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05-01-04, 10:08 AM
So I went down to my LBS yesterday to get a lock ring tool and chainwhip so I could spend hours and hours trying to get my cheap Suzue hub working, and they didn't have any lock ring tools in stock. They actually didn't have any lock-rings in stock either. I think there's a lot of people building up fixies in Minneapolis...
Anyways, I needed to do something, since that wheel was driving me insane. Left there with a brand new Surly 32 hole fix/fix flip flop laced to a Mavic MA3 rim. I'd bought a pair of Conty Gatorskins (700x23 - it's the fattest tire my bike can handle. Literally 1 mm of clearance on the front fork) a couple of days before.
Since they were out of Dura-Ace lock rings to match the 16t track cog I wanted to put on there, I had to settle for a Phil Wood. Bummer :)
Put the wheel together in the DIY section of the LBS and went out riding all over just for the hell of it, hitting a lot of bike-paths and back-pedaling a lot to make sure I wasn't going to spin the cog off. It was pure bliss. The Gatorskins feel rock solid - I've hit some huge ruts/potholes with them and never once heard the rim ding (which almost always happened with the crappy generic tires I was running) Switching to 48x16 lowered my cadence a lot - downhills and high speeds no longer make my feet feel like I'm going to launch my feet into orbit.
Saw probably 15 or 20 SS of some sort being rode while I was out too...
Just thought I'd share.
Anyways, I needed to do something, since that wheel was driving me insane. Left there with a brand new Surly 32 hole fix/fix flip flop laced to a Mavic MA3 rim. I'd bought a pair of Conty Gatorskins (700x23 - it's the fattest tire my bike can handle. Literally 1 mm of clearance on the front fork) a couple of days before.
Since they were out of Dura-Ace lock rings to match the 16t track cog I wanted to put on there, I had to settle for a Phil Wood. Bummer :)
Put the wheel together in the DIY section of the LBS and went out riding all over just for the hell of it, hitting a lot of bike-paths and back-pedaling a lot to make sure I wasn't going to spin the cog off. It was pure bliss. The Gatorskins feel rock solid - I've hit some huge ruts/potholes with them and never once heard the rim ding (which almost always happened with the crappy generic tires I was running) Switching to 48x16 lowered my cadence a lot - downhills and high speeds no longer make my feet feel like I'm going to launch my feet into orbit.
Saw probably 15 or 20 SS of some sort being rode while I was out too...
Just thought I'd share.