Olympic Tech
From TechNewsWorld: Team USA in Sochi: High-Tech Gear Spurs High Hopes
While it takes years of training, determination and really good genes even to get a chance to compete in the Olympic Games, the difference between making the podium or not can come down to milliseconds in some events. At this year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, new advances in fabrics, materials and designs are giving the athletes an edge as they go for the gold.
Clowning Around
httpv://youtu.be/bgKtuUwp6FE
From YouTube: Rowdy the Clown rides a Borealis Yampa Fat Bike
Pay Day
From BikeRumor: State of the Industry: What Bike Mechanics Make
Recently a fellow contributor to BikeRumor sent me a link to a beautiful new mountain bike and asked me if it was special enough to post. He’s more of a roadie, just like i’m more of a mountain biker, so it was a valid question. The bike in question retailed for over $10,000 and had carbon everything, plus some custom accents, but if you look through the past several homepages you won’t find it posted. You see somewhere along the way, a carbon frame, wheels, and even sub 500 gram carbon cranks, become rather ubiquitous.
Keeping Time
From Gear Patrol: A Brief History of Stopwatches at the Olympics
We’ll always have a soft spot in our hearts for those large, pocket watch-looking things called stopwatches. Whether it’s for trying to get a free pizza from Domino’s or timing laps for your driver at Road America, the mighty mechanical hand timer has proven its worth again and again. Even the venerable CBS News broadcaster Walter Cronkite wasn’t immune to their charm; that was no mere pocket watch he checked at the end of each newscast. It was a stopwatch.