Hi, Helmuth Dora,

For the next newsletter :

At least

• The five topics
• Absolutely, one chapter that I’ll send you with « how to send the results 2007 »
• A new recurrent chapter presenting one website of one member called « the BIG is online » (it gives us the ability to begin by the one of Bas Wolfs and then to present one new website in each newsletter)
• About a BIG (F.Candau)
• BIG’s requests : jerseys with questions about the necessity to re-active a new stock, GIO with the missing places

The 5 topics inside the news :

• Zone 6 is alive

Our zone 6 (Spain + Portugal) is alive. A new challenge is born in Spain, a kind of small BIG inside the country, with a list of the 1.000 ( ??) best spanish climbs to ride during his whole life. The challenge is called CIMA and is well activated http://www.altimetrias.net/cima/index.asp . Just next this country, the Portugal has now a member inside our challenge with João Lourenço and his cycling website http://pwp.netcabo.pt/joao.al .

• Pictures throughout the BIGs

Summer has been full of our climbs and now autumn will be full of our souvenirs. Already, some pictures have been sent to us « throughout » the european BIGs. The BIg has decided to show the last ones in a small page of maximum 5 pictures in http://danielgobert.free.fr/actu-photos/actu-photos.htm . These pictures will not stay a long time there. It will be interesting for you to have often a look at this page to have a large view of the pictures sent. Don’t hesitate to send us your BEST pictures about your last holidays (only one, please). Some pictures about a forbidden cobbled climb in Poland called Snieszka are also available at http://www.podjazdy.ovh.org/sniezka1.html : it’s enthusiastic and uncredible…but sorry, forbidden.

• Holidays, holidays,…

Plenty of you have spent holidays and will send us their new claims. But some of you present their travel before in websites, blogs or webpages. Claudiu Moga had special circumstances in http://danielgobert.free.fr/formulaires/romania.htm for climbing in 6 countries, Martin Kool shows his Great-Britain-zone 2 inhttp://www.geocities.com/martinkool/2007Schotland.html , Olivier Dupeyroux has finished all the 75 BIGs of the zone 7 and shows and will show them in http://panneauxcols.free.fr . Ard Oostra has travelled in central Italy and sent us road-signs that you can see at http://bigascensions.free.fr/panneaux/panneaux-tablmat.htm , and Gyorgyi Domonkos has ridden in the Benelux, promising some texts for the annual review.

• BIG’s members are writers

Wellknown members in our challenge like André Tignon (Nous les cyclos), Alberto Ferraris (Ediciclo, passi e valli), José Bruffaerts (public writer), Daniel Gobert (Les cols de la vie, Cotacol), Georges Rossini (Ediciclo, cols d’Italie), Luc Oteman (Fietsen in Ierland, Portugal,…),… have already written some official books sold in good bookshops. Now, it’s Marc Peeters (Holland) who is coming with a new official book about our activity :

By the end of September a book appears of his hand with bicycle tales, at publisher book plan (to see www.boekenplan.nl).

       Title:        I cycle, therefore I am ?

       Price:      19.00 Euro's and 2.20 Euro to send the book.

       Appears:  25 September 2007.

       Author:    Marc Peeters

       ISBN:      978.90.8666.033.9

       Format:   13.5 x 21.5 cm

       Scope:    250 pages, paperback, illustrated.

       Content:  Marc Peeters. A true biker. In this book he reports his experiences in the form of 52 travel stories. The tales have been classified to the following headings:

                     - Meetings (with coloured characters)

                     - Mountains (concerning heroïek)

                     - Misery (Bikers sorrow)

                     - Exotica (distant travel)

                     - Sport (Notes about the races)

                     - Political (From the world of the bike associations)

                     These different topics have been written in an amusing, catching and passionate style with much humor.

• Last changes and the definite official list of 1.000

As announced very often, our basic list of 1.000 will suffer its last great changes at the end of this year. The GIO will vote about the possibility to change some small zones like this http://danielgobert.free.fr/changes/ch2007.htm for Portugal, Italy, Hungary and Ex-Yougoslavia. For deleting Turkey, six suggestions appeared like this http://danielgobert.free.fr/changes/ch2007-2.htm . After those votes, the possibilities to change one BIG in the list will be very hard and with extremely precise criterias. The GIO will analyze them longly, one by one. The lis twill have a BIG stability. If you want to suggest a change, see our rules. But, above all, that means that we’ll have a great good list, on which we’ll be able to work inside, to get the datas better, to show in a better way all their characteristics, to edit a good book « Passacol » useful for a long time. It was a long way, but we’ll be proud to show the result soon.

Regards, Dan.