You talk to yourself often?

The Novatec hub on the wheel I'm building Nagrom is nearly as quiet as that Shimano SC.

The last novatecs I had, different model, sounded like a lawn mower.

Dude, this one barely makes an audible click. When turning the freehub with my hand, I think I can feel it more than I can actually hear it.

That's nuts, haha.

What does the quality look like on it? seem solid?

Yeah, those hubs are awesome. Angie's got the same front hub on her Leader 721.

BTW - she built your front wheel today.

My Ultegra and Tiagra hubs are like that. Partly why I love Shimano hubs.

Sweet.

I wish my sqrl could build wheels...

+1 I don't care for loud ass freehubs.

hahaaah
i probably really do though

got any 36h 90mm quick release front hubs with an 8mm axle(i think)? 90s seem hard to find. i could just cold set it with an allthread+nuts and that would probably be fine too but i dont really feel comfortable doing that

I'll do some looking.

Hey Scrod I just got a ticket for riding brainless and I have to bring my bike to the station to get it written off . My question to you is what's the cheapest drilled fork that I can run on my Kagero to get this ticket written off and keep in my garage until the next time a bored city cop decides to hassle me ?

Holy crap, brakeless riding gets you a ticket in San Diego?

There's one motorcycle cop that lives writing tickets for that . There's guys all over sdfixed that have dealt with him . I've lived here for a year and this was my first run in with him.

Scrod, any idea where to source one of these? http://tklog.net/archives/2860

http://i.imgur.com/faMRh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gRLE3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/CVY1Z.jpg

I can't help you. I recommend seeing a doctor.

That's pretty awesome. I obviously can't read that website but it's most likely custom.

Pick up only it looks like.
http://m801.ocnk.net/product/1

edit:

This one ships.
http://katsuri.com/archives/6349

Sorry, auto correct . Brakeless. Any suggestions ?

Any 1 1/8" fork will work but you'll either need to keep swapping the crown race back and forth (which I don't reccomend) or buy an extra one.

Yeah, I can't make heads or tails of that moonspeak either, but I thought maybe you'd seen something along those lines from one of your sw8 fixie distributors.

Them's a little pricy- the one that ships is $60 if google's exchange rates are current.

$60 might be worth it if it means you don't need to buy a new fork and crown race to ride in San Diego.

:lol:

I bet you could make one with an old stem and a piece of angle iron for a truly ghetto solution. Could actually be a cool thing for taking brakes off at the track, a hinged cross lever and one of those and you're GTG in like 2 minutes.

A good friend of mine owns a machine shop. I'm going to see what we can make happen.

Scrod, I have a conundrum. The headset is solid, just having some issues with both of my bearing dust caps. Stock, and an aftermarket low stack.

With the stock FSA cap, the dust cap makes contact with the headtube, so that isn't good. It's easily fixable with microspacers though.

The other issue is a little meh-er.
I'd prefer to use the aftermarket one... well, cause I paid for it.

The issue with the "Slam That Stem" dust cap is that there's a 2-3mm gap between the headtube and the dust cap. There are some pics later. It's functional like that, it just looks like ****.

The compression ring that came with the headset has a solid, like 2mm lip above the angular part(pics will show it better). I think a different compression ring, one with the same angle as the stock ring, would fix the gap. A more standard ring, with less of a lip.

I'm thinking of trying a compression with less of a lip, like this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

Gap:
http://i.imgur.com/jgr9e.jpg

Compression ring:
http://i.imgur.com/SSzQo.jpg

Installed w/o dust cap:
http://i.imgur.com/UKsZ1.jpg



Think that'll work? Thoughts?

Put the cap on and take another pic.

Which cap?

stock or STS?

The one you'd like it to work out with.