Thursday, December 31, 2009
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind. ~ John Beecherv
From "Affirmations to HiWheel" the US at - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old - unknown
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old - unknown
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Lori Yung HIts Home Run for NBG - 2010 Schedule Now Here!!
Lori Yung who helped get my first few web pages on line back when people thought the http://www.bikeroute.com (you had to include the http, punctuation and www) on my recumbent bike's windshield was some kind of new fangled CB radio handle, delivered for the NBG yet again!! She fixed our SF to Boston Mayors' Ride schedule at http://bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2010. Over the years (I've coded many thousands of web pages and put many hundreds of people and businesses on line) she has always been there when I get stuck. It does not happen very often but when it does she cracker jack always delivers a winning result. This time, I had been trying to get our schedule on line since a few days before Xmas. And each time what I saw on my screen ended up being different from what my server was showing the world. The heart of my whole 2010 SF to Boston ride, I couldn't even circulate it for any of the Mayors or city bike activists to approve bcuz it was such a mess. But today Lori was all over it. And in no time she found stray Google Analytics code (it had carried over from the 2009 schedule that I thought I was just updating) that I missed as well as some nested tables that had gotten corrupted.......... I was beginning to feel like I was letting people down as I was spending so much time with this and not on the bus build out or on my Eagle wheel. But we now have a schedule THX to Lori. Indeed this woman has a huge huge heart up there in Sacramento. So drop by her FB page noted above and tell her THX!! THX for being my friend all these years later Lori! WoW and I am alive again!! TOO exciting!! Yahooo Go to http://bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2010 I know U will see why I am so excited and how huge our upcoming ride is going to be!! THX 4 all of U!
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~ American Proverb
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~ American Proverb
From "Affirmations to HiWheel" the US at - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com
Monday, December 28, 2009
"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."— Thorton Wilder
"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."— Thorton Wilder
From "Affirmations to HiWheel" the US at - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Feed your mind healthy ideas or
Feed your mind healthy ideas or the world will feed you negative ideas that will manifest in your life.~Rev. Ike From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/ |
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
To have peace, give peace. To be happy, make happy. To feel loved, love.........
"To have peace, give peace. To be happy, make happy. To feel loved, love. This is very simple and is a part of all the world's inspired teachings." - Hugh Prather
From "Affirmations to HiWheel" the US at - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
2101 SF to Boston Bus at Home (page)
Just built the image of the bus that will tow the Busycle and support my ride from SF to Boston into our home page -
THX 4 all of U!!
"Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied."- James Allen
From "Affirmations to HiWheel" the US at - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com
Monday, December 21, 2009
Bus Architect accepts Wood Craftsman's services
When Robbie Benson offered his woodworking expertise and huge arsenal of tools to our 2010 SF to Boston support bus (it will also haul the Busycle) project, here is how our also amazing architect (besides being a much sought green architect, Ron as I've said is Mr Bicycle Oakland, and among all the worlds he lives in his mastery as a communicator has been recognized by Toastasters Intl where he is a top rated public speakler) answered him: Robbie,
I am trying to focus this effort on lightweight materials. Steel studs, insulation, aluminum siding, and hopefully bicycle frames included as a theme when possible to support benches or bunks or for sidewall supports
I am envisioning using bicycle frames clamped to the steel structure framing of the bus and flooring with panels of aluminum corrigated siding to be used as partitioning and possibly mounted so it can be folded and change the spacial shape, by opening and closing as required. I intend a low tech model soon.
Your skills as a carpenter should also help on this project as you understand connections, The challenge will be to work outside of wood to a lighter weight and fanciful interior. A good brainstorming session could be benificial. We should all look into using skype for live events where we can exchange video camcorders and conversation without the need for travel. In the final months we would need to be more face to face.
I have not been able to reach the site to complete an accurate asbuilt but can provide some semiaccurate CADD drawings if you are able to visit and update any errors on the CADD and transfer them back that would be of great help. Let me know what you might like to provide in particular. We can always use good ideas.
Repost - Better picture of Rice Cooker Bike
Repost - Better picture of Rice Cooker Bike (from a real camera and not my iPhone) - THX if U choose to take another 
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because u are already a masterpiece and...
"Drop the idea of becoming someone, because u are already a masterpiece. U cannot be improved. U have only to know it and realize it." - Osho
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
Sunday, December 20, 2009
2010 SF to Boston Flyer Updated
We're probably going to be running these as color. Do look for them on the streets!!
