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Since my foray into the hills ended on Wednesday with even more broken spokes, I determined that I had to stay closer to home where the roads are flat and friends are easily found or made. I started Thursday out, "making" spokes. By working to up the spoke count, as a result of my splinting spokes pieces together with a torch and silver solder, I am now only missing two spokes. And yet since too many spokes would stand between this pair (one spoke is two) as a result of all the mixing and matching I have had to do, I will need to wait until a new rim and spokes become available .......
Finally got the beautiful NBG logo art that MtLetter.com, some while created for us on to the front of the bus. And the way that Scott Campbell created the URL below it, the bus looks like it is smiling at us.
Gerry Gras called me say the beautiful cover we got for the Busycle from Empire Covers kept blowing off. I went over there today and snugged it all up with the clamps we got from Tom Kabat and Matin of shelter-systems.com. These things are revolutionary. And yet not many people, I'm disccvering, know they even exist.
In fact I had somewhat forgot that Rich Willits had installed the male part of the coupling on to our Busycle a few years ago, And that is why I was talking so painfully much time tieing rope around our tarps to keep them on.
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From shelter-systems.com:
Grip Clip™ Tarp Fasteners
That which holds it all together, Grip Clip™ tarp fasteners were designed to make our Yurt Domes but can be put to many other uses. If you decide to make your own floor out of a tarp, use 12 of the Light Fabric Grip Clips to secure the tarp to the walls of your Yurt Dome. This will keep the floor from sliding around. The General Purpose Grip Clip tarp fasteners can add more wind stability to the our standard Sun Shades. If you one or two Grip Clips with cords to the mid edge section of your Sun Shades and tie these out your Sun Shade will flap less in the wind. You can also make your own shelter tarps, canopies, sunshades, and windscreens instantly from any plastic sheeting or fabric. They can be used for joining panels of material together and/or for attaching anchor lines, without perforating the tarps or sheeting. They "button" on quickly and securely, yet can be removed and repositioned as you like. You will find endless uses for them about your Yurt Dome, at home, in the garden, while camping, and at construction sites. Almost indestructible and at times indispensable™, Grip Clips will help you create what you need.
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The amazing Grip Clip. Here the female sits on a nob that is covered by the blue fabric you see pictured here
Saw Inventor an genius, Dan Bartsch, at the Post Office today. And he and I did not get a chance to really talk as one of his fans, Dr Franklin showed up as did Cathy and Wayne, You can see all five of us if you drill into the next picture in this micro gallery.
Steve at Mollie Stones Grocery store always makes me laugh. He remembers every cartoon series that played on TV in the 50's and 60's so well that he can tell you who most of the characters were and often knows many of the theme songs so well, he can sound them out with authority......
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Appeal to Patriots: The Lincoln Highway & National Bicycle Greenway A draft excerpt from "How America Can Bike And Grow Rich, The NBG Manifesto" In getting from one coast to the other here in America, as we showed you when we talked about Omaha's significance in the opening of the West, a route was first pioneered by the Lewis and Clark expedition, it was refined by the hundreds of thousands of pioneers who sought fortune in the West via the Oregon Trail, made more direct to California by the Lincoln Highway and fully brought to maturation in the form of I-80. Of these connections, none titillated the nation's imagination more than the Lincoln Highway. No more than ruts in the grass or a "red line on a map connecting all the worst mudholes in the Country" as it was referred to by many once an official route had been chosen, it was begun by those who dared to think big. This as the courage of its early drivers was equally as large. And yet it would go on to impact the culture of this continent in many ways similar to how the TransSiberia Railroad and Silk Road across Asia redefined those lands. In the end, though it was never one road but made use of many, it still changed our geography, increased the size of our thinking, enlarged the scope for what was possible and began to show that strangers are only friends one has not yet met. Long is this how I have foreseen the impact that the National Bicycle Greenway can have for America. Soon, largely because of the way in which we have squandered oil, the conditions of the world, terrorism, climate change, and peak oil, etc, will force us to look for solutions in a radically different frontier - another world also only explored initially by the adventurous few. A frightful place for most, the wilderness to which I refer is the inner self each of us knows so very little about. And yet as we bring the light of understanding to the darkness within, when we don’t need distraction from externals to be happy and content, we will transform the geography in a before unthinkable way as we make for a true wonderland of joy. |
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The decade and half long history that has watched me build the upcoming ride from San Francisco to Boston that I now have straight ahead in my cross hairs has vanished. The six or seven blogs I run at Blogger.com, many of which were in place long before Google took them over, have been eviscerated from the web.
