Current Projects chat and miscellany

my LBS guy says you just cannot beat campag hubs, but he is a bit old school..would doubt if he knew half the manufacturers we were talking about on here.

I'll get a pic of my mack hubs on here soon, they look pretty sweet, if a little HHSB in gold..

:-)

+1 Especially the higher end hubs. I have a pair of 70s record HF and a pair on 60s nuevo tipo HF, and they roll ridiculously well. Not sure if its the wheel size (27" vs. 700c) but on every group ride on downhills, I catch people/ take them very easily, despite having a poor aero position, a non 'aero' bike. Obviously on the ups, my lard arse doesn't quite operate in the same way. but still, rolling resistance can be massively different between various hubs/wheels/tyre combos.

In other news, the filthy barn find trek 470 is finished! Prob only took 5/6hours to strip, clean, de-pigeon-poop, rebuild and setup. For a low/medium 90s basic steel bike its not bad, 23lbs, mostly in the frame I guess. Looks quite tidy, and in love with brifters already, no more friction auto shift on out of the saddle climbs!