Check out my latest vid. It was produced for Scicon bike bags of Italy and stars Quickrelease.tv commenter Karl McCracken of the Do The Right Thing blog. He’s now got a very nice bike porting device, useful for his tri-travelling.
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Karl really is that fast at packing a bike into a box, the film isn’t speeded up or anything…
FreeCreditReport.com has produced a TV ad featuring a motorist ditching his car for a bike. Band members are also pulled along in trailers. It’s a fun ad.
Here are lyrics:
Check it out
Gas prices blowing up sky high
ditched my use subcompact for a two wheel ride
now i’m rollin eco-friendly
but i still look bad
when the bike store saw my credit
they said this was all they had
I’m singing
F to the
R to the
E to the
E to the
C to the
R to the
E D I T
Re to the
Port to the
Dot to the
Com
Come on everybody
grab your bike and sing along
It’s easy
F to the
R to the etc.
Cycle tourist Mark Beaumont, the British man who set out to break the around-the-world cycling record and finally achieved his goal earlier this year, is now starring in a TV ad for telecoms company Orange.
The ad is the second in the ‘Together We Can Do More’ campaign. The ad tells the story of Beaumont and was launched yesterday. It’s supported by poster, press, radio, and online ads.
The film, directed by Danny Kleinman, opens on Beaumont walking into a room with four large projection screens, four walls and a stationary bike in the centre. As Beaumont begins to pedal, his memories are projected onto the screens. The images represent his life’s journey - from childhood to the day he broke the record - and all the people that contributed to his achievement.
Justin Billingsley of Orange UK said: “The Mark Beaumont ad brings to life a thought-provoking inspirational story that people can reflect on.”
Here’s the ad:
It’s good but better is this ten-minute documentary describing Beaumont’s upbringing and the round-the-world trip itself and his motivation.
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Shaggy-haired (alleged) bike thief and drugs overlord led colourful Canadian life
More details are about the Toronto bike shop owner alleged to be at the centre of a bicycle stealing and drug dealing empire.
Igor Kenk is a Slovenian ex-police officer. He’s married to concert pianist Jeanie Chung. A search of his garages and homes revealed almost 3,000 bikes, as well as quantities of marijuana, crack cocaine and cocaine powder.
Kenk’s store - The Bike Clinic - is now closed and boarded up. The Canadian Press reports that a local resident believed Kenk was “bizarre” because the resident “once took his bike to Kenk’s shop to fix a flat tire. Kenk reportedly pumped so much air into the tire that it burst, then charged him $10 for a replacement.”
Bizarre? Good business practice, I’d say.
Natalie Ethier, who works at Clafouti bakery, a few stores east of the shop, said:
“He was just very unapproachable and almost condescending to people who would ask questions.”
Come on, that’s just normal for a bike shop.
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Unless you’re chief nut-nibbler in Team GB’s Secret Squirrel Club and you’re trying to psyche the competition with tales of hi-tech kit.
Just as with Chris Boardman’s 1992 win on the Lotus superbike, journalists like to talk up the tech aspects of Britain’s success on the track. The fact that we have the best-trained, best-fed and best-tested athletes mustn’t get in the way of a good, ‘it woz the kit wot won it’ story. No doubt this is part of British Cycling’s teamplan: if the opposition think they can only come in second because the Brits have the best bikes, then that’s what will happen.
Take, for instance, today’s puff piece in the Sunday Telegraph. There’s now no chance for other countries to produce copycat kit so British Cycling is drip-feeding the media with tech tidbits. Today it’s the “revolutionary” skinsuit, tomorrow it will be British’s Cycling’s brand-new aero-amazing bar-tape.
Pity the poor sports journalist. After being bombarded with tech-specs there’s bound to be the odd mistake.
“The new equipment, which the team hopes will carry the likes of Mark Cavendish, Chris Hoy, Victoria Pendleton and Bradley Wiggins to the medals podium, also includes individually-moulded shoes, [and] a crank that measures each rider’s heart rate,” revealed the Telegraph’s Patrick Sawyer.
Cough a few hundred quid in a high-end Shimano outlet and you too can have “individually-moulded shoes.” Not too sure about a HRM crank: Sawyer probably means a power-measuring crank, but again that’s not exactly top-secret or available only to Britain’s elite riders.
But since when has psychological warfare needed to be accurate?
