Halo aerorage

I thought it was class! Don't worry if it ends up in anti-porn, with all that neon it'll be visible from the porn thread anyway.

yeah i love it. cheers! can't wait till it's all finished. though i'm already debating spraying the frame. or trying to pick up a new one somewhere.

Hello everybody,

my first post on this forum and I'm wondering where I can get a rear, yellow Halo Aerorage (fixed/frewheel)? I already got the front wheel, sent from CRC, and now they are telling me it won't be until late april that the yellow version is in stock!

Any shops you know of that has a rear yellow, fixed/frewheel halo Aerorage?

Off the top of my head, no idea. Have you tried actually phoning some shops? Mattty made a list, most if not all of the entries have phone numbers:

http://tinyurl.com/ldnbikeshops

You should also try all of the Evans stores (see their website, they're not all on the map yet - actually you could try them first, as they can probably tell you stock levels across the chain). I'd be stunned if there wasn't a rear, yellow, fixed/free Aerorage in the whole of London...

EDIT: http://www.londonfgss.com/post553816-114.html

try compton cycles in catford i know they got white and black hubs in just ring and they can find what u want

PS Buy a fixed/fixed - once you've tried fixed you won't want to change back, then you'll be kicking yourself over the missed opportunity to easily change your gear ratio without fannying about removing cogs, which can be really inconvenient. Learn from my mistakes.

try compton cycles in catford i know they got white and black hubs in just ring and they can find what u want

Or try their sister shop Catford Cycles, in Compton.

Thanks. The problem is that I live in Sweden...So an UK-shop would be nice. I was a bit disappointed when CRC told me that the yellow rear Halo wouldn't be in stock until late april.
I'm getting a bit unpatience right now, spring is (almost) here and all I ned is that rear wheel!

I've e-mailed evans and 3 or 4 more shops.

Thanks. The problem is that I live in Sweden...So an UK-shop would be nice. I was a bit disappointed when CRC told me that the yellow rear Halo wouldn't be in stock until late april.
I'm getting a bit unpatience right now, spring is (almost) here and all I ned is that rear wheel!

I've e-mailed evans and 3 or 4 more shops.

Oh right, see your problem. Winstanleys have a fixed/fixed in stock (do it!!) and you could ring them about fixed / free.

Or you could follow the earlier advice and get an LBS to build you up something tasty. However, I don't know any other deep section fluoro rims if it's visibility you're after. Maybe Velocity do them, as part of their extensive product range?

EDIT: http://www.londonfgss.com/post553816-114.html

Thanks for your answers! I already got the Aerorage front wheel in yellow and I would like the matching rear wheel and I think an UK-shop is my best bet. And since I think you guys have a better overview of whats in stock in your country I thought I would try with you.

Anyhow, I'll will continue my search for a rear Aerorage. I would appreciate if you could post a message in this thread if you see a wheel somewhere!

I reply to my own question, perhaps some of you also are interested in these wheels. Evans got them in yellow, got an email from them yesterday. So all is well!

After some faffing on the phone & web (On-One don't have any ready-made in stock, won't for a while and they won't be £106 any more, Condor didn't really want to know on the phone), I took a trip down to Pearsons. Compared to the stock wheels that they put on the Touche (which are the same price as the Halos), the bearings on the Halos are much, much smoother. So I bought a pair. So far (OK, only a week in) I'm very happy. They feel a little heavy statically but they roll so quickly I'm able to get up to speed much more quickly and as a result am tearing my legs off where I was coasting before. Which is a good thing. After all of which, Spesh came back and gave me some spare Langster cones they had kicking around. Not sure whether to be hacked off or pleased.

Anyway, so far I think the Halos are pretty damn good. So there.

in all fairness, stock wheel on OTP bike are always going to be shit, that how they make profit, put shit wheels, and add another 100 quid and sell it.

the threads look shit (i have been told this first hand) if you strip a thread then that side of the hub is fooked.

I'm recanting. Don't buy them for all the white powdercoat in China.

I stripped the rear hub on my Aerorage (after 3 months of trouble-free riding) and found myself doing a nice relaxing freewheel into oncoming traffic when I should have been stopped at a junction.

Apparently the rep said that they hadn't had any returns on them yet, so obviously that's cool. No need to take defects seriously, so long as it's a new product that you've just released!

Sorry MrSmith. You were obstreperous but also completely right.

In fairness, I should add that my front wheel (also Aerorage) hasn't bent, caught fire or attempted to smother me yet.

I've been riding my aerorage for 8 months now, (and i generally abuse them with copious skids and skips), and they have withstood this abuse almost perfectly. I rode into the hugest pothole imaginable ages ago. My back wheel took the brunt, instant puncture, as well as the clincher wall being slightly dented. But with a small amount of truing they have continued to ride fine for 6 months with no need of more truing... i recommend them as a budget wheel build.

I've been riding my aerorage for 8 months now, (and i generally abuse them with copious skids and skips), and they have withstood this abuse almost perfectly. I rode into the hugest pothole imaginable ages ago. My back wheel took the brunt, instant puncture, as well as the clincher wall being slightly dented. But with a small amount of truing they have continued to ride fine for 6 months with no need of more truing... i recommend them as a budget wheel build.

My post was about the rear hubs, not the rims, which have been fine (as you'd expect from Halo). General build was good too and neither wheel had needed truing from 3 months of riding them, which was a pleasant surprise.

I live at the top of a big, steep hill and tend to do gentle skids to slow down, as well as using my front brake. I'm also about 14 stone. So they get more abuse than they would if I was a lighter person, living in a flatter bit of London.

Frankly, if Halo had just said "oops, maybe you got a bad one, here's another" I'd have probably taken them at their word. But since their attitude is "must have been you cross-threading the entire cog 3 months previously" without even examining them, I'm taking that brazen "fuck off" as an acknowledgement that they are all of a similar quality, ie cheap and soft.

