Nike collaborates with Livestrong Foundation on the creation of Chalkbot, a new innovation on leaving messages on the road during the Tour de France 2010. Chalkbot began last year and was widely received by a large number of people worldwide.
“Chalkbot gained over 4,000 followers on Twitter, received over 36,000 messages and printed thousands of them over 13 stages of the Tour de France while driving several thousand miles during the 25-day event,” from Livestrong.
This year, Chalkbot returns, ready to receive any message you want to send out to the riders, to the people watching the tour, to the entire world. The short message can even be for your family or loved ones with cancer or have survived it.
From its website at http://www.livestrong.org/chalkbot, you can compose the message you want the Chalkbot to write for you on the roads at the Tour de France. After your message gets printed, Chalkbot takes…
Bike Doctor is the latest cycling application which shows you how to repair a bicycle part from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Created to quelch that fear of not knowing what to do should your bicycle break down, the Bike Doctor shows you all the things you need to know to make sure your ride is kept in working order.
The application is simple and easy to use. You simply point to the bike part you want to repair and the software gives you step-by-step instructions to follow. It even gives you the list of tools you need to use in repair. It is good to note that the tools needed are mostly your basic cycling repair and maintenance tools.
The new application provides different repair and maintenance routines like how to keep your bike lubricated to how to adjust the rear derailleur.
Beginners in the sport will truly appreciate the user-friendly…
Just in time for the Tour de France: A new pop quiz application was developed by Ron Cyger for Apple iPhone/iPod Touch. The KnowPro Tour de France quiz is a software designed to test how much knowledge you have when it comes to the famed race.
The application is based on facts, history, personalities and racers involved in the most celebrated race in the cycling arena. It allows for more than a hundred questions on the Tour. You can personalize the application depending on the number of questions you want to answer and on the level of difficulty.
Sample trivia questions are:
“Who was the first rider from Holland to win the polka-dot jersey?”
“how many stages were in the first Tour de France?”
The KnowPro Tour de France Pop Quiz application costs $1.99 and will take up 15.2 MB space on your iPhone or iPod. You can buy the application here.
Cyger has been a…
The results are in for the first quarter of 2010. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency releases its report on tests made and a number of violations per sport. Out of the 1,868 doping control tests, a total of seven violations were gathered. Out of the seven, three were taken from non-analytical positives, one was found for a stimulant, another was found for an anabolic agent, one more for both (anabolic and stimulant) agents and lastly, one positive for marijuana.
In the cycling scene, only David Clinger was caught while the rest were mostly from the track & field sport. Clinger was sentenced to a two-year ban after having tested for synthetic testosterone and modafinil.
Val Barnwell, a Masters track & field athlete, was also caught positive with testosterone prohormones. This is indicative that testing for doping should not be limited to Elite levels alone.
On the report, it is interesting to note that…
World-class designer Paul Smith will exhibit bike art from James Straffon at his global store in London Heathrow, Airport Terminal 5. The art will be viewable from July 4 to July 21. Straffon is the curator and artist of the NÖ gallery.
Tthe art wall will be located at the departure lounge in the airport. It will be in celebration of the upcoming Tour de France.
Straffon’s talent was influenced by Taliah Lempert, cyclist and artist. Straffon’s medium is paint, but he also dabbles in mixed-media. He aims to reach his audience and bring them into the world of cycling through his imagery. “Our compositions celebrate the bicycle, in all its many forms… with its beauty of speed, its dancing flames, its dynamism, and its simple honest appeal — as something one might enjoy looking at,” said Straffon….
Since the iPhone 4 released today and Tour de France is right around the corner, some of you might enjoy the new Team RadioShack iPhone App. For those of you on the go, or out cycling and want to know what Team RadioShack is up to, this iPhone app will keep you in the loop. You will have access to videos, pictures, and behind the scene footage. Best thing about the app is its free.
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SizeMyBike is a handy application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This application is intended for cyclists who are looking to get fitted for a bike. The SizeMyBike application can give you measurements of a frame that matches your body based on the given measurements you input for height, inseam, sternum, arm length, foot length, and shoulder width. From the data given, you may find the frame that can give you optimal performance and geometry.
The software is easy to use. Once uploaded, from the homepage, you may start to create your project. There will be six fields to fill out pertaining to your body’s measurements. The measurements must be in millimeters. You are also required to do the measuring barefoot since some shoes may add several millimeters to your height. After doing this, simply click “calculate”. You also have the option to get the results for racing and…
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