Thank you. It will be a sad day (for me) when it arrives that I can write about mountain biking in Vancouver and Rod Kirkham's name, shop, and bike brand won't come up. I'm not really nostalgic for a lot of the way shops were back then (I think in many aspects when it comes to the customer experience shops are better now) but there was still something special about Mountain & Beach, Cap's ProWorks, Cove Bikes, and etc. Then there was the sea of orange and green Santa Cruz Hecklers, Bullits, and Chameleon's hanging from the ceiling in Kim Steed's shop, or talking to Dan Sed at OnTop about custom metal over a beer while he laced a wheel or pressed a King headset in.
It's funny, I really hadn't considered swapping shells/axles to move my drive systems over to current frame standards. The right price on a used King hub with good guts, an axle, and a hubshell may be the least expensive way to get into an amazing Boost or Super Boost hub.
Cheers!
March 14, 2020, 5:01 p.m. - Andrew Major
Thank you. It will be a sad day (for me) when it arrives that I can write about mountain biking in Vancouver and Rod Kirkham's name, shop, and bike brand won't come up. I'm not really nostalgic for a lot of the way shops were back then (I think in many aspects when it comes to the customer experience shops are better now) but there was still something special about Mountain & Beach, Cap's ProWorks, Cove Bikes, and etc. Then there was the sea of orange and green Santa Cruz Hecklers, Bullits, and Chameleon's hanging from the ceiling in Kim Steed's shop, or talking to Dan Sed at OnTop about custom metal over a beer while he laced a wheel or pressed a King headset in. It's funny, I really hadn't considered swapping shells/axles to move my drive systems over to current frame standards. The right price on a used King hub with good guts, an axle, and a hubshell may be the least expensive way to get into an amazing Boost or Super Boost hub. Cheers!