Reuben.Sandwich profile

I had 5 King hubs in my fleet just before selling my old bike a few years back. I borrowed my buddy's king tool and gave them all a birthday. What a waste of time! One set was from 2001 and had seen AM duties mostly one set on my DH bike dates to 2008 and the lonely rear hub was a second hand DH from a young guy on the Australian Junior DH team. It had sure seen some mileage and wasn't as nice inside but boy was it still smooth! I could rebuild hubs all day long with that thing. It's just an absolute pleasure to use!

I'm running Project 321's on my Slayer now (love them!) and occasionally miss the angry bee but i love the almost -silence just as much.

More so frames than parts for me.

Kawasaki green Santa Cruz V10.3 Still the best looking DH frame ever made.

Occasionally I regret selling my Banshee Sirocco because it was cool AND had 4 pot XT brakes with stainless braided hoses and an Aireal rear hub. Aireal was a small brand here in Australia that produced some sweet hubs and ok chainguides but went bust after a few years.

Both GT LTS I've owned- a '98 3000ds and a 96 DH "boomerang" 

BTW Andrew, I still have the Chromag direct mount stem you sold me in 2010. It's now on an autographed Syndicate V10.4 that enjoys a wonderful retirement in my bike room. That bike is never leaving me!!

In Australia we call them a see-saw. Remove all your teeter totters and "replace" them with see saws that are signposted as such. That should stall the red tape brigade for another 20 years. Problem solved!

But seriously, Ladies will never be the same without it.

I'd be interested to see if would weep out through the side walls of an older maxxis like Stans does. I'm on my 3rd rear tyre and yet the front is still original 18 months later with plenty of tread. Any sealant ends up on the garage floor via osmosis.

My first job was building bikes for five bucks a pop cash in hand at Christmas time in the mid 90's. A buddy I met then said to me many years later "there's always work in a bike shop". Both he and I have fallen back on that a few times over the years... He is a bike rep, I'm an industrial electrician but we both see it as as fun sojourn between jobs/careers/relationships/countries. When I moved to 604 only to discover my Australian qualifications were not so useful, the LBS was the obvious choice. The pay sucked but the people are the pay off. Sure, there will always be a-holes to deal with but 99% of people in a good LBS (staff and customers...) are just stoked to be there!