Stringing up the bike

Hopefully the cold snap is over.  Temperatures are promising to climb into the sixties this week and that is a good thing.  It's the first of April, I won't be teaching the next week and a half, so I'm taking my first real recreational ride of the year.  I will be counting on warmer temperatures and a westerly wind to push me over the continental divide.  I guess we will see.   I have a little preparation ahead but am looking forward to it.   

I ran across this interesting video this week.  Before you see this and start laughing, I want you to know that his may actually prove to be a viable cycling application for carbon fiber.  This is an application for real bikes developed in a place where people who ride bikes have destinations.  Up until this moment I believed the only viable application for CF was racing which is not a viable application at all.  It exists to fuel the endorsement of pharmaceuticals and increase the subscription base for Strava.  Making a CF cord to run this drive train may be useful.  It looks really goofy at first but  may be a really efficient way to operate a bike.  It may not be as elegant as the Nuvinci CVT, but it's lighter.