Velocity Road Hubs
After riding Campagnolo Chorus and Record hubs for the past few years and with the install of the Campag 2008 Record Group Set I decided to go for a new set of wheels. Mavic CPX33 rims, DT spokes and went with the Velocity Road Hubs. Getting me away from my traditional Campagnolo was no easy task for my bike shop. As they are to be training wheel I figured that is was worth a shot.
I am impressed with all but one aspect of the hubs. The roll and weight of these hubs are great along with their Cartridge Sealed 6900RS bearings they are well priced and are performing better than I expected, even to the point that I’m leaning more towards them than my Campag Hub… yes I said it. The only negative to date has been the rear skew requires and obscene amount of tension to keep is locked onto the frame.
Manufacturing: 8/10
Ride Quality: 9/10
Overall: 8.5/10
Cyclings where too in 2008
Well the cycling silly season is up and running. People moving teams, manufacturers aliening themselves with different teams.
Riders on the Move (The ones that I know of)
Levi and Contador are off too Astana along with Chris Horner from Predictor – Lotto (now to be names “Silence – Lotto” in 2008). Omega Pharma wants to publicize a different product in 2008, Silence is an anti-snoring medicine.
Sneak a peak at the Silence - Lotto kit 2008
Yaroslav Popovych is heading from the former Discovery over to take Chris Horner’s spot as Lotto. Nice move but still leaves Cadel with not much help in the mountains.
Manufactures
Trek are now the manufacturer for Astana. Looks like Astana will be the team to watch with the former Discovery manager Johan Bruyneel’s taking everything he can across to Astana for 2008.