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We need you help please

We run a cycling holiday buisness on the Costa Blanca Spain and in conjunction with a local club here in Spain we are looking at moving into the Mountain Bike sector. We are proposing to build a short 4Cross/BMX track and a long course track to include raised boardwalk areas. With these two propsals and all the traditional off road tracks that this area offers we think we can put some rearly exciting mountain bike packeges together.

We would rearly like to hear your thoughts and any ideas on the proposal to build the two 4Cross tracks.

Thanks for your Help.

Adam

Please feel free to visit our web site http://www.citruscycling.co.uk

Different strip each day although some longer running stories as well.

This one is for the Early Birds:

http://www.yehudamoon.com/index.php?date=2008-02-09

A bit of a long shot, but if any one comes across (going cheap..etc) a bike with the following description please get in touch:

Santa Cruz Superlight (anodised gun metal gray)
- Pace RC36 Forks
- Fox Rear Shock
- Monkeylite carbon bars
- Thompson stem/post
- Mavic 317 wheels
- Hope disc brakes

i need a new hardtail mountain bike, preferably around £300

a few recommendations and reviews would be appreciated

thanks

Firstly, let me say that if this posting contravenes forum rules, is considered spam or would be better posted in a different location, then I humbly apologise.

Now to business …

My wife, 2 children & I left the UK last year to live the dream life in the Austria Tirol. We get to ski all winter and enjoy the beautiful Alpine scenery all year round … Yeah, yeah, yeah I hear you say – So what?

Well the thing is that having tootled around the mountain on my bike I haven’t seen anyone here who’s in anyway serious about Mountain Biking.

The mountain is serviced by a gondola which runs from 09:00 – 17:00 everyday and once at the top there are literally 100’s sq miles of mountain to ride. I’ve ridden some of the gravel roads around the place and dived down some (to me) insane tracks but I’ve never seen anyone else doing more than sightseeing [or peddling between mountain bars ] …

Now I’m the 1st to admit that I’m really a total newbie at “organised” Mountain Biking but I think our village could be a really great place to create some new rides. The trouble is that I have nothing to compare our mountain against – Well except we went to Whistler, BC on hols last year and saw a round of the World Downhill Championships which happened to be on a the same time, but I never rode there.

So what I’m looking for is about a half dozen people who would be prepared to come out to Austria and help me decide if there is any future in our mountain and whether I should start to invest my time and money making trails etc.

My motivation for this is two-fold.

1.  We own and run an apartment house and I’m always looking at ways to attract new guests and
2.  How cool would it be to be the one to find and develop a totally new mountain?

Now I appreciate that this is a big ask and so in return I am prepared to provide free collection & returns to and from a local airport, provide accommodation for free for 7 nights and provide whatever help I can with guiding around the mountain … Volunteers would need to cover flights, food and drink whilst in resort and lift passes.

So what do you all think?

I’d appreciate any help possible with this and look forward to hearing from you all.

Cheers

Des

http://www.auhof.co.uk

Seemed interesting, so I emailed the user asking about the bike.
The reply came a few days later, with this person telling me that he still has it, and he’s found a way to do the deal that would suit both of us. He then goes on to tell me that Royal Mail have a service that will allow him to send the bike to them, once they have it and confirm this to me, I send the money to them. When they have both, they would then send on the bike to me for inspection. Once inspected, if I agreed to buy it, I then tell Royal Mail to send the money on to the seller.

It sounded o.k, so I sent him my details and 3 days later I get an email from Royal Mail telling me they have the bike at there depot and would I now send payment to them (using Western Union...)
The email looked official - loads of Royal Mail logos all over it. A tracking number, an invoive attached, the depot’s full address and email (in Liverpool) and also the name of the Royal Mail agent (called Greg Thompson) who I should make my payment out to.

This email also said that I can verify my transaction by going here (a clickable link) - http://www.royalposte.com/transactions/trackpackage.html

Got there and couldn’t help but notice that it didn’t look like the Royal Mail website I’d been to in the past. So I go back to the email and see another link “quick track” to track my item. I clicked it and it took me here - http://www.royalposte.com/transactions/trackpackage.html

Wasn’t quite sure what was happening (maybe another postal service???) So I email him and asked him which shop he bought it from and he says FreeWheel in Manchester. I call freewheel (in Birmingham I think) and they say they’ve never had one in Manchester.

So I go to the official Royal Mail website and check the tracking number and it comes back that it’s too long. I go to parcel force’s website and try the tracking number there and it says the same thing. So (eventually) I email Royal Mail (from the official website) and 4 days later they get back to me and say that that website is nothing to do with them and they have no such item with that tracking number. They say do not send any money and that I should contact my local police.

Now I will admit, I came pretty close to sending him my money. It’s all well and good you reading this and thinking “it’s just so obvious” but it wasn’t. I really wanted the bike, the email looked official - I even asked for the frame number which he gave me. The invoice looked legit and in his email’s he didn’t sound like some typical theif (with even worse english than mine and/or used slang)
The thing that made me just a tiny bit suspicious (but not much) was the reply from one of the first emails I sent him. I asked (in detail) about the bike and it’s use and he didn’t answer many of my questions. Not that they were hard to answer, he just didn’t answer then like a mountain biker trying to sell his bike would have. At first I just put this down to him being a bit of a arse. But if he’d of answered them in the way I expected, I’m pretty sure that when this so called Royal Mail Support email came through I’d have sent my money.

So watch your backs ppl, it seems they’ve targeted us now....