This is what's wrong with The Industry™
- Thread starter Electric_City
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Step 1: Log in to your eBay account.
Step 2: Search for "kapton tape".
Step 3: Select the most convenient width and price.
Step 4: Search for "aluminum Schrader valve".
Step 5: Select the most convenient price and shipping combo.
Step 6: Beer pause until the purchased goods arrive.
Step 7: Moar beer, taping/valving your rims.
Step 8: Profit (and beer!).
Step 9: wait for it to all arrive
Step 10: swear
Step 11: jump online and search "aluminium Presta valve"
Step 12: wait
It’s funny, the last two aluminum (presta) valves have failed on me, I have gone back to the Stan’s ones...
You don't have any 8mm bits in your toolbox? Shame on you!
I've got Stan's Schrader valves on all my bikes.
why was nobody hating on french toast though?
Cause it is awesome.
Pan Dulcis is much older than the french.
paging dr @jackalope to the wallowed out pinchbolt phone please
Are those silver parts around the axle made for changing between 15/20mm and 100/110?
"Hi, it's the return of 20mm axles"
yes. like prior gen lowers, 2015 - ???
Ugh are we going back to 20mm for real...
My money is on 19mm. Then, ~5 years from now, the 21mm standard will come out with an awesome 16% increase in stiffness.
Of course! My bad...
What am I looking at? I have a 20mm fox 36. I love it except for lack of compatibility.
boooooooooooooooost
compatibility with what? available riding time?
Uh, guys. The first picture of the complete fork has the QR15 lowers, not the pinch bolt ones. WWC just used two different forks in that set of images for some reason.
Fox dropped the pinch bolt lowers from the 650b and 29 36s a year or two ago, but they still use them on the 26" one.
Fox dropped the pinch bolt lowers from the 650b and 29 36s a year or two ago, but they still use them on the 26" one.
Yup. Just a shorter air shaft and maybe a different damper tune.
I bet it has a lot more to do with Fox not bothering to design and make tooling for a new 26" casting in 2019. They do still sell a 26" 160mm fork too, which is cool.
As the saying goes, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. They probably just uploaded the wrong photo.
Yes but with different flange spacing and caliper position because 7.132% stiffer.
Fuck it as long as we get dishless wheels, I’m ready to switch spacing again... when I get a new bike 8+ years from now, lol!
Yes but we’ll do it the wrong way with a screw on axle rather than clamp.
it will come back riding the E-bike wave...
Gotta justify it somehow.
Gotta justify it somehow.