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Worth doing or sell the hubs? No idea how much I'd even get for them
Not worth doing, and for that reason the hubs are worth almost nothing.
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People might buy them for the freehub, plastic caps and end caps etc. if nothing else as those wheels are pretty common. And there might be people out there with lightly used but expensive 18h rims (Zipp etc.?), spokes to spare and broken flanges who want a cheap hub as a stop gap. 20h rims are much more plentiful too so the rear might be a goer. Maybe I can build an aero-but-heavy wheelset like for TT sort of stuff. Think I'll hold onto them and do some scouring on the internet for now but maybe I'm just in denial
(they were free so no great loss if I have to donate them somewhere)
frankenbike
Results of Fulcrum Racing 5 disassembly.
Rim tape not included. Aluminium nipples were a pain. Had to cut away 6 spokes that were totally seized up. I held the spokes straight with a fairly big adjustable wrench and the spokes actually permanently twisted in several cases rather than loosen the nipple. No big deal, these rims are going in the bin, spokes are going to a friend for spares and there's plenty left over.
Was going to build the hubs into road wheels but now not sure as they're weightier than I expected and spoke count is suboptimal... If I found some 400g rims in 18/20h I'd be looking at about 1500g for the set I think. With XR31T it'd be closer to 1700g. Would need to buy straight pull spokes which ain't cheap. Bearings probably need replacing too. At a pound a spoke, total <£150 optimistically...
Worth doing or sell the hubs? No idea how much I'd even get for them