Combining [ Video + GPS ] to Create Next Generation [ Online Maps ]
Combining [ Video + GPS ] to Create Next Generation [ Online Maps ]
The great thing about getting old is you blame FUs on just that and everyone says, "Ya, well duh." Well Pee Oui with his clipboard of calendar month print outs and his #2 pencil wrote the 2013 dates in the wrong months. Fortunately, alert readers rushing to iCal sent WTF messages saying, "P Oui you got some 'splaining to do." So, the real, cross my heart, dates are:
Fat Tire Tour of Milwaukee XXIX June 15, 2013
Steel Is Real Milwaukee September 7, 2013
New trails and connections at CamRock County Park in Cambridge will be celebrated all day this Saturday, December 1 at the CamRock Fire Festival. A new bridge completes the ski trail connections making a 13 K seamless system with 150 feet of elevation on one loop. The popular single-track mountain bike trails will be for snowshoeing, walking, and now approved for snow bikes during the winter. Fun includes hiking, biking, bonfire, micro brew tasting and music. CLICK HERE for more info.
All the Steel Is Real shirts I had to reorder have been mailed. If you haven't received yours, message me.
To look at prospective poster and shirt designs for 2013 go to the Steel Is Real Milwaukee Facebook page and click Recent Posts. You can click Like for your choice. Of course Pee Oui reserves the right to ignore your faves and the guy screening them will have something to say about it, but don't let that stop you.
The Best Steel Bikes contest will again feature antique French medals for awards in 2013. This year they were all the same. Next year they will all be different including this beauty I just scored on French eBay. I'm adding a Best Eternal Internal class for geared hubs like Sturmey Archer. So there will be nine classes with Balloon-Tire Bomber, One-On-One, Road Bike, Mountain Bike, Extemporaneous, Bagel Wheels, Tandem and the coveted "Should've Taken 'er to Ziebart" award for the Best Rust Bucket. Of course there will be a beautiful Best In Show sculpture again and I should mention that in two years this award has been given it's been won by the Best Rust Bucket (WTF?).
Pee Oui is planning several small group trips to the Eurozone this year including to Alpe d' Huez (photo right and map above) for the Tour de France. This year the race will climb Alpe d' Huez TWICE in one day for the first time ever! This is apparently possible because they've repaired a back road from the top back down to the same valley. I've ridden it and have to say it is about the scariest descent I've ever made. Stopped halfway down to take photos and my rims were too hot to touch. I've reserved a house near the base of the climb. We'll have time to hang out with whacked out Dutch fans who take over an entire corner. They call it the Dutch mountain because their compatriots have won there more than any other nation, though not for over 20 years now. The dates are July 13 to 22. Also planning a spring trip to the classics Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. Let me know if you are interested in more details.
Don't let the teddy bear (koala) fool you. Billie was one tough little lady in 1934.
CLICK HERE for the lowdown and link to this cool Quite Continental fashion blog.
No, Brian Watzke and his Best Rust Bucket Schwinn Flying Star were not on performance enhancing drugs or artificial corrosion and will not be stripped of the Best In Show title. However, discrepancies have cropped up. Curt Lundeen did not win Best Road Bike as his stunning Bob Jackson was deemed to be a track bike, albeit ridden on the road, and the award went to Mary Van Vactor and her classic TREK.
In case you don't get enough of Pee Oui's drivel when his roids get ragin' and he cranks out another e-newsletter, you will soon be able to read his rants on a regular basis on a Trail Genius blog. This awesome site allows you to visit trails and follow the routes on video while icons show location on map and profile. It's really catching on and I'll do my best to drag it into the gutter. You will soon be able to comment on the blog and tell me where to get off. My newsletters will also be posted. Book mark it now and you'll no longer have to dig through your old email files to find my words of wisdom.
The tears fell like little Ho Hos (love that name) when the news hit that Hostess was out of biz. Well my children, back in the dark ages, when bikes were steel and riders were carbon fiber, there were no Power this or Hammer that and about the only on the bike energy choices were bananas and pure unadulterated (OK, highly adulterated) carbo snack cakes like Ding Dongs, Sno Balls and Twinkies.
Twinkies slid down best and who can forget that one did double duty as my male enhancement when I was Goldmember on FTTM a few years ago. And, as I recall, it ended up sliding down my leg.
No matter how you feel about corporate CEOs, Teabaggers, or unions, this has the ring of truth to it: A CEO, a Teabagger and a union guy sit down for lunch. There are 12 Twinkies. The CEO immediately grabs 11 and tells the Teabagger to look out because the union guy is trying to get a bite of his. CLICK HERE for more Twinkie fun. Time to grow your own.
It's a black mark on Pee Oui's cycling record that he's never ridden the Milwaukee Santa Rampage. I mean it's a lot like Fat Tire Tour of Milwaukee, bikes, costumes, bar hopping, but six months apart. The costume theme is always the same: Santa. So hundreds of variations on the jolly old elf pedal the streets and bike paths of Mwauky. But, Pee Oui has not been among them. He's always had an excuse. Not this year. He's gotten the beer stains out of his red lame' tights and new batteries for his male enhancement. So, he plans to roll with the other Santas on Saturday, December 15. The start/finish is at Cafe Hollander on Downer Avenue. Check out the Santa Rampage Facebook page for details.
Keep it real, keep it steel,
Pee Oui Roubaix
a.k.a. Phil Van Valkenberg
