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Black Hope RS4 road hubs with a Shimano 9/10/11 speed freehub.

130mm rear, 24h, laced 2 cross on the drive side and radial non-drive. 896 grams.
100mm front, 20h, laced radially. 737 grams.

Ambrosio p20 rims. Good, medium weight, wide rim suitable for tubeless.

ACI double butted spokes.

Black Hope quick releases.

The front hub was previously built up into a different wheel, but never ridden, and no marks to suggest this. Everything else brand new.

£300.

Dilute soapy water. Set up several. They set up fine. Some tyres are too loose as well. That's not the rims fault.

Thought this would probably be the case. Thanks. He says he had to swap them out for Kinlins and all is now well. Probably made in the same factory.

I use a wooden bar, cut from a mop or similar, to lever spokes towards and beyond their final position, twice, once after lacing, to ensure spokes are orientated correctly, and then again at final tension (though I repeat this until the wheel stays true). You're looking to increase the tension a fair amount (to stress relieve), so it's a lot of force squeezing spokes and hard on the knuckles.

It's actually two processes at once, stress relieving (to give spoke durability) and removing the spoke wound up (to give a true wheel).

Any front lights on the more budget side with a symmetrical lens, good for mild offgroad?

Anyone tried out those Ambrosio P20's tubeless? I built up a set for someone and they're saying they're impossible to setup - needing 150psi to lock the bead in. I suspect they're a tubeless noob and are not used to the faff occaisonally required with certain tyre/rim combinations.

I don't remember any restrictions in place for that particular park.

Path along the Thames there was fine. Looked like lots of "no cycling" signs going up in Wimbledon common though.

Can I ride through Hampton Court park at the moment?

I think it's a pass for me. Thanks @littleK though!

Sounds good, thanks

For a friend. quite flexible to different things: but comfort, reliability and reasonable weight a priority. She's 168cm tall.

80's/90's 531 steel step through ATB would be the dream.

Where can I salvage some big planters/pots from on my allotated excursion today?

My current setup.

Hand it to a fabricator; extend the head tube, extend the seat tube, couple of extra top tubes in for good measure. job done.

Hey.

Looking to swap a 70mm X4 for a bit more length, ideally 90mm.

Jon.

Having this in mind, id say you could get the XL to work fine :) I can get those measurements for you tomorrow if its too much a hassle for Jon.

Might be tricky for me to measure anything longer than 15cm at the moment, so it's down to you!

I'm considering getting an Ominium, although at 6'7" I'm wondering if the XL will be big enough? The sizing chart suggests so, but I've read ( possibly here ) that it's best to size up on an Omnium, which in my case would unfortunately not be possible

It does look pretty big

I went for a XL at 185cm. It's the right length top tube for me, but not so much standover. I reckon you'd need a pretty long stem, but could probably make it work. Omnium geo is a bit weird.

Does the interlacing so close to the flange introduce unneccessary stress on spoke and flange?

Will be scouring the shelves in Aldi later.

Saw those, yeah. Is there a very obvious reason not to build a 20h disc wheel?

Make sure they have tangential spokes (i.e don't build it radial). Two-cross probably won't be possible.

where where where?

Yeah, I'd opt for more spokes than necessary on a disc brake, dynamo wheel. You'll lose a lot of triangulation because of the narrow flange spacing, so go for extra strength elsewhere. Also gives you a bit of leeway, should you break a spoke, in the middle of nowhere.

Cheers @Matisse, PMed.

Moi aussi !

Either out front, or the stretchy rubber band model.

yo dawg

Anyone have a Garmin mount going spare?