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that is quite nice

Appreciate the extra stand over room, but dropping the back of the top tube makes for an ugly frame. SSstepthrough.

I hope it's ok to post this here, just figure it might get more attention here than in the wanted section.

I have 18t and 21t WI freewheels.

I want/need a 19t.

My 21t is in very good condition bar a bit of scratch to the lockring. freewheels. Would look for straight swap on this.

My 18t is showing a bit of wear and has more scratching to lockring. I'd add some money for a swap with this.

Will pm or post pics if interested.

Readers wife.

Atom Lab Pimp2 rigged for heli drop mountain race :)

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I want one.

But it's mine :)

Can tease you a bit more though.....

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heli drop mountain race

Any more details on the race?

And the bike :-)

The race was the first of the NO Fuss Events "MacAvalanche" mass start at the top of Glencoe ski resort mountain in Scotland.
The heli drop didn't quite work out as well in reality as it played out in most blokes heads.
We (blokes of a certain age) expected a Wagner soundtrack as a chinnock heli dropped the tail hatch and we would roll out and away......

Cue a lack of snow and windy weather instead and a VIP heli with leather seats, no stripped out doorless slicks or chinnocks.
The real plan was drop bikes off at top of first chairlift, the piste bashers would ferry bikes to summit start, we got a heli ride up, the reality was not enough snow so bikes had to be taken to summit (how no one had a heart attack i don't know) by rider, then get back down to finish for safety brief and race rules...... then ride back to top. Only time in a heli and the views where stunning.
I expected the race to be super tech and really rough, the Glencoe DH track is a tad technical, more so when wet, so i went for lightish but reliable set up of SS, forks are 2005 Z1 FR2 running a single manitou nixon spring (TF tuned it).
After the rough summit start of jagged rocks and snow holes, it was a bit rough xc and very pedally....... Ace fun, like a very scaled down MegaAvalanche.

Got another photo on this PC of the pimp2, raced DH on it 8" brakes and a Zocchi 66 fork, did race the blue fork set up with bodged on gears for Fort William, bike made me bleed that time.

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Awesome!

did race the blue fork set up with bodged on gears for Fort William, bike made me bleed that time.

I expect Fort William makes a lot of people bleed.

Good Friday evening bike shop visit...

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Lovely hubs! Only took me a couple of rides to get used to how loud it was, compared to my old Hope XC hub :-)

I'm hoping it's louder than the WI trails hub it's replacing...

It's louder than most things

They are so loud it put me off ever having one, still in the city it might be handy, as they say with motorbikes "loud pipes save lives" i think hope's went with "loud freehubs save lives" or just let everyone know your coasting :)
Hope hubs and DH races you get "pedal" shouted a lot.

Is that the normal hub, looks large for the minifreehub SS hub (could be image and my eyes off whack)

The Hope mini-freehub is quite wide compared to those from other manufacturers. You can fit about five cogs on them, as opposed to the Novatec, which fits only three.

I mostly recognised it being a SS hub because of the great big bolts :-)

:) didn't notice the big silver bolts. My eyes are out of whack.

"They're pedals, not bloody footrests..."

The bolts are bloody massive. Wonder if they do them in Ti...

The bolts are bloody massive.

More recently, I've seen them come with these slightly smaller ones.

Or, being a Pro 2, you could always convert it to QR.

From memory.... i cant remember the actual size (M8 perhaps) but it's a standard sized and pitched thread, so finding Ti bolts should be an easy task from quite a few mail order places.
Just a case of finding a mate with some M6/M8/M10 allen bolts to test fit to confirm right size before internet shopping :)

I have Hope on my road bike. Took the rear hub apart a stuffed it with grease. Its quite silent now

I'd be careful not to put too much grease in as it could* affect the pick-up.

*I can't prove this

Both are right.
It's a well known tip to pack a bit of extra grease into the hope hub to quieten it down a bit.

What grease and how much is the tricky part.

Not a Hope, more for weather proofing and extending life i packed out a Shimano DX freewheel with lithum grease. This worked well with no issues down in the mild and moist climate of the south west of england.
Never thought about, it worked, it really muted the not -so-loud-anyway shimano freewheel.

Then i went to Scotland, to race down a snow covered mountain. At first it felt like the chain was skipping, as the day went on it got worse, as i lined up for the seeding run i had a final drive failure (but not as costly as a BMW GS F.D.F.) and had to run and scoot all the way down, apart from the steep bits :)
The colder temps was enough to thicken the lithum grease, this caused the pawls to stick down and not engage. Applying heat would have only worked for a short time, i tried to force flush with GT85, still no good, had to strip the freewheel in the carpark and degrease, loose a few BB's beat the thing back together with no correct tools (allen key and rock to drift it apart) light coating of GT85 and hope it didn't freeze overnight or during the race. It worked the only seized item in the morning was me and the headset (another story)