With special THX to Don Loomis for helping me to get the .Pages software to run them..
THX 4 all of U!!
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
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Teddy, a read deal cyclist dies (was Re: [sfbike] Re: [SVBC Penninsula] bike fatality Hillsdale KCBS)
The man in question was named Teddy (I know not his last name), a bike rider friend of Busycle and top Bay Area bike mechanic, Jeff Kistler. Teddy logged hundreds of thousands of miles on Bay Area roads and I would see him from time to time myself as he slowly but steadily ambled along. Jeff used to refer to him as the real deal and used to work on his bike for free out of respect for this man's commitment to cycling..
Jeff tells me that Teddy had recently been evicted from his housing through no fault of his own. Teddy did not get the bright lights and his efforts were not celebrated, but the virility of this man, in his late 70's, was testimony to the value of replacing car trips with bike trips...
As a side note, Jeff always warned me how dangerous this overpass was when I would come to visit him. Seems Teddy's death came less than a year before a bike overpass will be built and completed to obviate this troublesome way for cyclists to cross 101 on their way to Foster City and the other Baylands roads....
THX for you Tedddy. I will miss seeing you out there...
Post to GMC Bus Nits - I just joined...........
We just bought an 85 GMC RTS II to support my 1891 Eagle HiWheel bicycle ride from SF to Boston next year as per bikeroute.com/HBGR
Does anyone here know how we (the nonprofit Nat Bicycle Greenway) can access a wiring diagram for this bus? An owner's manual? At any rate, the batteries are all new and we were wondering if we could safely run a lap top off one of the batteries if we start the bus and run it for 30 mins every 3 days? How about a desktop computer with higher wattage demands? Can we run that safely off one of the batteries and still be able to start it? THX 4 all of U!! Martin Krieg "Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
2010 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist
Does anyone here know how we (the nonprofit Nat Bicycle Greenway) can access a wiring diagram for this bus? An owner's manual? At any rate, the batteries are all new and we were wondering if we could safely run a lap top off one of the batteries if we start the bus and run it for 30 mins every 3 days? How about a desktop computer with higher wattage demands? Can we run that safely off one of the batteries and still be able to start it? THX 4 all of U!! Martin Krieg "Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
2010 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist
Friday, December 18, 2009
Strategy Change - Eagle HiWheel Parts sent to Spillane
Following Tom Schoeniger and Jim Spillane's advice, I am going to wait until the wheel Tom welded is as good as I can get it before I rid it again. I had though I could do the upgrades piecemeal, but instead I sent 12 spokes, ten nipples and my torn seat and broken brake hardware back to Jim. Fingers crossed for how long till it gets back to me..
Instant Picnic!
Freshly cooked brr rice. And now w/my new data card, wifi as I "work"....
"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist HiWheeler@gmail.com
Sent from my iPhone
Martin Krieg"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist HiWheeler@gmail.com
Cooking br rice w/my generator
W/thx to Johnny O!
"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist HiWheeler@gmail.com
Sent from my iPhone
Martin Krieg"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist HiWheeler@gmail.com
“When you become certain that nothing is impossible for you, you will attain everything you desire.” - Wayne Dyer
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Video of how we foresee the outside of the SF to Boston Bus
If you are on Facebook, you may have seen this video. However for most of you who are not (our Busycle engineers on the bcc), I have embedded it at the http://BikeRoute.com site
THX 4 all of U!!
"Control your destiny or somebody else will."-Jack Welsh
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. -Samuel Johnson
The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. -Samuel Johnson
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." - Louis E. Boone
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have." - Louis E. Boone
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
Monday, December 14, 2009
“The more you know the less you need to say.” Jim Rohn
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Ron Bishop Supercharges SF to Boston Bus
Here is how we are going to paint the bus. Look for a work party tentatively set for Sun 12/27. We just have to make sure we have the yard we foresee for the bus. The rest of the real estate you see on the Bus will be used by sponsors.
Ron Bishop is powering into overdrive on this. We spent two hours on the phone earlier in the evening and my email box Is filled with images from this to toilets, stove tops and other renderings, etc. Too exciting!!
Soon look for this bus all over Palo Alto and the SF Peninsula and East Bay as we showcase our ride at http://2010mayorseaglebus.blogspot.com/
THX 4 all of U!!
