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@dancing james
Sadly not.
Last week I had my rear wheel taken out by another cretin. As I was going away for a few days there was not time for me to buy a rim and rebuild the wheel so I got Neil's Wheels to do the job for me and collected the wheel from them on Saturday evening.
The pics are from today, when another cretin ran into me. His initial response was to tell me to get out of his way, at which point I made it clear to him that my fucking bike was now attached like a bonnet ornament.
The collision was absolutely perpendicular, so amazingly the wheel is less than .5mm off from true. The driver was furious that I demanded his insurance details, he did not give them and fobbed me off with £20 to get it retrued.
My back is starting to hurt. If I am still in pain tomorrow morning I shall be off to A&E and he will then be paying my Harley St osteopath's fees.
Must say it was a great wheel build by Neil's Wheels, I'd strongly endorse them as wheelbuilders. This afternoon I had just replaced the bearings in the Royce hubs (which were notably fucked from about 2 years of use and were 2ndhand anyway).