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Nice^ @Retro_bastard, yep the regret of selling some things is a bitch.
I plumped for 3003 in the end. Stems as well as F&F. Hope I don’t hate it!
Question for @hoops really, and any other paint sniffers. If I was to get flouro on a frame (another thing), probably powder just cos it lasts so well, would UV clearcoat be a must? I remember Rob you mentioning this on here years back. I mean, the bike only goes out Sundays really, lives out of direct sunlight otherwise. Presumably UV clear means the paint looks ok in bright light but doesn’t ping so much in low light, since we won’t get UV coverted into visible light reflecting off it? True? Or negligable, and if you don’t it’ll fade like buggery wherever you store the bike? I’m hankering after RAL 3026 Luminous Bright Red, specifically.
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I’d quite like that Nitto Fairweather stem, if you get hold of @Justin_Case let us know.
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Presumably the thing about the hub rolling in the end instead of tightening is to do with knurling (lack of / insufficient) on the OLNs? I seem to remember a certain wheelsmith saying this to me about some hub or other (possibly Royce) they were building for me. Thing is, hubs roll forward if you're not pulling the chain tight, but I always pull the wheel back somehow when torquing bolts.
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Just bought some of these maxxis dth, seems like a nice low tread. How are you or anyone else finding them? Seem light which I can’t say was a massive priority for me in buying them, and not cheap too.
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No stop it. It’s horrible. Bombs for fucksake. BOMBS.
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I just saw:
bomb proof
... used to describe some wheels just now. Just fucking stop it. It's a fucking disgusting thing to say. Your wheels would be blown to bits in a bomb blast, becoming lethal bits of metal flying into peoples' bodies.
Let me know if you want to let the geared hub & connected parts go on their own, but I can’t buy the wheelset. Thanks