Fiftyone,
hahaha...the "original" thread starter is ere! where u had been la?

Lol, akchang back dy? Lol. How's the missus' bike?

me0,
yeah la....veri near by my house in kiara...bout 7 min to my place sec17...

missus bike? u meant my wife bike..yeah it good...got to changed the headset to "crane creek" n some other misc stuff..

Crane creeek? Sounds like the brand of my hubs! lo

hehehe. ure back.

Hi Guys n Gurus! Newbie here from Penang.

Just transfered to the island and had bought myself a Piranha for cycling to work (about 5km one way). Nothing fancy, newbie...

Have just started reading the treads on V2 , still long way to go before I can cover the whole V2.

Cheeres.

Lol, most of the post are bantters!

Hi! Velcome!

Anyway, if ya wanna to ask any question u can just feel free to ask ere...we will try our best to answer it ...hehehe..

no need to waste ya time reading v2 and v1. just ask ur question in v3. we'll answer ur qs. no one here bites.

love to! when and where do you guys usually ride?
suddenly get itchy about upgrading my bike's kit. what shall i get? new brakes? still on a pair of LX V brakes. Should i get discs coz my hubs are disc compatible but the rims are for v brakes. are Disc wheelsets lighter? or should i just get my LBS to build me a wheelset around my old hubs?
any thoughts?

For example me0 n his friends n I went up to Kiara last weekend (Awesome!) Finally get an eye of me0wster "Blue NRS" ..but there;s FRIM also..it depends la..

LX V brakes ok wut..but if u want to invest into disc brake, n ur hub supports disc brake u dun need to change ur wheelset la..unless u got extra $$$ to spend on the wheelset ... if u buy those expensive wheelset it should be very much lighter. depends on ur budget, wheelset hardly breaks even it;'s an old one. depend on how u ride also if u r a person like to drop very much, sure the wheelset someday will become potato chip..but if u ride casual XC goin over some bumps it should last longer.

This post has been edited by akchang: Jun 11 2007, 12:55 PM

Thanx guys. Anyway, I'm not into serious MTBking just yet. Currently just using my bike as a city road ride.

Had change to a slick tube and put up cateye lamps and cateye velo8. Tha't all I think I need for the moment. (reading thru the old threads might give me more ideas)

I'm loving it! Cycling to work again! Used to cycling to almost everywhere many many yrs ago.

PalmoAnest,
What bike r u riding la? Giant?Nexus?KHS?PolyGon? etc....

When I was a kid, i used to ride alot but after that stop around 12years only last year just picking up my riding...

Guyz,
How much is the HOPE Hub XC version ar? For disc one...?

This post has been edited by akchang: Jun 12 2007, 12:30 PM

emm. is there such thing as XC ver? dont know lah. but as far as i know, those hope hubs can be use as XC and it's durabality is as tough as those FR hubs. they cost ya rm1000.

This post has been edited by ober: Jun 12 2007, 03:13 PM

hmmphh... erkkkk... RM1K for hubs? wah lau wieh... And I tot DT Swiss hubs for RM250 is expensive...

Got wor...see the link below...cause i saw this in singapore last 2 months ago and he offered me SGD300 for rear n front (32holes) disc. i didn't know how much is the price then so didn't took the opportunity till found out recently. RM1200 ...i was cursing myself i didn't took the offer. Anyway i contacted my cousin over there in singapore to get it for me n hopefully it has not been sold yet...

http://www.hopetechusa.com/voir_FH6XC32H.html

This post has been edited by akchang: Jun 12 2007, 03:27 PM

Wah lau weih... Sure shiook one... nice looking too and oso very light...
Goin down to s'pore end of the month for the great s'pore sale... Bicycle stuff overthere on sale as well meh? got any good shop in s'pore?

mushr00m,
there are a lot of bicycle shop in singapore...really alot...u can always goto "togoparts.com" and look for the link "bikeshops". It will list down about 107 shops with address. i thnk that list is much bigger then klang valley bike shop.. hahaha.. or u can follow this link "http://www.togoparts.com/bikeshops/list_shops.php".

their shop are quite professional, alot of the shops are aircon and sells great product (newest product) which u can't find here.

This post has been edited by akchang: Jun 12 2007, 04:52 PM

But the thing is can you afford to go down to S'pore just to get some parts for the bicycle? Lol

me0,
well if ya so happens to go there for a purposes then is ok.. can go side track to bike shop