The Pinnacle Stratus 3.0 E is a good value hybrid

Advantages: Internal hub gears, sturdy frame, nice finish, responsive ride, great price
Disadvantages: Right brake lever could be longer, high Q factor, poor pedal design

...PINNACLE STRATUS 3.0E Product reviews, out of necessity, are full of relative descriptions and judgements based on comparison with a similar product familiar to the reviewer. Therefore, a reviewer?s experience very much affects the review outcome. Reviewers with little or no experience to call upon are likely to compare the product with their own expectations (be they reasonable or not). My review is no exception but I?ll say up front that my experience of adult bicycles is limited to a GT Tequesta mountain bike (steel frame, 3x7 derailuer gears & no suspension) and two lightweight tourers (both with Reynolds 531 steel frame, one with 700C alloy rims and 2x7 speed derailleur gears and the older tourer with 26? steel rims and Sturmey Archer 4 speed internal hub gears). Each tourer was fitted with new parts as they wore over...

dogfonos 22.09.2009 · Read review
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HYBRID THEORY

Advantages: A nice read
Disadvantages: None of note

...been a fan of Shaun Hutson from his very early books like slugs and Spawn and I thought I had read all that he had to offer. Imagine my delight therefore when I discovered Hybrid lurking on the pages of Amazon.co.uk and the realisation that I had not actually read it. Hybrid is a very clever piece of writing from Hutson in that it contains a story within a story, I sometimes forgot I was reading about a struggling author so engrossing was the story about Sean Doyle and his Counter Terrorist work, I actually found myself caring far more for Doyle?s character than for that of Christopher Ward. The first two thirds of the book are largely taken up with the story within the story but then as the manuscript is finished it switches to the author and his struggles to find out how and why the story was being written. Hutson himself says in his...

stuleg 19.10.2004 · Read review
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Hybrids: They're still human.

Advantages: Great plot and plot twists, good characters.
Disadvantages: Abrupt end in ending and forced romance between the two main characters.

...Written by David Thorpe 304 Pages Can be bought as new for £4.49 on Amazon.co.uk and new and used on Ebay.co.uk for £4+. Hybrids is a sci-fi thriller set in the future, where technology has left the people of Britain in fear. A new sickness called Creep is infecting humans, making them merge with technology they are using. The Government have begun to round hybrids up and take them to the Centre for Genetic Rehabilitation, but no one is ever seen again after being taken there. Kestrella and Johnny Online are hybrids; Kestrella with a mobile attached to her hand and Johnny with a computer merged with him. Kestrella tracks Johnny down through the internet so that he can use his computer skills and intelligence to find her missing mother who has recently come down with Creep. But as new laws against the hybrids begin to appear, they...

Mistybrook 29.08.2009 · Read review
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Hybrid Theory Linkin Park

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...Linkin Park is one of my favourite bands, they play an alternative American rock/metal music, their first mainstream album Hybrid Theory was an amazing collection of songs. This album has its own unique style of rock music combining scream singing, rapping and electric percussion. The track listing on this cd is: Papercut This is a great song about paranoia, this song really shows of the talents of all members in the band, it is mostly rapped and one of the best songs on the album. One Step Closer This is another amazing song though it is quite an angry song so might not suit all tastes (like most of this album), this song is about not being able being close to breaking point after taking abuse from someone and taking a stand. With You This song is about not being able to get someone out of your head, even though...

lorrainek90 27.10.2009 · Read review
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Peak performance from Pinnacle

Advantages: Excellent customer services, they phone you, they listen to you
Disadvantages: None that I have come across

...insurance. We pay life insurance in case we die in debt. Who collects it? The poor sod that has paid it, hardly! I could go on but I won’t, as this is a positive review about an excellent company that I had to deal with recently. The name of that company is Pinnacle Insurance PLC. Initially I had no idea that I would be dealing with them but I shall explain that matter as this tale unfolds. As some of you will be aware earlier this year I was unable to work for three months due to a serious incapacity. At the point when I realised that I would not be returning to work as quickly as I had envisaged I remembered that I had some payment protection insurance on the finance that I had taken out to pay for my computer. My original intent was to pay after the 9 months interest free period but I foolishly spent the money. I dug...

