Just in Santa Cruz at the moment. I drove down with Dustan Sept from the Norco Marketing department, and team mate Darcy Turenne to meet up with mtbr.com, Decline Magazine, Mountain Bike Magazine, Mountain Bike Action Magazine, Bicycle Retailer and Industry News, and National Geographic Adventure Magazine.
Today we rode with Adam from mtbr.com and his friend Nelson. They showed us the trails beside the University of Santa Cruz, some of the names were magic carpet, jugs, and sick and twisted. Good clean fun. I’ll post a video blog with an interview of Adam and some of the other characters from the magazines who bring you all the news. Tomorrow, Mark from Decline will take us for a rip somewhere close to their office, but only after another five hours of driving south in the morning.
I have to talk co2 for a moment. We drove down to California, with the round trip going to be about 4000km’s long—that would commit approximately 1.4 tonnes of co2 to the atmosphere. If we flew down, that would commit 0.77 tonnes per person which actually equals 2.31 if you count all three of us. So remember, when you fly with multiple people you have to multiply your emissions, when you drive with multiply people you can divide your emissions.
Goodnight folks, be well!
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Hi Ryan,
I’d like to first apologize for my previous posts on your blogs: when I’d heard that you were going Green, I’d lumped you in with a group of Extreme Green type people. Having reviewed your blog, I sense that you are more about making good, longer term choices than trying to stop all industrialized man. So, please accept my humble apology.
With your comment about CO2 – I thought that 1.4tonnes for your trip sounded like a lot. Here’s my thinking:
If you drove a Chevy Silverado the 4000km, and the Silverado gets about 10L/100km, so for 4000km, that would be about 400 Litres. Gasoline weighs 0.77kg/Litre, so 400Litres x 0.77kg/Litre gives 308kg – or about 0.3 tonnes.
Considering that car exhaust is more than just CO2:
Fuel + Air => Hydrocarbons + Nitrogen Oxides + Carbon Dioxide + Carbon Monoxide + water
Whatever the ratio is – not all of the gasoline became CO2 out of the tail pipe.
Hmm – seems like your carbon footprint was less than you thought.
StJimmie