Category — Biking

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

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 →]

I was asked to take pictures of this event by Jan Nemec of MTBS.cz and so I took up the challenge with my Nikon D80. Here are the results, I will post the writeup here over the next few days..

Christophe Sauser has en entry in his website about the event, it looks like he enjoyed himself very much

Ook bedankt aan Rogier van Mountainbike.nl!

The official GLB 2007 MTB website is here. I can’t get the videos to work..

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Been meaning to mention this for a wee while, after Johnathan talked about his adventures rock climbing with a bike in Taiwan, we did the Huanghuacheng loop for my birthday, this is a loop I particularly like as it involves some really nice scenery and some bike carrying through some of the clearest water available close to BJ.

What we did not expect was that we would screw up directions completely and do it the *really* hard way. Enjoy the pix, I hope they are on par with what Taiwan offers! Not something you can do if you are one or two, we *really* needed that human bike chain! Also check Andi’s pix – go to News after entering the (beautiful!) Flash site.

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This is something I did just before setting out for a MOB ride, and I don’t recommend doing that for the first time. You will find that you spill oil everywhere and getting oil on your disk brakes + pads is not recommended. Nor on your clothes, pets, baby or jibadeng (why would you want to do that anyway and who knows the correct pinyin for the beast? )

So, here are some pictures to explain the process. This is using the ‘My Little Bleeder’ kit from Hope, and a Hope Mono Mini setup but it will work chabuduo the same for other Hope hydraulic brakes. If you do not have the kit, I suggest getting one, or if you are with the MOB, asking nicely

First. Read the instructions. Don’t start to do anything. Did you understand them? Good. Ignore this post. You are obviously looking for something else. If not, read on…

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Until I can somehow find a WSP (Web Service Provider) that allows me to host large files (ie 20GB of space or more) has secure SMTP, IMAP and POP3 access, the usual LAMP type setup and can run Gallery 2.0 along with WP and everything else I want to throw at it (Ruby on Rails for example) then I am stuck with kludging on this site.

This is a pity, I have a large number of pictures that could well go out there. Flickr is useful, but is a huge dustbin as well, with just a search on Beijing coming up with thousands upon thousands of pictures, nearly all of them just holiday snaps of no use or interest.

At least Porta is really beautifully designed, although it needs some tweaking to get it to be really 100% useful. It is very fast in generating pix, but totally non-interactive, in other words, once out there, the pix are static, just paintings on the wall. Why infomaniak cannot get its act together and ramp up PHP memory and have decent libraries beyond a basic GDLib drives me crazy, as they are otherwise really good.

So, enjoy the MOB pictures from Bai He  from KHM, they are really good. And there is another one here of the ride to Machang on the 1th of May

Finally get round to putting link up to these pictures I took at the race. It was great fun, very good track, a bit short at 40K overall but quite demanding. Probably the best MTB race here in China.

As usual some of the best things out there are found when looking for something completely different.

Apparently there is a project for doing . The original was with cars, eg the famous Citroen escapade.

One of the guys is doing this as part of a round the world on a … penny farthing …

Now one his site he has this link to a guy who did one … a hundred and twenty years ago… He came to China. Go to his page to find out how to read the book. Brilliant, really fun and well written. FanKwae we are indeed!

After my friendly bike shop did something strange with one of the bolts on the XTR middle chainring of my bike, and spending the best part of the Huangshan race having my chain fall between middle and outer ring and me lose two more bolts. Return to Beijing and then on to another shop where the only competent bike mechanic in town lurks. Ask for bike cleaning. Forget to mention the missing bits but do mention problem with wheel. ‘no problem’ it is fine. We will see. [Read more →]