Tag: Tour de Georgia
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Gearing for Brasstown Bald
It was an exciting race to the top of Brasstown Bald on Saturday and I had a really great time photographing the action. Check out my latest stage 6 photoset on Flickr if you are interested. I have probably mentioned before that I really love to see the mountain top finish on Brasstown; my kids…
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TdG Team Time Trial pictures
I finally uploaded some of my pictures from yesterday’s team time trail to Flickr, so check out my Tour de Georgia 08 set. I had a great time photographing the race; in fact, I think I becoming addicted to race photography. With such a short circuit lap and two teams on the course at once,…
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Tour de Georgia- team time trial
Slipstream-Chipolte just won the first pro team time trial in the U.S. since something like 1994. Astanta and High Road were close behind on the course here at Road Atlanta. It was a really hot day at this race course, which is usually used for automotive racing, I just heard someone say that the temp…
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Reactiv LED cycling jacket
I am a little late in mentioning this, but for those of you who have not seen it, here is a picture of designer Michael Chen’s Reactiv cycling jacket. The jacket, which uses colored LEDs to indicate when the rider is accelerating or decelerating based on movement sensed by a built in accelerometer, recently won…
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Tour de Georgia Stage 5
OK, this is going to be another post with no design content. Still, I thought some of you might be interested in the race pictures that I took yesterday. I will add more soon and still I need to edit titles and tags, but here is what I have uploaded so far. This picture shows…
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Off to Brasstown Bald
Last year, my kids and I really enjoyed watching this stage of the Tour de Georgia. Here we are stopped by one of the many waterfalls along the hike to the top. This year, the Brasstown Bald stage falls on a school day, so I will be there with just my youngest (this is his…
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A quick post today
SRAM just officially launched their new Power meter equipped crankset at the Sea Otter classic. An SRM crankset doesn’t come cheap, but this integrated, low q-factor design from SRAM makes sense if you need to measure power output. Read more about it here and here. Okay, that was a rushed post. Why? Because I am…
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Atlas bikes
A reader, Mike, left a comment not long ago about the Atlas bike that he rode in India. His comment about those “heavy, slow, indestructible” utilitarian bikes prompted this post. For those of you who are interested, here is a picture that Mike sent me of the bikes to which he was referring. Read a…