Peyto

Update

Paul — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:52:05 +0000

Since Peyto was shut down in the summer of 2006, I’ve been working on modifying this website to serve as a blog documenting my current work in “green” engineering. I’ve finally had time to do some of the work, and I will continue to update the site with more info on eco friendly product design over the next few months.

Long lost Peyto video

Paul — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:54:47 +0000

OK, this is the final Peyto vid and it has some amazing riding by Morley Wilkins and Brett McCullough. Enjoy.

http://www.biketrials.ca/content/view/226/2/

China’s River Dolphin Declared Extinct, Polar Bears Endangered?

Paul — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:53:07 +0000

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/121806EB.shtml

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11926

UBC Supermileage car on TIME magazine’s best inventions of 2006!!!

Paul — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:40:56 +0000

Holy crap, the UBC supermileage car is in TIME magazine as one of the top 50 inventions of the year! I would like to attribute all of the teams success to the help of a certain washed-up grad student.
http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/transportation5.html

The oceans are f’d up:
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november8/ocean-110806.html

The election is f’d up:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7236791207107726851&sourceid=docidfeed&hl=en-CA

UBC Supermileage Team, A Green Epiphany, and Build your own Stirling Engine

Paul — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:44:15 +0000

The UBC Supermileage Team placed 7th of 28 with 3378 mpg in a Japanese fuel efficiency competition. Here is some footage they put together:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxJ3eTw9xKo

The next link is to an interview with Ray Anderson, founder and chairman of Interface, one of the worlds largest carpet manufacturers. He had a “green epiphany” 10 years ago and realized what an impact the toxik chemicals in the carpets his company produced had on the environment. It’s such a rare case for someone in a position of power to not only realize they are part of the problem, but to actually act on it. And thats all it took to completely turn the company around. Imagine how much effort, how many activists, “eco-aware” comsumers, government regulations, etc. it would normally take to have any minor impact on changing the way a company operates. In this case, it was one mans realization that it was his responsibility to do so. Thats why this story is, unfortunatly, so unique. You hippies might remember him from the documentary, The Corporation.

http://business.guardian.co.uk/economicdispatch/story/0,,1872349,00.html

Build your own stirling engine, kids!

http://www.physics.sfasu.edu/astro/courses/egr112/StirlingEngine/stirling.html

Links of the week

Paul — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:15:53 +0000

Al Gore’s Global warming speach at NYU. Its long, but worth it.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/09/video_al_gores_1.php

Lacking public space in your town? Make your own:

http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parkingday/index.html

This article is a couple years old, but in case you didn’t know (or forgot):

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/1103/1103_feature.html

Morley’s new video

Paul — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 02:16:07 +0000

Heres a great new vid of Morley Wilkins on his Peyto. This may be the last as rumor has it that Morley will be riding a frame from another B.C. steel framebuilder in the future. This isn’t your typical trials vid, heres how Morley describes it: “Warning this video has no taps, no drops, no dirty hookers, and no amazing riding. It’s just about going out messing around and having fun riding anything.”

http://www.biketrials.ca/downloads/mw002.mpg

Thats it thats all.

Paul — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 02:01:39 +0000

I am no longer building frames. I have accepted an engineering position at Fuel Cell Energy in Connecticut. Thanks to all Peyto customers, team riders and all the great people I met in the bike industry and in Victoria and Vancouver, but it is time for me to move on to other things. I think it will be a better use of my energy, time and skill to be directed toward something that will hopefully have larger, more positive impact than high end custom bikes. I will likely keep the website up to date with bike related and non-bike issues that I feel are important and relevent. Never stop riding.

Freeride build complete… finally.

Paul — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:05:09 +0000

Street Trials Video

morley — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:45:27 +0000

Many trials, many styles… The other day I was browsing an old cd and found an old video from 2002. Although my riding style has changed over the years I still think it’s a fun little segment, and it was eventually used in the film island style. With all the new sketchy ideas going on, I am sure I’ll drum up somthing in the near future. So stay tuned.

Download the Video - [18.2 mb]
Watch on You Tube.