For anyone who is interested you can see vaious details of the bike I will be using on these these links The bike shop building the bike is Ghyllside Cycles who I met a few years ago at the London bike show. Calvin and Kevin are really helpful and really know what they are doing when it comes to touring/expedition bikes. You can see some example builds of the type of bike I will be getting in the frames section. The Rohloff Speed hub, this component was over half the value of the bike. It is an internal gear system which means I will have less to worry about on the road and enables me to build a stronger wheel as I the spokes do not have to compensate for the rear casette and deraliur. url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7USVMrg5phY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sheldonbrown.com%2Fharris%2Frohloff.html&feature=player_embedded
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