american classic 420s are nice.
They seem to be the LBS favourite round here, not sure if its cause they are
a) good
b) good mark up
c) will sell to any shop
a few of the guys I train with use them but one of the guys also ran the LBS as well though. I’d heard they were fairly heavy although in comparison to what I don;t know.
american classic 420s are nice.
They seem to be the LBS favourite round here, not sure if its cause they are
a) good
b) good mark up
c) will sell to any shop
a few of the guys I train with use them but one of the guys also ran the LBS as well though. I’d heard they were fairly heavy although in comparison to what I don;t know.
i’ve ridden them before. i liked them. have some cat 1 friends that train and race on them.
you can usually find them for a good deal on ebay. that’s about all i know.
american classic 420s are nice.
They seem to be the LBS favourite round here, not sure if its cause they are
a) good
b) good mark up
c) will sell to any shop
a few of the guys I train with use them but one of the guys also ran the LBS as well though. I’d heard they were fairly heavy although in comparison to what I don;t know.
i’ve ridden them before. i liked them. have some cat 1 friends that train and race on them.
you can usually find them for a good deal on ebay. that’s about all i know.
One thing about the AC420 is that the brake track is REALLY narrow…it can be hard sometimes to get the pads lined up since there’s absolutely no room for error.
Oh…and for a relatively deep “V” rim, the sidewalls are actually concave. That’s always struck me as odd (and not so good, aerodynamically speaking)…
Rode 420's for a while, was not impressed. Quite narrow, the rim track seemed "soft", as in more likely to get chewed if anything got picked up on the surface. There was also something with the front hub where it made noise under lateral deflection (out of the saddle efforts). I let those wheels go with a bike I sold. Still have an AC front hub in another wheel, and it makes the same noise.
I've been riding for 30 years, and in the early years AC and Phil Wood were the American makers of superlative parts. Somewhere along the way it seems AC dropped off the quiality train. (also had an MTB wheelset where the rear hub had virtually no bearing sealing, and the freewheel quit working after a couple months. AC addressed this freewheel problem on their hubs with some replacement innards).