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Old School BMX 1980 - 1988 => Old School Race (riders ready, pedals ready... GO!!) => Topic started by: FuNMoNsTeR on June 09, 2006, 04:18 PM
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I am in the process of buying a GT speed series with Spin wheels. Are these wheels any good for racing? ???
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they are heavy, sound terrible.. ....look cool though
i used to have a set on my mountain bike..
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the 20" ones are nice, i sold a set to one of the guys at work to go on the GT powerbox bike i also sold him :daumenhoch:
so far they seem pretty light, pretty stiff & they roll very well on a decent set of precision bearings, they are bolted in from the side as they run quite a thick alloy axle, apparently the shape is very aerodynamic too ( apparently ::) ) he's well happy with them & they look real nice on the bike :coolsmiley:
the new price of them back in about 95/96 was about £300 a wheel :shocked:
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just remembered, they also made these in fibreglass as well!
the long strand carbon fibre & the fibreglass whels look almost identical too :shocked:
if they still have the stickers on the carbon ones will say CR150 (for carbon 1.5" wide) or CR175
the fibreglass will say FR150 or FR175, blue stickers for carbon & green for fibre ;)
if they are not stickerd up though it will be hard to tell, but both are good, its just nice to think you have the carbon ones :)