Gotta love those recursive acronyms!

So far, so good. After a sloppy winter ride the bike generally gets a shower before I do, so that helps. I suspect chrome may actually be more durable than (most) paint on a steel frame (properly cared for).

Yes, I’m planning on looking at those as well. I did stop into Wheelworks a couple weeks ago, but they didn’t have any. I’m hoping to get to Harris at lunchtime today. There was one for sale on craigslist, but he never got back to me. Nice looking machine and I’ve heard a lot of good things about the ride quality.

How does the chrome hold up to winter salt and sand?

I have one “single speed” of sorts, but it’s a beach bike and weighs about 150 pounds. It’s more of a cargo bike. I can load it down with anything and haul it anywhere. But it’s really, really heavy. I mean really. It looks exactly like this (blue rims and all) except it’s a single speed. 2.125 inch tires, &c. Did I mention it was heavy?

There’s also a really cool looking bike that’s hitched to the parking meter next door every day. I talked to the guy that owns it and it seems to be a one-off, or at least he said “a friend” of his made it for him. The head plate says “Bomber Bicycle”. Sure is a nice looking machine. I should take a picture. In fact, I will … hang on …

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As much as I like this, though, I think I’d still prefer a classic sort of race frame instead of the MTB/ATB style frame.

I was going to go to Harris yesterday after lunch, but I had yet another flat and didn’t go. I fixed it last night and, provided it holds, I’ll be heading to W. Newton around lunchtime today.

The question now is, eat first then ride, or scarf down some my-T-fine BBQ once I’m there.

In re the other: I’ll zip some files up and send them. There’s a big debate about exactly what “PHP” stands for, but it’s a server-side application language use to create dynamic web pages (among other things). http://www.php.net/. It also uses MySQL, one of the primary open source database platforms. http://www.mysql.com. Both of those are available at almost all web hosting companies (including the stuff I resell).

http://www.raleighusa.com/items.asp?deptid=5&itemid=264

Hey, I’m still very curious about this code on your training log. I’d really like to try to use it/tweak it to my own twisted ends, but can not recall, or find the post in where we talked a bit about it. You were throwing out all kind of geek terms to me and I need to write them down so I can research what that means in English on my end. Can you tell me again about what the hell PhP means? You could do that directly at knoxg at hotmail

Thanks! I liked looking the IRO site and their giant conversion. Boy Howdy…