That 17 day summer slide! I missed the window to ship a week after issue 138 (Misfits anyone?) the last Sunday when I returned from Grinduro Scotland. Man that was a blast! And I've been playing catch up since!
Lucky for me, there has been heaps to justify slipping on shipping:
- Eurobike! Scroll down to most recent #Twotoneclients post for highlights & recaps. Despite the bummer buzz about the show, we had a successful sojourn to Lake Constance.
- Grinduro was an even bigger blast and dryer than last year! Scope out our insta story highlights!
- Oakley Cycling Tour Finale,watch our insta stories here & a radical recap video in FB here.
- A Treehouse! I started building one in my backyard since school is out. Kinda audacious summer project but its comin' together. Check it out!
- The 1st Silk Road Mountain Race begins in 3 weeks! I'm rolling on my Lester Cycles and have a lot of preparing to do!
If you have summer highlights that could be good for the newsletter, hit reply and let me know!
As always thank you for reading,
Jon
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Cycling
MEGA GALLERY: Bikes of Grinduro 2018, from the wonderful to the plain weird
Grinduro 2018 offered up the full cornucopia of bicycles, from wide drops to whisky bottles, to pinion gearboxes.
What’s your favourite?
The 1st Silk Road Mountain Race
In 3 weeks I'll be departing upon the Lester pictured above with 94 other hearty souls on a 1,871 km journey through Kyrgyzstan & nearly 30.000m of climbing over 2 weeks! More about this wild race: facebook.com/jwoodroof/posts/1972003666163829
Tailfin AeroPack: The fastest way to carry gear on your bike
Tailfin Cycling is raising funds for Tailfin AeroPack: The fastest way to carry gear on your bike on Kickstarter! A rolltop waterproof bicycle bag and rack that's super light, ultra stable and fits virtually any road, gravel & mountain bike. Wish I coulda nabbed one for Silk Road!
Startups
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
Silicon Valley’s elite are hatching plans to escape disaster – and when it comes, they’ll leave the rest of us behind
Why taking the most reliable path in life is not always the answer.
Does the world really need another lawyer who doesn’t really want to be one? Or an accountant who wanted to be a photographer?
The Power of Positive People
"the most powerful thing you can do to add healthy years is to curate your immediate social network"
Sales
If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?
Lesson 1: Use probabilities instead of words to avoid misinterpretation.
What makes a great leader, explained in eight counterintuitive charts
A lot of the common wisdom we have about working together is wrong.
Employers, your idea about employee happiness is all wrong
Rather than investing in a “happiness” culture, companies should think about career opportunities and fostering trust between management and employees.
As Mark Twain once wrote:
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can somehow become great.”
Radness
Why Patience Will Drastically Improve Your Decision Making in Sales
Here are 5 things you can do every day to practice patience and improve your decision making in sales.
7 Sales Triggers to Uncover New Sales Opportunities
Establishing urgency doesn’t need to be difficult.
New Study | Team ZWATT
The Functional Threshold Power is the maximum power you can currently produce for an hour. But no one likes to do a perfectly paced 1 hour time trial, so the 20 minute FTP-test was developed. Simply put: You do a 20 minute all-out test and take the average power from those 20 and subtract 5% to produce your current FTP number.
Every bike enthusiasts who’s interested in participating will need to perform one 20-minute FTP test per month and upload it for our engineers to work on. Only Android users in EU are invited at this time. We will provide the Zpider power meter at an unusually low price of €250 plus a monthly fee of €10 for 12 months. Accessories such as chainrings and bottom brackets will also be available.