Cyclists

Here's a site that might be useful, it's called "map my ride", http://www.mapmyride.com/
It let's you build maps and que sheets for cycling, and has provisions for sharing and searching for rides other users have posted.
It's U.S. centric, of course, but you can point it anywhere. In Ari's honor I tried out building a map in Crete, just to make sure.
It works better for this kind of stuff than things like mapquest or google maps, as it let's you define the route, though doing a long trip can get tedius.
In addition to the que sheets, it has some nice features like showing an elevation profile, and it can show the route on a topo map for off-road rides or hikes.

Here's a sample (not in Crete); http://www.mapmyride.com/route/us/nh...n/769913750614

More photographs? You betcha. After all this is APUG, and not just any ol' bike forum. By the way my photos were courtesy of a recently acquired Canonet QL17, what a neat little camera. The film is Neopan 400.

Hi mtnbkr, Monkey, DF and Polybun, welcome to the group!
Great to see a lot more photographs being added now too!

Just to introduce myself. I went car free as in, bicycle and public transport only, a little over 6 years ago. I do a nightly 11mile commute home from work. In addition to my commuter rigs, I also race in the ABA (bmx racing) and ride a bit of street, park, and the ocasional set of trails. I need to sell some bikes so I can have room for a dark room!

Greetings, bikies. As it has been observed, go away for a little while, come back and cyclists are all over the place. GOOD !

I've been riding for about forever, and using the bike for most normal getting around. Last winter's get around bike, a Surly LTC was stolen... by my wife ! I'll be building something up from the stash of stuff in the garage: probably that old mountain frame with nexus hub gear.

The pride of my bikeshop are an old Masi (running fat TUFO cyclo tubies for winter), and a Jack Taylor tandem. Friends have talked me into getting a new MTB, to go chasing trees with them this winter. I'm down for the bike...but the backwoods hijinx is a little sketchy at the moment.

AS FOR dear old Sheldon, I met him long, long ago. He was a fine man, and thanks to his openhearted belief in sharing what he knew, his legacy will last for a long time.

Hey fellow cyclists, I just wanted to say I just added a classified ad on APUG for a sweet Raleigh Prestige racing bike (NEW build) in the Misc category, in case anyone's interested. I am a mountain and touring biker. Not a racing biker. I built this bike for fun, something to do. Now I want to sell or trade it for a nice kit. If you're interested go check out the ad. The URL is: http://www.apug.org/classifieds/show...&cat=10&page=1

Happy trails!!!

Hmm. I go away from Apug for a while and come back to find a cycling group (and other groups as well). Cycling is another great love of mine. I ride both road and mountain. Offroad, I ride a Surly 1x1, fully rigid SS. It's equipped with 26" wheels currently, but I'm collecting parts to build a set of 650b wheels. My road bikes consist of a Surly Long Haul Trucker touring bike and a Scattante SSR fixed gear. This year, I've done a century on both road bikes and have clocked nearly 2000 miles on and offroad.

Stefan, thanks for the reply. Clipless is all that I have used, from Look to Time and now SPD. All the photos of fixies that I've seen has them with clipped pedals so I thought that was the way to go. Anyway, you addressed my main concern, coming out of your pedals on a steep down hill with no way of slowing down.

Actually I've been in more accidents where I could not click-out of my pedals in time, like at a stop light.

Thanks for the welcome. I don't see any advantage in using clipless pedals. I did use them on fixies in the 80's but now use SPD's or if doing time trials Look pedals. My feet have never come out SPD's or Look even going downhill. I would try them and use what feels better.
Stefan

Stefan, welcome, and since you're a fixie'r (whatever) I wanted to say that the COG magazine has me intrigued, thanks Ari. Question: is there an advantage to riding a fixie with toe clips in lieu of clipless, ala SPDs, et al?

The local shop has a few and asked if I wanted a test ride, at that moment it was no but it may not be in the near future.