Society

1st “Great bike ride” in Budweis

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The very first “Velka Budejovicka Cyklojizda” happened yesterday. I was surprised how many people were attending even when it was first time. Stylish outfits, kids, fixes, unicycles, high wheelers … you name it. It was praticularly nice to be able to cross the traffic lights on reds as this was the way I (and everybody else too) was riding in Zurich for last two months. Just one way to work was a few times on the sidewalk, couple of one way streets in wrong direction, sometimes on tram rails, going on red and maybe much more.

Fixies in Prague

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Yes, they are here too! I have seen a fixie near Vysehrad today. A decent one as you can see bellow. Respect. Brakeless would probably be more hard core, but to me just riding a fixie in Prague is hard core enough. I can’t imagine myself to ride my usual trip I do on MTB on fixed gear or even brakeless. Average 8.1% climbing within Zizkov tunnel and then even more climbing of various steepness up to Zizkov tower . Then a downhill back home often fuelled by couple of beers … no thanks :)

 

Web 2.0 suicide machine

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Kill your online alter ego easily, quickly and … forever. Take the tour or check out the testimonials. Wanted to give it a try and as an experiment kill my Twitter account (you know everything is impermanent), but got the maintenance message:

Sorry our machine is currently shutdown due to server maintenance 
caused by the huge amount of requests and reactions we've received in 
the last hours!

Please consider suicide at a later moment and accept our apologies!

We'll hit back!

Damn …

Worst PF ever

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Found video PF 2010 from Topolanek and Paroubek yesterday evening and … I have definitely seen the worst PF ever.

While Topolanek’s one is not interesting in any way and does not say anything special or inspirational, it is believable. He looks like an ordinary guy (albeit a bit dumb), he says what the people usually say, he smiles. On the other hand Paroubek’s is like a trip to North Korea – awfull place (stage with a candle … how original!), horrible speech being read from the written notes, grumpy face. Is it a sort of personality cult or what? The cameraman could tell him he looks like an idiot? OMG, this guy wants to be a PM!

Check for yourself bellow.