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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…

Tom’s Hardware Guide CPU Guide: The Final Battle: P4/2400 vs. Athlon XP 2100 (2400 ) – Limited Quantities: Rambus Boards from Asus, Gigabyte, Intel and QDI It’s already an established fact that when Intel launches the 850E chipset in May, only a very few board makers will be offering the corresponding mainboards. The manufacturers estimate…

Tom’s Hardware Guide CPU Guide: The Final Battle: P4/2400 vs. Athlon XP 2100 (2400 ) – New RDRAM With 32 Bit, Bundled With Motherboards There are some new developments with RDRAM, which will be available in two different versions in the future: the standard 16-bit will be offered, as will a 32-bit version, which will…

J & N Computer Services. A good example of someone that I’ll probably buy from to create a homebrew server circa 2002.

The Ethereal Network AnalyzerEthereal is a free network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It allows you to examine data from a live network or from a capture file on disk. You can interactively browse the capture data, viewing summary and detail information for each packet. Ethereal has several powerful features, including a rich display…

Tom’s Hardware Guide Graphics Guide: Tom’s VGA Charts – Introduction The VGA charts give you a performance overview for the most widespread collection of graphics cards and 3D chips on the market! Here, we bring you VGA charts from 30 different graphics cards. Interesting stuff shows how fast the GEForce 4 cards are and how…

AT&T Cable Services Channel Lineup – King/Snohomish Washington. Basically accurate cable lineup. Only mistakes are that channel 2 is now PAX and Discovery channel analog is now 8.

net stumbler dot com. Another great tool for 802.11

80211Planet – Insights: 802.11 Cantennas Done Up Homebrew Style. A very cool article about antennas

Use a Surplus Primestar Dish as an IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Antenna Use a Surplus Primestar Dish as an IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Antenna Primestar was recently purchased by Direct TV who is phasing out all the Primestar equipment. This means that the dishes are being trashed, and are available for other uses such as…

Lake MXZ300 Winter Shoes Lake MXZ300 Winter Shoes … $179.95 ** SALE $149.88. Wow, check this out. This or the Gaerne Polar Road at recommended at www.icebike.com

Icebike Home Page. One of my favorite sites for riding in the cold and wet. Took most advice for gear from here. Try it!