VB Doon Agoon...

[juvela]

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...all this oup n' doun...

...methimketh am getting seasick...



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[bagpuss]

Pen and paper anyone.

 

[LondonClassic]

As @bulgie has been kind enough to offer we download all we can it may be a good time to look at something like HTTrack - that allows you to download full sites.

https://www.httrack.com/

Then with a local copy of velobase you need not sweat if the site takes a breather.

 

[non-fixie]

For those who are interested: Jon, the Velobase owner posted this in his update thread over on BF C&V yesterday.

Quick update, some might have noticed VeloBase has been up and down a few times over the last few weeks since the MySQL update with a '503' server error. This was happening due to something causing the server to stop entirely, forcing me to go and manually reset it. I pushed another update yesterday that should prevent those 503 errors going forward, or at least that's the hope.

 

[LondonClassic]

As @bulgie has been kind enough to offer we download all we can it may be a good time to look at something like HTTrack - that allows you to download full sites.

https://www.httrack.com/

Then with a local copy of velobase you need not sweat if the site takes a breather.

Just as an aside I did this - and could not get the cached copy of the site to work locally. I had all the component pages but they are not referenced to that component (eg the page for a Campagnolo C Record Crankset is not labelled 'Campagnolo C Record Crankset' but by an index number - so you cannot run a local search and you need the main site index to find it. As the cached site is 3.8GB a browser running the index.html file collapses under the weight and can't index - at least on my PC.

If anyone knows a way around this (apart from running my own webserver) please let me know.

 

[Jesper]

I was able to access Velobase, but when searching for a specific part with applicable filters applied the result was the whole database. I had to alphabetically scroll through pages to reach a category and then "turn more pages" to get to the brand and item. Time consuming; but better than nothing.

 

[Canuk]

I was able to access Velobase, but when searching for a specific part with applicable filters applied the result was the whole database. I had to alphabetically scroll through pages to reach a category and then "turn more pages" to get to the brand and item. Time consuming; but better than nothing.

Just as an aside, the search facility has always been a bit hit and miss for me. Perhaps it's browser specific, I doubt it will work properly on anything other than the vanilla Microsoft browser.