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  • single speed rear wheel advice needed please.
  • eddiebaby
    Free Member

    I’ve just bought aCannondale BadBoy SS. Love the bike as it is such fun to ride but the rear wheel is bent beyond truing with spoke tension. I thought I’d go for rebuild but was quoted ( a no doubt reasonable) £72 using the current hub and rim.
    Would I be able to get a completed rear wheel for not too much more? 700c/29er sized.
    Advice appreciated and where do youlotbuy your SS bits from?

    djflexure
    Full Member

    I think I pay 45 for wheel build supplying hub and rim (so spokes are supplied by shop).

    I would have thought that if it could not be trued then a new rim might be on the cards.

    Shop around? Second opinion?

    frood
    Free Member

    I’d agree with that – if it can’t be trued it shouldn’t cost more than about £40-50 – that’s if they’re supplying spokes and you’re supplying everything else. If it really can’t be trued, then chances are the rim is bent and it needs a new one

    takisawa2
    Full Member

    Why you’ve happened upon an ideal chance to build your own wheel for the first time.
    Seriously.
    Have a go.
    If its that bent I’d have a new rim to go on though.
    Mavics TN317 is cheap & builds in to a decent wheel.

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