal after journal about bicycles has led back to my childhood once again.
I was probably 8 or 9 years old. My biking experience started with a regular blue bicycle for boys. It must have belonged to someone else and passed on to me. I recall it was a boys bike not only...
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Oct.21.2010
One of my favorite memories of my father was the autumn when I was 15 and living with my parents and five brothers and four sisters in the little town of Waverly, Ohio at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The trees that lined the narrow streets had all turned a brilliant...
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Oct.07.2010
I checked out this website as advised http://www.cyclehelmets.org/ and I read this research http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=16565131. Interesting and statistical. I understand what is said, I understand that proper scientific methods, probabilities...
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Aug.28.2010
It was July 2002. I was in the process of planning my first ever trip to China. Even the thought of just mentioning the name of the country was one of sheer joy and amazement. Without a doubt I was excited. Who wouldn't be if they had lived all their life in a society where the only real...
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Jan.13.2010
I awoke feeling refreshed this morning. Instead of the burden of digesting twenty pounds of spaghetti and Swedish meatballs, as would inevitably have happened if I did not impulsively throw it all down the toilet - with the advent of the cow's head on my door step last night, I had a normal bowel...
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Apr.28.2009
Inspired Bicycles was registered as a Limited company early in 2007 by former TartyBikes founder, Dave Cleaver. Set up initially as a business to contract out time and creative ideas to Mountain Cycle (legendary US mountain bike company concentrating in freeride and DH), this venture has recently...
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Mar.21.2009
I N C U N A B U L A
i don't wish to alarm you. this is just a report of last weekend.
my talk on buddhism & poetry for cherry blossom festival (an ohigan howha) at venice hongwanji buddhist temple went well as did the haiku workshop the next day. (they'll print some of the haiku in...
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