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Steve Jobs’ Bicycle

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Mona Simpson, a novelist and professor of English at the University of California Los Angeles, was Steve Jobs’ sister.  She delivered this eulogy for her brother on October 16.   It was a beautiful and moving eulogy.  There is one quote of interest to cyclists.  Steve Jobs live well below his means.  He was an extremely wealthy […]

Reagan On A Bicycle

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Today is Ronald Reagan’s 100 birthday, so he is getting a significant amount of press coverage.  Early in his career, Reagan appeared in several ads for Schwinn.  I wasn’t able to located a complete ad, but I found the following 2 pictures of Reagan on a bike.
 

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Bicycle Rights Video

Friday, January 21st, 2011

The video below is a preview for a new series produced by Lorne Michaels that will be on the Independent Film Channel.  The clip is a funny parody of a hardcore fixed gear cyclist. 

Rotisserie Chicken And Spinning

Friday, January 21st, 2011

 
A high end boutique cycling studio named Velovoom just opened in my neighborhood.  In addition to just spinning on the stationary bike, class participants will do upper body yoga stretches and use light dumbbells while on the bike to make the class an entire body experience.  Despite the fact that there are spinning classes at […]

Chelsea Clinton Is Spinning For Haiti

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

This past week, Chelsea Clinton led a spinning class to raise money for Haiti.    While it is a well intentioned effort, I think it is stupid.  

If you want to give money, just give money.  Don’t think that if you do some pseudo-suffering in a 90 minute spin class, you are somehow suffering along with the […]

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