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Tracking the Miles I have biked this year

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Published on: March 16, 2006

Well I tried the site that does those tracking things, but I really did not like how it is done, so I will just update the header file for my site to with the number of miles I have biked this year, as of not it is 23 miles, if you look at the top[…]

I am out of shape

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Published on: March 16, 2006

Today I biked up to Squall hill, then down to the Pittsburgh Irish Center for the CCE meeting, this is a group of people that meet to play music together (I don’t play, yet, I hope to be able to join them in playing in the future when I get OK with the Irish Tin[…]

Goals for this year

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Published on: March 12, 2006

I am going to try to bike 1000 miles this year, I got the idea from

I went for my first bike ride of the season

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Published on: March 10, 2006

I decided to do a short bike ride today. I don’t count my rides to work and back for the last 2 days since, they are only about .2 of a mile long. I decided to try out a route to where I will be working from the 20th on. I decided on the way[…]

Biking goal this year

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Published on: March 10, 2006

I got an idea from Rob at unspace, he has a goal of walking 1200 miles this year, and I am thinking if he can do 1200 as a goal for walking this year, maybe I should set a goal of biking 1000 miles this year. The one question I have is can I use[…]

Pulled the bike out of storage.

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Published on: March 9, 2006

Well today I pulled my bike out of storage today. I went to get it at about 7am I was hoping to get to work by 7:30, but it took 45 minutes to fix the bike up so that it was ride able, the breaks needed to be adjusted, I had to put a new[…]

An odd bike tire blow out

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Published on: October 16, 2005

Last night I biked up to my friends game night. After I had been there for 1 or 2 hours, with the bike just sitting outside, we hear this loud popping noise. I bikes tire had just popped, and this tire was just put on last month, and had no patches on it. Well when[…]

Bush asks people to conserve gas (again)

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Published on: September 26, 2005

Bush has asked people to conserve gas again. I have a way people can conserve gas. I have posted about this before. But I will restate it since I think it is a good idea. You can bike to work. The good thing about this, is it just might save you time in your day.[…]

Todays Bike Ride

Categories: Biking, Ham Radio
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Published on: September 25, 2005

I went on the bike ride I was working on getting together. I had only one person show up. It was still fun even though there were not many that showed up. But it did make it easier to get things together since both of us were hams and we were able to make contact[…]

Tomorrow’s bike ride

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Published on: September 24, 2005

Tomorrow (Sunday) is the bike ride, for any one that wants to go. This is mainly for hams, so meet around the North Shore around 2pm and give a call out to me (KB3HCG) on 147.48.

$5 per gallon gas price?

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Published on: September 22, 2005

CNN is reporting that gas prices after Rita could spike to over $4 maybe $5 I will have to get a picture of it. I have a picture of the $3+ gas price from here in Pittsburgh I don’t drive but I know this will even hurt me, because the companies that deliver the food[…]

On the bike ride home today

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Published on: September 21, 2005

I had a funny thing happen to me on the bike ride home today. While I was coming down Bayard St this young girl in a red BMW must not have liked the fact that I was on “her” road. So even though there was plenty of room to pass me while staying in the[…]

Sunday’s Ham radio operator’s Bike ride

Categories: Biking, Ham Radio
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Published on: September 21, 2005

I tried to get some people interested in the bike ride tonight after the 88 traffic net tonight. But no one seemed to be interested. I am going to keep trying to get people interested. But here is some information about the ride for the hams that don’t get on the 88 traffic net. I[…]

More Biking Pictures

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Published on: September 20, 2005

A friend of mine has been asking me if the pictures I took on our bike ride about a week ago were up on the web. Well I have finally gotten around to uploading them. So you can see them here in the 2005 Album of Biking pictures. So John the pictures of you are[…]

Biking

Categories: Biking, Ham Radio
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Published on: September 20, 2005

I am thinking about seeing if I can get a bike ride going of the hams in the Pittsburgh area, I first mentioned it on the traffic net tonight. I came up with the idea when some one else on the traffic net said that he went for a nice bike ride today. I found[…]

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