Your [MASH SF] is overpriced

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Just scoblebricked on saturday evening with a mish mash of parts.
Progress was delayed, as i had to rebuild a rear wheel after failing to jump a curb in the darkness of Hyde park. I only took the matter seriously after having to bail out of Dunwich Dynamo, sad face. Anyway that taught me how to build a simple wheel, more to come hopefully, i don't think arkane can be afraid of anything but they still unknowingly supplied the Xr31.

big up to @Phildas for the stripped enve forks that keep doing a brilliant job on various builds, including removing toe overlap on this one.

I have had zero legs so it feels a bit wasted, but if you need key facts, just ask.

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So rad. First dibs on those forks back if you ever sell

It looks good. Hard to tell at the level of res, but yeah.

Great colour palette for the bricks tho

a quite complex flemmish bond indeed, pretty jazzy

The front QR makes me sad, but love the rest of it.

i know, the struggle is real, many have succumbed.

can't beat a shimano XT skewer for reliability though, so while i scour the internet for either a fitting thru disc fork or a rim brake one, it will be used.

on the list for later : tubeless, seatpost, white saddle, hydro lever, trying those sugino DD cranks...

At least fit the skewer correctly though?

you forgot '8070 shifters'

That skewer makes me sad.
At least get something like this

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Hot.

Replace the skewer and it's hot AF

Objectively worse though

Going forward with hydraulic levers i have r785 ones to try.
on the list also is fitting some 6870 di2 to have a go at road-fixing it.
some iterations to go through !

not sure about those lightweight QRs, we've all tried them back in the day? andhalo's own blurb does seem a bit tentative

"The absence of any lever means these skewers offer improved security over a traditional QR skewer."

maybe they are better though.

resolution on this is quite diane abbott

in the making !

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See if you can find a steel Zipp track skewer, i have one on the front of my disc fixeh and it's great. Those lightweight ones are shite.

https://www.acebikeco.com/components/wheel-spares/zipp-track-front-skewer-silver__21583#miv-1

good, thank you.
that halo might be steel too and just as good.

I might try a dura-ace 9000 QR i have spare, see how it looks

This or the BBB ones.
The halo are fucking cheese/shit.

Have been using the Halo ones across multiple bikes and never had any problems. What are the issues you've had with them?

I have a Halo one, it’s ok. As long as you don’t tighten the fuck out of it, and why would you it’s a front wheel? It’s a bolt, it bolts things together;)

I've snapped a couple, very easy to over tighten, think there is a very fine line between feeling like it is secure vs snappy snap snap. Obvs I don't use a torque wrench...

I can see the tab on the halo being handy as it prevents the washer from eventually grinding the carbon dropouts.
The 4.99£ mundane Condor one looks like a non branded version of all those

no hex skewers but a rear wheel built by yours truly, from the latest Mack x Venn X Sapim parts-bin collection.

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