By WebGuy on Monday, August 18, 2008 9:46 PM

Day five with no internet connection at the house.  I have been on the phone with these people over and over and over and each and every time they walk me through the "is your computer plugged into the router?" to which I say, "yes, and I can't ping past your firewall and the PPPOE can't get an IP Address" to which they say..."have your rebooted your computer?".

Yikes! 

Tomorrow - insight comes and installs a brand new high speedy cable modem.  Throwing out the DirectTV along with.  Turns out I can get better speed, more channels, HDTV, and a DVR for about $100 less every month.

Good bye Mr. Bellsouth.

By WebGuy on Friday, July 18, 2008 10:26 AM

First off - this was a great venue for a crit. We arrived early and stayed all day and had something to do or watch or eat or whatever the entire time. The whole main street alfresco cafe style start/finish area and the fans throwing parties and picnics on the backside of the course gave the place a pretty cool feeling. Many of the other racers I talked to thought this race was pretty cool too. Even the Race Director for Toyota United told me his guys thought this was one of the cooler courses and formats they have been to this season. For those that didn't make it to the race, the course was a short course (3/4 of a mile) with 6 turns. 3 of the turns on the backside were in short succession and each turn rolled onto an increasingly narrower road. Turn 5 was the most technical turn. It was a left hander with a curbed island on the right and a greater than 90 degree exit (the exiting road curved back in on itself a little) At best you could go through 2 at a time, but this series of turns really rewarded...

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By WebGuy on Friday, June 20, 2008 5:56 PM

I've been buying Felts for a while. I started out on Cannondales in my teens and have ridden a number of nice rides along the way. Most recently I had a Felt F4C which was pretty much the nicest road bike I've ever owned. I've been riding and racing it for about a year. It's a great bike and a great value for a full carbon bike with Dura Ace on it.

All was well until Joe at Cyclers pulled me aside before one Tuesday Night Worlds and said "I have a deal for you on a new Felt FC Frame". A couple of conversation with my wife about how upgrading my felt meant she could have my F4C frame for herself and I pulled the trigger on the new bike.

I've been riding it a lot and raced it last weekend and just have to say that this bike rocks.

By WebGuy on Monday, April 28, 2008 9:32 AM

I've been cycling long enough to know I should really ride to work.  I don't have any real excuses.  I live close to the office (under 6 miles), I can ride on surface streets to get from point A to B, I own a bunch of bikes that are suitable for communiting (my cross bike is my current favorite), we have showers at the office and I hate spending $3.75 gallon for gasoline.

My only excuse (or the one I've  been using lately) is that I didn't have a bag gthat could hold all of my stuff.  My laptop is one of those widesreen jobs and once I put all of my clothes, shoes, etc in there things don't really work.  Well, my wife took away my last excuse last night be presenting me with this for my birthday.

So, this morning we both hopped on our bikes and road to work.  All in all it took about two more minutes than driving, we chatted away riding two up on Norris and we both felt pretty good...

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By WebGuy on Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:04 PM

Our next big technical hurdle is to add some ride planning functionality to bikeclicks.  It'll be hung off of the members and bikecliques features we just launched.  Essentially you'll be able to create a "ride" and then either make it open invitation (anyone can join), invite only (meaning you send out some evites to specific members you want on your ride) or only for a specific bikeclique. 

Members can find rides either from bikecliques they belong to or hang out in, or from a new "Rides" page we're planning.  The new Rides page will list upcoming rides and show a ride calendar.  Members can also search for rides and maintain a list of rides they've signed up for on a personal calendar. 

The ride function will also allow people to post rides that have a fee associated with the event, so things like a tour or century or even a race can collect fees from members who sign up for the event.  Members can pay via paypal to the ride owner through PayPal.

Once we get things a little more setup I'll...

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By WebGuy on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:38 PM

I know every community in the world has one of these rides.  You know the ride..the one where all of the top local racers gather and have a nice leisurely ride [err race] over a well known course.  Well this year is my first time riding the local weekly "Worlds" and all I have to say is WOW is it a fun time,  Fast, furious, lots of ridiculous surges and breaks and chases. 

My current goal is to ride and stay with the main pack from start to finish on this ride.  Last night I didn't accomplish this as I found myself in a chase off the front on River Road and burned up my matches early.  While we did eventually catch the break but I snuck to the back for a few miles then dropped off to recover and picked the group back up as it turned around on Witherspoon to head back up the other way.  I ended up in another chase on the return leg (stupid, stupid, stupid) and burned up again by the climb at Mockingbird.

Ended up finishing with some team mates a few minutes behind the leaders and sprinted to the end...

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By WebGuy on Monday, April 07, 2008 10:20 AM

You have probably noticed a number of big changes around here lately. We've updated the look of BikeClicks, we've added new functionality like member profiles, friends, bikecliques and soon we'll be adding ride planning. (we'll be posting some more information on these new features in the coming days).One of the items on our list is to improve the community sections for members. Right now everything is in one large community forum. Then we show a "view" of each group (KyMBA, OVCX, etc) on a special page setup specifically for that community. We also show a list of "latest posts" on each community page along with photo galleries, etc.Well, the feedback we've gotten has been that this has been pretty confusing. Especially when you click on a latest post in a specific community, only to be taken to the main (and much larger) community forum.So why not just implement more than one forum? Well, this is the ideal situation because each community would have their own separate forum which can grow independently...

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By WebGuy on Sunday, April 06, 2008 10:09 AM

Ownesboro turned out to be a really fun course and our team did pretty well in three seperate categories (men's 4/5, Men's 3/4 and womens).  However my race was over within three miles.   

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By WebGuy on Friday, April 04, 2008 10:15 PM

 

The new look has been implemented.  I still have a lot of loose ends to tie up with navigation and changes in the site structure, but things have gone fairly smoothly through this process. 

Tomorrow I'll be racing in Owensboro so I won't do too much to the site until Sunday. 

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By WebGuy on Monday, March 31, 2008 9:38 PM

It's funny how web design just sort of finds it's way.  We've been working on a new look for BikeClicks and have been tuning and tweaking from the last "new" design.  Here is a sneak peak at the current new look.