sweet tweet accolade from a fellow eco-cyclist after only 10 days a blogspot posting tweeter......

..... Thank You

ClimateRider

" Great blog site @stroudyonon - http://stroudyonon.blogspot.com "

I find writing a blog and generating a tweet cathartic. The views and solutions are my own and I do like to express them - I hope no one thinks they are extruded!

When a twit spams or bores me, so that I miss a Tweet or two from stephenfry, AnneliesePlace, TheGoGreenBlog, etc. I UNFOLLOW them!

Twitter is my best tool to pursue specific interests, garner information and research a particular subject. I also enjoy the continuous stream of Tweets from the humorous, the informed and the interesting to alert, update, inform, motivate and cheer me.

So I choose to FOLLOW new Twitters and UNFOLLOW others daily.

Twitter is not about gratifying your ego through how many FOLLOWERS you have, although its nice when individuals choose to follow with real interest and friendship.

So lets enjoy RocknRoll honest comment and savour like minded humorous Tweets, whilst making this immensely powerful communication tool work for each of us in different ways.

My Blog Postings generate the majority of tweets via tweeterfeed and I intend to archive on my public Profile page and upload copy.

I either blog openly on a given subject and problem, or consult privately.

QUESTIONStoTWITBROOM

OKtoADDtoPROFILE TwitSPAMfedTWITBROOM ? SuggestionsHow? CanYouBrush and Sleep? IsTwitDeceitSpamCleaning a Calling? sheetWHAThaveIstartedTHIStime?

Twitter only gives you 140 character spaces and I thought it a shame not to use them to communicate fully?

If it gets popular, where will it go?

A bike for rural Africa

No, this is a long wheelbase Surly Big Dummy with its choice of slip-in bolt-on raised rear carrier systems has a 180 kg maximum loaded weight and a few have taken it off-road trekking?!

Xtracycle Inc also do bolt-on long wheelbase extensions for any full size bike that take the same seperate carrier systems. As I have previously said, you can find niche markets for some interesting bicycles in North America.

Now I have a re-geared GT Mountain Bike with standard front and rear panniers, that I toured France with this June with an all up load of 160 Kg - it gets you fit!

In Africa, you simply load up and then passengers climb on. So this long wheelbase Surly Big Dummy large rear carrier would invite a sagging bang-crash-wallop of a load!

The bike frame and drive are the key factors in producing an African Cargo Bike.

Through good design, a single sized, smaller, sturdier and much lighter frame incorporating the carrier, might easily carry a 50 odd kg sack on each side with at least one passenger on top, in addition to the weight of the bike and cyclist.

But don't you just want to race a Surly Big Dummy or a Kopenhagen Bullitt across America?