Author: hans

  • Photos from 9/11 memorial Washington Square Park

    Here are photos from a memorial in Washington Square Park, North Beach, San Francisco, CA on the first anniversary of September 11th.

  • Comments :: Videos

    Here is the place to comment about my videos. The good, the bad, the ugly! Click here to jump to my video page

  • Big thanks to Avid!

    I recently built up a new cyclo-cross bike. The components a mix of old and new. The brakes are a set of Avid Tri-Aligns off of a previous mountain bike. These are really sweet cantilever brakes that are perfect for cyclo-cross. When I went to mount the brakes, I found that one of the arms…

  • Race Report :: 2002 NCNCA Cyclocross District Championships

    Date: November 16, 2002 Event: NCNCA Cyclocross District Championships Category: Master 35-44 Place: back of the pack Field: ~40 Team mates: Ron G., Chip B. First, don’t let the name “District Championships” fool you into thinking this was some big time event. Sure, the winners of the various categories would receive “District Champion” jerseys. But,…

  • Google not really ignoring common words?

    If you search on google for “photos of snow”: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=photos+of+snow My website has a hit on the first page. But, google indicates that the “of” is a common word and is not included in the search. But, if you then search for “photos snow”: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=photos+snow The results are different and my site doesn’t show up…

  • Race Report :: Surf City Cyclocross #3

    Date: November 10, 2002 Event: Surf City Cyclocross #3 Category: Senior B Place: 39th Field: ~70 Team mates: Brett H., Mike M., Jeremy S., Stephen K., John R. Support: Dennis, Funke, Jay, Jeremy With one hour of ride time on my brand spankin new SyCip Cyclocross bike I was now heading off to the third…

  • Oh the joy of a new bike!

    Oh the joy of a new bike! It all begins by waiting patiently as the frame is hand crafted from raw materials. Then a little longer as a shiny new coat of paint is applied to its body. Following that comes the stork, delivering your fresh happy baby. Oh joy! But we need to outfit…

  • Race Report :: 2002 Surf City Cyclocross #2

    Date: October 27, 2002 Event: Surf City Cyclocross #2 Category: Senior B Place: 27th Field: 70+ Team mates: Brett, Ron, Jeremy, Stephen, Mike Support: Dennis, Funke, Matt Oh the joy of Daylight Savings Time ending. Waking up at 6:30am and not being sure if it’s really 7:30am or possibly 5:30am. Wondering if the alarm clock…

  • 2002 Central Coast CX – Race 2 Womens Video

    Added the video for the Women’s category from the Central Coast Cyclocross race #2. Note, I had some problems with the helmetcam. It wonked out (technical term :’) and the colors were all messed up. Half the video was missing one of the primary colors. So I worked around it by making the helmet cam…

  • Race Report :: Central Coast Cyclocross Race 2

    Date: October 20, 2002 Event: Central Coast Cyclocross #2 Category: Masters 35+ A Place: Dunno. They had me doing twice the # of laps. Field: 20 Team mates: Mike, Matt, Funke, Sarah “Dang! I need to finish my cyclocross bike…” Those were the words tumbling through my head each time we hit the flats and…