Re: [CR]Second Try - Anyone Riding Wooden Rims?

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli:Laser)

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:14:50 -0700
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Monkeyman" <monkey37@bluemarble.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Second Try - Anyone Riding Wooden Rims?
Cc: <roydrink@mac.com>, <steve@fridayscomputer.com>


>1. Nashbar doesn't have them on closeout special anymore
>2. Can't find those Campionato del Mondo setas at the LBS
>3. "36 spokes? Won't fit my hubs!"
>4. Wood rims in Seattle, San Francisco, Maine, etc aren't a good idea...

<continue humor vein here>

Hey. . . In the words of Robert DeNiro, "are you talkin' to me." As someone who resembles these remarks I must comment.

Before I left Seattle I bought a pair of these rims from Nashbar and built them up on S-A drumbrake hubs. I rode them for a while but quality fat tires were too rich for my bike mechanic blood. I replaced the rims with Weinmann concaves and hung the rims on a hook since I had no other pairs of 36 hole hubs. Two weeks later I sold them to some bike messenger for a city fixed gear. Now on to ride impressions. I got maybe 200 miles on them and they felt like wheels, I couldn't really tell the difference in ride though, maybe they were a bit smoother. I saw the kid I sold them to a couple of months later and he said they really smoothed the bumps out for him. Someone asked about them splintering on the track. My ex-coworker Bob Zumwalt, who has been riding the track for @50 years, told me a story about seeing someone getting impaled by a splintered rim.

Hey some of you haven't submitted your page links to me yet. I'm now accepting Protar maodels (Aldo?), headbage collections, and workshop pages. Don't make me beg.

enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives

Brandon and Mitzi's-- "Wurld uv Wunder" http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~capybara/

Monkeyman's on going bicycle part garage sale http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~mkirklan/salepage/garage.html

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