Damn i have been busy the last couple of weeks and not much to do with hubs either. Sometimes family and my real job swamp my play time which is all good but slows progress on projects. Just so there something new to look at check out a few random shots from my cosy shed at home.....

Also waiting for some action are a couple of wheels for some patient local lads i am keen to hook up for destruction testing. I have had to resort to child labor to get shit done; this is my 7 yr old Harper who for $2 and 2 swigs of my chilled 'Bud' took up the slack on this wheel for local legend and '09 trick comp winner Mike Lawrence. In the background the 1st single speed i ever built featuring a disc wheel with monster Valentino Rossi decal - what a dude.

I've been cranking out some k's on my track bike lately and have decided to bat for the other team and am building up this roadie for mega rides. Its a steel NOS Moser from the mid 90's, flippin sweet. Full 10spd Record using titanium 9spd shifters and dérailleurs for that 'no carbon' look. Not knowing nought about gears and shit, its been really interesting finding out what its all about and what works with what and how, what a geek.Check some of the detailing...... 
Hanging behind it is a single speed project for my good mate Matty's wife Jos.

Cool as cucumber quill style seat post does away with any sort of clamp arrangement for a nice clean look.

pretty tight for a roadie huh....... love you Mr Moser.

My favorite squeeze, do heaps of k's on this bad boy. I've got an 84k road race on the 9th which takes in 2 laps of Lake Rotorua located in the center of the North Island.

Dont know why i didnt think of this earlier but just pleased i did.
I happened to have a single speed project for a mate mid build in the shed. We used Dodici rims to traditional high flange hubs so i figured why not conduct an easy comparison. Granted, not entirely scientific and margin of error probably higher than mugabe's election pole but i am stunned by the results. The silver wheel is very similar in that it uses the same rim, same number of spokes, same spokes, same spoke tension, slightly wider than the triple @ 70mm vs 64mm (advantage silver), slightly smaller flange diameter @ 62mm vs 69mm (advantage triple) but lets guess they are close to being the same. Setting them up in the wheel jig i set the rim gauge 5mm away and tugged on the edge of the rim using a set of digital bike scales.

As you can see, to pull the rim 5mm until it just nudged the gauge (red arrow) took 2.56kg of force. 

This bad boy required 4.24kg of force to move the same distance. I would have been happy with a slight advantage but this is not even close and explains why these wheels feel different to ride. Its just as well, this wheels destined for Ivan from http://steadyrollin.wordpress.com/ . Ivan's a big unit (as in muscle and brawn not fat and flab) so it will be a stern test indeed.

Thanks to ibike http://ibike.co.nz/ for the use of all your awesome shit. Jianni and the mechanics from ibike lets me rock in when ever i want to scab free shit from the bin, drink their coffee, have a curry and use tools like the above wheel jig, scales and supa accurate DT spoke tensioner.  Jianni's NZ's Zipp agent and the reason my purple bike rocks the meanest 808 wheelset.

Admittedly you did have to look quite hard...... 2:30min
A few months back i met Mike Martin from MASH (good cat him) who noticed Chris's MTB hub conversion and asked if i could convert a Chris King for him. Is the Pope catholic? Few months later a brand new CK turned up and i nervously put it in the lathe and started cutting. Did't' enjoy it one little bit, these hubs are beautifully made. Actually set the standard for me and what i am trying to achieve with CodsCogs.
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