Last summer when I Eagled to Salt Lake (a blog I can no longer point you to), under Google, my blogs had become a nesting site for Cialis sales. And the fix for that was not made by anyone at Google. But by a few angels who appeared to help me at the forum Google runs to help people get their problem solved.
However, there has not been anyone at these discussion boards who can help me solve the Google password problem (it keeps getting changed on me and I run Google Tasks, Mail, AdSense, Books, Calendar, Spreadsheets, etc) I have had for months now. Nor has anyone from Google intervened such that it has now escalated to this.
Unless a real person from Google located just three miles from where I compose this (they may as well be on the other side of the world) steps forward, the hundreds of thousands of words I used to have on line may be gone forever. This disaster would not be so traumatic if I didn't have so many links for my upcoming ride that reference these blogs.
Unless Google steps forward, can anyone see any other way around this tragedy? I used to truly love Google but now I feel as tho they have tried to crush my dream of a coast to coast bicycle highway.......
I am so saddened by this :(
I hope there is one of you who can give an hour of your time to pedal the Busycle the last time it will move on Palo Alto streets
Meeting of the geniuses. Shawn Raymond and Jobst Brandt stopped by the bus and talked matters mechanical that required encyclopedic knowledge
This is an example of a splint. Now when a spoke breaks, until I replace the rim. since I have no more spokes, I silver solder two together to do the job
MIT educated mathematician, Gerry Gras, in his garden. He and Danna St George will be hosting the Busycle for the next 5 weeks until I go ...
Seen in Palo Alto! On Park Ave, a street where the homes often command one million dollars.......
Same street, this Stanford prof was on his way to work, Can you see the pipe he is smokin
I hope there is one of you who can give an hour of your time to pedal the Busycle the last time it will move on Palo Alto streets
On the Bay side of 880, we stopped at the historic log cabin that Jack London wintered in up in Alaska when he collected a lot of the material for his wildly successful books.
Oakland Vice Mayor and front runner for the 2010 Mayor's seat in November.
She, Frank and Ron, posed with this artist who drew a picture of the Eagle and I as I stood with it.
Also at JL Square, the Chair of the Walk Oakland Bike Oakland coalition, Carli Paine was there. Ron introduced me. We took a picture,
Our ride ended at the Actual Cafe, on San Pablo in Oakland, where Sal Bednarz is a real bullets cyclist who even rides the 38' Coker unicycle you see him pictured with below! His restaurant and nite spot even has a whole wall for bike parking!! And he might even let the world know about his awesome bike friendly eatery with an ad on on the bus!
The Oakland proclamation
Ron Bishop, the man, who, with Frank Flynn, made today the magic carpet ride it was!!
THX 4 all of U!!
Oakland, CA Vice Mayor, Jean Quan, received the 2010 8th annual Mayors' Ride pre-ride at the famous Jack London cabin in Jack London Square. The front runner in the November race for Mayor, it is easy to see why she is so well liked. She came at the bequest of Oakland Bike Mayor, Ron Bishop, and after hearing how much she knew about a myriad of different eco matters facing her city, I know it will be in powerful hands with her at the helm. She corroborated this for me when she told me she enjoyed working with zealous environmentalist and former Palo Alto Mayor, Yoriko Kishimoto, who is now running for state assembly, on a regional task force.
Since my Eagle is hobbling along after it was enfeebled by a car on April 29, the Palo Alto to Oakland part of the ride started in Frank Flynn's driveway
Nor could I pass up the opportunity to take a picture of one of his kid's trikes with the Eagle:
And as we were wrapping up getting our bikes loaded for the 45 mile trip, one of Frank's neighbors, John Richards, stopped by on the way to a ride of his own:
Once we got on our bikes in San Leandro, it amazed m to see what has taken place with a lot of the former backwater lands along a lot of the east Bay Area's waterfront. The recently dedicated Bill Lockyer bridge that you see here crosses over a slough to connect the Oakland Airport with the the beautiful trails that wind througgh what used to be a municioal dump.
And we left that very pleasant riding turf to soon find ourselves pedaling along another wasteland turned bicycle heaven, the estuary trails that separate 880 from the Oakland Airport.
continued..........
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