Finding The Community.
After months of having a blog site and working in IT, I was having an informal chat to a fellow work mate and author of The Capslock Assassin when the conversation got onto increasing the hit rate on ones site (being the IT geeks we all claim not to be) in our workplace things tend to keep a tight line close to the geek factor. The – let’s just call him “The Assassin” – advised that I need to embrace the community in which my blog lived. As this blog has primarily no direction or service and real world other than my now famous catch cry “The fundamental adventurous journey of a cyclist” – not! I decided to do as directed and embrace the cycling community blogging world.
The initial Google search had me looking at a number of sites to boring to go on about until I hit the pay dirt. The mother load… none other than the aptly named fatcyclist.com. Now Fatty is an interesting read and has had me laughing away under my breath on nearly all his articles. As Fatty is US based I tend to get lost on the articles based magazines ad but I give full credit theat Fatty does understand the global readers and adds plenty of illerstration to keep you in the loop. I have embraced Fatty with my first visit. An outstanding writer and wit that seems to appeal to my own weird ways.
Fatty has recently put out a two part series that might just change the face of cycling as we all know it. How to be popular is an outstanding read that will educate you on the finer details of how to be popular in the bunch.
Tour Down Under 2008
The UCI Pro tour will kick off today with the opening round which is heal in Adelaide, South Australia. As this is now a UCI event pro teams from Europe are required to send in their teams. I was down at this event in 2006 and had a blast riding around the Adelaide hills and following the race. For full updates and news on the Tour Down Under 2008 follow the link provided. If you ever get the opportunity to get onto a tour group and follow the TDU I’d advise you book well in advance. The numbers of interstate and international visitors are increasing every year.