Advantages: Top of the range "bling" rear mech Disadvantages: 9 speed "only", superceeded by RD-7800 10-speed version
I bought this rear derailleur to replace an Ultegra mech when upgrading my bike from 8 to 9-speeds (well, 16 to 18 speed really with my double front chainset). Apparently, this mech is also compatible with 8-speed systems, you just need to change the cable mounting position.
DuraAce is the name of Shimano's top of the range group of bicycle components, or "groupset", for road race bikes, and the 9-speed 7700-series was introduced to the public in 1997 after Shimano sponsored riders using Dura-Ace 7700 series equipped bikes in 1996. Year by year, it's been enhanced, and this review is of rear mech from the 2004 model year.
For the non-bike-ophiles among you, the rear mech (or mechanism) is the device at the back end of the bike that moves the chain across the muliple cogs (cassette) on the back wheel to change gear - bigger cog ...
matt_fantastic 07.04.2006 (10.04.2006)
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Blade was first released in 1998, directed by Stephen Norrington, and starring Wesley Snipes as a half human half vampire, who's mission is to slay all the bad vampires of the world. When I first saw this film I loved it, I was a big fan of the comic books, and watching a big screen adaptation was just well worth the wait. I thought snipes was a brilliant actor to play blade, having seen his early films i.e. passenger 57, and demolition man, this guy is a awesome martial arts expert and can kick ass. If I was to explain Blade to anyone who hasn't seen it, I would describe it as a more violent, intense and action packed Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Plot:
The film starts off really well; a young man is taken into a secret underground nightclub. At first he thinks everything is cool, then gradually realises this is not the sort of club ...
jaygami1986 31.10.2008
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Advantages: Special effects and cast Disadvantages: none
The third film in the Blade franchise is called Blade: Trinity, which sees the half-human, half-vampire battling the ultimate vampire, Dracula. David S Goyer is on directing duties on this film, as well as writing the script.
In this film Blade has his hands full when he has to fight the ultimate vampire, Dracula, who is called Drake in this story. The evil vampire, Danica Talos has managed to resurrect the first vampire, Drake, so that he can deal the deadly blow necessary for vampires to kill humanity and rule the world themselves. Blade also has to deal with humans hunting him, when the vampires frame him for the murder of a human. Thankfully for Blade, he receives assistance in his fight against Drake, from a group of vampire hunters, called the Nightstalkers, led by Hannibal King and Abigail Whistler, the daughter of Whistler ...
