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New Orleans: Halloween Cycleterror
Written by Evan Farrar   
Friday, 10 October 2008

The OpenSprints crew in New Orleans, LA, "NOLA Bike Race" is throwing a halloween zombiecat race! There will be goldsprints at the afterparty. Here are the details:

 

zombiecat bicycle race

friday
october 31st, 2008

jackson square

register @ 6pm

race @ 7pm

afterparty, contests, prizes, goldsprints

$5 to race

$3 for zombies

 

 

  

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Puma Sprints Finals!
Written by Evan Farrar   
Monday, 06 October 2008

Looks like NYC OpenSprints had a successful night of racing. Here is a video!

 

 

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Upcoming Chicago Event
Written by Evan Farrar   
Friday, 03 October 2008

 Tomorrow night opensprints are going down in Chicago, IL. The address is at a private residence so you have to RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it to know where it is!

 

 

This is my first time using the newly designed and fabricated Printed Circuit Boards. I am pumped!

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Last Updated ( Friday, 10 October 2008 )
 
Battery powered!
Written by Evan Farrar   
Friday, 03 October 2008

I just stumbled across some photos of the battery powered  OpenSprints being used at the Bike Film Festival back in August. It was a great time, and it was great to be able to run a race outside in full daylight at a block party. Bike film festival 2008 was great, I can't wait for next year.

 

Photo thanks to Joel.

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Last Updated ( Friday, 03 October 2008 )
 
The PCBs have arrived
Written by Evan Farrar   
Wednesday, 24 September 2008

We got a 6 device test run of the Printed Circuit Boards. They are beautiful and work great. I'll post some pictures of them when I assemble my next setup. But here are pictures of the CADs that got sent off to be etched:

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you are in the new york area and want to see these brand new boards in action, go check out Squid, Carlos, marc and company at the I-Cycle Throwdown:

 

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N.O.Sprints New Orleans
Written by Evan Farrar   
Wednesday, 30 July 2008

The NOLA Racing team has put together an Open Sprints rig! I am pretty happy for them. They have had one event already and they are doing another real soon:

 

 

 

 

 

If you are close to New Orleans, I suggest you check it out. Here are some pictures from their last event:

 

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New Hardware!
Written by Evan Farrar   
Wednesday, 09 July 2008

Luke has been busy designing new sensor boards for OpenSprints. Here is a sneak peek:

 

 

We should have the real thing before too long.

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Possible DIY Forkmounts
Written by Evan Farrar   
Tuesday, 27 May 2008

I stumbled across a guide to making a fork mount today. These are probably not as safe as the Kreitler variety, but they could be welded directly onto the rollers, eliminating the need for platforms to hold the formkounts down. Has anyone out there managed to build their own forkmounts?

 

http://www.instructables.com/id/Bicycle-Bike-Truck-Bed-Mount/

 

Also, if you have the idle time, check out the rest of the entries in the Park Tools Instructables Contest

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Last Updated ( Saturday, 31 May 2008 )
 
New Source Code Repo at github.com
Written by Evan Farrar   
Sunday, 25 May 2008

I have been bitten by the Distributed Version Control bug, and am no longer happy with subversion. Git should make it much easier for each city's OpenSprints operators to maintain their own customized version of the source code. Browse the new repo:

 

http://github.com/evanfarrar/opensprints

 

The old repo will remain up indefinitely, but no one will be committing to it. If you would like to know more about git, check out their homepage  

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Last Updated ( Saturday, 31 May 2008 )
 
The Bozeman Fix: RockySprints
Written by Jonathan Morrison   
Saturday, 03 May 2008

 

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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 July 2008 )
 
Salt City Sprints
Written by Jonathan Morrison   
Saturday, 26 January 2008

 

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Nashbar Sale on Rollers!
Written by Evan Farrar   
Saturday, 19 January 2008

Nashbar is selling their Reduced Radius Rollers (Part #NB-R3) for $100 each.

 

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Last Updated ( Saturday, 19 January 2008 )
 
ColdSprints!
Written by Evan Farrar   
Thursday, 04 October 2007
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 January 2008 )
 

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