Map of 3City roads

Bigger map

I have found really impressive road map of tree city and tree city area prepared by some anonymous cycling enthusiast. The map is enriched with photographs and short notes concerning road surface types and traffic (unfortunately in Polish). Very useful for cyclists visiting 3City---other maps do not contain information on traffic/surface.

Roads marked with green and blue denotes paved roads, marked with red denotes paved road as well but with high traffic. Yellow denotes unpaved surface. Orange and pink denotes paved road but not particularly suitable for cycling (cobblestones, concrete road slabs etc)

Wunderground's weather sticker added to my blog

The weather station that I've been using since March 2011 is Termometerfabriken Viking 02049--a clone of Fine Offset Electronics WH 2080. The station is connected via USB cable to my tiny Sheevaplug server and the software used is pywws. Yesterday I added my station to the pool of Wunderground's Personal Weather Stations (see Wunderground's weather sticker added to the right panel of this page). It have appeared to be pretty simple: one have to register to wunderground.com. Next one have to register his/her Personal Weather Stations. On pressing Submit button station ID is returned.

Now one have to change the configuration of pywws. I am using an old version of pywws (11.02 namely)---the exact details can be different when one is using newer versions.

In the configuration file weather.ini:

[hourly]
last update = 2013-01-07 08:09:00
plot = []
text = []
twitter = []
underground = False

change False to True

Add password and station ID to [underground] section of configuration file:

[underground]
station = IPOMORSK8
password = #######

To check if everything is OK run the command:

python  pywws/pywws/ToUnderground.py -v ~/data/weather

The above should upload some data to wunderground.com.

It is hard to find IPOMORSK8 at wunderground.com because it is not directly accessible from user's account. I have found my station only thanks to WunderSearch. Looking at nearby stations list is useless as well because It takes approximately 24 hours for our database to update all of our web servers and place your station on your local forecast page.

Lime green Hüdz replacements hoods

I have bought Hüdz replacements hoods for my Campagnolo Ergopowers. I insist on lime (Milano Lime) ones and thus have some problems to get them. There are in stock at Wiggle but Available to order, stock expected Mid January 2013 and the delivery costs are high as it is 14 GBP for an 19 GBP item.

I have found a cheaper seller at Ebay, namely mojo-cycles. Not only the hoods arrived within a week (very fast) but the seller refunded 8 dollars for excessive delivery costs! In result, I paid ca 18 GBP for the item and delivery.

Mojo-cycles appeared to be an excellent seller.

First time at Osowa-Rondo in 2013

The weather was fine: dry and the temperature a few degrees over zero (Celsius scale:-). It was a pity only a few riders were present.