Sweet jebus…THIS has got to be one of the most epic links in the internet-world of cycling.
Includes links to full-.pdf copies of rare and hard-to-find books on bicycle history, construction, maintenance, and repair, as well as a bunch of other useful information.
Some of the titles included:
Bicycle: The History, by David Herlihy
The Paterek Manual for Bicycle Framebuilders, by Tim Paterek
Barnett’s Manual (4 Volumes), by John Barnett
Sutherland’s Handbook for Bicycle Mechanics(out-of-print)
Aluminum - “I’m Bound To Pack It Up” (Originally by The White Stripes)
I don’t have a word for when a song makes you get totally absorbed into it, so that you kind of lose a sense of where you are…but whatever that word would be - this song does it to me. It’s the absolutely perfect background music…
…and in complete disclosure, I discovered this song as a backdrop to this video - which is amazing in itself.
closertotheocean:Chris Jordan:These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. (via A Photo Student)
The bulwarks of our liberty are men and women who read and think.
—
-Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, US Navy
…as quoted in LIFE Magazine, as part of a campaign during a 1960 campaign to stress the irreplaceable importance of magazines as “a leading force for moral and cultural growth.”
First it was LIFE Magazine, axed in 2000. Now, essentially every newspaper is on the chopping block. Fun time to be alive, folks. Fun time, indeed.
This is, without a doubt, the most entertaining ad campaign currently running. While I’m usually hyper-critical of advertisements, I’ve been won over by “the most interesting man in the world.”
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To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. (via A Photo Student)
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To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. (via A Photo Student)
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