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August 1, 2011 at 19:44
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LBS told me that I was tightening the nut on the outside of the presta valve too much, my rims are double walled and I was pulling the tube into the rim by tightening it too much. They also found that i’d broken my axle in two places, accounting for the wobbly feeling in my front tire…