A Ride With Rudy: Upgraded Video!

This video is from riding flagstaff mountain--probably the steepest riding I have done since getting here. The road winds through the flatirons (the iconic boulder mountains) and into the valley on the back side.

With the new macbook, I finally had some time to experiment with imovie!



PS. the Miley Cyrus song is credited to my friend Mike H. who sang it every time we hit a hill on the whimsical west coast cruise.

SurvivoRudy: Hiking Mt. Audubon

Last weekend the first year grad students (about half of us) as well as some older grad students hiked Mt Audubon (13223ft). Naturally, I took the camera and videocamera to get some footage.

The simple day hike quickly took a turn for the worse as the weather worsened and we were stranded on the mountain (just kidding). But here is my compilation of SurvivoRudy...



And for some more serious footage...

Some of the snow on the mountain:



and a panorama from the top of the mountain:

2 New Bikes!

I recently bought more bikes in one day than ever before. 2. I bought the all black with red details fixed gear bike off of ebay for an awesome $180 and the all white Motobecane Phantom Cross Pro with all SRAM rival from bikes direct for $999! No tax and no shipping is nice...tax in boulder is almost 9cents on the dollar!






And not to be outdone, I just got my new macbook pro! Awesome.

Now that my purchasing spree is over, it is back to school. Starting tomorrow I have 4 grad classes, a grad seminar, and am a TA for general chemistry where I have to attend lecture run a gen chem lab section, recitation, help hours. Should be fun but a lot of work--and no more new bikes for a while...

Operation Yard Work Complete

The weed whacker and I had a fun time conquering the bedraggled back yard. I mowed and weeded for about 3 days off and on. Quite a bit of work, but pulling 3ft weeds is actually kind of fun/rewarding/easy. Doing yard work where it isnt needed (99% of homes including mine) still stinks.

I even discovered 3 flower beds that were not even visible previously! It was like a treasure hunt--the roomies said they hadnt seen fence in years.

A Ride With Rudy: Ward and Lyons

This video is the best yet. I was finally able to figure out how to add real music and edited the video to match it.

The ride was Saturday morning heading up Lefthand Canyon Rd. to the town of Ward at 9450 ft. This is leaving from Boulder (and eventually the base of Lefthand Canyon Rd) at 5430ft making it 4200ft of climbing over 16.7 miles. It took me 72 minutes (hoping for even faster in the future). The downhill must have taken 40 minutes!

Here I am taking video at the top of the climb which was actually past Ward at about 10000ft. More comments on the helmet camera and people wanting my picture...



And, A Ride With Rudy pt 3.



Note all the cyclists parked at the bottom of the mountain. People drive there just to ride up. (I biked there in my car).

PS. Youtube informed me that this video was blocked in Germany because I used Audioslave music in it. Those guys are definitely missing out.

A Ride With Rudy: Boulder Creek

This is just a bit of video of the main bike path next to Canyon Rd. Filmed partly at night and partly Saturday morning, the name of the flipvideo song it fittingly "Perfect Saturday."



And some reporting on the topic...

A Ride With Rudy: Plains and Lefthand Canyon

Inspired by the marginally famous (and absolutely terrible) movie "A Ride With George" featuring George Hincapie, "A Ride With Rudy" is going to be the trademark name of my minimally famous (and hopefully not too terrible) helmet camera riding series.

This is the first test of the helmet camera on a real ride and although it definitely isnt aero (sorry triathletes) and weighs about as much as a motorcycle helmet (I guess it will help strengthen my splenius capitis muscles...), it worked well and I hardly noticed it (even though everyone that went by me sure did).

Lots of comments, stares, and even 2 conversations from passing motorists and bikers. The serious bikers around here are a bit pretentious it seems and I guess they dont like seeing people with rocks strapped to their helmets as counterweight.

In any case, the ride went from the plains east of boulder to the low foothills north of boulder with a view of boulder reservoir at 0:27 and then down through Lefthand Canyon before finishing through the flats of the Boulder 70.3 bike course (3:50 and on) back to south boulder where I live.

Video editing was on flip, but future video edits should be even better with my new macbook pro (if it ever gets here!)

Enjoy.



PS. hopefully you find this video as ridiculous as this blog...