Proving that drugs and cycling can mix, Dr. Alex Hofman of Switzerland was the first to ingest LSD. After he did so - on April 19th 1943 - he got on his bike. April 19th is now known as ‘Bicycle Day’ to fans of psychedelic experiences.
Dr Hofman died on Tuesday at his home in Basel, Switzerland. He was 102.
The Swiss chemist had first experienced the effects of the lysergic acid compound, LSD-25, when he accidentally absorbed a bit through his fingertips. He later ingested 250 milligrams of LSD.
After his colourful bike ride, Dr Hofman wrote:
“I asked my laboratory assistant, who was informed of the self-experiment, to escort me home. We went by bicycle, no automobile being available because of wartime restrictions on their use. On the way home, my condition began to assume threatening forms. Everything in my field of vision wavered and was distorted as if seen in a curved mirror. I also had the sensation of being unable to move from the spot. Nevertheless, my assistant later told me we had travelled very rapidly.”
Travelling very rapidly on a bicycle under the influence of drugs was never tried again…
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Not to be confused with Dan ‘Polar bears are gay’ Power seen in this viral vid earlier in the week:
A reminder about this Earth Hour campaign has been placed on the Quickrelease.tv iCal and Google Calendar. Sync your PC or Mac to this calendar and get daily agenda emails, dates on your cellphone and other fancy stuff.
can be loaded to your calendar program. Any changes or additions are automagically updated on your machine seconds after I make the changes on my machine. Once you’ve sync’ed to Bicycle Dates 2008 you choose which of them you want to highlight with alarms and auto-emails.
You can also set up Google Calendar so it emails you an agenda each morning so you don’t have to look at your PC/Mac calendar to know what bicycle events are coming up that day.
iCal meshes beautifully with the iPhone and now Google Calendar does too. Both cal programs also mesh with standard cellphones.
The Quickrelease.tv calendar isn’t a static list of events, it’s a live feed which is available on iCal and Google Calendar. Sync your PC or Mac to this calendar and get daily agenda emails, dates on your cellphone and other fancy stuff. I’ve just got a reminder to enter the Fred Whitton Challenge - the entry form gets posted online tomorrow.
include all the obvious candidates such as the Tour de France as well as new or unique events such as the unicycling world championships, Iowa’s Big Wheel Ballyhoo and Italy’s restoration ride for heroes, L’Eroica.
Sync to the dates and they load to your calendar program. Any changes or additions are automagically updated on your machine seconds after I make the changes on my machine. Once you’ve sync’ed to Bicycle Dates 2008 you choose which of them you want to highlight with alarms and auto-emails. For example, the aforementioned Fred Whitton Challenge is a killer Lake District sportive that takes place in May but is always over-subscribed the day after entries go online. The online entry date was loaded to Bicycle Dates 2008 some time ago so all you have to do is set the alert on your machine. Google Calendar and iCal both have intuitive alerts settings.
You can also set up Google Calendar so it emails you an agenda each morning so you don’t have to look at your PC/Mac calendar to know what bicycle events are coming up that day.
iCal meshes beautifully with the iPhone and now Google Calendar does too. Both cal programs also mesh with standard cellphones.
A selection of the listed bike events are given below. There are many, many more.
Thanks to the following for supplying events after last week’s call for new dates:
David ‘Fredcast’ Bernstein, Tim Jackson, Tim ‘Crooked Cog’ Grahl, Donna Tocci and Ed ‘RoadBikeRider’ Pavelka.
