The rear hub is Bitex, as Joe said. These are going on my Clem, which I now call Clementine again because it’s just too confusing to say Clem L. Yes, the bike is blue. Yes, the accents are reds and oranges, and they are smashing.
It was amazing to see how many bikes were lined up for service. Really good to see people with their bikes. It’s hard to be mad that there’s a line because I do want bike businesses to do well, man, have they needed it. I wish my shuttered LBS could have survived to see the COVID times because it would maybe have breathed life back into their bank account. I hope all those shop guys test ride my bike and finally get a taste of the good life. Leah Sent from my iPad > On May 21, 2020, at 6:38 PM, masmojo <masm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Leah, congratulations on the new wheels; they are colorful! > Looks like some of the wheels I've built. > What rear hub is that? Looks a bit like a Hope!? I have a couple of those & I > like'm pretty good, although I find them to be a little "tight" initially. > They loosen up over the first hundred or so miles and then just get better & > better. The centerlock had me scratching my head a little bit!? > > Also, are these going on your Clem? I ask, because I know your Clem is blue & > the wheels seem primarily red & orange? And I think you said Clementine a > couple times? Force of habit I guess? The hub color I can tell you from > experience is sort of catch as catch can, once you get out of Black & silver. > Red is typically the next most common. I have some blue ones, but for > whatever reason blues tend to be 36 hole. > Dynamo stuff IS hard to get right now. I had a shop credit my order, because > they couldn't get the stuff out of Germany. > > You know, one thing I like about a dynamo rear light is it's a constant light > as opposed to a blinking light. From my experience blinking lights are drunk > magnets! With a steady bright light you are visible, without being > distracting. > > I feel your frustration with the bike shops right now; too bad there's not a > way to let shops know that your bike should get priority because you didn't > just pull it out of the back of the garage and that it really gets ridden as > opposed to the majority of the stuff clogging up the shops now. Although it > sounds as though your shop quickly sussed out that your bike wasn't run of > the mill. They are probably drawing straws to see who gets to work on your > bike & who has to change flats on the Dept. Store bikes! > Between the components and the new tires, I think you'll be pleasantly > surprised at the difference. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/dfbF8nhu8Og/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c67977e9-9aaf-48d8-bd0e-3ef2f66b78c0%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/D972863D-D937-4AAC-9DD9-D694319C98A1%40gmail.com.
