> I need to rebuild the wheels on the commuter which has no problem with hills, > no > they never broke, but over 15 years the spokes have stretched (I keep tight > wheels) to the point where they come through the nipples. Yes the factory > should > have used 2mm shorter spokes but I imagine the automatic wheel building > machine > would have had problems with them. I am also going to put alloy rims on the > 3-speed, so another spoking job. Then there is the junk Raleigh I want to do > something with. I guess I will have enough to keep me busy for the winter. >
15 years?? I'm lucky to get a year out of a back wheel. Right now running a shimano XT hub laced up to a mavic cxp33. I"ve gotten a year and a half out of that and i'm impressed with it. Mind you, i think what does it out here are the hills. Its 450ft of elevation change between work and home, and its not just straight up hill it wanders. There are a couple of places i top 30mph and that seems to kind of ruin the rim. Between climbing hard and decending fast the spokes start to pull through the rim. Had to go with a mavic rim this go around because velocity deep v's were on like infinite back order. > Graywolf > Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com > Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
