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what is the best mountain bike (under 600-700 $) from Brodie or Norco.?

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though if there is a beter one from another brand please answer too

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It depends what you're using it for. Brodie and Norco are both pretty safe bets, along with plenty of others. Go to a good independent bike shop and look around, and look at the bikes yourself. I'm sure something will catch your eye. A good shop will only sell good bikes. If you want more bang for your buck, skip the rear suspension.

What are the differences between "Freeride" and "XC" hard tail Mountain Bikes?

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I'm looking for something I can ride comfortably on and off road, can someone help me with the pros/cons of each of the above? Specifically I'm comparing a 2008 Brodie Brute to a 2007 Cannondale F5. Thanks!

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FreeRide mt. bikes have both front/rear suspension with MORE travel - 5 to 6" and with more features. ( like those from Fox and Marzocchi)---these bikes can handle the most brutal terrain. Tires are usually fatter 2X 2.1,2.2,2.3) and may have tubes or are tubeless. XC bikes are really popular and have hardtail and dual suspension choices. They have low travel ( either front/rear suspension) and can handle 'not so extreme' terrain. But they are all-day rigs and usually have better prices than the freeride kits. Get the bike you know that suits your riding style.( or bikes that are for both ---the ALL MOUNTAIN bikes)

Kona Caldera vs Brodie brat

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im buying a new bike (This is my first full on mountain bike)and it's come down to these two. brodie brat http://www.brodiebikes.com/2008/2008_bikes/brat.php ore the kona caldera http://www.konaworld.com/09_caldera_c.cfm im normally gonna do 1 to 4 foot jumps and sometimes take the bike to north shore. pls help me choose

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KONA!!! It's better brudda man!

Need help from someone who knows anything about mountain bikes please!!!!!!!?

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I just moved to a new city and want to buy a bike both to get around town as well as do some trail riding. I haven't owned a bike in a long time and there's sure a lot more to consider than last time I did. Looking at a couple of what seem to be great deals on used bikes but it's no good getting a good deal if the bike isn't right for what I want it for right? The two bikes I'm looking at tomorrow are: 1. 2007 Cannondale F5 AND 2. 2008 Brodie Brute (I think Brodie's are Canadian so hopefully the Americans on here know what they are (pardon my ignorance if they're not Canadian and/or if everyone knows what they are). The Brute is a way better deal but I'm just not sure if there's a significant difference because everywhere I look the Brodie is being called a "dirt jump" bike (I'm concerned about the general comfort when I'm just riding around the city). Also, I'm fairly athletic and there are tons of trails around where I live and I have a feeling once I start riding them I'll just want to go faster and harder so I don't want a commuter that will limit my options in that way or some starter piece of junk that I'll just have to trade in mid summer cause I'm being too hard on it. But the main use will initially be to get around town and riding on pavement. Anyways, I think you get the picture, please help!

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First and foremost you do not want a dirt jump bike for the kind of ridding you are proposing! The F5 would be a better buy and you can always put some slicks on it or even get another wheelset to put the slicks on to change out for road (pavement) ridding and keep the mtn tires on the original wheelset. The F5 is a much better bike than the other you propose and even the F5 is not quite suited for getting around town but you will tire on the DJ bike quickly!

What kind of mountain bike forks do you suggest?

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right now i just bought an 08 brodie tempyst that comes with the Suntour XCR 100mm, magnesium sliders, and 30mm chromoly stanchions. I rode it and within 5 seconds i noticed how soft they are, and would like something a little more dense and maybe a little bit higher quality. i dont have a price range but nothing too fancy or much higher quality then the ones i have now.

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i would not go for the sr suntour if you are planing to hit some jumps i will sugest you go with the rockshox tora 318 you can switch from 85-135 mm of travel. i would also recomend a rockshox pike if you will want to spend a little more money. look up rockshox forks at rockshox.com they have good forks that arent expensive some of them.

Looking for bicycle advice (cyclocross)

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I'm going to be getting a new bike in the next couple of weeks and am wondering if a cyclocross would be the best choice for me. My concern is that other "hybrid" products seem to be ok at each of the things they are meant to do but not great. Unfortunately, I can't afford a good road bike and a good mountain bike. There's also situations I'll be in where I will be on the highway traveling as well as dirt roads. top priorities for the bike 1. commuting - 5 days a week 2. fitness - 3 days a week 3. day touring on hwy (60km / 40miles) - 1 day week 4. biking/camping trips with combination of hwy and dirt roads (100-200 km / 120-240 miles) - a couple weekends a month I don't plan on racing. I will panniers to load camping gear & food for weekend trips An example of a weekend camping trip I plan on doing is 100km on hwy and paved roads and 40km on dirt road to get to my favourite camping spot. The dirt road isn't accessed or maintained a lot so sometimes it's hard, smooth and has a few potholes, other times it is loose gravel. I've been checking out the Brodie Romax and Scott Cyclocross Comp. Going to checkout Norco, Trek and Rocky Mountain as well.

