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superb george, permission to put it all to italian opera music come the 2011 dvd

here's the link to watermarked photos in Picasa:

https://picasaweb.google.com/beaconrcc/ ... DAUDAX2011

yep - can't beat a hand-built work of arts and craft, i assume thats £1500 worth of bike at least.

i took my condor to ben at VENTURE bikes and he sent it off to a dip and spray powder coater in digbeth (cant remember name), but the finish was excellent (sand blast job) -£30, you can research the colours too and give them the RAL number (colour code)

i invested in one just before xmas, and am quite enjoying it - even though the garage door isn't the most inspiring object to stare at, but a good set of music carefully put together with itunes which has a varied bpm will give you a good hour long workout. i got a Tacx flow which has a digital read...

look forward to meeting you jonathan if you're coming on the intro ride which is a 29 mile loop with a stop at the Dodford Inn. I hope you don't have a **flat**, but they'll be plenty of help and advice if you do. The ride is a gentle scamper down to droitwich-ish, and then back to the pub, and then...

Have a good think before committing to riding your over-length bike; over extension of the back can be painful on long rides, and may never be a satisfactory ride, will the stem compensate for a 4cms overlength - as alan points out- too short a stem gets very twitchy, can you change the frame?

here's a math analytical site for cyclists: http://www.analyticcycling.com/

do you ride with mitts on or bare (bear)hands - i havn't noticed, is sweat the issue? you could try cinelli cork bar tape, or the thinner binotti type a la 70s, but that's harsher on the grip

come across this quite a few times where hapless Halford victims are busy fixing a badly setup bike en route - perhaps we should have a page on our web offering advice on how to buy a bike, what to look for, and a list of bhams' private/other bike shops to break the monopoly; it is amazing that the ...

if you sail with the right coarse - is that navigators speak for shouting "ahoy-where the f*** am i?" course

i used a bit of software called HotMetalPro which i got for £40, and had alot of templates, but that was 7 years ago - as Ed says a host is the easier option, and nowadays HTML is not necessary to learn, as the coding is embedded with drag and drop style designer templates.

george - nitromorse an' go...

http://picasaweb.google.com/blancgraffi ... 5929524882

this is Dan Wilds titanium bike which he donated to beacon (me).

i've used Conti Ultra GATORSKINS thru last winter and pretty good at wepping away the water in wet conditions, soft compound makes for soft ride, can be a tight fit on certain wheels. comparable to GP4000s?

i'll have 3.03 thanks.