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Anyone watching the Tour De France on T.V. can see Audi B7 Avants being used as one of the tours team cars.

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I saw an audi. Lol .. i thought it was ugly though.. one of them station wagon things

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Those team cars are cool

Does anyone know what team they are, i can't recall

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Heh, I look at the bikes when I watch the tour.

These are my rides:

not built... its currently built full ultegra, with 540's.
http://www.seo-smd.com/displayframe-sbc-02-2_2.jpg
This pretty much looks like my bike, built -- cept mine has a nicer saddle, and carbon post and stem -- and black bartape:
http://www.nw-mountainbike.com/Media...LLEZCOMP18.jpg
My dirty ride:
This is also generic... mine has avid juicy 7's, thomson post, carbon bar, 2x9 drivetrain, and klimax lite tires.
http://www.cannondale.com/bikes/03/i...rge/vn1000.jpg

oh, and two of my rides together :P

http://chris.offtone.com/photos/bikerack/3.jpg

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Damn that one hell of a bike, last summer i resurected an old 1970's schwinn road bike, it looks nice now, but nothing compared to yours

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Did anyone see Mickael Rasmussen on Stage 9. That was some crazy stuff.

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im watchin the tour, and it think that T-Mobile will take it this year, they've been riding in lance's shadow for lke 6 years, its time for some revenge.

i used to ride by mtn. bike all throught the trails up here, it was so fun, but i got into road bikes when last year's tour came around.

i love this shit man, bikes n surfin is all u need

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Did you see today's stage 10? Fantastic stuff up to Courcheval.....vintage Discovery team and Armstrong..

I am watching the replay right now on OLN....Valverde is a new relevation...kicking a$$, T-mobile is imploding.

Headshock- Nice rides! My road ride is a Schwin Prologue/Dura-Ace...Not bad, but early 90's technology....not very light. My dirt ride is a Treck OCLV hardtail/xtr...lighter than my road bike...I'll post some pics later...

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I think the team with the A4's is Liberty Segurnos

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i just watch the replays on TV of the huge crashes, that amouses me

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You watch your mouth![8D]

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How much would a frameset like yours cost?

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today will be great. watching it now. those are some tough hills. i cant imagine how those guys can do so much day after day. lance will pull through and win.

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Yep...I am on the letour website, they post text updates about every minute...so that is how I watch at work..then I look at the oln replay every night.

Today's climbs are HC and kicking as$. But since it ends with a down hill section to level, it will most likely be a big bunch finish, or they will let some guy that is way behind in the GC break away for a win. All the top guys will finish with basically the same time.

Stage 15 is the one that is going to blow up...increadibly difficult, with a moutain top finish!

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The OCLV's are nice bikes, what year is it?

My road bike is about 17.5 lbs, my mountain is about 26 I think. My old mountain bike was a c-dale f2000sl, I had it tweaked... it was like 19.8 pounds, for a dual disc mountain bike. INSANE.

As for the cost of my frameset... I dunno, its a 2002 model... you can get a bike like mine used, for around a grand.

Buying a frameset is not recommended... transfering old parts to a new frame can be a huge pain in the ass. Bottom bracket sizes differ, seatposts differ, forks differ, headsets differ, stems differ, derailleur sizes differ, wheel spacing can differ... you'd end up with a new bike (very expensive one, buying piece by piece)

So yeah, look for a used something or other. I recommend ultegra, its the best bang for the buck. Dura-ace is insane, but VERY expensive.

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The OCLV is one of their early year models...I think from the second year they were out....like 97 I think?? It is damn lite, but not as lite as your old canondale...Got it used. Really like it, but could use a full suspension on the downhills!

I can second your comment about not buying frameset to build out. I have an old Motobecane road bike that I got in the mid 70's. It came with an assortment of Stronglight and other french components. Over the years I upgraded it to all Campy Record (in the late 70s) and then in the mid 80s upgraded again to dura-ace. Those were the days that all my mod money went to my bikes! Would have been much cheaper just to buy a used bike. Putting Italian and Japanese components on a French built frame can be a very time consuming process!

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Haha, I can imagine! And god knows, a full dura-ace component group with wheels is prolly as much as a big turbo kit for the a4. Decisions decisions! Haha, I'm happy with a 2002 bike with ultegra.