Cyclo-Cross World Championships, Italy North American Handmade Bicycle Show
Tour of Langkawi
National Demo Day Series - Future mags, Glentress, Scotland Mountain Festival - MTB films and events, Scotland Amgen Tour of California, USA
National Demo Day Series - Future mags (Coed y Brenin, Wales)
Het Volk, Belgium Cape Argus Pick’n Pay Cycle Tour, South Africa Taipei Trade Show
Eurocycle 2008 (European Unicycle Convention) Sea Otter Classic, Monterey, USA
Tour de Georgia, USAhttp://www.tourdegeorgia.com
Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Belgium Get Cycling Show, Nottingham Racecourse Smithfield Nocturne
Cycle Messenger World Championships XVI, Toronto, Canada
Northern Rock Cyclone London to Brighton
Gran Fondo Campagnolo sportif, Italy
Big Wheeled Ballyhoo, Decorah, Iowa
La Marmotte
L’Etape du Tour - Pau to Hautacam
Dunwich Dynamo sportif
Welsh Festival of Cycling, Rhyadaer
Unicon 14 - World Unicycle Championships, Copenhagen, Denmark Olympics
Eurobike, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Tour of Britain Interbike
L’Eroica Roc D’Azur, Frejus, France Cycle Show, London
The Quickrelease.tv calendar isn’t a static list of events, it’s a live feed which is available on iCal and Google Calendar. Sync your PC or Mac to this calendar and get daily agenda emails, dates on your cellphone and other fancy stuff that make static online calendar lists sooooo last century.
include all the obvious candidates such as the Tour de France as well as new or unique events such as the unicycling world championships, Iowa’s Big Wheel Ballyhoo and Italy’s restoration ride for heroes, L’Eroica.
Sync to the dates and they load to your calendar program. Any changes or additions are automagically updated on your machine seconds after I make the changes on my machine. Once you’ve sync’ed to Bicycle Dates 2008 you choose which of them you want to highlight with alarms and auto-emails. For instance, the Fred Whitton Challenge takes place in May but is always over-subscribed the day after entries go online on January 8th. The online entry date is already loaded to Bicycle Dates 2008 so all you have to do is set the alert on your machine. Google Calendar and iCal both have intuitive alerts settings.
You can also set up Google Calendar so it emails you an agenda each morning so you don’t have to look at your PC/Mac calendar to know what bicycle events are coming up that day.
iCal meshes beautifully with the iPhone and now Google Calendar does too. Both cal programs also mesh with standard cellphones.
A selection of the listed bike events are given below. There are many, many more.
Thanks to the following for supplying events after last week’s call for new dates:
David ‘Fredcast’ Bernstein, Tim Jackson, Tim ‘Crooked Cog’ Grahl, Donna Tocci and Ed ‘RoadBikeRider’ Pavelka.
Cyclo-Cross World Championships, Italy North American Handmade Bicycle Show
Tour of Langkawi
National Demo Day Series - Future mags, Glentress, Scotland Mountain Festival - MTB films and events, Scotland Amgen Tour of California, USA
National Demo Day Series - Future mags (Coed y Brenin, Wales)
Het Volk, Belgium Cape Argus Pick’n Pay Cycle Tour, South Africa Taipei Trade Show
Eurocycle 2008 (European Unicycle Convention) Sea Otter Classic, Monterey, USA
Tour de Georgia, USAhttp://www.tourdegeorgia.com
Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Belgium Get Cycling Show, Nottingham Racecourse Smithfield Nocturne
Cycle Messenger World Championships XVI, Toronto, Canada
Northern Rock Cyclone London to Brighton
Gran Fondo Campagnolo sportif, Italy
Big Wheeled Ballyhoo, Decorah, Iowa
La Marmotte
L’Etape du Tour - Pau to Hautacam
Dunwich Dynamo sportif
Welsh Festival of Cycling, Rhyadaer
Unicon 14 - World Unicycle Championships, Copenhagen, Denmark Olympics
Eurobike, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Tour of Britain Interbike
L’Eroica Roc D’Azur, Frejus, France Cycle Show, London
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Dec 06, 2007
Use iCal or Google Calendar? Get Bicycle Dates 2008
A bunch of bikey dates have been added to an online calendar which you can subscribe to. Once you’ve added it to your iCal calendar or Google Calendar, all new dates and date changes are handled automagically.
There’s a Google button on the left. If you’re not already a Google member pressing this will prompt you to become one.
Flick through the months on the calendar below and you’ll see 2008’s trade and consumer shows, major events – such as the Tour de France and the bike disciplines at the Beijing Olympics – and lots of other notable stuff. It’s by no means a complete list of every bike-specific date, but could get there…with your help.
Please email missing events, and their dates and URLs. Thanks.