Perfect love drives out fear - John 4:18 Martin Krieg "Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
2010 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Tom Shoeniger of 4130inc Bikes Ressurets Broken 1891 Eagle
Ace frame builder, Tom Shoeniger of 4130inc.com pulled more than handful of rabbits out of the hat to get the Eagle ready for the road! He took a wheel that was so trashed, all three of us (John E gave me a ride) thought that the Eagle had flown its last mission. But he kept trying different approaches and miraculously, he got it round and strong again. It's still not ready for the road tho because he also found about 20 hairline (some bigger) cracks in the rim that I will have to silver solder after I get the spokes back in.......
But WoW. JohnE and I were more than astonished!! And we're still talking about it, even......
Storage Lot Probabilities for our SF to Boston Bus
The property owners have offered these two spots to us contingent upon a few other OKs they need.......
Friday, December 11, 2009
Rare Hypercycle Recumbent for sale ($350!!)
Per - http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/bik/1505766774.html (more pictures therre)
If you've always wanted a recumbent but c/not afford the high buy in, here's a way to get the recumbent experience, learn what your needs are and have a blast on a dependable machine that U can upgrade as U go. This is hard for me to part with but I have to lighten my load for http://2010mayorseaglebus.blogspot.com/ Martin Krieg
415-606-5043
http://2009hibustour.blogspot.com
415-606-5043
http://2009hibustour.blogspot.com
Christopher Reeve on Dreams
"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."- Christopher Reeve
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
Peter W & Re: bike frame bunk bed (For 2010 SF to Boston Bus)
THX for seeing this Ron!! I have Peter Wagner http://www.americanprofile.com/article/2511.html on the CC. Mr Bicycle Davis, meet Mr Bicycle Oakland, Ron Bishop (see
http://post.ly/EbDv). Nor is John Oleary a slouch either. A hi tech but union out of work electrician bcuz of politics, this guy has worked at Google, been the lead on small power plants and opened mANY shopping centers and etc. A cracker jack on many levels, he 4 exAMPLE started the bus when 9 people b4 were totally baffled. Plus he rides a HiWheel...
And in case any of U forgot, Petter is the guy who devised the front rack on the EaGLE on the fly, using hat else, bike frames!! Here are some examples of his wwork http://www.flickr.com/photos/27047646@N00/sets/72157594582800375 Peter do U have any ideas here?
THX 4 all of U!!
btw: Our ride blog is at http://2010mayorseaglebus.blogspot.com/
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That is a good effort. I will play with it. We might want a 3rd bike to prevent bowing, but it depends on the bed frame surface.The frames could fold flat when not in use.
Ron
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, HiWheel Cyclist <hiwheeler@gmail.com> wrote:
WoW John!!I just got hooked up here at the library. Too fascinating. Do U have any way of labeling your picture so we can see what does what?And I know Peter Wagner, the guy who designed the Eagle rack, knows how we can build beds out of bike frames. Peter??THX 4 U!!On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM, John Oleary <sail105088@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Thursday, December 10, 2009
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Ride Needed to Esteemed Frame Builders Haven
The rare but broken Eagle and I need to be at Tom Schoeniger's Forty One Thirty Inc bike building operation in Menlo Park at 10 am this Saturday. The fix shouldn't take more than an hour. If you have a truck I sure could use your help.
Plus it would give you a chance to see one of the top frame builders in America in the work environment he has designed so that each bike he carefully crafts is the product of a consciously directed meditation .In case you missed it, here are a couple samples of his work that can be found at his web: http://4130inc.com
Plus it would give you a chance to see one of the top frame builders in America in the work environment he has designed so that each bike he carefully crafts is the product of a consciously directed meditation .In case you missed it, here are a couple samples of his work that can be found at his web: http://4130inc.com
THX 4 all of U!!
The Architect Driving the NBG Bus Build Out
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- Who is Ron Bishop?
How about a no limits powerhouse? When this guy talks people listen. Last summer, when he helped me with my ride, all the way from Oakland, he had people in far away Elko, NV and Salt Lake City queuing up to get in synch with my ride because of him. Now he's driving the build out of our 2010 SF to Boston support vehicle, the 40 foot bus that the John E Vision PR Agency bought for our ride. And things are starting the happen because of him!!
