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Fixed gear commuter/work bike.
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01-13-2012, 07:50 AM
The wheels were great but the coating on the rims started to peel off leaving a terrible powdery aluminium oxide. That is why I changed them. Also I found them to be very stiff and hard to tweak with a nipple wrench. That is the problem with deep vee rims, so my friendly wheel builder told me.
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Fixed gear commuter/work bike. - ghost - 10-16-2011, 05:47 PM

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