It's Friday
No photographs of dancing gastropods, just a round up of links for you today, like this essay from Jeffrey Veen - "... when Web design is practiced as a craft, and not a consolation, accessibility comes for free." Or this one from Chris MacGregor - "The hardest part of being a professional web designer is telling people what I do for a living." Oh so true, especially the part about someones nephew. Grrr, nephews.
If that's not your thing maybe you'd be interested in the Northern Ireland Moutain Bike Community website - "An off shoot of a sub culture of a minority" apparently, or Joanne, whom I don't think I've formally introduced before. Anyway, she's a raging feminist looking for some hairy caveman to come bop her on the head and drag her off to the cave for some lovin'. Finally, even Mr. Stray Toaster would have to admit the note of this fine beast has merit, the Ford GT.
That's it, I'm heading out on Fifi my sweet two wheeled chariot now, have fun.
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Yes, just as long as he’s a hairy caveman who reads The Guardian and listens to Radio 4. Then it’s all good.
here I’m thinking that joanne’s going to give you a hard time for that statement… hairy leftwing men sound like grad students to me…
“Northern Ireland Moutain Bike Community website - “An off shoot of a sub culture of a minority” apparently”
here it’s the road riders that are the minority. Mountain biking has gone a long way from what we used to do. There’s not even trails in our area that are bikes can handle (circa 1997, hard tails with front suspension), which is partially why I made the switch to a roadie.
(aside, a friend of ours bought a new downhill bike and the damn thing weighs 50 pounds. 50 pounds! I would struggle to carry it up the stairs to our apartment!)
Joanne - reads the Guardian? euw!
Trish - You live in Canada, lots of big moutain trails there, not so much here. :( So roadies are more common, then prolly XC then Dh. I be Xc, if I be anything, arrr! (No idea why the pirate talk came in there.)
You’re right Stephen, there’s so little good XC biking in Vancouver that the DH’ers have taken over. I wouldn’t mind getting back into XC, although what I’m really hankering for is a cyclocross bike. (tried to think of suitable pirate talk response and failed)
Cyclocross? You’re some mad fit woman aren’t you. I change my designation, not XC but Freerider. I like to swoosh down singletrack…
(the operative word is ‘down’)
PS I watch the ‘Ride Guide Mountain Bike Show’, it practically never leaves British Columbia, I get so jealous watching those trails…
I used to watch the ride guide back when I had cable (late 90s). That was in my more extreme days when i also snowboarded a lot. The trails are absolutely insane here, but gorgeous.
All of us Canadians are mad fitness freaks, especially the Vancouverites, it’s a real cultural shift that’s happened here in the past 20 years. Although I shudder to think of how we’d compare with the Scandanavians… Cyclocross seems like a great way to get back to the whole light but tough bike ideal - Since they no longer make XC bikes like the one I own. Plus there’s something neat about how fast you can go on a cyclocross bike on a relatively smooth trail … We just saw a beautiful one the other day that had disc brakes and a mix road and cross country components. So lovely!
Why did my family ever move from Canada?? I mean Northern Ireland is lovely, really very beautiful considering it’s surface area but when you talk about skiing and snowboarding and mountains and snow and…
does it help if I talk about 40 below weather anywhere people can afford to live? As to why your family moved from Canada, half of my nana’s family went back to Northern Ireland in the late 1930s, but I’m not sure why.
Nah, that doesn’t help too much, I like the cold.
even when it’s so cold your eyeballs hurt? I like the cold too, it’s much more refreshing than heat!