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Loose Screws

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Couchbike video shoot

When a production company from Los Angeles called last week about doing a video shoot involving the Couchbike, I told them it sounded great.  But as I looked out the window at the blanket of snow covering everything in sight, I wondered how amenable they might be to doing all this a little later on, say in May.  No luck there, so we scheduled it for this week and hoped for the best.

This has been an incredibly snowy winter.  In the month of January, the temperature in Kitchener-Waterloo only went above 0°C for a total of three hours.  That’s meant that whatever snow has fallen has generally stuck around.  However, it finally did warm up this weekend.  It also rained a lot.  So by yesterday morning the roads were clear and ready for couchbiking.

Hulabiking

Mike and Dave were sent over from Toronto to record the sound and video.  Natalie and I rode the couchbike around.  We also did some hulabiking and I spent some time in the garage tweaking wheels which may or may not have needed truing in the first place.  Overall, a fun day.  Watch for the footage in an upcoming show with the working title “Loose Screws”.  Wait, what!?

Wheel truing

A Beaver Is Eating My Canoe

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
 

Matt Jackson has just come out with another anthology of travel stories. This one titled: A Beaver is Eating My Canoe: True Tales to Make you Laugh, Chortle, Snicker and Feel Inspired, features my story of cycling from Dawson City, Yukon to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT in the wintertime. That trip doesn’t sound like a barrel of monkeys to you? It wasn’t. But Gary, Ray and I found that at minus 40° you can only cry for so long before the icicles dangling from your eyelids make you look downright hilarious. If you’re thinking about cycling the Dempster highway in the middle of winter, or are thinking about maybe not doing it, but saying that you did, I definitely recommend this book. Look for it in stores this holiday season!

  A Beaver Is Eating My Canoe