Maybe it's just me, but there's nothing I like better than debating the merits of one out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-2) vs. another out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-40). It's even better to try to take potshots at the depth of anodizing or metallurgical composition of these out-of-production rims ...
Of course, the metallurgy of these products has long-been established by books such as "The Bicycle Wheel" by Jobst Brandt. They are made 100% of an alloy called "unobtainium" which increases in strength with every new edition of that book ... It's a new process called "Hype Hardening" that Reynolds is looking into for its next set of tubes, Reynolds 1053.
Maybe it's just me, but there's nothing I like better than debating the merits of one out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-2) vs. another out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-40). It's even better to try to take potshots at the depth of anodizing or metallurgical composition of these out-of-production rims ...
Of course, the metallurgy of these products has long-been established by books such as "The Bicycle Wheel" by Jobst Brandt. They are made 100% of an alloy called "unobtainium" which increases in strength with every new edition of that book ... It's a new process called "Hype Hardening" that Reynolds is looking into for its next set of tubes, Reynolds 1053.
- Don Gillies San Diego, CA.
"hype hardening" - excellent, one for the biography!
Maybe it's just me, but there's nothing I like better than debating the merits of one out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-2) vs. another out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-40). It's even better to try to take potshots at the depth of anodizing or metallurgical composition of these out-of-production rims ...
Of course, the metallurgy of these products has long-been established by books such as "The Bicycle Wheel" by Jobst Brandt. They are made 100% of an alloy called "unobtainium" which increases in strength with every new edition of that book ... It's a new process called "Hype Hardening" that Reynolds is looking into for its next set of tubes, Reynolds 1053.
Maybe it's just me, but there's nothing I like better than debating the merits of one out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-2) vs. another out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-40). It's even better to try to take potshots at the depth of anodizing or metallurgical composition of these out-of-production rims ...
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Of course, the metallurgy of these products has long-been established by books such as "The Bicycle Wheel" by Jobst Brandt. They are made 100% of an alloy called "unobtainium" which increases in strength with every new edition of that book ... It's a new process called "Hype Hardening" that Reynolds is looking into for its next set of tubes, Reynolds 1053.
I guess it's just you in that you don't offer any evaluation or critique of current rims that seem to have no end to cracking from all the reports here. The rims, no longer made, are a valuable link to reliable rims that subsequently became unreliable, the only apparent change was hard anodizing. I think that has value in understanding rim failure as does the absence of spoke sockets in rims I find available in local bicycle shops.
Maybe it's just me, but there's nothing I like better than debating the merits of one out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-2) vs. another out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-40). It's even better to try to take potshots at the depth of anodizing or metallurgical composition of these out-of-production rims ... Of course, the metallurgy of these products has long-been established by books such as "The Bicycle Wheel" by Jobst Brandt. They are made 100% of an alloy called "unobtainium" which increases in strength with every new edition of that book ... It's a new process called "Hype Hardening" that Reynolds is looking into for its next set of tubes, Reynolds 1053.
I guess it's just you in that you don't offer any evaluation or critique of current rims that seem to have no end to cracking from all the reports here. The rims, no longer made, are a valuable link to reliable rims that subsequently became unreliable, the only apparent change was hard anodizing. I think that has value in understanding rim failure as does the absence of spoke sockets in rims I find available in local bicycle shops.
Here's your assignment, Jobst: build a 130mm 8/9/10sp rear wheel using one of your precious, vaunted, MA-2s. Oh, and you cannot use a threadlock on the nipples ("glue", as you derisively refer to threadlock). Then, ride that rear wheel yourself.
Be sure to get back to us with the results over, say, 1,000 miles.
Maybe it's just me, but there's nothing I like better than debating the merits of one out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-2) vs. another out-of-production bicycle rim (MA-40). It's even better to try to take potshots at the depth of anodizing or metallurgical composition of these out-of-production rims ... Of course, the metallurgy of these products has long-been established by books such as "The Bicycle Wheel" by Jobst Brandt. They are made 100% of an alloy called "unobtainium" which increases in strength with every new edition of that book ... It's a new process called "Hype Hardening" that Reynolds is looking into for its next set of tubes, Reynolds 1053.
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I guess it's just you in that you don't offer any evaluation or critique of current rims that seem to have no end to cracking from all the reports here. The rims, no longer made, are a valuable link to reliable rims that subsequently became unreliable, the only apparent change was hard anodizing. I think that has value in understanding rim failure as does the absence of spoke sockets in rims I find available in local bicycle shops.
Here's your assignment, Jobst: build a 130mm 8/9/10sp rear wheel using one of your precious, vaunted, MA-2s. Oh, and you cannot use a threadlock on the nipples ("glue", as you derisively refer to threadlock). Then, ride that rear wheel yourself.
Be sure to get back to us with the results over, say, 1,000 miles.
