January « 2007

30Jan/071

Bike fitted

downhill

Went for a bike fitting today at Bullen, Kinrooi (http://www.meetcentrum.be)
...
It was certainly a surprise.

Stem changed from 100mm to 80mm
Spacer moved from below to above stem,
Seatpost moved up 400mm !!!
Handlebar has to be shortened with 600 mm and ...

My left leg is shorter than my right one, 120 mm to be precise.
(sigh)

After the measuring, the medical talk and the bike changes I went for a test drive and man what a difference, can’t wait to test it in the field with the current changes !

to be continued !

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28Jan/070

TT Paal-Beringen

TTPaal

We went to the TT in Paal Beringen today, a mountainbike trip organised by the MTB bike brothers from Paal (http://mtb-bike-brothers.skynetblogs.be/).

It was a nice calm ride with a lot of thick mud, loving it
The arrivals where magnificent: multiple cookies and warm soup !!

At the end there was a surprise for us all (alas for me it was) the ‘KlitsBerg’ ...
You could pick your track hard - easy...

... Hard was hard, really hard. Felt it the day afterwards, and didn’t even reach the top.
Rendez-vous with the KlitsBerg next year, without a doubt.

Some pictures from the tour. (for a larger collection of pictures follow: http://users.telenet.be/yves.mtb/fotokes_paal_beringen/Paal_Beringen/index.htm)

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27Jan/070

Since my serendipity blog was getting scorched with spam attacks and I was truly tired of it, I decided to give the iWeb blog a spin, and what do you know... It just works
(I will migrate some stories I found interesting from my older blog though.)

The lack of pure html control in the iWeb studio however is somewhat annoying, the fact that I can’t even add my google adsense code in the used template is a missed opportunity.

Since I have not yet found a good reason for a .Mac account except for the commenting system I dropped this feature for the time being. (and yes I looked into Haloscan and found it not ‘nice’ enough.) If you have any comments or suggestions feel free to mail me however at stefan.venken at gmail.com

The current system of managing the site offline and publishing it to a folder, running iWebMore and publishing it online is in fact quite comfortable. For now....

! Do keep it mind that the old rss feed won’t work anymore, so be sure to update it.