flythebike
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Loc: N. Virginia, USA
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Re: Fly vs Luna
01/28/05 04:03 PM (66.7.29.138)
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I disagree about Velomax. While the rims are durable and rarely require truing, I have found the seals on the rear hub to be poor. I had to replace the freehub body and bearings on the rear hub after eight months/3,000 miles or so, and after just a couple more thousand miles it is already starting to slip again, which could be disastrous if I had to use it while riding with people. I'm going to re-grease it and sell it. Maybe the quality has gotten better as they (the company) have aged. I ride in the rain. I've been told the daily limit for Topos is 160, so I don't ride 'em. I'm not seised (happy) to race 'em because the don't look so aero. Zipp 404s and 202s are my race day goods. Sometimes I wonder if I should just have a pair of three oh threes but whatever, we'll see how it goes this year.
Fizik is sponsoring my team this year with great prices on Aliantes so I'm going to pick one up if I can find the scratch. I have an Arione and it is wonderful. Talkin' hubs, I have a high opinion of the DT 240s, Mavic, Chris King (feels burly and smooth) and the Zipps are good too and look classic. Zipp's quick-change freehub takes one minute to swap and is a fine innovation. I just picked up a Zipp B2 oversize bar on eBay and it feels great and is shockingly light, and seems to have the right stiffness modulation but I haven't ridden it yet - I'm waiting on their stem that comes out in a month. Plus the Fly is in Calfeeland getting the 2nd life warranty. I'm adding a Chorus Carbon Crank that I bought not so much to shave weight as for the beauty of the thing, though it does have less heft than the Record alloy. I'm told that it is really the same crank as the Record, just with different decals. I've been riding and racing bikes hard for about 20 years now and I'm a month shy of putting togeher the dream machine, so color me stoked. 
I figure people will see me on the line and already figure they have no chance...no excuses now!
Edited by flythebike (01/28/05 04:07 PM)
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