[XAP]Bob wrote:Radial at the front is OK, on a brompton - where space is at a premium, and there is no torque required between hub and rim...
Now we are getting silly! What has the poor radial done to you?
[XAP]Bob wrote:Radial at the front is OK, on a brompton - where space is at a premium, and there is no torque required between hub and rim...
ANTONISH wrote:Ljaydee wrote:I saw Wiggo out riding in the rain! no mudguards, minimum spoked wheels, and he didn't acknowledge either!
He was at work training - possibly keeping an eye on a computer readout - probably going faster than the average cyclist, hence having to concentrate on where he was going.
He spends most of the year, living, eating, training and racing with cyclists until he's probably sick of the sight of cyclists - and you want him to wave at one?
This is getting away from the thread - I concur with Brucey about the ingress of water into the rims. That must add to the rotating mass
BigFoz wrote: In fact, the front wheel I sold recently to a local lad for cyclo crossing on, 14 years old (wheel, not the lad...).
At one point in my odyssey, I had 4 spare front wheels, and no usable back wheels. Almost all the shop built wheels proved no more effective than the one I built myself with no experience as an experiment from a broken wheel while having very little clue....
pliptrot wrote:whether or not you agree with the OP this has certainly made for an interesting and informative thread. Somehting of a detraction was the inability of at least one poster to take an opinion other than his as anything other than a polemic and becoming abusive (I think that term is appropriate) as a result. When you start with an objective, inteersting disucssion and then someone gets personal, it's disappointing, if only because it may encourage people with something to say (write) not to.