News

Gary and JC are over in Estonia.
Gary’s luggage got lost, and he says its cold. Well he prob won’t be complaining about the weather in New Zealand next week.

JC prob doesn’t mind the cold. He is from NY.

More news as they send it to me..

Noel Campbell, who is in iraq, had sent me an email inquiring about the release date of the Wombolt cranks. I had happened to ask “how was it over there?”, and he replied with what you would expect, “it’s tough” etc…

but…He also mentioned that he was able to build a ramp out there (over time) with some “acquired” wood, all by himself. I will let the photos speak for themselves. You gotta respect that.

Hopefully we will get some riding pictures soon..

frame– Macneil – Gary Young Signature-Black Cherry color
fork– Odyssey Race Fork
bars– Gary Young Bar(prototype)
stem– Elementary
headset– generic
gyro– Odyssey GTX-R
levers– Odyssey M2(medium)
saddle– Macneil
seatpost– Macneil
clamp– Mr. Clampy
rims– Odyssey Duralectra 36 (black)(front)/Seven KA 36 (cp)(rear)
hubs– Odyssey vandero front(gary is building his Marmoset/7KA now). Odyssey cassette rear (red)(Ti axle/ 10t driver)
sprocket– Vermont (30 tooth)
cranks– Wombolt 2-piece prototypes
chain– KMC
pedals– Odyssey Jim C. signature (looseball, Magnesium)
brakes– Odyssey evolver/london mod
tires– Odyssey Dirt Path 2.2(f)Path 1.85(r)
pegs– Macneil Park pegs (2)
cable– Odyssey M2 upper/ 2 slic cables lower
grips– Odyssey Gary Young Signature
barends– Macneil barcaps (alloy)

photo: Z

photo: Z

photo: Walter Peringer/Jim Bauer
(I took a photo of walters photo)

*This article first appeared in Ride UK (#91) and is reproduced here by kind permission of Ride UK.

This month I want to continue where I left off last time. If you remember I had just finished assembling the worlds most garish wheel, a lovely little rear 48, laced 4 cross and interlaced under the third. But there is a lot more to wheel building than just putting the parts together in the right order. Wheels are very simple, they may look a bit complex, but like all the best ideas they have been with us so long because they are simple and work. Unlike the Government (which seems to think that it makes more sense to continue to pour money into a disastrous policy of smashing apart the very building blocks of the universe to get energy rather than make a small effort to pioneer profitable technology to harvest some of the freely available energy around us in the waves, wind and sun) we can make the most of this simple technology by putting in just a little more effort.

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photo: Z

photo: Andy Forgash

I haven’t posted ads in awhile, so here we go..

photo: Brooks Reynolds