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Glen Fairfield
US
Review
Review of Priority Bicycles
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Glen Fairfield
US
Oct 26, 2022
Great bike but wheels could be improved
The more I ride my Apollo, the more I am really enjoying riding gravel and love the bike more and more. The smoothness of the Gates carbon drive and internal hub shifting is amazing. I am finding myself riding many routes in Oregon with several segments over 10% grades. With such, I have ordered a 46T cog for the front.
The only reason I’m deducting 1 star is in the wheel build quality. I had read a few reviews with some spoke issues on some bikes. When I received my bike the spokes were unevenly tightened. I had planned on this and had my local bike builder friend take the wheels to tighten and true them up. In his work on the wheels he discovered the machine building the wheels had stripped the screw slot on every single nipple on the wheels. He was able to get the spokes tightened and wheels better in true. He was surprised to see a bit of hop in both wheels too and expressed to me this shouldn’t happen with a good machine built wheel. He did have to replace one of the nipples in his work and got the wheels in decent shape. He suggested Priority may want to review quality control of their wheel supplier.
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Date of experiance: Oct 26, 2022