Here's a little more about the man the city of Oakland respects so much they made him, Mr Bicycle Oakland in a special ceremony where he received the "plaque" shown in the photo above.....
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From http://bishoparchitects.com - Hale from South Carolina
- Father of two young women
- Vietnam Veteran
- UC Berkeley Grad in Env. Design/Architecture 1981
- Very involved in energy efficiency, permaculture and green aspects of building.
- Contracted as space planner for AT&T Western Region 10 years
- Berkeley Unified School District Architect 5 years.
- Sacramento Regional Transit architect for extension to Folsom
- I became green in 1976 and continue to strive to produce projects that are energy efficient.
- Sierra Club Northern Alameda County Executive Committee in 2007
- co-founder Regional Urban Design Forum Committee of the American Institute of Architects - East Bay [AIAEB].
- Metropolitan Transportation Commission Pedestrian Safety Committee,
- East Bay Bicycle Coalition [EBBC]
- Oakland Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee [BPAC]
- Oakland Measure DD Committee
- League Certified Instructor [LCI] of bicycle safety for the League of American Bicyclist [LAB].Post
As within so without c/o Emerson
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Attn Bike Racers - The Pitfalls of Seriousness
"Seriousness
is one of the most serious diseases of mankind - it causes stress and prevents people from giving things a try" - R. Bandler
Co-developer of NLP, neuro-linguistic programming
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/
Perfect love drives out fear - John 4:18 Martin Krieg "Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
2010 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist
Finally - Pedal Powered Cellphones!!
A breakthrough for me!! $99 come January - I so want one. John Oleary found this!!
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
2010 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist
Will laptops be next?
How exciting!!
The regular way of producing light in a bike is by using a dynamo that is attached to one of the wheels. This dynamo is able to provide enough electricity to power a small bulb that illuminates our path.
Well, the same principle used by a dynamo that generates electricity is now taken by Dahon (the world’s largest manufacturer of folding bikes), to create a new device that allows users to recharge electronic gadgets while they are riding a bike. The device is attached to the dynamo and its name is “BioLogic FreeCharge”.
It has a battery that is charged with the power supplied from the dynamo. Then, you can recharge your gadgets by connecting them to the BioLogic FreeCharge and using a USB connector that comes with this device.
According to Dahon, the BioLogic FreeCharge will be available for sale in the first quarter of 2010 and will cost $99.
We guess this charger will be useful to those who usually use a bike as one of their regular means of transport because it will provide an easy way to keep some personal gadgets charged (for example: cell phones and MP3 players)
'79 & '86 TransAmerica Bike Rides
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
2010 w/"How America Can Bike & Grow Rich"
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
NBG Founding Director, HiWheel Cyclist
Monday, December 7, 2009
Forty One Thirty Inc, Tom Schoeniger to Repair Eagle for NBG!
Master frame builder, Tom Schoeniger, the man behind the impeccable line of bikes called Forty One Thirty Inc, is going to help Jim Spillane's rare backwards facing HiWheel, the Eagle, get airborne again! Tom has me coming in early Saturday for the precisionweld that will be needed. A man whose bikes are greatly coveted, he is a much studied craftsman who has learned from some of best.
Here is an example of his huge body of work:
I exhort you to get to his web site where you will see other samples of bicycle poetry.in their highest art form.....
WoW And Tom is doing all this at no charge because he believes in our 2010 ride and in the National Bicycle Greenway dream!!
Too exciting!!
THX TOM - THX for all of U!!!
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” - Jim Rohn
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” - Jim Rohn
From "Affirmations to HiWheel the US by" - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/2009/12/rohn-on-raking-risks.html
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Satchel Paige on Overcoming the Odds
"Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do." - Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Superstar & First black baseball pitcher
Superstar & First black baseball pitcher
Saturday, December 5, 2009
I"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." Lance Armstrong
From Affirmations to HiWheel the US by - http://affirmationsofnote.blogspot.com/ Martin Krieg
"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist HiWheeler@gmail.com
"Awake Again" Author
'79 & '86 TransCon cyclist
2010 on Eagle w/Busycle & Book
http://www.BikeRoute.com/HBGR
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death
Survivor. NBG Founding Director
HiWheel Cyclist HiWheeler@gmail.com
Friday, December 4, 2009
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." Andrew Carnegie
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." Andrew Carnegie
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