Always happy to be busy building nice wheels! It's a good chunk of our business, and it's one we love doing. I've learned so much about building wheels in the past 23 years of doing it. It's nice to be able to bring that bear for folks... rims, spokes, even hubs are so much better today than they were 10 years ago. Old rim profiles were flexy, old hubs were clunky and had slow engagement. It's exciting to be able to build light strong wheels with low service intervals. I think if Rivendell was being created now, rather than in 1994, Grant would have a very different view on tubeless, disc brakes, rim profiles etc. He goes with what he knows, but that would a different knowledge base if he was 30 years old starting the company just now... I don't mean to say he's not knowledgeable, because he is, but rather, his perspective would be different.
For example, light(ish) tubeless tires and stiff rims make way more sense than big heavy schwalbe tires and heavy, flexy rims, as they both don't get flats, but only one has a light feeling, zippy ride quality. If you were touring, you could carry TWO spare tubeless tires with the weight you'd save by ditching the Schwalbe Marathons. But you wouldn't need to, because softer tires get less flats. Think about very full vs half full water ballons. Drop em both, which pops? -James / Analog Cycles in the woods of Vermont On Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 10:04:37 PM UTC-4, Joe Bernard wrote: > > The bottom line for me - which veers off into what *I* like cuz that's how > threads travel and I feel like I shouldn't keep guessing/presuming what > Leah wants - is Clems are awesome bikes and I think worthy of fancy wheels. > > Which is going to translate to my upcoming custom, another frame I don't > expect to be particularly flyweight because I didn't order it that way. I > had planned to put basic wheels on and revel in the frame itself, but now > (Leah's fault!) I have that jones for the fanciness, too. James is going to > be a busy wheelbuilder soon! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/bce7abe6-9abb-4ab8-9419-5bcef0b49ad7%40googlegroups.com.
