Sunday, September 14, 2008

The bomb.



This wheel (paul disc word, mavic ex 721, dt comps, prolock brass nips, single ply minion DH) went together so quickly its almost frightening. The other wheel i built this morning (deore rear disc with london fixie 6 bolt cog, dt comps and alloy nips, and open pro rim) went together so badly, it was frightening. 4 rounded nips, replaced spokes on drive side (292 for 290's, as the spoke calculator recommended 291.5 and they held nowhere near enough tension) and a supercomp nipple added at a critical moment that almost had me apoplectic). Ah well.


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

3 comments:

manchester trev said...

What are they going on? im thinking of making up some 26er wheels mated to bonty big earl 2.5" DH tires, fitting them to the rig, marko did it once, looks kinda cool.......

dRjON said...

that rear is joining a jeff jones front/speedway cycles drilled 55mm rim on a 135mm paul front hub with endomorph and a DH tube... should be fun...hows you?

manchester trev said...

im good, you? still bummed i missed napa, but hey ho, there is always next year....... thinking of buying a pugsley fork and doing the same, but i reckon the 2.7 big earl will be ok for me, got a choice of a 2007 or a 2008 rig frame to put it on.....

yours sounds mint, what frame are you mounting it all on?