Hub seems draggy, like heavy grease. Doesn't seem particularly loud. They seem as true as they can be to the naked eye, I don't have a stand or a dial indicator. I just tried a tire on it, and it turns out the Bell tubes from Wal-Mart have stems that are not long enough for the wheel. Oopie oopie, off to the bike store tomorrow!

I wasn't entirely right about the all-black, there is some red left in the decal. Between this and the red frame I intend these for, I'm now looking for red stripe tires too, or yellow to match the decals. The tires I had on hand are tan wall 32's and look silly between the frame and the wheels. But there's so much clearance on this bike, all the color-stripe tires are 23's and would look lost in the frame. Guess we are going for the tinted-windows look.