I'm recanting. Don't buy them for all the white powdercoat in China.

I stripped the rear hub on my Aerorage (after 3 months of trouble-free riding) and found myself doing a nice relaxing freewheel into oncoming traffic when I should have been stopped at a junction.

Apparently the rep said that they hadn't had any returns on them yet, so obviously that's cool. No need to take defects seriously, so long as it's a new product that you've just released!

Sorry MrSmith. You were obstreperous but also completely right.

In fairness, I should add that my front wheel (also Aerorage) hasn't bent, caught fire or attempted to smother me yet.

work in a bike shop so got these for trade so seemed like a deal to be honest (above the charge wheelset anyway) as i aint got the dough to build a new set)

and to be honest the hub and bearing quality body wise is great as well as rims, and they look great

the only thing imo that lets these hubs down is thread

but within one week my rear is fucked

so it will be going back to id and it will be getting changed ill make sure of that, and ill make sure they know that there are a few other peeps that know that there shit too.

so folks dont buy them just yet and build a system ex set for the same money(as i have done in the past) as for now you will be better off

Here's a couple of newbie questions: I have a pair of these Aeroragewheels for my upcoming singlespeed project and I got the rear wheel yesterday. I want to go singlespeed (not fixed) and be able to coast. But when I spin the wheel in my hands it doesn't coast like a "normal" mtb/road wheel, instead the threads on both sides are moving. I thought that one side of the hub was intended for fixed riding and the other for freewheeling? And yes, I have the fixed/freewheel version, all confirmed by Evans Cycles and the Halo website. What am I doing wrong here?

And, on which side of the wheel should the sprocket and lockring be if I wan't to be able to coast? One side of the hub is threaded and the other one is also threaded but there is a slight difference in height on the threads. I haven't bought a sprocket and lockring yet.

I told you that it was newbiequestions...Appreciate your answers.

Patrik from Sweden

Both threads should move.

Coasting is a product of the sprocket, not the hub.

A sprocket and lockring is used on the side with two threads for fixed riding.

On the side with one thread use a freewheel.

Like this, or similar: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/p/Cycle/7/Shimano_BMX_Freewheel/5300005982/

Thank you kowalski!

I'm recanting. Don't buy them for all the white powdercoat in China.

I stripped the rear hub on my Aerorage (after 3 months of trouble-free riding) and found myself doing a nice relaxing freewheel into oncoming traffic when I should have been stopped at a junction.

Apparently the rep said that they hadn't had any returns on them yet, so obviously that's cool. No need to take defects seriously, so long as it's a new product that you've just released!

Sorry MrSmith. You were obstreperous but also completely right.

In fairness, I should add that my front wheel (also Aerorage) hasn't bent, caught fire or attempted to smother me yet.

Do you work in a shop or did you buy the wheel from an outlet? If the latter, then you should go through the shop where you bought the wheel and they will deal with Halo. If the hub has broken due to a manufacture defect then it will be under warranty. If you did try to contact Halo directly having bought it from a dealer, this may explain the attitude you got from them... Who was it you talked to? Did you get a name?

I have had the rear aerorage wheel for a couple of months now and not had any problems. As for the thread 'looking' shit, get the anodised black ones. they 'look' pretty sweet.

Bought it in a shop - they then spoke to Halo and relayed the response. I'm not naming the outlet because they've been reasonable about sorting something else out for me since it's become clear that Halo aren't going to play ball.

Halo apparently claim that it isn't under warranty as 1] I installed the cog and lockring myself and 2] "they haven't had any other complaints yet" (though see geoffersmaher's post above). I told the shop that I wasn't really fussed about warranty, I was claiming under my statutory rights to a product "fit for purpose" (middle-class Watchdog viewer FTW). I'm now off to collect a wheel with a different hub and they can sort it out with Halo if they want to.

Long and the short of it is that the hub threading failed, fairly dramatically, after 3 months' of uneventful use and a recent check-over and lockring tightening (by me). Apparently this can happen to cheaper hubs made from softer alloy. For instance, it happened twice in a row to a friend of mine with the stock wheels on his Pista, which were eventually replaced for a Miche/Mavic wheelset by his LBS at no cost.

Still glad that you've not had any problems yet and hope that they continue working. Despite my experience it's possible that I just had bad luck. :)

geoff you were running a washer behind the cog were you not?

My post was about the rear hubs, not the rims, which have been fine (as you'd expect from Halo). General build was good too and neither wheel had needed truing from 3 months of riding them, which was a pleasant surprise.

I live at the top of a big, steep hill and tend to do gentle skids to slow down, as well as using my front brake. I'm also about 14 stone. So they get more abuse than they would if I was a lighter person, living in a flatter bit of London.

Frankly, if Halo had just said "oops, maybe you got a bad one, here's another" I'd have probably taken them at their word. But since their attitude is "must have been you cross-threading the entire cog 3 months previously" without even examining them, I'm taking that brazen "fuck off" as an acknowledgement that they are all of a similar quality, ie cheap and soft.

Yeah, i understand that you were talking about the hub. I personally havn't had any problems with the threads on the rear hub. I assume that you properly greased them before attaching sprockets and lock rings... Seems to be a fairly common problem that the threads are rubbish. All i'd say is that i hgave been careful with mine and have thusfar had no problems.
(I sound like a Halo spokesman).

I told the shop that I wasn't really fussed about warranty, I was claiming under my statutory rights to a product "fit for purpose" (middle-class Watchdog viewer FTW).

always helps to mention their obligations under the Sale of Goods Act i find.

fwiw my haelo haemorrage front wheel is still reasonably round, true and smooth.

based on the above i won't be looking at hael-oh for rears though.