We had a Racing Zero festival, but
everything is now sold out. Thank you for your purchases.
If we get another opportunity, we'll consider ordering larger quantities. We apologize.
Both front and rear wheels had perfect center alignment with just the slightest runout, which we corrected.
The Colima saddle I wrote about the other day also sold out about three days after that post.
Even the last one we had with the wholesaler somehow sold,
(it hadn't moved in inventory for at least two years, which is pretty mysterious),
so if Colima headquarters doesn't have stock, it's likely discontinued.
Totally unrelated addendum
DT's #14 12mm length aluminum silver nipples—your standard aluminum nipples—arrived in 91 boxes (retail price before tax: ¥218,400).
The #14 silver aluminum nipples were out of stock at the wholesaler,
with a restocking date planned for late September, but
when I checked the wholesaler's ordering site recently, they had inventory, so I ordered 100 boxes.
Turns out they only had 91 boxes, so it looks like I ended up buying out their entire stock.
Sorry about that!
Addendum to the addendum
I received a comment about the "drag" feeling of the term "retail price."
In our industry, we call DT's boxed nipples "shirobaako" (white boxes),
and silver nipples "esu" (S).
Actually, that's a lie.
I happened to photograph a section that showed this,
but you can see the checkered pattern on these boxes, right?
There are two types of shirobaako boxes: those with white lining inside and those with cardboard backing.
The outer surface of the latter is also slightly more grayish.
The ones that are white both inside and out are the older version, and both types are mixed in this shipment,
but it's likely that eventually they'll transition entirely to the cardboard version.
As for the capacity of DT's shirobaako boxes, the 100-count box is only about half full,
so I pack them down to the rim with compression.
From what I can tell, you could fit about two boxes worth into one and still have a bit of room,
so I compressed 91 boxes down to 51.5 boxes.
What's shown in the image is 50 boxes, with about 1.5 boxes in the area outside the frame,
which I poured into a fixture for organizing nipples.
So 91 boxes → 51.5 boxes means
each shirobaako box holds about 177 nipples.
If you shake them carefully and pack them thoughtfully, you could fit a bit more,
and of course, longer nipples than 12mm would fit fewer per box.
The leftover boxes are also useful.
DT's Squorx nipples (commonly called "squ," with the black ones called "kuro-squ") come
not in boxes but in bags of 20 pieces, so
converting them into shirobaako boxes
makes inventory management and piece counting much more convenient.
everything is now sold out. Thank you for your purchases.
If we get another opportunity, we'll consider ordering larger quantities. We apologize.
Both front and rear wheels had perfect center alignment with just the slightest runout, which we corrected.
The Colima saddle I wrote about the other day also sold out about three days after that post.
Even the last one we had with the wholesaler somehow sold,
(it hadn't moved in inventory for at least two years, which is pretty mysterious),
so if Colima headquarters doesn't have stock, it's likely discontinued.
Totally unrelated addendum
DT's #14 12mm length aluminum silver nipples—your standard aluminum nipples—arrived in 91 boxes (retail price before tax: ¥218,400).
The #14 silver aluminum nipples were out of stock at the wholesaler,
with a restocking date planned for late September, but
when I checked the wholesaler's ordering site recently, they had inventory, so I ordered 100 boxes.
Turns out they only had 91 boxes, so it looks like I ended up buying out their entire stock.
Sorry about that!
Addendum to the addendum
I received a comment about the "drag" feeling of the term "retail price."
In our industry, we call DT's boxed nipples "shirobaako" (white boxes),
and silver nipples "esu" (S).
Actually, that's a lie.
I happened to photograph a section that showed this,
but you can see the checkered pattern on these boxes, right?
There are two types of shirobaako boxes: those with white lining inside and those with cardboard backing.
The outer surface of the latter is also slightly more grayish.
The ones that are white both inside and out are the older version, and both types are mixed in this shipment,
but it's likely that eventually they'll transition entirely to the cardboard version.
As for the capacity of DT's shirobaako boxes, the 100-count box is only about half full,
so I pack them down to the rim with compression.
From what I can tell, you could fit about two boxes worth into one and still have a bit of room,
so I compressed 91 boxes down to 51.5 boxes.
What's shown in the image is 50 boxes, with about 1.5 boxes in the area outside the frame,
which I poured into a fixture for organizing nipples.
So 91 boxes → 51.5 boxes means
each shirobaako box holds about 177 nipples.
If you shake them carefully and pack them thoughtfully, you could fit a bit more,
and of course, longer nipples than 12mm would fit fewer per box.
The leftover boxes are also useful.
DT's Squorx nipples (commonly called "squ," with the black ones called "kuro-squ") come
not in boxes but in bags of 20 pieces, so
converting them into shirobaako boxes
makes inventory management and piece counting much more convenient.