Mostly about life in Norway. Also about bikes, beer, typography, and drums.

Hobby Single Speed Bike

17.06.2010

After one of the longest inceptions in 'bike curation' history—involving much drunken discussions on possibilities for the final outcome—the Hobby is finished. Well, almost. The bike is built up around an Australian-made Hillman track bike frameset that was completely stripped, re-painted white and decked out in...

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Sunnmøre Jul, Oslow temperatures

14.02.2010

It's been a while since I put some photos up and a lot has happened in the last couple of months too. Probably the most important development is that I actually have a proper job now. It was good to start working with some more purpose during what has been a dark, cold, though certainly not unpleasant winter. Ages ago...

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Oslo life: an update

31.10.2009

It's been a while since I put some photos up of life in Oslo. There hasn't been a lot going on actually, except for a kick-arse autumn that refuses to descend into rainy crap weather and instead gives day after day of clear, sunny skies (even if it's only 3 degrees outside). Back in August we went on a cabin trip...

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Munich adventure

27.10.2009

Making good use of the proximity of Norway to mainland Europe (in comparison to Australia, for example), we decided we'd take a quick trip down to Munich and catch up with Davo and Lauzie—friends from Australia who have lived in Munich around six years studying contemporary jewellery and getting into the Bavarian...

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Miscellaneous beer makings

16.10.2009

Well we have finally found our local brew supplier. He's not that local, but he's in Norway which is a start. First batch was a Belgian-style Wheat Beer and the second was a dry-hopped India Pale Ale. The dry hopping was a good experience. We used Fuggles pellets, which we got through our Norwegian supplier. Fuggles...

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Scapin decals

08.10.2009

So after much searching for new old stock decal replacements for the Scapin—including contacting Scapin directly with less than helpful results—I eventually gave up and realised the only way to do these decals made up was to get them done custom. Although it was a 'restoration' job, apparently a lot of places don't...

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Our Neighbourhood

24.08.2009

The area where we're living is just up from a fairly well known part of Oslo, Grunerløkka. Yesterday we went for a quick walk through the area and I took some photos for some visual documentation. Across the street from us is Rodeløkkens Kolonihager—the community gardens, which I mentioned earlier. Also just down a...

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Our house

23.08.2009

Finding a place to live proved harder than we thought, mainly because of our job situation. "Oh great so you're both engineers? Oh and you're both working?.. No? Ah.. right. Bye." So after two and a half months living here with no fixed address, we were lucky enough to get an apartment through friends of Marte and...

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Two months in Sykkylven

27.07.2009

After a couple of weeks in Olso when we first arrived, we travelled back to Sunny Sunnmøre and the town of Sykkylven. This is the town where Rannveig grew up. The region of Sunnmøre is known in Norway to be full of the 'frugal' type. We call them tight arses.. I will get back to this later. The region itself is one of...

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Scouting brewery locations

25.07.2009

So one day we'll get a brewery happening. It's all part of the grand plan and this country is in dire need of it. All the beers are boring and not particularly good. There's one good brewery from down south but that's about it. The mentality of drinking beer here seems to be 'drink to get drunk', which if you've been...

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Climbing Slogen

17.07.2009

Reidar and Angela, who the Australian crew would know or have most likely met, came to visit us during our time in Sykkylven. So we decided to climb a mountain. There are so many in the area and so it wasn't hard to choose a good one: Slogen. At 1564m altitude, it may not seem like much but it goes straight from a...

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Scapin re-re-re-build

13.07.2009

Well the Scapin has been rebuilt. Again. For the fourth time in its life. Although since its original build in 2005 it's now been converted to a 12 speed road bike, circa 1985 vintage. All Campagnolo Super Record and some Nuovo Record components. It was great to build it up again overlooking the fjords... and taking...

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