EVEN MORE APPS... mostly free, but some for around a dollar.

This tells you the angle of anything you hold the iPhone next to.  Say, your head tube or seat tube.  This costs 99 cents.  Not free- but is it really all that much money?  Honestly?

This is a little confusing, but claims to be a GPS mapper that is free to download.  Again, remember- I have no iPhone, so you're on your own.  Just letting you know about them.


Quiver is 99 cents, but a great way to keep info on your bikes together if you have a few of them around (don't forget other members of the family)

Shiftit takes your gearing and your cadence and tells you how fast you'd climb some famous mtns.- focusing on the TDF.  How is this useful?  Not at all, that I can tell- but it sure would pass the time quicker waiting in a drs. office, wouldn't it?  It IS free, as well.


Of course, you don't need me to tell you that google can lead  you to literally hundreds of these sorts of things, and I'm not even getting into the cycling sport news kind of apps that practically every bike magazine now has available, usually for free.  These take RSS feeds and compile them on your phone.

Another Free App for MTBers.

This is where you can get a free download of Every Trail for iPhone or Android.

And

This is where you can see what it'll do.

If you have the technology, I suggest you go there and download immediately. 

You're welcome- and if you don't have MTB Boston, you can thank me by downloading it HERE.

An Open Letter To A Kook

To the dumbell who cut me off this afternoon.

I bet you thought you were pretty cool swooping down that hill and cutting just inches in front of me.  It's cool.  I saw you coming.  But, you know, with my leather saddle and fenders (and a helmet), I'm sure I looked like such a "square" that to someone cool like you, I simply had to be passed.  I mean, sure, it goes against all bike etiquette I've ever heard, but whatever.

What kind of pissed me off was when you immediately veered back to the left (as soon as you got the turn under control) and cut in front of me a second time, still without saying so much as "sorry about that".  You know, with your long flowing rock n roll hair, I'm sure it's hard to see all around, but in fact there are other people on the road with you.  Maybe it was just a long guitar solo or something.  Couldn't see if you had an iPod somewhere under there.

picture this, but without a helmet...

But in the end, it's not about me feeling a little miffed.  What you've got to be thankful for- riding that obliviously- is that I was on a bike and not in a large truck that's not so easy to stop.  Forgive the lame soft-rock reference, but then we'd be talking about Dire Straits...