Froze said:Tommy what you said is actually correct for a change. What you said is why a person should not be riding on high priced racing rims for daily riding! A pair of less than $600 a pair wheels is fine for the street, in fact, as you sort of alluded to, they will hold up better when hitting all nature of ruts and cracks, and holes in streets. My streets are very rough due to weather, I have a set of Shimano Silver RS500 wheels, very low costing set of wheels which of course means they are heavier then higher priced wheels, but I'm not racing so weight isn't an issue, what is an issue is durability, and since I got those on my Lynskey I haven't had to true them even once, and that included jumping curbs, banging over rough railroad tracks, etc. and their not showing any brake wear after 12,000 miles. I ride other bikes besides that one, my commuter bike is a 84 Fuji Club that I ride to work and then after work detour away form home for a longer ride; plus I also ride my 85 Schwinn Le Tour Luxe for touring and commuting if I know it might rain while at work; so my mileage since 2013 is a lot higher than the miles on the Lynskey show because I only ride that bike on weekends. I have other bikes too but those 3 are the only ones I ride, about once a year I take the others out to keep them moving a bit. I also sold off my pair of Miyata's I had to a Miyata collector earlier this year so my herd has thinned by two; and I may sell all the ones I don't ride PLUS the touring bike to take the money and apply it towards a new touring bike with a sloping top tube so I can dismount easier when it's loaded. If I do that I will keep the Lynskey and the Fuji the rest will be gone. For some unknown reason the Fuji is worth more than my other bikes, except for the Lynskey of course, not sure what drives that particular model up, it's just a mid level bike, not even high level like the Schwinn Voyager I have that would only sell for about a third of the selling price of the Fuji! Doesn't make sense to me. That's why I will keep the Fuji.
Wide tires of 25 mm or 28 mm tires will also greatly increase the life of a wheel that isn't built for lightweight racing use. I have a Campagnolo Neuron wheel that only has a couple of thousand miles on it and the rim became thin enough from wear that it started twisting under load and broke spokes. That was the most expensive of the shallow wheels from just a coupe of years ago.
I've had several Voyagers but I couldn't see any advantage to them over your LeTour. Most of the Fujis are very good bikes and the top of their class in their price line.
I'm going to get rid of the Time VX, Pinarello Stelvio, The Ridley XBow, the Redline Conquest, the Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra frame, fork and headset and a Pinarello Traviso frame and Strong threadless fork I have for it. I'll keep just the Basso Lotto and Colnago. Then maybe I can talk my wife into selling her Colnago Master Piu and Bridgestone MB-1. She rides so little and her Mercian is such a perfect bike that the room would be more important than a spare bike for her. She started riding again and I tried to get her to ride with the slower group. But of course she had to go off the front with the fast guys and she hurt so bad for the next couple of days that she stopped riding again. Unfortunately she is a hoarder and she has everything her hand has ever touched so that will be hard.
Then there would be room in the garage. I have about 10 toolboxes for the different sorts of work I do - Carpentry, Car mechanics, plumbing, electricians, telephone installation, boat maintenance, and of course the bike tools all in metric. Several toolbags including my tools from the Air Force for working on B-52's. I recently saw a satellite view of March AFB and those B-52D's I worked on are still parked on the pads. They just shut the bomber fleet down where it was.
In the three and a quarter years on the line I worked on every single one of those. And probably the six that were shot down in North Vietnam. They were good planes. We were dropping bombs so fast in Vietnam that we ran out of 500 lbers for the wing mounts and 1,000 lbers for the bomb bays so we went to 750's on the wings and 1,500s in the bays. Then 1,250's on the wings and 2,000s and 2,500's in the bays. They weren't rated for that but we did it anyway. You should have seen the fireworks when we came into the run for the SAM sites. They couldn't use guidance because our Electronic Countermeasures (ECM) jammed them. So they set them to detonate at fixed altitudes and shot them up like Ack-Ack. In one case one SAM went right between the fuselage and the swept wing and detonated maybe a thousand feet above us. We were the formation leader and everyone else in the flight saw that and went bonkers. But they didn't shoot for long. We bombed every position they had on the DMZ.
