Or if the sides crack. Or if the tolerance is off and it slips.
I’ve been using them for 15-20 years, and the only issue I’ve ever had was around 2008 when an X2 faceplate on a cross bike started to crack. Flawed design, needed to go, cool. Used X4 stems and Elite seatposts ever since then, and it’s fine.
I keep waiting for problems to occur, but they don’t. Not saying there aren’t issues, but I’m not jumping at the chance to buy other stuff.
I’m pretty sure @BicyclePears has did this before he turned it into his polo bike then kinda ruined the fork by not clamping the drop outs correctly on a drive from DC to Richmond.
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I think I made all my cockpits mostly where they need to be today
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Mine was a polo bike for a bit too. Fixed is not ideal.
Got the Sundeal up and running. Pushing the bounds but Altus m310 works fairly decently with a 41t big cog.
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Unboxed the new wheels swapped out the free hub, took rotors, valves, and cassette off old wheels and got them on the new ones… Started fighting the tires and cush core on them, but didn’t have the energy to see it through especially the double casing on the rear.
Started playing with the set of carbon wheels that I found outside of the drug house a while ago… And I’m not sure they’re worth the effort. On the front hub, they hammered some old rusty steel quick release ends into the through axle end caps and I think they are bound up in the hubs axle. I’m just not sure I e enough to hacksaw through an endcap and axle to get it all off.
Harvest the rims?
I couldn’t stay away from this dumb thing. I put the Salsa 29er fork on it and now it rides fricken sw8.
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Swapped out the Oxford bars for some wide Jones bend bars on the winter bike. Felt good on the test ride, hopefully will feel good on tomorrow’s commute. 90mm of spacers under the stem, a new record for me. The bike is giving me r/xbiking vibes now.
HFY: got the tires the rest of the way seated, bled the brakes, and put everything on… doesn’t even need a dangler tune. FGM. New wheels with heavy ass tires and Cush core are lighter than old wheels with no Cush core and light casing jawns on there.
Also, buddy recognized the janky QR things as a threaded shimano axel and got them out of the crackhouse wheels which are now good to go into the endpoint.
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HY these were great, might need to embiggen the spacer stack a bit more tho. Gonna investigate some of the mtb handguards to use with them as a wind break for cold temps in case winter actually shows up this year. The thought of using bar mitts or anything like that gives me anxious feels.
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I built up yet another rear wheel for my bakfiets. Hopefully this one lasts more than a year.
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What’s killing your rear wheels?
In this instance it was galvanic corrosion between the aluminum of the rim and the stainless steel of the eyelets that weakened the alloy and the spokes pulled through.
The wheel I just built has no eyelets so hopefully that helps.
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So, as you know, I have five bikes, and I needed new brakes for my fatbike… aaaaaaaand I’m now the proud owner of four bikes.
That failed front brake was the catalyst. I was sick of pouring money into a bike I only rode a few weeks a year, saw the sunk cost fallacy for what it was, said ‘screw this’ and parted the fucker out.
I cleaned out half my storage in the process - Mukluk frameset, both Nextie carbon wheelsets, cranks - hell, even the rotors - all gone. The rest is going for sale today. Proceeds are funding replacement rims and spokes for Snowaguchi, then savings.
There’s probably an ‘Off Topic’ post buried in there about aspirational possessions, and the psychological burden of having them and not using them, but that’s for another day. 
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I’m not sure when I’ll ever be seriously ready to have that discussion.
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i felt this in my soul.
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just make some more aspirational purchases to feel better about it
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that hit me right in the pocket operators
