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Update for the KG196:
So been riding this bike as my weekend and regent parks best bike (mainly because I only have this, track or Brompton) but aside from the gearing ratio and ride comfort downside of the bike, the biggest issue was the wheelset, yes I wanted period so went with Mavic Cosmic Gen1 (form over function) and really quickly noticed this was the biggest performance issue on this bike.
So I have been debating if I should get a new modern wheelset or something period, which eventually the outcome was a mixture of both, as I wanted to experiment to have shallower rims to have that retro vibe and offset the frameset.
Hub was easily the most straight (and expensive) comment for this upgrade as I wanted not only the NOS of 7400 series hubs but more importantly a perfect or near perfect condition DA skewers that has not been damaged or rusted away.
Problem with these hub was that it came with uniglide freehub and didn’t have or willing to pay for a uniglide cassette either. So decided to make it future proof making them hyperglide was the only logical option. (Another painful part to get)
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