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I have used Velocity rims on 2 builds. One of which went on a rugged semi-off-road tour through Central America for 3k miles with out a hiccup.
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I have used Velocity rims on 2 builds. One of which went on a rugged semi-off-road tour through Central America for 3k miles with out a hiccup.
A week before finishing up our tour, I looked down at my tires and smiled. Luckily I made the right choice just one day before we left six months ago.
On our last day of cycling in the High Atlas, our bicycles decided to seek revenge for all of the punishment we’ve put them through…
“I think they [Knards] will be too slow.” “You won’t find 29er tires or tubes in Africa.” “That thing is going to be heavy.” I pretty much ignored the aforementioned comments, among a couple other worries that were floating around in my skull, and rolled into Africa with the ECR, complete with Knards. Here are my thoughts after 1,000 KMs.
As of last Friday, I had given up on the Surly ECR being shipped in time and resigned myself to quickly building another bike for our trip…
I’ve always admired the lust-inducing photos of vintage, quill-driven, lugged randonneuring gems, beautifully documented within the pages of sites such as Lovely Bicycle. So I decided to attempt and give one of these old steeds a shiny second life.
I finally finished transforming an old lugged steel Craiglist turd into a sweet light-touring/randonuerring bike. On the maiden voyage she rode like a dream and here’s how I celebrated…
Well well well, what do we have here? It’s my Rohloff on some new Velocity Blunt 35s.