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How can I clean these wheels?
Looks like tubular rims to me. Most of the discolouration will be glue and not rust.
You need
Hot air gun - a hairdryer might work but they don't put out as much heat
Wooden popsicle sticks, with a ...
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Cassette with more gears on same wheel?
Since current >7 speed cassettes have so fine spacing between the gears, about the only reason why you'd want to install a cassette with more gears is wanting to get more range.
A 9-speed freehub ...
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How can I clean these wheels?
Are those steel or aluminum? Are they worth much to you or on the market?
This probably isn't the most professional answer, but I recently got some old steel rims that were covered in surface rust. I ...
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Should I complain at the LBS about a new dead-on true wheel with unequal spoke tension?
You may well be worrying about nothing.
A spoked bicycle wheel is a fantastically strong structure. Modern box-section rims and modern steel/stainless spokes are astonishingly reliable when compared ...
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Should I complain at the LBS about a new dead-on true wheel with unequal spoke tension?
As mentioned by @JoeK, how much you spent, and what you told the shop the wheel will be used for will play a big factor in deciding if the wheel is fit for purpose. If you told them it was a to keep a ...
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Are carbon wheels suited to gravel riding?
Carbon wheels are strong enough for gravel and mountain bike riding now, after advances in construction techniques and materials. It’s true that carbon wheels used to be regarded as too delicate. For ...
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Cassette with more gears on same wheel?
Adding to juhist’s fine answer, there is one exception to this and it depends on the wheel you are using. If your wheel is a Mavic, it can be possible to put a road 11-speed cassette on it. Mavic ...
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Can I replace just the internals of a wheel's hub instead of the whole wheel?
Something may have been lost in translation, or some specifics not relayed in the post. The shop’s stance sounds odd in isolation. But it depends!
Assuming the hub had cartridge bearings, those are ...
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A tool for comparing outer diameters of different tyre sizes?
One of the gotchas with doing this without measuring specific tires is that the thickness of the tire at the ground contact is variable enough to screw things up, depending on the level of accuracy ...
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Can I replace just the internals of a wheel's hub instead of the whole wheel?
Yes, it is sensible. On the assumption this is an aluminium rim.
Wheels don’t just wear from rim braking. If this is a wheel used for off-road there will be accumulated fatigue in the rim at the spoke ...
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Can I replace just the internals of a wheel's hub instead of the whole wheel?
The Shimano XT HB-M8000 has a cup and cone bearing system. As such if the cups are damaged the hub is not able to be repaired (if the cones and bearings are damages these are easy and cost effective ...
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Tube size and tyre size mismatch
What does the tube’s packaging say?
Usually they are specified to work for a relatively wide range of widths. It will says something like “18-622 to 25-622”.
A few percent above the spec usually works ...
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Momentum and gyroscopic difference between wheel sizes
This is usually attributed to the "smaller rotation weight" of the smaller wheels and presumably the resulting angular momentum.
This is mostly untrue (assuming constant mass).
If you have ...
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Momentum and gyroscopic difference between wheel sizes
Rotation weigh and angular momentum have very little, it anything nothing to do with it.
29" wheels have a smaller 'strike angle' when they hit an obstacle. Therefore they roll over bumps easier. ...
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Can I replace just the internals of a wheel's hub instead of the whole wheel?
If it is a carbon wheel it is worth rebuilding with new hub:
If it is only the bearing has worn out, just replace the bearing and keep using the wheel without rebuilding
If the worn-out part are not ...
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How fast do carbon and aluminium rim brake tracks wear?
That totally depends on the road, weather and brake pad quality.
In dry weather, you can expect aluminum rims to last so long that your wheels fail by rims cracking around the spoke holes (which is ...
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What weave is the carbon of this carbon wheel?
it is UD pattern,the brake trake are 12k
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