huu huuu~~~ go spray my stem first~~~ no need to buy Deda jor and no need kena Vinn_Ann-ing...

One hour of climb, not bad at all! Descend in about 10 min. 72km/hr top speed- scary but nice, smooth and wide  'track' with almost no traffic at all.
I reckon, on a fine day you can go eighty km hr?

speed wobbles is not biased... it happens to anything and everything if it is at the wrong place and the wrong time...

a slight wobble shakes your nerves... it is by comparison much safer as long as it is not the type where you can't even clamp the bike down and it starts straying all over the road...

if i say i want, how???

i la beginner lai gip me gip me! come to papa! 

is want to buy bike trainer, the other day, cycled with PCC, shy....was the slowest of all

slow is not a crime...

wats is with you buggers wanting to be number 1 this days???

can't you jus enjoy cycling for wat cycling is...

"d*** will get popsicalized and fall off like a tree branch"

i like this...

ride more then~ easy

ehh mr.jgx...

i think your first bike already too much already hor... terus carbon rite...too much fibre lar... nanti cirit birit...

first bike carbon?! O expensive giler

lemme add some poison

some powercordz prime cables and housing, supposedly the lightest productions sets now...
http://www.powercordz.com/derailleur-cable...rraileur-system

some schmolke cockpit... the same ones used on gunter mai's light bike...
http://www.schmolke-carbon.de/carbon/carbon_de/index.php#

some ax lightness orion carbon calipers
http://ax-lightness.de/en/cycling/bike-com...he-perfect-mix/

some carbon chainrings from fibre-lyte... the lightweight 2 should be a good compromise...
http://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk/

hack your SRAM Force RD with some fibre-lyte carbon derailleur cage and some berner 13t upper 15t lower pulleys
http://www.fibre-lyte.co.uk/fl/fl_cycles_c..._gear_mech.html

as for wheels, some extralite hyperclimb c26
http://www.extralite.com/Products/hyperclimb%20C26.htm

or you can opt for some extralite ultrahubs laced to enve 1.25's....


say bye bye to your bank accounts and hello to mega debts...

not till jeremy clarkson says so...

jeremy claims the stelvio pass to be the best driving road in the world in the 10th series when they went in search of the best driving roads in the world and then later in the next few seasons it was superseded by the Transfagarasan in romania....

so it is

1) Transfagarasan
2) Stelvio Pass
wat is so jealous about going back to a big sand bowl???

have you not seen sand before?

you know the stelvio pass is 6000km away from where you are on the far ends of italy rite... bordering switzerland i think....

ohhh... don't get me started on climbs...

i think the easiest is to see if Trek has cycling tours during your travel dates...they do organize this cycling travel tours for tourists
http://www.trektravel.com/france-bike-tours.php

or you can go during July and maybe even join the etape du tour which the masses will ride the queen stage of the tour 1 day before the peloton passes it on race day...i heard it was damn fun...
http://www.letapedutour.com/ET1/us/homepage.html

as for climbs... you can't miss the big 5 climbs of the tours

1) Col du Galibier 8600ft, (just a u turn at the top if i am not wrong...nothing to see except for some graffitied signposts and roads...) on the way up, you climb the Col du Telegraphe as well if i am not wrong
2) Col du Tourmalet 6900ft, (can visit the Jacques Goddet memorial at the top of the climb)
3) Mont Ventoux 6200ft,  (the wind blown bald mountain)
4) Alpe d'Huez 6100ft, (need i explain more???, the famous 21 hairpins to the ski town)
5) Col de l'Iseran 9,000ft (just an epic climb)
5.5) Col de Portet d'Aspet 3500ft, (not epic, but for me personally because it is such a part of the tour with Fabio Casartelli's death in 1995 and his memorial on the descent where he had his crash)

other notable climbs if you can do it which is usually quite close or linked to one another...
1) Plateau de beille around 6,000ft
2) Port de Pailheres around 6,500 ft
3) Col de la Colombiere around 5,000ft
4) Col de la Bonette close to 9,000ft if i am not wrong
4.5) Avoriaz don't know how hight, but just because the ski town looks so fantastic sitting at the edge of a cliff

usually the climbs in france are distributed to 3 main regions, usually the Alps, Pyrenees and also the massif central...and some climbs actually goes over the borders of italy or switzerland

i believe climbs like stelvio pass is also accessible from france via a bit of driving if i am not wrong...

interesting?