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Thanks, it's all why I got sane and we've scaled back dramatically. Rotor shims with the occasional wheel build is a very nice side business!
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Some of those wheels you guys built out during the peak days of rim brake bespoke bikes were just so wonderful. The good old days!
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Fast forward to today, and wheels are much more reliable. Unless crashed, a set of rims and spokes may last nearly as long as the hubs, so rebuilding wheels is less common. So it usually makes more sense to buy complete wheels, then it does to have wheels built on demand. Also add to that the increase in wheel gimmickry (primarily driven by the need to differentiate wheels), which means that wheels often contain proprietary components, which can make rebuilding wheels less practical. |
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Mark - I hear it. Back when I was first really getting into racing, Wednesday night of speed week was wheel truing night. Now Speedweek doesn't exist any more in that way, and people more or less justifiably expect to never have to true wheels. People would often ask me to build with some old rims for a classic look on an 11 speed hub and I'd be like "you know this is going to be terrible, right?" Mostly I'd say no thanks to those but wound up doing a few. |
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Did anyone score a deal at the liquidation sale? I'm scrolling through the top sellers and I don't see any screaming deals. Add the 18% buyers premium + 9% sales tax too. Someone bought 400 Vittoria Zaffiro 700x23 tires for $2850 before fees. Last edited by rice rocket; Today at 01:54 PM. |
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Probably an Amazon reseller.
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That is an awful lot of an awfully narrow 700x23 tire. Like a lifetime supply for the current marketof an entire continent. For not much more...a retailer can buy them when they need them. I'd be willing to bet that a large number of that lot wind up in a landfill within 10 years. A break even for the buyer if they're lucky
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Ya know, you're on Paceline, right?
Folks are still running steel tubed bikes from 1970 with DT shifters and 21 mm tires. They'd line up for 23 mm Zaffiro's for $12 at Amazon. Quote:
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The slightly oversized beads will be so close together on their 30 year old, 12mm wolber aero rims that it'll cause a multitude of flats...and a 15 page thread
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Also, as nmrt pointed out, in seriousness or facetiousness I can't tell, there are still a great deal of people running 700x23's, and a great deal of people who just want decent rubber cheap. I know this because several times a year we tune bikes that need new tires, and the customer insists on the cheapest option available ($20ish), even if we tell them that by spending $50 per tire their bike will feel like a completely different, totally wonderful machine. Nope, $20 tops, and if we have something used that's even better. Oh, and don't replace the tubes --they'll patch them at home later. But I'm digressing, unless someone bought 8000 Park Tool patch kits for .50 a piece at this Pro's Closet sale. |
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