Bargain buys thread
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Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
Here you go for your entertainment, just on FB now.
2 Theo Sherridans munting a CB wheel. What’s the odds?
Please SC FB wankers, stop putting SC stickers on damn near everything and continually searching for custom stickers.
moorey
call me Mia
You’re just ENVEous
Mr Crudley
Glock in your sock
Light bicycle FTW
moorey
call me Mia
Not with the right stickers.
silentbutdeadly
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I may have resembled this characterisation. The wheels are still in one piece even after all this time...but I wouldn't use them anymore for XC!!
microRobbie
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Dont know if this has been posted before but this was a very funnt pisstake on crank bros wheels (and more generally applicable to a lot of new shit that comes out)
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the drizzle
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Love this! I have searched for it multiple times after reading it a long time ago to no avail.Dont know if this has been posted before but this was a very funnt pisstake on crank bros wheels (and more generally applicable to a lot of new shit that comes out)
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silentbutdeadly
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A piece of very good history...Dont know if this has been posted before but this was a very funnt pisstake on crank bros wheels (and more generally applicable to a lot of new shit that comes out)
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Crankbrothers revamps aging wheel lineup for 2014. Crankbrothers' 2014 wheels feature bold new graphics, minor alterations to peripheral t...
moorey
call me Mia
I’ve never seen that...yet feel like I could have written it.Dont know if this has been posted before but this was a very funnt pisstake on crank bros wheels (and more generally applicable to a lot of new shit that comes out)
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BREAKING NEWS!!! from TEAM ROBOT
Crankbrothers revamps aging wheel lineup for 2014. Crankbrothers' 2014 wheels feature bold new graphics, minor alterations to peripheral t...
Oddjob
Merry fucking Xmas to you assholes
Calling @safreek, apparently freeride aint dead.
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Ponchoatdirtworks
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Ah yes. Cobalt wheels.
I had become the Australian distributor for Crank Brothers shortly after they released their amazing “Eggbeater” pedal.
Their two designers, Frank & Carl seemed to be on a hot streak. Starting out with a clever tyre lever design, then the pedals. Soon after we welcomed these minimalist multi-tools...
So I’m invited to a private product launch in a suite of the Taipei Hyatt.
I’m told of an innovative new game changer product.
Meet the Cobalt wheelset!
After the presentation I was asked for my honest opinion. I gave it.
• they’re heavier than a conventional 32H wheelset I already build for customers.
• they can’t be trued
• they use heavy rims to resist the high point loads of the paired spokes
• they use odd spokes that can’t be substituted
• low & paired spokes makes them susceptible to sticks & debris jamming through them on trails
• there’s no credible sealing/shielding of the bearings
• they are one size fits most. We build to the rider, spoke count, spoke gauge, rim weight tuned to the rider’s needs & weight
• Oh, they’re tubeless! That’s nice!
Mum always said to try to finish with a positive...
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I had become the Australian distributor for Crank Brothers shortly after they released their amazing “Eggbeater” pedal.
Their two designers, Frank & Carl seemed to be on a hot streak. Starting out with a clever tyre lever design, then the pedals. Soon after we welcomed these minimalist multi-tools...
So I’m invited to a private product launch in a suite of the Taipei Hyatt.
I’m told of an innovative new game changer product.
Meet the Cobalt wheelset!
After the presentation I was asked for my honest opinion. I gave it.
• they’re heavier than a conventional 32H wheelset I already build for customers.
• they can’t be trued
• they use heavy rims to resist the high point loads of the paired spokes
• they use odd spokes that can’t be substituted
• low & paired spokes makes them susceptible to sticks & debris jamming through them on trails
• there’s no credible sealing/shielding of the bearings
• they are one size fits most. We build to the rider, spoke count, spoke gauge, rim weight tuned to the rider’s needs & weight
• Oh, they’re tubeless! That’s nice!
Mum always said to try to finish with a positive...
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Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Please tell us their response......
moorey
call me Mia
‘So...you think we should change the name?’
silentbutdeadly
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"They'll be quite popular in Mildura and Broken Hill"
Ponchoatdirtworks
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That was an uncomfortable meeting. I assured them that we could still sell them. But I’d clearly broken the assumed contract of being a complete stooge & team player. It took them a while, but they were off to seek out a new distributor pretty much from that point on.
It’s really hard. I know that they’d put their heart & soul into it but I couldn’t look past the obvious shortcomings.
Conventional wheels are not some compromised design.
They are exactly the result of near 200 years of development, innovation & refinement. That’s why they can be so cheap, yet work so well.
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It’s really hard. I know that they’d put their heart & soul into it but I couldn’t look past the obvious shortcomings.
Conventional wheels are not some compromised design.
They are exactly the result of near 200 years of development, innovation & refinement. That’s why they can be so cheap, yet work so well.
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moorey
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And yet some (unnamed) companies still can’t nail either one or both of those.
Ponchoatdirtworks
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Funny how they (unnamed) often seem to blow out the cost without exceeding any reliability expectations.
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moorey
call me Mia
Yep. And also struggle with the concept of warranty.