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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:12

View Postslick, on 04 July 2012 - 02:09 , said:

Is that another fetish like your leg shaving? a small section at a time.


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hahaha! I already have the Easton Havoc orange stem on my AM bike. If I was due for new AM wheels those Havocs would be seriously tempting!

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:12

I see the Havoc only come in 20mm/QR, I need a 15mm on the front.

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:15

View PostBikeBailing, on 04 July 2012 - 02:12 , said:

I see the Havoc only come in 20mm/QR, I need a 15mm on the front.

Do not fear... for a few more dabloons you can get the converter http://www.chainreac...x?ModelID=51486
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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:33

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Do not fear... for a few more dabloons you can get the converter http://www.chainreac...x?ModelID=51486

:thumbup:

Yebo, the advantage of proper hubs is the ability to convert them quickly to suit any fork.

Screw orange. It won't go with my anodised blue :P

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:44

View Postpatches, on 04 July 2012 - 02:12 , said:

hahaha! I already have the Easton Havoc orange stem on my AM bike. If I was due for new AM wheels those Havocs would be seriously tempting!

Orange is awesome! You know it is... don't fight it :lol:

would you take the havocs over the havens for AM?

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 02:57

Nukeproof are generally great wheels but I know of a few guys with broken freebodies. They reckon that the pawls are too small.

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:05

View Postthe_wes, on 04 July 2012 - 02:44 , said:

would you take the havocs over the havens for AM?

with a 28mm external width... I'd go for the Havocs. The Havens have a 26mm width, which is getting on the skinny side. Especially of you wanna run 2.4s. You mught get some tyre-roll on the rear at lower pressures.

Generators are 29mm external width and are labelled as "AM" wheels.

View Postslick, on 04 July 2012 - 02:57 , said:

Nukeproof are generally great wheels but I know of a few guys with broken freebodies. They reckon that the pawls are too small.

I have some earlier gen nuke proofs and I have 1 engagement point that skips. I'm not sure what the cause is... because I haven't opened it to look :blush: :lol:

...I just live with it, haha! But yeah... I also have never serviced them during their period of abuse. The current Generator hubs seem to be slightly different. Maybe they fixed the issue?!
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Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:06

View Postslick, on 04 July 2012 - 02:33 , said:

:thumbup:

Yebo, the advantage of proper hubs is the ability to convert them quickly to suit any fork.

Screw orange. It won't go with my anodised blue :P

course it will! Blue and Orange are made for each other :P haha!

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just look at the awesome kit! loot at it! blue... and orange!
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Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:11

View Postpatches, on 04 July 2012 - 03:06 , said:



course it will! Blue and Orange are made for each other :P haha!

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just look at the awesome kit! loot at it! blue... and orange!

:lol:  :lol:  :lol:

I'm too busy laughing here. I can't think of a decent comeback.

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:14

View Postpatches, on 04 July 2012 - 03:05 , said:

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I have some earlier gen nuke proofs and I have 1 engagement point that skips. I'm not sure what the cause is... because I haven't opened it to look :blush: :lol:

...I just live with it, haha! But yeah... I also have never serviced them during their period of abuse. The current Generator hubs seem to be slightly different. Maybe they fixed the issue?!

Could be. Ask Jason to have a look at the skipping issue. ;)

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:38

Haha, I love the orange hubs!

I'm building up on a On-one Evo 456, which I found after much reading is 135x10mm so don't seem to be to limited. Damn the dabloons are adding up on my wishlist!

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Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:41

The havocs would actually match my bike me thinks:


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Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:43

View PostBikeBailing, on 04 July 2012 - 03:41 , said:

The havocs would actually match my bike me thinks:


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Posted 04 July 2012 - 03:48

When it arrived, it was alot darker than the pic which makes it look even better. I've been meaning to start a build fred but have been to lazy to take pics yet, will do so wen i have all the parts (incl wheels) and start building.

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Posted 09 July 2012 - 09:18

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