It seems like 7 of your last 11 posts have been about this bike frame.
Are you affiliated with the manufacturer?
Nuke-proof is one of those brands that was innovating and genuinely cool in 1992 and now gets stickered onto the latest generic crap from taiwan – IMO.
MTB solo (ie. racing) = Yes – I have a special ‘fast’ playlist on itunes 🙂
Road/City/Commute = Yes – almost always.
^ I ride into central london everyday and don’t see why I need to ‘hear’ anything? There’s always cars on every side of me – so I don’t need to hear them coming!
Although if I was road cycling on the North York moors – with long winding roads and a bunch of idiots racing about at 60-odd mph then I think I’d want to hear them coming up behind me
The front rim is a 35mm DH rim (but lightish) so it makes the tyre profile flatter/ better for cornering at speed – (no rolling over the side) It’s also tubeless.
Rear Rim is much more XC – narrower for less contact pitch = more speed! – And built with Rev Race spokes. Front hub ProII / rear XTR.
I remember speaking to a Ti bike designer – and he told be that every season his riders came back asking for more & more stiffness in the rear of the bike (Pros put out a lot of power) – so he had to BEEF up the bike – adding qute a bit to the weight.
*Edit ^ It was actually the Qoroz designer – as pictured above!
IIRC – Chris Chance of Fat Chance fame, never wanted to build a Ti bike as he viewed it as too flexy and inferior to steel in bike frames
With the ultimate levers, you can completely unbolt the alu clamp section .. stretch it out a bit, slide that over the bars and into position – then squeeze tight & attach the rest of the lever..
If you ran V-brakes in CX, the mud would clog up around the pads (as they are so close to the rim) whereas Canti’s sit way out and don’t have that issue.
^ And as CX-racers run silly road wheels, they are apt to buckle – and the slightest wobble would drag against V brakes and slow you down.
You can get some major power out of Today’s Canti brakes .. the only downside is a tendency to ‘judder’.