The new bike has arrived. A green Santa Cruz Heckler.
The background:
Death of a bike: http://one2ride.org/bulletin/index.php?topic=1355.0
Choosing a new fully suspended bike: http://one2ride.org/bulletin/index.php?topic=1357.0
I drove down to Elite Cycling & Fitness (Pinecrest, south Miami) on Wednesday. It is about two hours south from Jupiter. I arrived about 2:30. They attached my pedals. Swapped […]

I’m considering implementing a multi-platform regression testing box. This would be used to run regression tests on each of the platforms. My first consideration was install each OS on a different partition/HDD, then boot into each OS for each test. Then I considerered something like VMWare, or Xen.
The pros/cons I thought of […]

I’ve found my Santa Cruz Heckler at Elite Cycling and Fitness. It should be ready for me on Wednesday. The RP23 rear shock upgrade has been ordered on a 3-day delivery. The price is $2200 (If memory serves).
That’s $1999 + $85 upgrade = $2084 plus tax.
Another place I’ve been talking: http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=329438.

I’ve been asking around about a replacement bike. Here are the threads I’ve been involved in:

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=328743
http://one2ride.org/bulletin/index.php?topic=1357.0

So it looks like I want a Santa Cruz Heckler, with a D kit, and a rear shock upgrade to the Fox RP23.
Unfortunately, my local bike shop J-Town Bike does not have it in stock. There is a […]

I bought my ProFlex 957 in December 1996. At the time, I was living in Wellington, New Zealand, and I was visiting Maureen in Santa Barbara, California, USA. The bike has been great. It’s been to Moab a few times. It’s done trails all over New Zealand, and around Ottawa, Canada, and […]

I was at OSCON 2007 this week. I was there to present my Nobody Ever Regretted Making a Backup talk:
In the past few years, Bacula has been gaining ground on more established solutions, both open source and proprietary. This talk will introduce you to Bacula, show you the main components, give you an outline […]