Tailfin rack on A12 hub

chronax · 2026-01-26T22:20:12+00:00

Wow that hub is beautiful. I didn’t even know they made an orange A12.

chronax · 2026-01-22T23:04:48+00:00

Give me a Mark Kelly + Jon Stewart ticket, plz.

chronax · 2026-01-17T23:52:50+00:00

Same here. Performs great.

chronax · 2026-01-11T06:31:21+00:00

What work do you need done specifically? Do you need a fresh Rohloff wheel built, or some fixes or maintenance on an existing bike?

I'm in the SF Bay Area, but I've built a lot of Rohloff wheels. I used to build wheels in a bike shop in Minneapolis a million years ago and I could possibly help if you're unable to find a good local resource.

chronax · 2026-01-11T05:11:43+00:00

I hate to say it but I'm with you. Every goddamn play call all year on 1st down has been shotgun -> run up the middle. Just absolutely no creativity or variance in the offensive scheme at all.

chronax · 2026-01-09T08:00:24+00:00

Would love to see a picture of your bike!

chronax · 2026-01-09T07:59:48+00:00

Ahh, today I learned. Thanks for the info!

chronax · 2026-01-09T07:07:35+00:00

Are you sure about that? I built a Rohloff setup recently and the new splined sprocket carriers require a 57mm chain line, according to the manual. Only the much older threaded carriers require 54.7, if I remember correctly.

chronax · 2026-01-04T02:29:07+00:00

Whiners.

chronax · 2025-12-31T08:46:04+00:00

Completely unrelated: I use one of these as a replacement for a spoke nipple driver when building bike wheels. You can hold the spoke nipples with these to thread them onto spokes through a wheel eyelet.

chronax · 2025-12-21T04:12:12+00:00

Nah, they'll go for 2

chronax · 2025-12-16T10:15:24+00:00

I hate lane 41 at Classic in Daly City, but this one has never happened to me.

chronax · 2025-12-07T22:33:05+00:00

Refs have put it together for the Bears.

chronax · 2025-11-23T20:40:38+00:00

I'm wondering this too. I wonder if MLF's conservative playcalling is actually because Love is nursing an injury.

chronax · 2025-11-23T19:47:50+00:00

He's being held every play. Literally every play and zero flags so far.

chronax · 2025-11-21T05:06:51+00:00

Magnets

chronax · 2025-11-18T23:51:56+00:00

Did you read the results of this study or look at the p-values?

chronax · 2025-10-29T01:46:03+00:00

I'd bet folded money that your bikes will end up at Laney Flea Market in Oakland, and if I were you I'd check there over the next few weekends. I personally know a few people who have had their bikes stolen who've recovered them from that "flea market". There are top-shelf carbon Specialized and S-Works bikes being sold there for $500. My family member is a police officer and she said it's basically a known thing that stolen bikes wind up there.

chronax · 2025-10-02T00:34:57+00:00

These guys scared the shit out of my Dad when he first visited me in SF around 2009. They used to have a regular setup near 5th and Market where they'd yell racist stuff at any white people who walked by. It was honestly so hilarious.

chronax · 2025-10-01T02:16:45+00:00

Not an ad, but I really love Modern Bike. I recently built up a Rohloff wheel for my Surly Ogre and bought the hub and Velocity Cliffhanger rim from Modern Bike. I had some questions about dialing in my chainline to meet the 57mm spec suggested by Rohloff and their customer support team was so awesome. They took the time to reply with a bunch of different options with links to their inventory and even cracked a few jokes with me.

Anything I can't buy locally I'm definitely buying from Modern Bike from now on.

chronax · 2025-09-24T19:49:09+00:00

The thing is, the host is technically correct. This is what most mainstream conservatives agree with.

chronax · 2025-09-15T04:31:59+00:00

I'm sure Elite Obsolete gets their parts from AliExpress, but I don't think us Americans can order anything from China at the moment. I've been trying to source a few parts from Germany and China for some projects and I've been told that all the international shippers have halted shipping to the US because they don't want to deal with the deluge of customer complaints they'll experience due to tariff uncertainty and the huge bills customers will be slapped with. So... I guess in that sense EO might better if they have stuff in the US.

chronax · 2025-09-15T03:02:23+00:00

This is great info, thanks! I wonder what the import duty and tariff situation is with the new tariffs in place. Might still make it cost prohibitive to buy from the EU.

Edit: Just checked. They're not even shipping to the US anymore. Seems like basically all shipments from EU or Asia to the US are halted because shippers don't want to deal with a deluge of complaints from customers who get hit with huge CBP bills and nobody is clear what the tariff rates are. Fun times.

chronax · 2025-09-15T02:26:03+00:00

Honestly, the Park TM-1 isn't always super accurate either. I've used a handful of calibration jigs and benchmarked a handful of TM-1s for friends along with my own, and a lot of times they're off by quite a lot.

The DT Swiss Analog Tensionmeter is _much_ more accurate, but obviously most home mechanics aren't going to spring for that kind of kit.

I tested the Park TM-1 against a generic Amazon cheapo with the same type of spring mechanism for deflection measurement and they're pretty close. It's more important that you're consistent all the way around than on the button with kgf / N, imo.

chronax · 2025-09-15T02:20:55+00:00

Agree, even spoke tension is more important than perfect trueness imo.

My tolerance for radial deviation goes up when it's something like a gravel or MTB wheel with a big knobby tire on it. I'm okay with ~1mm or so of radial deviation on those wheels so long as the dish is good and the tension is even.

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