Bicycle touring in the school gym
Here’s how I like to launch a speaking engagement at elementary schools and a book project :)
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Posts Categorized ‘Bicycles’
Bicycle touring in the school gym
February 3rd, 2012
Here’s how I like to launch a speaking engagement at elementary schools and a book project :) Beginner’s Bike Touring Guide
January 19th, 2012
Just getting started with bike touring? Wondering what bike and gear to buy? Find out in Bike Touring Basics with this free 66-page eBook from my friends at Travellingtwo.com. I read this and thought it was a great how-to bicycle tour introduction, with fantastic pictures. In fact, I can’t believe they are giving it away for free! I even have the honor of being quoted. Of course, if you’d rather relive the adventure from the comfort of your armchair, I recommend Falling Uphill, a coming-of-age story, which happens to take place on a bicycle. Download a 3D Bicycle from the internet!
May 20th, 2011
Here is a bizarre evolution of the bicycle industry. We can now print a 3D bicycle much like we print a photograph. See this video min 01:45 for the bicycle print out. And someday we may able to just download the bike from the manufacturer’s website and print it out at home, though I wouldn’t try riding that bicycle around the world.
Categories: Bicycles, Inspiration
Dedicated to the parents who…
January 8th, 2011
… told me they wished they could do an adventure.Here you see a quintuple bicycle. The Pendouin’s are the first family to cycle across North America on such a bike, which also suggest there are a lot of records still left to be broken/created/made. More info. Bicycle-shaped Kids
November 29th, 2010
I had no idea it was going to be this cool. From the ground it looked like organized chaos. ~ Principal Gennerman. This is quite probably the best photograph that I ever took, which after taking pictures of world wonders, like the sphinx and the Parthenon, means a lot. Pictured here are the 507 illustrators of Falling Uphill at Poplar Creek Elementary School plus the staff. It took me an hour (plus planning) to illustrate the chalk outline of the bicycle (see below). I used a string and two bricks to help guide me. Luckily arranging the kids was no problem thanks to the principal and teachers. However, I still had to overcome some challenges like the partly cloudy sun and shadows. The kids constantly jumping up and down. Not falling off the roof while I took the picture, not too mention the change in perspective. Once on the roof I realized I had to move the seat up 8 feet. I found that funny, because when I was riding my real bike, I could tell if my seat was off by only 5 millimeters. And, surprisingly the image was too big for my camera, so not only did I have to tile the picture, but now I had to deal with the lens distortion and vignetting. Lastly, in the final composite, besides normal retouching, such as color correction and erasing the odd marks, I also deleted the cars in the parking lot. If only I could erase the cars in real life :) I’m still surprised this turned out so well. Thanks again to the students, staff and parents of Poplar Creek Elementary for helping to arrange this, especially Associate Principal Larry Lueck for the brilliant idea for this photo, Principal Jane Gennerman for her support and arranging the kids from small to big (falling uphill) along with Kate Krzysik and for her idea of having the kids illustrate the book.
Top 10 reasons bicycling is bad for the environment
September 22nd, 2010
Is bicycling bad for the environment? Some food for thought as to the consequences of our every-day actions.1. Law of entropy. Everything is bad for the environment, because everything consumes more energy than it produces. The real question: Can humans live in harmony for the life of the planet and sun? Copyright © 2010. Please attribute Scott Stoll and www.theArgonauts.com Sources: VIP On The Race Podium
June 28th, 2010
As a post world tour honor, me and my bike got to occupy first, second and third place on the podium at the Downer Classic race at the Tour of America’s Dairyland. I also had the chance to share my story with the crowd. I’ve always been impressed that many world-class cyclists and teams that don’t qualify for the Tour de France come to Wisconsin for our excellent race series also including Super Week starting soon. Do the wiggle
March 13th, 2010
New bicycle directions on Google Maps. I always did the wiggle in San Francisco. The music in my head
January 12th, 2010
This is the music in my head on a good ride, plus a few birds and car horns and a bit of wind.
Categories: Bicycles, Inspiration
The fastest human powered bicycle
November 10th, 2009
This is a worthwhile video if you like bicycles, engineering, or land speed records.I have been personally trying to break 55 MPH. I came close a few times, but decided in my middle age, that it’s just not worth the risk anymore. One pothole and the game is over :) What’s It Like To Travel The World By Bike? » Bike Rumor
November 4th, 2009
Head on over to BikeRumor.com for a nice little blurb about Falling Uphill and a generally interesting bicycle site. Plus read about the bike that sold for 1.3 million dollars. Is bicycling bad for the environment? Reason #4
October 6th, 2009
Here’s an idea that will make your head spin. The Omnivore’s Dilemma says: “Unless you grew up on organic food, most of the kilo or so of nitrogen in your body was fixed by the Haber-Bosch process.” The Haber-Bosch process is the method used to make ammonium nitrate fertilizer out of petroleum. Nitrogen is one of the body’s basic but essential building blocks like carbon. So, this means: if you are the average American, approximately two pounds of your body weight or about 1% is literally composed of petroleum by products, most likely Saudia Arabian oil. So considering conservative estimates show it takes approximately 0.5-1 gallons of oil to grow 1 bushel of corn (not including processing this into other food stuffs and shipping them to your store), and corn is used to make sugar, starch, feed cows (accounting for beef and dairy products) and tens of thousands of other things, and considering when you are eating corn based products, you are essentially eating oil, it makes me wonder if riding a bicycle, burning more calories and thus eating more, and demanding more food be grown and shipped, is an environmentally friendly thing. Stay tuned for my complete article. Gear Junkie — The bike that went around the world
September 16th, 2009
I met Stephen Regenold, the Gear Junkie, last summer in Minneapolis. I admire how he turned his love of gadgets into a profitable career, which is essentially the art of creating an adventure in your own backyard. In fact, he just returned from competing in the Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race, the “toughest and wildest race on Earth.” Thanks to the Gear Junkie for featuring my bicycle in his nationally syndicated newspaper column. The story was great. So often journalists get it wrong. Also, it has had a very big impact, much more so than any other story in newspapers, TV or radio. So that’s a testament to the power of a passionate blogger. Read the story about the The Bike that went Around the World |
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