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Without knowing anything about the bikes mentioned already, I can say that cross bikes tend to make lousy commuters. A frame made for cross is made for very specific use and conditions. As a result, it can be kind of clunky and squirrely on paved roads. Since you're primary use will be commuting/touring, I'd avoid any cross specific frames and look for something aimed at touring/distance riding. You don't need an off-road specific bike if you ride on a gravel road. For that you just need the right tires and wheels. For example, Gatorskin tires and a good pair of high spoke count wheels. Good luck!

Bike Parts Web-Sight?

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what is a good web-sight for mountain biking parts like a fox fork and shamoo shifter and like a brodie nemesis fame, some place that sells it all.

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Amazon.com Nashbar.com Use Google. TONS of web sites (not web sights).

100 Books Every High School Student Should Read?

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Do you agree with the list? How many books on this list have you read (High school or not)? Are there any books you'd add to this list? I didn't read any of these in high school, read some of them in college, and some I've read on my own. Some are on my to-read list. Atonement is my favorite book of all time. This list comes from the Accredited Online Colleges website. 1 Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 2 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 3 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore 4 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 5 One Thousand and One Nights Anon 6 The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 7 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 8 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre 9 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons 10 The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki 11 Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 12 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing 13 Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin 14 On the Road by Jack Kerouac 15 Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac 16 The Red and the Black by Stendhal 17 The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 18 Germinal by Emile Zola 19 The Stranger by Albert Camus 20 The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 21 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 22 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 23 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 24 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 25 The Trial by Franz Kafka 26 Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee 27 Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan 28 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque 29 Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler 30 The Dream of the Red Chamber by Cao Xueqin 31 The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa 32 If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino 33 Crash by JG Ballard 34 A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul 35 Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 36 Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak 37 The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 38 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 39 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift 40 My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 41 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 42 London Fields by Martin Amis 43 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaoo 44 The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse 45 The Tin Drum by Gnter Grass 46 Austerlitz by WG Sebald 47 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 48 The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 49 The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger 50 Underworld by Don DeLillo 51 Beloved by Toni Morrison 52 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 53 Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin 54 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 55 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark 56 The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet 57 Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 58 The Rabbit books by John Updike 59 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 60 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 61 The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton 62 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 63 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 64 The Warden by Anthony Trollope 65 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 66 Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis: An uncommitted history lecturer clashes with his pompous boss, gets drunk and gets the girl. 67 The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler 68 Clarissa by Samuel Richardson 69 A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell 70 Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky 71 Atonement by Ian McEwan 72 Life: a User’s Manual by Georges Perec 73 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding 74 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 75 Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 76 The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins 77 Ulysses by James Joyce 78 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 79 A Passage to India by EM Forster 80 1984 by George Orwell 81 Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne 82 The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 83 Scoop by Evelyn Waugh 84 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 85 Brighton Rock by Graham Greene 86 The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse 87 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 88 David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 89 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 90 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 91 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 92 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 93 Disgrace by JM Coetzee 94 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 95 In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 96 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 97 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 98 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 99 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 100 Middlemarch by George Eliot @Emily - Nope, a quick copy/paste. ;) You'll be surprised what technology can do for you. :D Even though I haven't read it, I'm quite surprised that JRR Tolkien is at the top of her list. Most of these books I'd never read, though. Just not my taste, including the non-fiction books.

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Add East of Eden by John Steinbeck The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli Uncle Toms Cabin by Charles Dickens Good books for High school students.

Which of these novels is really good reading?

