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"sooner rather than later" methinks.

that said is the intended use to trundle down a flat road at 6mph? or bomb down steep hills and carve hard, off camber sharp turns at the bottom of same?

The daily ride which has covered almost 7000km in 2020 (as i can't access my other steeds under Covid restrictions, they are 200 miles away) is a 531c frame from the '90's which until recently had the original drivetrain, bars, seatpost, d/t levers, brake levers, front mech, saddle, stem and headse...

hello & welcome yes any tyre marked '559' fits the rim. the only thing you have to watch is as the '23' number gets larger the tyre's volume increases and may foul parts of the bike frame and components nearest the wheel. i.e it may rub under the brake calipers or on certain parts of the frame a...

...out of interest what was the Ti frameset brucey? a moots? litespeed? burls?... Nothing that fancy. In fact I'm not sure which country it came from exactly (might have been Russia...?), I just fancied trying one, the old road bike was long in the tooth by this stage and it was too good a deal to ...

Fascinating. Lots of bike tools are labelled as "Unisex" on Amazon. I'd never noticed. I'd guess that either they mean "Universal" or that there's a sex flag setting somewhere and the easiest thing to do is select "Unisex". Jonathan that's exactly what it is. if you se...

When I'd packed in racing and was feeling a bit flush I bought a Ti frameset and full 6500 groupset, as a 'present to myself' for use as a summer bike. I still have that bike. Needless to say the FD scrapes like billy-oh when I go for it and the trim clicks don't help (indeed can't, not when there ...

Fascinating. Lots of bike tools are labelled as "Unisex" on Amazon. I'd never noticed. I'd guess that either they mean "Universal" or that there's a sex flag setting somewhere and the easiest thing to do is select "Unisex". Jonathan that's exactly what it is. if you se...

yes it's the headless aspect i mean.

how securely do they fit long term?

have never seen this type of thing before.

as they are bladed spokes i'm left wondering of these were a less than successful idea at some point in time.

anyone seen them in the flesh?

the 'ties' don't look very robust either!

none of the above

whilst i don't doubt any of the above i also wonder how many rims fail QC in any given production run and what happens to them?

i have used ambrosio excellence rims in the past and they are good for fitting tyres, continental tyres included. they don't fit too easily nor are they the sort where the fitter requires a dictionary to get just the right oaths to shout at them. long term they wear slowly too. at least i found them...

cheap and light? Ryde chrina, remaining stocks being sold off at £16.99 @ SJS. They are nothing like as heavy as 590g (more like 500 or 520 IIRC) but they do come up a bit large sometimes. If you like using contis, expect them to be incredibly tight. cheers Yep, I use some Chrinas with Conti GP4 Se...

…..New tyres are Conti GP4000 700x25 Wheels are Bontrager Paradigm Comp (tubeless ready) rim brake. Some tubes of a given weight are that weight because they are thin walled, others because they are narrow and they have to stretch to fit inside the tyre. [Since working hysteresis (for small deflect...

this is why i ride fixed in the winter!

good luck