I’ve thought it would be handy to have some cards to hand out to people when I tell them about my trip. Especially I wanted something with the website address on it. This is a design that I came up with over the last few days. The bike silhouette was […]
Monthly Archives: March 2006
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Pre-Departure (125 days): A bike on a cliff
I arrived back in Beppu yesterday from three days riding around Oita Prefecture (and a wee bit into Miyazaki). The event was the Annual Oita Charity Bike Ride, organised by the Oita JET group. The charity was raising money for schools in Vietnam (www.roomtoread.org). The total distance of the ride […]
Pre-Departure (125 days): 5th Annual Oita Charity Ride
The mish for the last day or so has been to include an RSS feed of my own blog to my own site. The feed is displayed on the home page, so that people can see the most recent blog entries, along with a short excerpt from them. The thing […]
Pre-Departure (129 days): RSS description length
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TEST
OK, so this bike is hard going up hill. But I’m sure (I hope) that it’s just about getting my legs used to the new movements. I’m sure speed up hill will increase. However, going down hill is another matter. It’s incredible. Not only is it fast, it holds the […]
Pre-Departure (130 days): Downhill is rediculous
I redesigned the header of the site so that a random photo displays each time a page is refreshed or accessed. It is simply a div with an image background randomly displayed, with a gif file masker to make the corners appear round: The white area is actually transparent, allowing the […]
Pre-Departure (132 days): Random photo display in header
I had my initial jabs today in preparation for the trip: Tetanus booster Hepatitus A and B Rabies Total cost for these four jabs was 17,850JPY. I have to go back in three weeks time for another round of Hepatitus jabs and for a Typhoid jab. The Typhoid one has […]
Pre-Departure (132 days): Injected with diseases
Ah yes. After many months of waiting and confirming what I wanted, the bike has finally arrived. The bike is a German made HP Velotechnik Street Machine GTe (review: Bentrider Online), but I ordered it from Myron at Blue Ridge Cycleworks in Virgina, USA. Basically, Myron has a set price for […]