Hip Hop Skid Bikes / Hipster Sleds / HHSB

Then I think it's comfortable because of the tubes. Don't know about 'slavepoints' though.

http://i.imgur.com/PSYZo.jpg

Question: Is running an NJS wheelset in the city classifiable as 'slave'?

nah just a bit silly, just lace njs hubs to nice clinchers.

just you wait.

nah just a bit silly, just lace njs hubs to nice clinchers.

I'd be buying a set, tyres and all. Actually I'd mostly be using them for longer road rides, I was just kidding about the town thing.

Still debating whether it's worth it or if I should buy things I actually need... like a fridge.

Why are you getting tubs? If it's just to have NJS then get a fridge

Damn nice frame Apollo, complete with all those parts too!

How much did it set you back?

So, is the Corima 4spok going on it? :D

^^ Partly to all-but-finish the NJS build, partly because I've never ridden tubs and am curious and partly because I'd be getting the wheelset for about the same price as a pair of DA hubs on their own.

Open pro CDs

^^ If you don't skid, and the price is right, go for it - you can't go wrong, and if you decide you don't like them you can re-lace them with a simliar ERD clincher rim - Got to be worth a punt as it'll give you a sense of purity

Tubs give plush ride and needn't be a problem for punctures.
I've never used Soyo Greens but if they have a removable valve then whack a load of stan's sealant in each tyre before pumping them up and you should be fine!
If they don't have removable valve cores I think your only option is Vittoria Pitstop. I recently met a gentleman of rad skills who runs crabon rims and tubs on a brakeless tarck bike with a pitstop can, minipump and spare tub in his bag

The tyres are non-NJS - they're Vittoria Corsa CX (?) I think. I know a bunch of people who use them on the street here with no problems.

dammit is skidding on tubs - gators
doable apparently

I ran tubs on the blue Mercian - they work fine

In the past I've skidded on Vittoria CX's and Conti Sprinters, both good.
Well glued and running good pressure they' don't slide round and shear off the valve stem (I believe is the perceived risk of sprint-skidding)

Btw, what's that red bike doing there?
It's a pleasant enough build and all, but isn't this the HHSB/HS thread?
(as opposed to the "sensitive but safe conversions" thread)

Sorry. Misunderstood the topic. I'll remove it.

Nice, although I'm not sure running a Shimano Alfine 11-speed hub gear is strictly HHSB.

Trolololetc.

What makes you say it's an alfine? Where is the shifter? Could be a chub... no?

u mad?

did you miss the part he said trolololetc?

its obviously a chub.

What makes you say it's an alfine? Where is the shifter? Could be a chub... no?

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Fuck me

^ No thanks?

So he wraps his bars top to bottom, than why those end-tapes?