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Gravity sucks, dude.

it drags you down, yeah

People who don't grease nipples (actually possibly use some sort of threadlock) suck.

It's an xm819 on an XTR hub, the cones and bearing faces in the hub are pretty shagged but got it running smooth enough. Went to sort the dishing and the disc side nipples started shearing.

Doesn't help that I don't have the tool for the spoke cups.

Have ordered replacement cups for the ones I removed with pliers and the tool to fit them now.

Spoke cups are the bastard lovechild of nipple washers and eyelets, yes/no? i.e. more Mavic proprietary douche-baggery?

These things...

I did appreciate not requiring tape or anything when it came to setting the wheel up tubeless and any day you get to buy a new tool is a good day right?

In other wheel-building news, I've made some thru-axle adaptors for Tune 12mm thru-axles for my QR-based truing stand.

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more Mavic proprietary douche-baggery?

My experience of them has been trouble free (hub swaps successfully carried out on both first gen Crossroc UST factory wheels and D3.1 rims), and they eliminate the tubeless tape which seems to cause so many problems for so many people.

Slowly getting round to being able to afford all the bits to build up my wheels. I've got campag record (older silver) 28h hubs and kinlin xr31t rims. I'd like to run Sapim CX ray spokes front and rear. From a purely stiffness and practicality point of view will this setup work well or should I go with CX ray front and something else rear?

28 CX-Rays will be plenty unless you're seriously loading them up, like >130kg all up. You can save a bit, add some stiff and lose very little in aeros by using DT Aero Comp. Of course, with 28H XR31s you're not exactly building aero wheels from the start, so you could just use Sapim Race or DT Comp round spokes 🙂

Ok cheers. The rays look fab though! And I can get spokes at cost price so the extra cost isn't much. I'll check out the dt aero comp too cheers

Any recommended wheel builders in/near seven sisters?
Thanks

You can drop off your things with me in Seven sisters and I'll bring them once done. What do you need?

I’ll PM you. Thanks

found an hollowgram carbon disc rear wheel on the street. hub is in good nick and spokes too. maybe of interest to someone ?

A person who’s had their wheel nicked? Sounds flash.

sorry i edited my comment and erased the important bit, the rim is cracked ! left on my street for someone to pick it up

Rim selection > spoke count. I’m 100kg and rolling on 55mm LB crabon rims on CX Rays 18/24 and 5 years in haven’t even had to true them

Still on the search for wheel builders in/near seven sisters area. Any help would be appreciated

clevermike build wheels, hornsey road

I'm not in your area but happy to advice on wheels and build yours.

Thanks, will check him out

Thanks for that. I’ll check clever mike as he’s close by.

also butternut bikes in crouch end, they are new, so can't comment. i was gonna pop in myself

Can anyone build me a wheel before the 10th? I have the hub and rim, need the rest.

All shops seem to be a 2 week+ wait at the moment...

I can build wheel for you before 10th if you can supply me your parts within day or two. I'm based in West London.
Regards
Martin