Advantages: GREAT LOOKS. HANDLING. COMFORT . SPEC. Disadvantages: WHITE PAINTWORK (BUT ONLY BECAUSE OF THE MORE FRQUENT CLEANING)
Lance Armstrong suggested that Trek name their top end bikes 'Madone' after the Col de la Madone in southern France. A mountain that Armstrong used to use as a training run in the run up to The Tour de France. His times up the mountain side let him know if he was ready or not!
It's no surprise then, that the 2009 Trek Madone 5.2 weighs in at around 7.7kg (just under 17lb for the oldies). A bike needs to be light if it is to haul it's rider up a mountain side without killing them.
The lightweight nature of the bike, which costs around £2500, and the rigidity of the black OCLV carbon frame and forks, make it very responsive when getting the pedals down. The same things that give you confidence throught the corners and on a descent.
The Trek Madone 5.2 comes in three different fits depending on ride comfort required. The WSD (women ...
SPACE 1999
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Here we are again with another memorable sci-fi series from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson whose other 'Hits' included Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Fireball XL5, Thunderbirds and UFO.
Space 1999 was set on the Moon where a Moon base has been built and nuclear waste from the Earth was stored, but things are not well and soon the nuclear waste explodes blowing the moon out of earths orbit and sets it on a course out of the solar system.
The series then follows the crew left alive the Alpha moon base as the travel around the universe and as they meet many strange aliens and come across other civilizations and weird planets.
The program aired from 1975 - 1977 and actually only lasted for 2 series but with 24 episodes in each series it seemed to go on for a lot longer.
The crew consisted of some well known ...
Advantages: Good re-introduction to road bikes Disadvantages: expense and pedals
daughter finished her Istanbul to London lone cycle, she began planning an idiotic cycle around the coastline of India.
Once that plan came to fruition at the start of this year, it was clear that any hint she gave of future cycling plans, should be taken seriously.
So the planning has begun for her solo circumnavigation of the world by pedal power on land and sea, in world record time!
Preparation for that requires some quick spins - so Lands End - John O'Groats and Belfast - Dublin are being suggested.
Clearly, Dad needed a bike to keep her company.
2 The Frightening Choice
Once a bike was a bike was a bike.
Now there is a frightening choice of road bikes plus hybrids, plus tourers, plus mtbs and urban ones too.
Since dear daughter has such vast experience of bikes, her advice led me in the general direction of the Trek brand ...
trevorbrock 18.06.2008 (19.06.2008)
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