Category: Tech

Shipping the Gear (and an iPhone test post)

Today is the day I shipped my bike and gear to the ride start. Why ship everything? Because during my initial planning, I didn’t think through the consequences of chaining this trip after another trip. No use paying double airline baggage fees… That said, Amtrak Express is the best kept secret for shipping a bike.…

June 24, 2013
How I Blogged Bicycling Across the USA in 2001

(This page was originally written in 2001 to describe the setup I used on my cross-USA bicycle tour. The content on this page is now hopelessly out of date, but archived for historical interest. My modern day version of this setup is described in an another blog post.) When I travel, or go on multi-day…

February 20, 2010
Broken Air Compressor

I went to use my Husky H1506F air compressor last weekend. When I saw that it wouldn’t get higher than 25 psi pressure, I knew there was something wrong. So when I called their technical support, they were thinking it was probably a damaged valve plate. They asked me to open up the compressor and…

September 11, 2008