Trip to Balderston’s Motorad

No rain today so no excuse not to get on the bike and practice searching for the vanishing point on the road and the Rain Suit Pro 3 at Balderston’s BMW dealer. Luckily they didn’t have it in my size and I saved the recently and secretly increased price of £90.


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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-01-15

  • My body is shocked after an early start in the frost on Bertha. Her ice symbol flashed a warning #
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Minimalist workstations

What about this lifestyle fantasy, from a page about minimalist desks at http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/a-showcase-of-minimal-workstations-to-inspire-you

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-12-18

  • Blimey it's snowing. #
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Ride to Long Melford and Back

Lovely ride today:

Cambridge to Long Melford and back


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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-13

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Now how do I get these pictures in the right spots?

Bottisham and the Wilbrahams (30 miles)


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Beautiful route to Ipswich with no A14 in sight

The back roads to Ipswich at EveryTrail

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Saturday’s route

35 miles via Landbeach, Stretham and Upware


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Sharing routes from Garmin Zumo and Basecamp

Basecamp is the Mac sort of version of Mapsource. If you are both clever and lucky you can design routes on the Mac and export them to the Garmin and retrace them. Its easy to import routes into Basecamp from the GPS. But what about sharing them on a blog or something similar in a more intelligent way than just taking a screenshot and posting the picture? This is useful but not quite it: http://rolfje.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/how-to-share-garmin-routes-with-your-friends/
Then there’s Garmin Connect but that doesn’t seem quite right.
What about this from Motowhere. Its a route I’ve placed there a while back and it should show up here:


What about satellite images?


Here’s an import from another motorcycle route sharing website Open Road Journey. It seems a bit more developed than MotoWhere, where the ‘forums’ are moribund and just full of spam. ORJ appears to have real articles on it:


Finally, there’s Everytrail of course.It seems more sophisticated when tacking GPX files from the Garmin.
the ‘back’ way to Ipswich and a route around Cambridge at EveryTrail
EveryTrail – Find trail maps for California and beyond

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