Thread: Flange Grandi or Flange Piccole?
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Originally Posted by rccardr
Go with the setup that will make you want to ride them. Couple of years ago I built up a set of high flange hubs to new Pacenti wide polished box section rims. Great wheels. They have been run extensively on pavement as well as at L'Eroica CA and Cino Heroica. Nobody has ever mentioned the age disparity between the hubs and rims, in fact they'll gotten a lot of compliments.


I really dig the looks of the high flange hubs but wanted a super strong versatile freewheel wheelset that could take anything from 25's to 32's.
Pacenti thinks it's a good look, too.

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