The MTB thread

new hub about £40 and a re spoke + the cassette all in about £60 if you can do the spokes ure self if not look in to getting a new wheel about £80 plus £20 for cassette mavic or Halo wheel are good avoid shimano hubs

this is the rear rim i have (halo SAS) comes in 26 inch or 24 with the usual 32 spoke or like mine the 48 spoke, and its bomb proof you can run vbrakes or canti lever i think about £100 i think

[yorkie_chris]

You can get pair of wheels with mavic xm317 and XT hubs for about £110.

considering that as front wheel bearing on mine is also knackered and cheap sh**, cup and cone rubbish rather than proper bearing.

not bad, my mavic front wheel has lasted well considering and has the crap cone bearings (shimano deore) gone through 4 sets of bearings in a year though

EDIT just checked they are the same as my dad's and have lasted over 4 years and 3 bikes, running them with Magura hubs though (£100 a pop) and thats on a £2000+ bike so should be up to the job

[yorkie_chris]

You know of any hubs for right money which have cartridge bearings?

i have a Halo Spin Doctor on the rear and thats cartridge but not that cheep

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[northwind]

Evenin all Me again.

Finally got my Hemlock built how I wanted it... Here's big and little brother



I love my bikes Kind of wiped out the time and money to play with motorbikes though, poor SV's still expected to work just as hard, now that it doesn't get to play.

TheGr33k, that thing looks a beast! When would you ever want a triple ring crankset on that, are you planning to commute on it

Originally Posted by northwind

Evenin all Me again.

Finally got my Hemlock built how I wanted it... Here's big and little brother



I love my bikes Kind of wiped out the time and money to play with motorbikes though, poor SV's still expected to work just as hard, now that it doesn't get to play.

Some nice bikes there! The left one (Hemlock?) looks very kona-esque? What spec you running on it?

Originally Posted by northwind

TheGr33k, that thing looks a beast! When would you ever want a triple ring crankset on that, are you planning to commute on it

Yes, its quite a beast! For the money its brilliant, it soaks bumps up almost completly. Can pedal faster down hills than I ever could before.

I cant actually put a triple ring set on it (the bottom of the seat tube opens out for bigger weld on the bottom bracket shell), or at least without a lot of messing. Means going up hills will be a little harder but oh well, it means ill get fitter faster. ha ha. No big problem. Only reason I mentioned it in a previous post was to get some more flexibility going up some of the steep hills to ride back down...

Commuting ha ha, soon you'll need that sort of travel to ride down the road! Though I do still have my 130mm travel Kona for the more cross country riding/commuting I might do with full set of gears. The Scott is more for going into the Peaks/hills/woods and riding over big things flat out.

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

130mm travel Kona for the more cross country riding/commuting I might do with full set of gears. The Scott is more for going into the Peaks/hills/woods and riding over big things flat out.

pff with my 125mm of travel hard tail i can still launch my self off 6ft ledges in the forest of dean fine, and land fine you dont need big suspension, just helps

Ah its not that sort of thing really Barwel, its the large amount of bumps that are normally on the things I ride. I used to do it on a hard tail with 100mm of travel but 180mm front and 170 back makes it a great deal easier

^ show off lmao ahh well at least i have more brake pistons than you.....