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I have his skinny brother. https://jsotcw.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pMvh_TK5jY3xKP6lALUUiWx7LnlQvS9I9RtZQPNmdL7GVJL7V-uHngq_XR74p9hknjMIIwBaaly5SaOQ-DWxIuJNoJZ-n-FOs/P1030191.JPG?psid=1

I was thinking the same thing, lots of spokes left over. Hmmm, maybe I should build enough wheels to use the spokes, and sell the other set! I will have to do the math...

My front wheel is a 32-spoke, and is described in the referenced article as a crow-foot/radial hybrid (as my linked pictures show). I double-checked my back wheel and it is standard 3x both sides. I would love to know what happened in the bike's history that caused the front wheel only to be...

That's pretty cool stuff! I will have to re-examine the back wheel to see if any advanced tricks were integrated there too. Currently I have a set of NOS Sun/DeoreLX wheels on the bike that I already had, because a gorilla tightened the nuts down on the hubs and I couldn't disassemble them...

The Miyata Ti bike I got recently came with a front wheel that had a lacing pattern I have never seen. I have no reason to believe it wasn't stock, based on the XT hub and matching rim...but what do you think?

Hello folks! I'm brand new to this forum...and to be honest I don't have a lot of MTB experience, as I am primarily a road rider. But I've been riding and playing with bikes for 30 years. So imagine the coincidence when I start researching decals for a Miyata Elevation 8000, and I see a...