Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'grease'
November 24, 2008
The P-I is running an AP story this morning about the new carbon fiber composite belt that some bike manufacturers (Trek, in the article) are switching to. The article makes all sorts of claims for belt superiority. We imagine they are quieter, and of course there's no chain grease involved, but we drew up short at this: "And one belt will typically last three years--the life span of three chains." Is that for real? Our......
Continue Reading "Bicycle Chains vs. Carbon Belts"May 22, 2008
Tuesday night we went to High School Musical on Tour (the Paramount, through May 25). We have up until now stayed completely ignorant of all things HSM, other than knowing it was a surprisingly successful movie musical produced by Disney that had a Shiite-like following among the Hannah Montana set. Its success surprised even The Mouse, who quickly created a franchise that includes HSM 2 (soon to be HSM 3), HSM on Ice, and this......
Continue Reading "For the Tweens, High School Musical on Tour"