Old 03-19-20 | 04:01 PM
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jackbombay
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Originally Posted by Senrab62
Looks great! I have an mk ii SC and a S5 hub set up sitting around, this build is giving me ideas! Let us know riding impressions!
I want to keep it as unridden as possible as I built it for a friend, but I did take it to town (I live on a dirt road that is currently mud) and ripped some hot laps around the high school parking lot to make sure its all ready to go and the bike is absolutely beautiful! The 35c tires soak up a bunch of little road chatter but are still plenty fast, I have them at 40 PSI in the front and 50 PSI in the back, would probably be great at 35/45 even.

1st gear was acting a bit funny though, it was slipping a bit, I had to get the shift cable for the non drive side of the hub pretty tight to make that go away, I have another bike with an S5 and I don't recall the cable adjustment for the non drive side needing to be this snug, but this hub in NOS so it can't possibly be broken already and first not staying engaged reliably is potentially due to not enough tension on the NDS shift cable, so I think it's all good now.
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