{"id":2674,"date":"2011-09-25T01:05:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T08:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2012-06-03T20:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T03:19:39","slug":"gilles-vcr38gt-rearsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2011\/09\/gilles-vcr38gt-rearsets\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilles VCR38GT Rearsets"},"content":{"rendered":"

So why did I swap out my perfectly functional Woodcraft rearsets<\/a>? Long story short, I caved in and was won over by the exquisitely machined, German-made, and highly detailed Gilles VCR38GT’s. Since I’ve always fancied having gold rearsets, I took extended measures to obtain these Gilles in all-gold. This meant waiting over a month to have them imported. Yeah, I’m weird. <\/p>\n

Function wise, the Woodcraft rearsets score high marks. However, sometimes you need to step up the Form half of the equation as well. Up-close, it’s easy to see the craftsmanship in Gilles parts. <\/p>\n

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On the bike:<\/p>\n

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In other news, I also mounted back the wheels with freshly wrapped Dunlop Q2’s. A step down from the D211 DOT Race tires I had on before, but I reasoned that the Q2s will be more than sufficient. I also went back to the stock sizing of 180\/55 in the rear. I’m eager to see what the handling and flickability is like now versus the taller, heavier 190\/55’s. <\/p>\n

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So why did I swap out my perfectly functional Woodcraft rearsets? Long story short, I caved in and was won over by the exquisitely machined, German-made, and highly detailed Gilles VCR38GT’s. Since I’ve always fancied having gold rearsets, I took extended measures to obtain these Gilles in all-gold. This meant waiting over a month to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}