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Marmot Hydrogen Ultralight Sleeping Bag ( 30 degree | 800 Fill Down ) Sale price: $239.99

Marmot Hydrogen Sleeping Bag – 30 Degree Down The lightest summer sleeping bag ever. List for $269. Here for $20 less plus free shipping.

Daily Peloton – International Cycling News Selle Italia SLR Evolution & SLR Leather Saddles Review by Gary Kristensen Army Cycling Union The SLR Evolution saddle is very light weight at 125 grammes. It is made from carbon fibre with titanium rails and has no padding at all! It is surprisingly comfortable to sit on and…

La Bicicletta The lowest priced Carnac Quartz at $199 or CDN$319 that I’ve ever seen.

Jenson USA – Custom Mountain Bikes and Accessories. Has both the Aspide for $85 and the Selle Italia SLR at $65. Both are 160 grams

Selle Italia SLR Looking for a super lightweight saddle… Padding designed with EVA (closed-cell foam weighing only 5 grams) Tubular Vanox rails Extra padding (XP) Carbon/nylon shell covered in leather Streamlined styling Weight 165g Qty. PN: 513902 bikeworld.com price $69.99

Ultra-Light and Lightweight Equipment and Accessories for hiking, backpacking and mountaineering. A good priced overview of lightweight equipment.

Backpacking Light – The Journal of Lightweight Hiking and Backcountry Travel. Can you believe there is an entire website that is devoted to lightweight backpacking?

Backpacker.com – Challenge The Editor: The Ultralight Report- Print View Gear List for me to look at and think about buying… Shelter Integral Designs Sil Poncho: 10 oz. Groundcloth Tyvek sheet (2′ x 8′): 6 oz. Pack GVP G4: 12.5 oz. Sleeping Bag Marmot Never Winter: 32 oz. (size long, 30?F down) Stuff sacks (2)…

MSR – Mountain Safety Research : Stoves : PocketRocket 3 oz stove if you can believe it.

Backpacker.com – Budget Boots L.L. Bean GTX Mountain Treads MidFinal Grade 4.0 For an ultralight boot, the Mountain Treads provide an unsurpassed blending of comfort and support. This could be the one for me. Lots of anchor support and light too from llbean.com and good dampness protection.

Compact frames. Looking at new road bikes. Howie Rosen just got a compact frame Seven, so I thought I would learn more about it. Giant and Specialized and now Litespeed make one.

Backpacker.com – Asolo Fusion 95 GTX Asolo Fusion 95 GTX Combining the light weight of an approach shoe with the support of a serious leather backpacking boot, these hikers offer the best of all worlds.All six models in the Fusion line are intended to blend the support of a backpacking boot with the light weight…

Backpacker.com – Snow Peak GS-010 GigaPower White Gasoline Stove Snow Peak GS-010 GigaPower White Gasoline Stove Faster meals! No messy priming! Meet the white gas stove that virtually lights itself.

Backpacker.com – Mountainsmith Mountainlight Packs Auspex (men’s)/ Chimera (women’s) Photo by Jonathan Dorn Mountainsmith Auspex The packbag on these models is a long, slender, single-compartment top-loader. Jon used the Auspex on a series of fall weekends and winter overnights, applauding “the just-enough-but-not-too-much harness and features.” I carried the Chimera on a weekend hike with 35…

Backpacker.com – Mountainsmith Mountainlight Packs Mountainsmith Mountainlight Packs These are the most comfortable lightweight load-carriers we’ve tested.

Backpacker.com – GSI Outdoors Hard Anodized Extreme Cookware GSI Outdoors Hard Anodized Extreme Cookware Lightweight, durable, and easy to clean, this is the best camp cookware we’ve used.

Backpacker.com – Kelty 50th Anniversary Pack Pick up Kelty’s 50th Anniversary pack and you’ll immediately understand why it won an Editors’ Choice Award. The 50th Anniversary shaves not ounces but pounds off the weight of previous external frame packs. And it accomplishes the savings without diminishing the terrific load support you’d expect from an external…

HI-TECH Bikes – Mountain Bikes, Road , Triathelete, Time Light parts 101 Here you will find listings of the lighest parts we are able to procure. Some parts have rider wieght limits which we will post and some have recomdations. Saddles, AX Lightness 85grams, not available, working on it. SLR 135 gram SLR Evolution, not…

A clean Kazaa. Here is how to clean up Kazaa. Main thing is to use ad award and then you need a dummy Cydoor DL.

Morgan Nicol, founder of Ritchey International has branched out in a new direction, founding Oval, dedicated to producing top end components like the new carbon fiber aerodynamic fork, created and patented by Lance Armstrong’s go-fast guru John Cobb. Look for the Oval aero fork to make its first appearance in this years Tour De France…

www.cyclingnews.com news and analysis. Sems like a very good technical review for both moutain and road bikes.

Domain Names Registrars – Dotster. It is hard to believe, but there is actually a website that is a portal for domain registration and other low cost web hosting services. I’m going to try dotster to see if this works better than the $35/year that network solutions charges. Wish me luck. You’ll see geekfishing.net shortly…

BikerBob – Bike Shop, Bike Deals, Trail Info, and Bicycle News A deep MTB bikeshop

BeyondBikes.com – Your high-end bike source. A great high end bike shop like downhill zone in Seattle. This one is in San Diego right in Rancho

Mountain bike action — Ask RC. Probably the best Q&A from an expert on mountain biking. Very readable and he updates it alot!

Audio Survey – Mail Order Survey Results. This was one of the virst survey sites that I used for buying audio video equipment. I mainly use www.bizrate.com now though and the pricegrabber.com ratings.

=== AX – lightness ===. These are truly ridiculous light saddles. probably torture chambers, but what the heck, we are talking a 75 gram seat!

MajorGeeks.com – Geek it ’till it MHz

Tom’s Hardware Guide CPU Guide: The Final Battle: P4/2400 vs. Athlon XP 2100 (2400 ) – Intel Pentium 4 vs. AMD Athlon XP The chapter on memory is clearly of a political nature, because ultimately, Intel has committed itself to DDR technology after RDRAM was massively boycotted by the market. With the continually increasing clock…