Hello Nathan.
When are you hoping to close off the order by?
Right, i need to check a few minor details with the Rubber specialist, but i'm hoping to get the mould ordered and the invoice paid for that by the end of this week. Mould production could take up to 4 weeks to produce samples that i am happy with. So i'm happy to take orders up to the point i i place the order for the bulk of the rubbers to be produced, which gives up to another 4 weeks.
Once we have agreed the samples are good, it's then around another 2 weeks to get the rubbers produced.
Now to check the samples are good, i could do with meeting up with someone that has a really low mileage rear hub, so we can try them for fit. My own bike has significant wear in the rear hub, and while the replacement rubbers might not be an issue for me, others with better condition hubs might have a problem.
So if any of you are between Southampton and Oxford, and have a XCountry or XChallenge rear wheel in good nick, and you don't mind me whipping it out of the bike to check to new samples, i would really appreciate it. I'll even put your bike back together once finished
I'll try to get the timings that the rubber company have provided reduced, so there isn't so much of a lead time required, but i would rather have these right than rushed.
I'll keep you all posted, and thank you all for sticking with this!