so not being a dick but aren't those Level hub heavy as hell?
why did you choose them for a Ti frame?

maybe he/she ran out of money for some phil wood hubs.

yeah basically..

or, to put it another way,

http://masklinnscans.free.fr/4chan/fail.jpg

haha ^

internet culture is so hilarious

the only drawback being that you have to have wasted years of your life to get it

Because Ti is actually as heavy as hell when you think about it.

Just kidding, someone has to be the wing man. Can I post my bike in the jackass bike of the day-thread now please? :D

Or let me put the weight to where it actually matters, on the rims.

There.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/7...gnaturerw4.jpg

miss the orange. and the decallessness. and the black spokes. and the angle made for deceptively close looking frame clearence. autocad doesn't lie...ussually. oh well.

that last pic is horrible compaired to the others. i love the colored tires and the simple no decal frame.

that fork is not appealing.

would you please post a pic of the whole bike, drive side? :)

some colnago straight blade carbon forks would look nice on the Ti bike see them on ebay alot

to continue with the expensive suggestions theme, I think in addition to straight blades a less expensive than phil option is his cousin paul, paul weighs less too, whatever.

http://www.jensonusa.com/store/imgWr...120.jpg&type=3

are those ugly^?

just a personal thing but I love the Pauls. The only thing that stopped me from getting them was that they weren't double fixxed. I can't stand seeing fixed/free hubs

If Pauls werent american made id be all over em. Seem real nice and and damn light.

its not that I can't stand seeing them, I just figured once I was in that price range I would go with phils, there is something magical about them. plus sheldon made me.

I like them too, the idea of a nice Ti frame like that previous one, and a Wolf TT and Pauls...I might start saving again..dammmit. I need a touring bike for this summer too, I will never make it at this rate.

The Paul's have a 44mm chain line which is kinda weird and will make using a non-Paul crank a pain. Other than that, like most of his products, they are really nice.

I have Paul hubs and have abused them like a red-headed stepchild. They seem to like the beating.

44mm chainlines are just a bit noisy. Nothing a good wipperman chain doesn't fix and they're lighter than Phils...

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very very nice man. Love the 'corbusian' colors.

plastic rarely is.

Hehe - I was partial to the orange / grey color scheme myself!

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yeah, but why spend that kind of scratch to get anything less than dead-on chainline?

edit: while i realize you could get a longer bb spindle, that would also wack up your q factor a bit, especially as i'm sure most of us are used to shorter bbs and narrower q factor by now.

i do love a narrower q. saves me lots of knee pain for some reason.