I’m winning something on ebay with 5 min to go :)

If you snipe me I will come arround and re-arrange your furniture whilst your out, then marry your daughter. 🙂

cancel snipe cancel snipe. can’t let this is notaspoon marry my 5 year old daughter….

Did you get it?

1min 35 seconds

not what I’m sniping then, it has 11 mins to go!

menschen-produktion,

whoever you are, take a good look arround, becasue i’m coming to get you!

Grrr and to top it all sounds like my housemates got her boyfriend round, so no sleep tonight for me 🙁

what did you loose out on? and by how much

no sleep tonight??

Do you join in…???

You were beaten by ‘human production’?

What were you bidding for?

heh heh heh

just missed out on them ear plugs eh!

coolhandduke, some bontranger x-lite track wheels

Gary_C, nope, he’s not my type

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230323493200

tip, never ever bid until the last 3 seconds. It reveals your “hand” and there is always someone else out there with more money / more insanity to pay more than you.

D’OH, missed out on mine too!

F**&%% B*ll**&s

oh well. by 3.00 to. Chris king rear hub. went for 220.00

why is it that roadie wheels, you can get a set weighing 1700g ish for about £100, yet a fixed/track wheelset for the sme price has a quoted weiht of 2.5kg!

is there anyone other than bontranger who make a, even reasnobly, lightweight wheel, FFS there arent even any moving parts other than the bearings?

Coolhandluke – sorry man, I had to have that hub!

Never mind, I know where to get them new for less anyway…Just found somewhere so seems you paid over the odds my friend, it is Ebay after all 😆

by about 8 quid too. Mine will come in a box, brand spanking new, warranty starting from zero not 2 and have no scratches.

build your own….?

but i think on a fixed the spokes are under greater strain. just have a poo before your ride. my fixed wheel wieghs around 25lb, old steel frame being the reason for this. still flys along at 35kmph on skinny tyres and some leg work.

You sound a little bitter over there – sorry man.

Glad you have found some ‘cheaper and better’ about 5 mins after losing out on the ebay hub – coincedence?

Anyway, £220 was my only, and top bid, I appear to be lucky (or not) tonight

Actually, I am sorry, with a few minutes hindsight I guess I sound like I am gloating, that wasn’t my intention, please accept my apologies for that.

Well done and not bitter at all actually. Glad someone from STW got it. Well I assume you did anyway….

Labmonkey – 😯 you paid £223 for a second hand CK hub? You Muppet!

£212.50 Brand new from Stif!

http://www.stif.co.uk/gear/select_options.asp?productid=2952&store=mtb

I’m not gloating either but, look at the Stiff website.

Chris King rear hub, cheap like.

215 with postage.

Just glad I looked now…

…yeah I got it – thanks.

I was particularly after one with the heavy duty bolted axle (like the one on ebay) as I have a bolted one on my singlespeed and it feels really ‘solid’ – the QR one on my other bike seems less ‘secure’ in comparison, and thats on a hardtail – I have tried a couple of different QR’s too. This one is for a Tracer build (which is taking forever now with the price hikes recently) and I wanted to have bolt on wheels at each end. So I am happy today.

Hope you get one sorted out soon – you could always share the link with all on STW – I do need a 20mm front too?

All the best

Luke – Peas in a pod! 🙂

Thats a fantastic deal at stif – I didn’t look there! Well done!

It still isn’t the exact one I was after though.

DT spoke calculator says……………..

838g for open pro, shimano XT front hub and 32 1.8/1.5 spokes laced 3X.

none of those parts are exactly skinny, and im stil under half what some people are quoting for their wheel weights!

Just what is so great about the CK hub?
Hope & the like are half the price, are the CK twice as good?