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schnee

06-09-08 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by na975 (Post 6850095)

i only weigh 150ish, but i did a few lil skip stops~ do u think skips might have punished the wheel a bit?

I'm 100 pounds more than you, just getting on the bike probably hurts it more than you riding it off of a cliff, I do thousands of miles on it each year and it's needed truing all of once. Relax, you can't hurt 'em unless the wheel was built poorly.

na975

06-10-08 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by roblee (Post 6849499)

probably not tensioned and stressed prior to your first ride. This seems like a problem with a lot of machine built wheels, or a wheelbuilder who didnt take the time to properly stress the wheels and retension prior to giving it to you. Let me guess...when you first took it out, did you hear a bunch of "pinging/creaking" from your wheels?

yes i did.

peabodypride

06-10-08 03:12 PM

yea dood, the person who built it didn't stress relieve it. so he's either a newbie or just really busy and had a bad day. just take it back and tell them it wasn't built right.

ralphm2k

06-10-08 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jeffremer (Post 6850539)

I got hit by a car, I was paying attention, the driver wasn't. Either way my Deep Vs are still true.

But what about your face?

jeffremer

06-10-08 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by ralphm2k (Post 6856395)

But what about your face?

Amazingly my face, head/helmet, bike, and bag with a laptop and digital camera were all mostly unscathed. Though, aside from torn bartape, I did leave a majority of my left hand knuckles on the pavement.

Some dink pulled through a bike lane suddenly trying to nose into a parking spot. I had only taken my gloves off for few blocks I was riding down to eat dinner after stopping to buy a mattress after work. I gave up waiting for the police to come to give a report 45 minutes after the ambulance had already left. Lesson is, don't get hit by a car on a Friday night in San Francisco and, like your helmet, always wear gloves. ;)

Cynikal

06-10-08 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by na975 (Post 6856000)

yes i did.

Then it should be a 15 min fix if that. Just get it back to them asap before it starts looking like user error.

Nad Kel

06-10-08 07:13 PM

Maybe bad luck? Cheap hub too..
I can't even untrue mine, I've tried! Won't work...twenty thousand miles and I can't mess it up :(( No fun ay

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