Chainless Bicycles

Archive for August, 2005

Chainless Bicycles

By Blaine Moore on Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 | 1 Comment

I just saw information about chainless bicycles for the first time. What a neat concept! Dynamic Bicycles has a lot of information about chainless bikes on their website. Supposedly, they are cleaner, safer, quieter, and require less maintenance than a normal chain and derailer bike, at the expense of being a bit heavier. I also [...]

More women than men run on sunny days

By Blaine Moore on Tuesday, August 30th, 2005 | No Comments

Disclaimer: This is not a scientific finding of any sort. In Portland there is a foot path around the bay that is very popular for walkers and runners, especially in the summertime. Over the last few weeks, I have been noticing some trends that seem to relate to the weather. The numbers that I am [...]

O’Neil Bell knocks out Sebastian Rothman

By Blaine Moore on Monday, August 29th, 2005 | 1 Comment

O’Neil Bell knocked out Sebastian Rothman to retain the cruiserweight title. He had to fight dirty to do it, though. He knocked Rothman out cold in the 11th, but he had had points deducted for hits below the belt. Unsportsmanlike, in my book. Points do not matter on a KO though.

Sea Dogs defeat Fishercats 5-2

By Blaine Moore on Sunday, August 28th, 2005 | No Comments

The Portland Sea Dogs defeated the New Hampshire Fisher Cats 5-2 today at Hadlock Field in Portland. Portland has beaten NH 18 times this season and has not lost to them in the last 14 meetings. We had coupons from the Mother’s Day race that we kept forgetting to bring with us, but we did [...]

Site Changes (Part II)

By Blaine Moore on Saturday, August 27th, 2005 | 1 Comment

The changes to the site will probably happen this weekend or early this week after all. I have been playing with redirects and the like and have modified a migration script so that permalinks will still get you to the correct page. I just need to write a theme for the new site, and verify [...]

Kenenisa Bekele sets 10k world record

By Blaine Moore on Saturday, August 27th, 2005 | 1 Comment

Kenenisa Bekele has cut about 3 seconds off his previous best to run a world record 10k in 26:17.53. “I had tried to beat the World record (5000m) in London but the pacemakers there were not too good, and in Hengelo (10,000m)I had to compete in bad weather. Today my brother Tariku did a very [...]

Site Changes

By Blaine Moore on Friday, August 26th, 2005 | No Comments

The goal this weekend is to make a few changes to the website. They may or may not trickle to this blog for a few weeks. Basically, I am going to play around with WordPress and see if I can’t get that working (and eventually migrate everything over to that if I like it – [...]

Lance Armstrong Denies (Yet More) Doping Charges (Part II)

By Blaine Moore on Friday, August 26th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Earlier this week, French newspaper L’Equipe accused Lance Armstrong of cheating, and that he used EPO during his 1999 Tour De France win. I predicted that this would happen when Armstrong retired in July. Armstrong is not getting any support from the Internation Cycling Union. Hein Verbruggen, president of cycling’s governing body, had this to [...]

What is EPO?

By Blaine Moore on Friday, August 26th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Earlier this week I wrote about Lance Armstrong being accused of cheating by using the banned substance EPO during his 1999 Tour de France win. Le Ann Welty commented on EPO by describing what it was:

Nike Women’s Marathon sells out

By Blaine Moore on Thursday, August 25th, 2005 | No Comments

The field for the 2nd annual Nike Women’s Marathon has been filled. [Yesterday,] Nike announced the 2nd annual Nike Women’s Marathon is sold out! 15,000 women across the globe have registered for this highly anticipated event which will take place on October 23, 2005 in San Francisco. This year marks the second year for the [...]

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