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We have to read 2 outside readings every quarter for my literature class (recommended an epic/myth). Which of these books are really interesting and engaging? I don't want to be stuck with a boring book, or one that I can barely get through (like the Iliad). I'm definitely into action/adventure or some type of horror related epic (I like gruesome haha). But anything you felt was reading worthy is appreciated! (Sorry I know it's a long list) 100 Years of Solitude 1984 A Doll’s House A Farewell to Arms A Gathering of Old Men A Lesson Before Dying A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Portrait of a Lady A Portrait of the Artist… A Raisin in the Sun A Separate Peace A Streetcar Named Desire A Tale of Two Cities Absalom, Absalom Agnes of God Alias Grace All My Sons All Quiet on the Western Front All the King’s Men All the Pretty Horses America is in the Heart An American Tragedy An Enemy of the People Animal Farm Anna Karenina Another Country Antigone (Sophocles) Antony and Cleopatra As I Lay Dying As Passage to India As You Like It Beloved Benito Cereno Billy Budd Bleak House Bless Me, Ultima Brave New World Bridges of San Luis Rey Brighton Rock Candide Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Catch 22 Ceremony Coming Through Slaughter Count of Monte Cristo Crime and Punishment Cry, The Beloved Country Daisy Miller Dancing at Lughnasa David Copperfield Death of a Salesman Delta Wedding Desire Under the Elms Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant Doctor Faustus Don Quixote East of Eden Emma Equus Ethan Fromme Fathers and Sons Fences Fifth Business Fountainhead Frankenstein Ghosts Go Tell It on the Mountain Going After Cacciato Gone With the Wind Great Expectations Grendel Gulliver’s Travels Hamlet Hard Times Heart of Darkness Hedda Gabler Henry IV Henry V House Made of Dawn House of the Spirits Huckleberry Finn Importance of Being Ernest In the Lake of the Woods Invisible Man J.B. Jane Eyre Jasmine Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Joseph Andrews Jude the Obscure Julius Caesar King Lear Light in August Long Day’s Journey Into Night Lord Jim Lord of the Flies Lord of the Rings Love Medicine Lysistrata MacBeth Madame Bovary Madame Butterfly Main Street Major Barbara Man and Superman Mansfield Park Medea Middlemarch Miss Lonelyhearts Moby-Dick Moll Flanders Monkey Bridge Mother Courage Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Warren’s Profession Much Ado About Nothing Murder in the Cathedral No Exit No-No Boy Notes From the Underground Obasan Oedipus Rex Of Mice and Men One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Our Mutual Friend Our Town Pale Fire Pamela Paradise Lost Persuasion (Austen) Phedre Pocho Praisesong for the Widow Pride and Prejudice Pygmalion Redburn Richard III Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are Dead Saint Joan Silas Marner Sister Carrie Slaughterhouse Five Snow Falling on Cedars Song of Solomon (Morrison) Sons and Lovers Sula Tartuffe Tess of the D’Urbervilles The Age of Innocence The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man The Awakening The Birthday Party The Bluest Eye The Brothers Karamazov The Caretaker The Centaur The Color Purple The Crucible The Dead The Death of Ivan Ilyich The Diviners The Dollmaker The Eumenides The Fall (Camus) The Father The Glass Menagerie The Good Soldier The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby The Hairy Ape The Handmaid’s Tale The Homecoming The House of Seven Gables The Iliad The Joy Luck Club The Jungle The Little Foxes The Loved One The Mayor of Casterbridge The Member of the Wedding The Merchant of Venice The Metamorphosis The Mill on the Floss The Misanthrope The Oresteia (Aeschylus) The Piano Lesson The Picture of Dorian Gray The Plague The Power and the Glory The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Rape of the Lock The Remains of the Day The Scarlet Letter The Shipping News The Sound and the Fury The Stone Angel The Stranger The Sun Also Rises The Tempest The Trial The Turn of the Screw The Warden The Wasteland The Watch that Ends the Night The Wild Duck The Winter’s Tale The Woman Warrior The Zoo Story Their Eyes Were Watching God Things Fall Apart To the Lighthouse Tom Jones Trifles Tristam Shandy Twelfth Night Typical American Uncle Tom’s Cabin Victory Volpone Waiting Waiting for Godot Washington Square Watch on the Rhine Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe? Wide Sargasso Sea Winter in the Blood Wise Blood Wuthering Heights Zoot Suit

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Crime and Punishment is long but good and easy to follow A portrait of the artist as a young man can be hard to follow but it's insanely creative, especially the first couple of paragraphs (the words are my desktop wallpaper) The Metamorphasis is good for something short. 1984 and Animal Farm are both two of the best in history and the best of Orwell.

Book suggestion? Please help?

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I have a reading list and I want to know which books from this list are really great and is a must read: 1984 A Clockwork Orange A Kestrel for a Knave American Psycho Breakfast at Tiffany's Brighton Rock Catch-22 Close Range: Brokeback Mountains and other stories Devil in a Blue Dress Different Seasons Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Doctor Zhivago Empire of the Sun Fight Club Get Shorty Goldfinger Goodfellas Heart of Darkness Jaws LA Confidential Les Liaisons Lolita One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest Orlando Pride and Prejudice Rebecca Schindler's Ark Sin City Tess of the D'Urbevilles The Day of the Triffids The English Patient The French Lieutenant's Woman The Godfather The Maltese Falcon The Outsiders The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie The Remains of the Day The Spy who came in from the Cold The Talented Mr Ripley The Vanishing To Kill a Mockingbird Trainspotting Watership Down From this list, please say the ones that are must reads. Thank you very much. More than 5 books please

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that's one hell of list. i'll recommend the ones from these that i've actually read: 1984 Fight Club Goodfellas (actually the book that the movie's based on is called Wiseguys, not Goodfellas!) Heart of Darkness One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest The Godfather Les Liaisons Dangereuses (AKA Dangerous Liaisons) i'm still reading Lolita, i didn't like To Kill A Mockingbird and The Outsiders, and i gave up on Trainspotting because it's written in a VERY annoying Scot accent that is extremely frustrating to read. i ended up watching the movie. LOL. some books on your list that i'm planning to read are: Catch 22 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Spy Who Came In From The Cold A Clockwork Orange The Maltese Falcon Goldfinger Tess of the D'Urbevilles Devil In A Blue Dress Breakfast At Tiffany's

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