Just twenty years ago Paul Turner and RockShox introduced the modem mountain bike suspension fork. Known as the RS-1, this fork would prove its worth on the bicycle of 1990 World Champion Ned Overend. Now, as then, mountain bike suspension is still a little misunderstood, under maintained and under utilized. In order to get best… Continue reading Suspension tuning 101
Month: October 2011
Death Of A Student
Are they forgotten so soon? Someone died yesterday. A student of MIT; a final year student of Printing Technology branch. The notice came in the morning lecture hours, and there was a service at 10.15 am in the MIT Quadrangle. We came down to the service, most of us irritated at this disruption of our… Continue reading Death Of A Student
In Rome Do as Indians Do!
http://www.yoga-geek.com/ Some times idioms can be so misleading. “ When In Rome , do as Romans do.” So Wrong. Wherever we go, we shall always be Indians. If you introduce yourself in the West as an Indian, be warned. You will expected be to take the role of a Geek and a Yoga expert. If… Continue reading In Rome Do as Indians Do!
The School Boy’s Bag
My school days are over; grim old age now holds me as his victim. Long since feeling assured that my studies had been prosecuted far enough, I gave up the idea of ever again commencing school; yet with what extreme pleasure do I dwell upon Upon by-gone schooldays; when by the power of association they… Continue reading The School Boy’s Bag
Beneath the Surface
To define what good is, one must first know what bad is. And the same is true vice-versa. Let us assume that drinking beer is good for one’s health. We have now, in the back of our minds, a memory of what bad health means and by comparing beer’s effects on the body against our… Continue reading Beneath the Surface