SparkyDeighton 26.07.2002 (28.06.2004) · Read review
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Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory Review

Advantages: timeless songs and endless entertianment for evey occasion
Disadvantages: the cover is a big confusing but that would be the only downfall of the product

...Linkin Park has been a favourite band of mine for years now and this was the third CD of theirs that I bought, this amazing CD came out in 2000, a new millennium, a new CD for Linkin Park. Compared to all their other CD?s I have to say that ?Hybrid Theory? is my favourite, the combination of Linkin park songs that most of which have become metal legends, is outstanding. The song that stands out most to me is, of course, Runaway. This song illustrates the injustice of the world in a truly original way. This song exercises the never ending question of ?why?? and ?how?? the first track on this CD is ?Paper cut? also a truly original track. The beginning starts of all mysterious and creepy then the tempo picks up for a few seconds. This is repeated several times throughout the track. The overall effect is astounding and foreboding...

Piggykins 17.07.2009 · Read review
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Hybrid Theory a blend of brilliance

Advantages: Lyrics, blends of different music
Disadvantages: Cure for the Itch

...Hello everyone! This is my first ever review on Ciao! As everybody seems to doing it at school I thought that I had better join in! As I'm new to this I would appreciate comments advising me on how to improve or add things to my opinions. I'm positive they won't be good to start off with so any comments at all would help me a great deal! Anyway, on with the review: Linkin Park - Hybrid theory is one of the best albums of the year in my opinion. Now I'm not a great listener of this particular type of music, but I decided to try this album based on the single Crawling by the same artist. There is a mixture of softer to heavy tracks which makes them all different, this is refreshing and makes it easier to listen to. The album is only 37 minutes long split into 12 tracks. This makes it easy to listen to as it doesn't take that long...

Hybrid 03.06.2001 (05.06.2001) · Read review
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Pinnacle DC10+ Video capture and editing

Advantages: cheap, fair quality images, easy to use
Disadvantages: needs a good sound card, some capture problems

...The Pinnacle DC10+ is a good few years old now but I thought I'd review it in case anyone was still using analogue video equipment and was looking for something to help them edit their videos. Units regularly turn up on eBay so they should be fairly easy to find if you think it's the device for you. On with the review! Whilst most people have moved over to digital video using either Digital8 or DV, some camcorder users are still more than happy with their Hi8, Video8 and even (shudder) VHS-C machines. The digital users have the luxury of Firewire and its ease of use when capturing and re-recording edited footage. However, the analogue users have to look to slightly more complex hardware to do the job. The Pinnacle Studio DC10+ consists of a PCI card and editing software. The card installs effortlessly as does the software. The card...

ilaskey 03.05.2007 · Read review
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  A Pinnacle Of Achievement, But At What

Advantages: Versatile
Disadvantages: Excels at nothing

...Pinnacle Instant CD+DVD v7.0 is a puzzling software package to button-hole. Normally, Pinnacle are in at the ?top-end? of TV and VCD/DVD editing and production, quite often including some hardware, like a Video & TV capture card in with their package. Whilst these packages are no doubt difficult to master entirely, (and let?s face it, who does before they bring out an upgrade?), it?s usually quite easy to see what their prime purpose in life is Therefore, I was quite surprised when out for a meal one night, to espy in a shop window, the proclamation ?Pinnacle Instant CD+DVD Copy, perfect DVD copies?. Hunger got the better of me, and I walked (or was it got dragged?) on. It wasn?t till a few days later when strolling around (garlic and crucifix at the ready) PC World, that it dawned on me that I was staring the very product in...

BNibbles 23.06.2003 · Read review
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Pinnacle SoundBridge

Advantages: easy set up, a quick solution to music streaming
Disadvantages: sound quality does not match original source.

...The Pinnacle SoundBridge media hub is a smashing device considering the price of around £50.00 Its versatile and is fairly easy to set up and seamlessly connects to your wireless router in order to give you easy access to Internet radio. There are loads preset and you have the option of browsing 'regions' to identify your favourite local stations available on the web. I did find that my local station wasn't listed and although it comes with radio snooper software I've failed to get this to work properly. The device happily finds both my windows media files and itunes folder and allows you to browse and play these tunes through speakers or your hi-fi if you connect this using a spare phono socket. The sound quality is a little dissapointing as it lacks the natural volume and depth of the original source. The other problem is that...

MarcD2 05.02.2008 · Read review
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