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Re: Did the rotors sell?

It survived, I enjoyed myself, didn’t crash but was surprised that the trail tradings of our local system bare no real resemblance to those at bpw. The blues there were more advanced than our local reds! Carl

Got a new key, re tensioned the wheel, realised dish was wrong, relished it, then saw that 3 spokes in a row one side were rusted and I couldn’t true it. Elected to try and loosen the middle of the 3, it snapped. I replaced it with the last spare I had but managed to mostly true it. Spokes are...

Well that didn’t go exactly to plan. Got some tension in the spokes and began trueing them up again and the spoke key broke in half! Need to get another tomorrow or Thursday and get a little more tension in them. I do have about 4 spokes that won’t move though and after breaking several due to...

In this case the spokes/nipples are Mavic specific, I think my problems is tension anxiety as I'd broken so many spokes and only have a kinked one left I didn't want to break anymore as I need the wheel for bike park wales on friday. The wheel felt floppy from the start, so tonight I'm going to...

I think the nipples are brass, the main problem is the spoke being painted mild steel and not stainless is corrosion due to moisture, the grease was to protect against that really. Carl

Not strictly retro but will apply on both old and new. Anyway I purchased some mavic crossride wheels (bladed spoke models) and I’ve had to replace several spokes as they were ceased into the nipples and snapped when I tried to true it. To stop them ceasing and rusting up I used a bit of copper...

We’ve already got go outdoors in the uk with the designed in the uk calibre range. The bossnut and bbb, already are monsters for the price and the new sentry and sentry Pro look to build on that. I’d have a bbb if I could get it past the wife, lol! Carl.

Re: Need Weird Whyte JW/PRST buying advice VICTIM FOUND!!!!!!!! My Kona Dawg uses a 30.0 post. Fitted a Tranz-x (same as brand x) cable port 27.2 post with a shim. Fits and works lovely, just a bit of a bugger to source as no one had the cable port versions in stock in the UK. It came from...

Re: Re: For some reason I thought you were a little bit closer to me, not sure why. I’m looking to build something more modern for my younger boy, who’s 13 later this year and wanted to see size to see how this fared. My elder lads rides an 18” (same as me) so I was assuming that the younger...

Re: Where abouts are you fella? Carl