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Oh yes forgot to mention the brakes in the list of problems. I got these XT v brakes off ebay, the ones with the mechanism to keep the pad-to-rim angle fixed as you engage the brakes. Think they call them parallelogram?
Anyway let me tell you they do stop a bicycle. Crazy powerful. Problem was I couldnt get them to stop squealing. They sounded like a David Lee Roth impersonator with his nutsack trapped in the fly zipper.
Tried all the tricks. Koolstop pads, normal pads, toe in, toe out, booster plate, different wheel, rim cleaned with acetone, pads roughed up with sand paper. I even deliberately drove through some muddy puddles. Then I accepted that these just are just loud, and other people seem to have the same problem. It mightbe that the parallelogram gets sloppy and then just vibrates, I dont know. @RickyT has them now and he seemed happy with them so maybe it was just me.
Did anybody else experience this?