It is against the wind both ways often! The george wind rips through the valley during the winter. During the day it blows east, at night it blows west, which puts me against it on the way in to work, and against it on the way home.
> Yeah, right. It's uphill and against the wind - both ways. > > Regards, > Bob... > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Note: No trees were killed in the sending of this message, > but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Polyhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > 15 years?? I'm lucky to get a year out of a back wheel. Right now > > running a shimano XT hub laced up to a mavic cxp33. I"ve gotten a year > > and a half out of that and i'm impressed with it. Mind you, i think what > > does it out here are the hills. Its 450ft of elevation change between > > work and home, and its not just straight up hill it wanders. There are a > > couple of places i top 30mph and that seems to kind of ruin the rim. > > Between climbing hard and decending fast the spokes start to pull through > > the rim. Had to go with a mavic rim this go around because velocity deep > > v's were on like infinite back order. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Ben 'Polyhead' Smith KE7GAL -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
