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    phil
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    I've just put my new 29er wheel into the frame for the first time and
    was rather surprised at how tight some of the clearances are.

    The gap between the spokes and the bottom of the frame is miniscule,
    down to less than a millimetre in places.

    Is this right? Should there be spacers between the bearings and the
    flanges? The spokes should straighten and move inwards a fraction when I
    tighten it properly, but it still seems extremely marginal.

    Yours,

    Anxious of Somerset

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  2. mike.hinson
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    There is no spacer... I agree it is close to the frame, but there is a
    gap.

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  3. one wheeled stallion
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    I noticed that one my freestyle uni. Do you have any full pics of the
    29er? The red and black looks promising ofa sexy unicycle!

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  4. U-Turn
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    It looks to me that both of you have plenty of room on the other side,
    so I personally would space it out so there's plenty of clearance. If
    you rub the spokes with the frame, even only on uphills when the frame
    is flexing, you are compromising the life of the wheel.

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  5. phil
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    My shiny and new 29er... 🙂

    I've only ridden it for about a minute before my knee decided it had had
    enough of this "bending" malarkey, but it feels great.

    The frame is proper red rather than orangey; the camera is very
    cheap'n'nasty.

    Unicycle.com chromoly hub
    Sun Rhyno rim
    IRC Mythos 29x2.1" tyre
    36 DT Swiss somethingorother spokes, painted black (oooo!)
    Nimbus X Frame, powdercoated red (ooOOOooooo!)
    125mm BE cranks, cheap pinned pedals, KH seat (also red)

    /me likes... 🙂

    Phil

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  6. mike.hinson
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    Unicycle.com wide chromoly hub
    Mavic 261 rim
    Big (fat) Apple tyre
    48 DT Swiss Tripple butted spokes
    Nimbus I Frame (filed out to give extra clearence.
    89mm cranks, V.cheap pedals, KH seat (borrowed from Muni)

    My back's to stiff to ride it now :-(

    /\/\

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  7. mike.hinson
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    I forgot the picture:

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  8. one wheeled stallion
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    Oooooooooooo indeed! Very very nice and sexy unis! When my wheel etc
    arrives, I'm gonna go for yellow/grey/black saddle, yellow pedals and
    chrome everything else. Not sure how good it'll look tho... BTW what's
    with the laggy bands on the hubs?

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  9. phil
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    one wheeled stallion said:

    *BTW what's with the laggy bands on the hubs? *

    I was wondering exactly the same thing last week! Apparently it's just a
    little trinket to show that the wheel was hand built rather than machine
    built.

    None of my other wheels have them, but yesterday I thought "why not" and
    put one in.

    I have to wonder how long it will last before it deteriorates or snags
    on something. Mike's appears to have plastic rings rather than elastic
    bands, but I'm a cheapskate... 🙂

    Phil

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  10. daino149
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    When I rode wit Tony Melton in NZ I noticed the bands. When I asked him
    about them, he said that Max's dad built the wheels and the bands were
    to keep the hub clean. I guess that makes some sense.

    I feel like I should go home and look at the clearance on my cycles. I
    know that on my suz hub with black Torker cranks, I have very little
    space between the cranks and the frame. I think this is because of me
    tightening the allow cranks constantly. I think it's time for some new
    cranks.

    Daniel

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  11. mike.hinson
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    The yellow plastic rings I put on the wheels I build have a serial
    number on them so I can tell that they were built by me & when they were
    built & the order number.

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