Conference noted::bicycle

>	I am looking to purchase a new bike.  I am looking for a bike that is
>	light enough to do some biathalons with, but sturdy enough to do some
>	touring with.  I am also not looking to spend a fortune !!  

BI-athalons? Aren't those done by skiing from place to place and 
shooting at targets with a rifle? Seems like most ANY bike would be a 
bit heavy for skiing with! :-)

>	Any advise you could give me would be greatly appreciated !!!

If you INSIST on having a bike to ski with, try doing a 

notes> DIR/TITLE="new bike"

to find some of the 50 or so replies where this has been discussed 
before....
                                                ken

    
    Well, as long as we're getting picky.....
    
>		A biathalon is a triathalon without the swim !!
    
    Yeah, and they're spelled Biathlon/triathlon.  No "a" in the middle.
    
    Stew

     What you're looking for (on all points) does not exist together.
    You'll have to consider something second hand. In other words,
    there is no such thing as a "good hybrid" (performance/touring)
    that is nice and light (speed) and touring ready. If you're 
    competing you'll want a competition bike. If you're looking for
    weight consideration it is almost always connected with $$$$$$$.
    
     There is a thing called sport/touring, but you'll probably have
    to be swapping freewheels, rims/tires, seats, etc... between
    the events.

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>	light enough to do some biathalons with, but sturdy enough to do some
>	touring with.  I am also not looking to spend a fortune !!  

It depends by what you mean by the above qualifications.  If you want to do 
'loaded touring' you'll need rack eyelets everywhere, which eliminates most, 
if not all, hiqh quality racing bikes.  If you just want to throw a rear rack 
and small panniers on it, I bet a 'sport' or entry level racer would do, if it 
has rack eyelets on the rear dropout.  And you can get an insert that goes in 
the cutout in the rear dropout if it doesn't have eyelets.

If you don't want racks at all, then almost any entry level racer would do.  

What does 'sturdy enough to do some touring with' mean?

Kevin

    this bike was written up in the April or May Bicycling magazine.
    TREK bills it as "Performance Touring" in their brochure. It has
    a triple chainring and 7 speed freewheel for touring but a racing
    geometry frame. I believe it has rack eyelets on the rear dropout
    but I would have to walk out to my car to check.
    
    The list price is $529.
    
    I forgot to say this is an aluminum frame model.
    
    -tom			

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>       BI-athalons? Aren't those done by skiing from place to place and 
>       shooting at targets with a rifle? Seems like most ANY bike would be a 
>       bit heavy for skiing with! :-)


	The new term for a Bike/Run event is "CYRUTHON".
                                              ^ ^   
	                                      | |
                                              |  --- RU as in run
                                              |
                                               ----- CY as in cycle

	Other terms are being used but cyruthon seems to have a lead 
	on the others at this point.

	The biathlon (ski/shoot) governing body has put up a fuss
	over the name. they have Olympic status, also they are
	the governing body where the Olympic committee has placed the
	sport of triathlons under for acceptance as a demonstration 
	sport in 1992.

	Geeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeee.....give the guy a break
and point him to the TRIATHELET notes conference.....anyone
have the node it's on?  I have a hard enough time keeping 
current on bike notes.  

	He'll probably want a sport *racing* bike (no triple
crank thank you) with some sort of clip on bars that he can
remove when hes not biathloning.  As for the touring side,
take this bike, add Kevins large capacity under the seat
Ultra-Marathon Bag (if he hasn't patented it already ;-) that
is) and wala-presto-chango a neat *day* touring machine.

	Add to the above, a knapsack which converts to a belt
pack (I have one for x-country skiing that I use to commute
to work with occasionally) and you might be able to extend
your range right into the weekend touring, but forget about
bringing things like a camp stove or even a heavy tool set
along since the weight will be on you instead of the frame.

					Jerry

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