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I need a freehub body for an Easton EA50 wheel.

Searching for "Easton EA50 freehub body" isn't bringing much (affordable) up.

It looks very like this

except it has 9 external splines where it meets the hub and all the ones I can find online have 10.

The bolt enters from the non drive side unlike

I figure there must be something out there that'll fit, anyone got any ideas what that'd be.

Like this?

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/easton-easton-cassette-freehub-body-c1-v1-xc2-prod35994/

@M_V I'm ordering from them when I can be bothered clicking order if you want to save postage.

That'll be the one. No stock at the moment though. I wonder if they will get stock back in as I think the wheels these goto have been discontinued.

Mybad but you have some more model and part numbers to use.

Aye, cheers. All I'm finding is people reporting that they're strugglin to find a body. Seems there was a seller on amazon but that's dried up. Found a used on on ebay but £50 +p&p!

I have a derailleur hanger adjuster in Hither Green/Lee

#propercyclist

Pfft. Every rural roadside has one of those.

Is there any issues with buying a cut NJS quill stem from phil the power taylor? I'm assuming the cut is done properly, else they'd have one Keirin cyclist less, just wondering :)

also think really about where she plans to use it. I have a Kelty Dridown Ignite 20 which I love, but normally end up sleeping with it open as it's too hot in the summer here. My requirements where as light as possible (without hitting $500).

http://www.kelty.com/p-648-ignite-dridown-20-en-16.aspx

A tad more than 50 quid though.

Army surplus stores are your friend.

Yokozuna, Alligator iLink, Nokon?

Which compressionless housing is the best?

Can someone please verify the seat post torque for my 2012 Shiv? I left my cheatsheet at home.

Saddle clamp bolt - 120 in-lbf (13.5 N*m).

Seatpost - in 5 in-lbf (0.6 N*m) increments, up to a final torque setting of 45 in-lbf (5.1 N*m)

According to the pdf of the Shiv manual.

I've got a suitcase full of old magazines - The Face, iD, Loaded, etc from the 90s. Whats the best way to convert them into money? Sell as job lot? Break them down and hope that some of them sell individually?

Or are they destined for the recycle bin?

are they destined for the recycle bin?

You should be able to do better than that. If you just want to get rid of them with the least amount of effort, try Vinmag, they took my Empires and Qs. Just don't look at what they then sell them for, unless you already understand the economics of holding vast amounts of very slow moving stock, it will be at least 10 times what they pay for them.

Yokozuna.

Thought, I'd go for the Jagwire compressionless, cheap as chip and work just as well.

How come high end road bikes have gone from 5 speed freewheels to 11 speed cassettes, but they've never had 3+ chainrings?

Because a 5 speed block does not have enough range, hence triple.

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How come high end road bikes have gone from 5 speed freewheels to 11 speed cassettes, but they've never had 3+ chainrings?

We could start with Q factor - each extra chainring adds at least 10mm, and even track bikes already have more Q than is ideal.

Next there's front dérailleurs - proper transmission engineers who already think the rear dérailleur is astonishingly crude should probably be shielded from the FD for fear of their heads actually exploding, and things only get worse when you start adding chainrings. The twin-pulley, parallelogram linkage rear dérailleur was the engineering master-stroke which made gear changing less of a horror show than the preceding Osgear style changer, but front dérailleurs are still basically the same as an Osgear Super Champion.

Of course, strictly speaking it's not true to say that high end road bikes have never had 3 chainrings, since prior to the adoption of 9+ sprockets, including the 11T top which allowed a proper size top gear with smaller ("Compact") chainrings, many riders did use a triple for the more outrageous climbs in the Giro and Vuelta

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also think really about where she plans to use it. I have a Kelty Dridown Ignite 20 which I love, but normally end up sleeping with it open as it's too hot in the summer here. My requirements where as light as possible (without hitting $500).

kelty.com/p-648-ignite-dridow­n-20-en-16.aspx

A tad more than 50 quid though.>

This is for Patagonia in January - February which seems to have ridiculously varied weather. I think we'll be in refugos for most of the trekking, but may rent a tent for a few... so i'd like to have something that can cope with 0° comfortably. I've been looking at snugpak as they seem to be inexpensive, my old one seemed good, and they have a military lean... Which obvs makes it infalable.

Army surplus stores are your friend.

It has to be online unfortunately.

Would anybody be able to guess the ST angle on this frame?

I'm guessing about 73* but could do with other opinions, trying to figure out if I want an inline or not.

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You don't generally need to know this, just whether you find yourself moving forward, or back.

Measure distance from saddle nose to BB (horizontal) every time, easier if you have a spirit levels handy.

Once you find your idea distance, then you can easily replicate this on your other similar bicycles.

As for angle, I wanger 74.