Rims...
- Thread starter profro
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Its so funny that I can't even really be mad 
This is easier than you thought!
stick 'em on your wife's bike and keep riding them original wheels
Or a carbon boat?
I used to have a 321 rim in perfect shape but hurricane Katrina swept it away from the storage unite in Red Hook.
@profro you really are overly obsessive with equipment. All this mess just to ride I9 hubs. Just pedal what you have
Get used to half pedaling out of turns with a high engagement hub, then try the same with a low engagement hub. Its infuriating.
Yeah I've had i9s, chris kings, and some really really old stealth hubs.
That's one of the few things I could give zero fucks about. Especially if I'm the kind of person who resigns myself to ryno lite rims.
That's one of the few things I could give zero fucks about. Especially if I'm the kind of person who resigns myself to ryno lite rims.
Uh huh...
Are Hope hubs really that bad. I my be engagement insensitive
I have always like my DT Swiss hubs no idea if they are engagement approved.
Why not move the Stans rim from the Hope wheelset and then sell the hub?
I'm pretty big and I've been really happy with my 26" Chinese carbon rims laced with db spokes and hope hubs. Carbon rims can be tensioned pretty high compared to aluminum rims. I had my friend who builds wheels tension them because he has a tension meter.
Rims where $150 a peice but I've not destroyed one yet.
Rims where $150 a peice but I've not destroyed one yet.
Pro tip: pedal during the turns.
Strange story from winter, I was consistently able to pedal through turns were the other elite/pro riders could not. This seemed to give me a significant advantage with a few races won and some top-5s. I know there's more too it, but this is one area where it was obvious, as I'd continue spinning through the turn, they'd coast, I'd pull away/ahead. Over time and a race, this got to be significant. I was always running 4.7 tires, 90mm rims, and studded tires, vs. the usual choice of 65 or 80mm rims and 4" tires, sometimes (usually, but not always) studded. I took a hit with rotating weight(although not huge with carbon and revolution spokes) and gyroscopic force and being able to turn as tight, but I seemed to gain the ability to continue pedaling throughout most, if not all of the turn, which seemed like a real advantage.
Was doing that two nights ago in sucklahoma with their tight-flowey trails. Kind of worked there too, but like you say, you can't do it too much otherwise you'll fall on your ass.
What @profro is getting at is that instant engagement allows you to accelerate out of corners much like punching the gas in the apex of the corner to make the car hold a better line. The difference between a hub like the I9 and one with less engagement points is like riding a rigid fork vs any modern suspension fork.
I just try to go fast enough in corners that the drivetrain wouldn't engage anyway.
Pedalin's fer fairies.
Pedalin's fer fairies.
pumpin' > pedalin'. especially if you have a nice short/mid travel bike with bitchin' geo™.
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Damnit ! Is this a new, new-standard ? I just got low-slack2.0™.
Shhhh... The Lizards™ are listening...
Are you rocking some schweet auto shift technology ?
Looks like it still needs pedalin.
Definitely fer fairies.
I'd rather be a fairy.
Or maybe you just need the right outfit.
I know, it's like riding boost vs. non-boost. Totally unridabru.
Late to the party question: Are there good quick engagement hubs that don't sound like a knitting party when freewheeling?
Edit: Good and reliable...
Edit: Good and reliable...
Hadley
King's are pretty quiet, too.
High engagement hubs are a luxury, not a necessity, but goddamn are they nice to ride. I feel like I'm slumming it when I have to run my spare wheel with a 40t Hope instead of my I9.
High engagement hubs are a luxury, not a necessity, but goddamn are they nice to ride. I feel like I'm slumming it when I have to run my spare wheel with a 40t Hope instead of my I9.
If it's going on a fat bike, definitely hope evos.
Super high engagement and totally silent.
If it's going on a mountain bike just stay away from hope evos. Pretty noticeable blank spot before engagement and loud as shit.
$445... thinking...
Also, which finish is more durable, anodization or powder coat, or is it a toss?
Woody loves his anodized Stealth hub, Sandwich loves hid powder coated Onyx. I always thought anodizing is more durable but I guess for hubs, it does not really matter much.
annodized > powder coating
considering the weight of those hubs i'd go for the anodizing - should be lighter.
i'll go anyways. gonna start looking for new rims for the spitfire.
requirements:
26"
durable
reasonably light (current rims are mavic 325s, so at slightly over 700g each getting lighter than this would be pretty easy)
reasonably cheap.
tubeless ready would be nice.
32 hole (going to lace to current hubs)
spank oozy trail is in that ballpark. HAB mentioned a DT swiss that was about comparable.
requirements:
26"
durable
reasonably light (current rims are mavic 325s, so at slightly over 700g each getting lighter than this would be pretty easy)
reasonably cheap.
tubeless ready would be nice.
32 hole (going to lace to current hubs)
spank oozy trail is in that ballpark. HAB mentioned a DT swiss that was about comparable.
I'll just keep saying it... sun inferno, I use the 27mm width. Also comes in 29 and 31mm.