The Easton/Velomax Circuit wheels (h/t to the internet bc I couldn't remember the model) that were my first 'race wheels' had straight pull spokes with regular nipples at the rim, but the spokes were screwed into the hub as you can maybe see in the picture below. The year was 2007, it was my first year of racing, and a fellow racer had done me the kind service of putting his front wheel into my derailleur and causing all sorts of mess in my rear wheel. I built my first wheel because of straight pull hubs. We've done a year's worth of posts since 3/17 and, well, it's fun but it's not that easy. So, thanks for reading, and we hope that this is all over and we can go back to normal life and blogging schedule soon.

Some of you have been here since the start, while more and more don't know that we've been internet jackasses for a decade now. Which made us realize that we're really poorly calibrated to that aspect of our audience. Our blog traffic is every day now like it's only been when we've done wind tunnel tests or other big news stuff in the past, and mostly the biggest responses have been the 'our history' kind of posts. We were sure we didn't want it to be like the (major online cycling retailer redacted) emails I get every morning with 30% off Castelli! Buy Now Now NOW!!! (I assume many of you get them, too), but beyond just sort of throwing something entertaining and maybe informative/thought provoking/whatever, no, there was no grand plan. People had a strong response to that frame business post! When we started this 'people are bored and in need of a cycling fix so we'll just blog every day' thing, we didn't have any plan for it.

Onyx classic hub