The Dean Website. AKA The Exploded Micro-Family

Giant TCR full carbon monocoque (Asia Racing Team colours and edition) road bike for sale.

CLICK HERE FOR PICTURES AND EXTRA INFO ON THE BIKE.

Dura-Ace shifters, derailleurs, F&R brakes, with FSA carbon cranks, Ritchey DS Aero 16 front wheel and DT-Swiss RR 1.2 rear.

9 gears rear derailleur with 12-27 Dura-Ace cassette, double 39-54 up front.

Guizzo handlebars (42 but I think it is 44 cm wide), guizzo 100mm stem. Bike size is Medium (50 cm, but this is a compact frame, it is more like a 53cm standard frame – you will need to use the Effective Top Tube length for sizing) see this review full details on it.
Comes with very good Wellgo SPD road pedals (fits standard SPD cleats). Saddle is Giant ART – remarkably useable and very tough yet remains comfortable on long rides (100K + OK).
Asking price is 6000 RMB. Full details available here including detailed pictures of the bike.
Original price in 2004 was near 30000 RMB with lesser components (Tektro brakes, ART wheels – very flexy budget wheels) but was bought for 24000 – it was used by ART for the Tour de Qinghai.
Would fit a rider in the 175cm range – I am 182 and the bike feels too small.

Here is Giant’s archive page for the TCR

If you need info on how to measure yourself, here is a very useful calculator from Competitive Cyclist.

The bike is very agile and nimble, very fast esp on descents and seems to express itself best on rolling hills terrain where it can really allow you to power up hills at speed. Very good climber esp for a lighter rider . Total weight about 8Kgs.
Thanks for reading, feel free to contact me if interested or for more info. Bike is near Chaoyang Park in Beijing.

Patrick

Patrick [at] dean.be

13436447203

I came across this video from Dan Chung of the Grauniad and think it is sensational, not only because of the parade, but because of how he did it.

China’s 60th Anniversary national day – timelapse and slow motion – 7D and 5DmkII from Dan Chung on Vimeo.

see original in vimeo here

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The newly opened Hatsune restaurant at the Village in Sanlitun is most probably going to become one of the dining hotspots there, as they have actually managed to really produce the goods in a setting that is slightly unusual (seas of dangling (paper?) fishes from the ceiling) and in one of the few places in Beijing that seems to be a moderately successful ’shopping mall experience’. [Read more →]

Bread:

ityms: 300 grams of bread flour, 100 grams of spelt (epautre) flour, 100 grams of oat flakes (oatmeal should be good as well) non instant variety, around 50 grams of leainsaadmehl or seeds (sunflower, linseed, sesame etc..) . 40-50 cl of warm (hand warm) water, 1 tablespoon of sugar or honey to add to water, 2 teaspoons dried yeast. Extra flour (and olive oil in option if you want) for kneading.
Mix warm water with dried yeast and sugar/honey to activate it, let it wake up. [Read more →]

I have installed some code from Project Honeypot to the website, not that much is necessarily happening but the amount of cleverer or manual comment spam is starting to get on my nerves, so I am hoping that a couple of changes will help keep the site cleaner.

Using Bad Behaviour and Comments Cleaner I hope will stop nearly all comment spam since either it cannot get there, or once it has, the links are removed anyways. So all the stupid ‘I love your site’ or ‘please explain how to add me to your RSS feed’ type of stuff will go away..

If you are really human and want to add a link – please just add the site name (mysitename.com/gohere) as plain text and I will then change the link manually. Sorry for the hassle but given a ratio of spam of something like 1000/1 real comments it is better to proceed like this.

PS for those of you in ZH – you will need to use a proxy to find the code to install the honeypot code – it is blocked. Maikefailapolis?

Ceci est le contenu d’un message envoyé aujourd’hui au service de outien A-V de Archos après que bon, avoir décidé que vraiment ça foire un peu trop au niveau de leur browser.

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Bonjour, le browser est d’une lenteur epouvantable dans la derniere version du firmware, notamment sur news.bb.co.uk chaque fois que la page contient un lien vers une sequence video elle reste bloquee pendant deux minutes pendant le “chargement” de l’image, ceci ne se produit pas sur un browser sur PC.
Facebook se plante tout le temps, le browser vire au noir et la machine redemarre d’elle-meme. Meme lorsque la machine ne se plante pas, Facebook est d’une lenteur epouvantable et le browser se bloque et refuse de repondre pendant deux/trois minutes a chaque chargement de page ou de deplacement de la page via l’ecran tactile.
Il est impossible de rentrer dans la page d’administration d’un site qui utilise WordPress (www.wordpress.com) le browser reste bloque sur la page de login.
De maniere generale l’ecran tactile est tres peu fiable en surfant, tantot il repond au click, tantot pas, alors qu’il est toujours possible de deplacer la page ou de la faire defiler via le meme ecran.
Je ne me sers quasi que de cinq sites lorsque je surfe sur le Net, quatre de ces sites sont actuallement pour ainsi dire inutilisables (www.facebook.com, news.bbc.co.uk, www.guardian.co.uk, www.dean.be). Le seul qui fonctionne +/- ok est Google Mail. Il va de soi que je ne suis pas trop satisfait de l’Archos 5 en tant que plateforme de surf portable.
Je ne pense pas que ces sites soient particulierement inhabituels, exotiques ou inadaptes a l’emploi de Opera.
Merci pour votre aide!

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on va voir la réponse.

En tout cas, il est clair que autant que le Archos 5 détruit le Ipod Touch (actuel, la nouvelle version du Iphone/Itouch changera-t’elle la donne?) dans sa capcité de lecteur audio/vidéo, autant que dans tous les autres domaines elle est en retard.

Pour moi, tant que Archos garde un OS verrouillé et est sans une plateforme de développement ouverte à tous, Archos est voué à une mort certaine. Le manque de sex-appeal de l’Archos 5 et son manque de fun en font un produit génial mais simplement utilitaire. C’est dommage. Sa SEULE solution pour Archos est de totalement deverouiller l’Archos pour que enfin on puisse avoir des produits et des utilitaires a y intégrer, car attendre que Archos règle les problèmes avec son logiciel et son offre audio/vidéo est une peine perdue, à mon avis!

Well, here goes for another one. Once again, this is not to replace reviews that exist out there, in particular the review on ArchosLounge is worth reading as it is sufficiently in depth and will give you an answer to just about everything you can ask for.  And yes they also have the review in English! En particulier pour les francobetes (amis lecteurs capables de lire le français) leur forum répond à beaucoup de questions pratiques. [Read more →]

This is not meant to replace your normal “reviews” or more often, infomercials, about one product or another, but to try and give you an idea from a user’s perspective of what I would recommend as a good choice for a home wireless/wired setup.

First of all, why these two routers? They are actually relatively close in functions to each other: 4 cabled port, wireless, firewalled, uPNP enabled, full browser-based configuration Internet connection sharing devices.

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Finally, we get some Olympic pictures up!

The Czech Republic suffers on the course. Time for a beer

Over 4 months after the actual event, here is the first batch, from the mens’ Mountain Bike competition. [Read more →]