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- arnie.light
- Arnie Berger's (arnie.berger@amd.com) "Ultimate bike light"
- bike_gear.sea.hqx
-
Lawrence Hare's (ldh@duck.svl.cdc.com) copy of a
Hypercard stack to calculate gearing. Lawrence says
there is a newer version on major bbs systems.
- bike.lockers
- David H. Wolfskill's (david@dhw68k.cts.com) summary of
bike locker vendors.
- bike.painting
- Sam Henry's (shenry@rice.edu) collection of articles on
how to paint a bike.
- bike_power.c
bike_power.doc
- Ken Roberts program to calculate power output and power
consumption. See bike_power.doc for more info.
updated by Mark Grennan (markg@okcforum.oknorm.edu)
- biking_log.doc
biking_log.readme
biking_log.sea.hqx
- Phil Etheridge's (phil@massey.ac.nz) hypercard stack
riding diary. It keeps track of dates, distance, time,
average speed, etc., and keeps running weekly, monthly,
and yearly totals. See biking_log.read_me for more
information.
- CA-veh-code
- A directory containing the California vehicle code sections
that pertain to bicycles and gopher bookmarks. See the
README in that directory for more information.
- camera.tour
- Vivian Aldridge's (viviana@tamri.com) collection of articles
on cameras to take on a bike tour.
- competitive.nutrition
-
Roger Marquis' (marquis@well.uucp) article from the
Feb 91 Velo News on nutrition and cycling.
- computer.calibrate
- computer.install
-
Sheldon Brown's (CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com) universal bike computer
calibration chart and installation suggestions. These are better than the
ones in the archive.
- cyclesense
- Larry Watanabe's (watanabe@asimov.cs.uiuc.edu) copy of
the "Cycle Sense for Motorists" ready to run thru LaTeX.
- faq
- The current Frequently Asked Questions posting
- first.century
- Pamela Blalock's (pamela@keps.com) tips on training
for your first century ride.
- frame.build
- Terry Zmrhal's (terryz@microsoft.com) writeup of
a frame building class he took.
- gear.c
- Larry Watanabe's (watanabe@asimov.cs.uiuc.edu) program to
print gear inch tables.
- glossary
- Alan Bloom's (alanb@sr.hp.com) glossary of bicycle terms.
- lab.info
- Erin O'Brien's (bikeleague@aol.com) article on the
League of American Bicyclists.
- lights
- Tom Reingold's (tr@samadams.princeton.edu) collection of
articles on bike lights.
- lights2
- More articles from rec.bicycles.* on lights.
- mtb.faq
- Vince Cheng's (vccheng@gpu5.srv.ualberta.ca) MTB FAQ.
- pam.bmb92
- pam.bmb94
- Pamela Blalock's (pamela@keps.com) report on her
Boston-Montreal-Boston rides.
- pam.pactour93
- pam.pactour94
- Pamela Blalock's (pamela@keps.com) writeup of her PAC tours
across the country.
- pbp.info
- Pamela Blalock's (pamela@keps.com) information
on her Paris-Brest-Paris ride.
- pictures
- Bicycling gif and jpeg pictures. You're on your own here as there are few if any
descriptions of the files here.
- prof.sched
- Roland Stahl's (stahl@ipi.uni-hannover.de) list of
scheduled professional races in many countries.
- pwm.regulator
- Willie Hunt's (willie@cs.indiana.edu) design notes
on a pulse width modulated voltage regulator. Originally
designed for caving, this design is adaptable to bike
lighting. The author has parts available in kit form.
- ride.index
- Chris Hull's/Bill Bushnell's (bushnell@lmsc.lockheed.com)
explanation of a way to "index" rides and compare the
difficulty of different rides.
- ridelg22.exe
- ridelg22readme
- Found on AOL by Gary Thurman (thurmag@csos.orst.edu), a
ride diary program. The .exe file a self-extracting archive
for PCs.
- spike.bike0
- spike1.bike1
- spike2.bike2
- spike3.bike3
- spike4.bike4
- spike5.bike5
- spike6.bike6
- spike7.bike7
- spike8.bike8
- spike9.bike9
- spikes.bike
- Bob Fishell's (fish@ih4ess.ih.lucent.com) Spike Bike series.
They are numbered in the order that Bob posted them to
rec.bicycles. All the Spike Bike stories are
"Copyright 1989 by Robert Fishell, all rights reserved."
- spokelen11.bas
- Roger Marquis' (marquis@well.uucp) spoke length
calculator, written in Microsoft Quickbasic.
- spokelen.c
- Andy Tucker's (tucker@Neon.Stanford.EDU) port of
Roger Marquis' spokelen11.bas to C.
- spokelen.hqx
- Eric Topp's topp@roses.stanford.edu's Hypercard stack that
computes spoke lengths.
- studded.tires
- (Name removed by request) compilation
of messages on studded tires, including how to make your
own.
- tandem.boxes
- Arnie Berger's (arnie@col.hp.com) notes on how
he built a box to transport his tandem to Europe and
back. It's taken from a longer travelogue on his trip - if
you want more information, contact him at the above
address.
- tech.supp.phone
- Joshua Putnam's (josh@Happy-Man.com) list of technical
support numbers for various manufacturers. This list
used to be in the FAQ but now is too long to include there.
- trailers
- A summary posting of messages about bike trailers. Good
stuff if you're thinking of buying a trailer.
- wheelbuild.txt
- Sheldon Brown's (CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com) instructions on how to
build a wheel. This is more up-to-date than the one in the ftp archives.
- wheels.1.2.docs.hqx
- wheels_1.4.1.cpt.hqx
- R. Scott Truesdell's (truesdel@ics.uci.edu) Hypercard
stack to calculate spoke lengths. See wheels.readme
for more info.
- wintertips
- Pete Hickey's (pete@panda1.uottawa.ca) notes about
how to cycle in the winter.
- wintertips.pam
- Pamela Blalock's (pamela@keps.com) winter cycling tips.
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