[Closed] What would you do(wheel content)

Get a round one

Have set of lovely team green 24h 3 bolt rotor hubs and rims are shot 🙁

Option A- pacenti rims 26" £100 pair and £100 rebuild

Or buy these

http://www.superstarcomponents.com/en/clearance-alexrims-supercomp-wheelset.htm

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Hi mate have a wee conundrum

It's perfectly natural at your age.

😆 my keyboard skillz are mince !!

I'd roll with it.

Bet this thread will just keep going round and round in circles.

I'll never tire of it.....?

You spoke too soon.

How are your nipples?

If your hubs and rims are shot then just throw them away 🙂

Hubs are in good shape and bit rare 🙂

I'm leaning towards rebuild but the ss ones look ok and 32h so maybe easier to live with 🙂

£100 rebuild

or read this and save yourself 100 notes and learn a worthwhile, rewarding skill.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html

built my first wheel following his guide BITD when it was a new website, recently built t'other half a set of CX race wheels for Xmas (who said romance is dead).

Get them rebuilt, you'll have a nice sense of satisfaction every time you look at them. If you buy the Superstar set, you'll just look at them with a sense of disappointment and loss thinking what could've been.

Buy identical rims or rims with the same ERD and just swap rims over using same spokes. Get your local wbeelbuilder to finish them off if needs be.

If it were me I'd look to pick up a nice set of second hand hope wheels for 150-180 in 32 or 28 hole. Granted I am a bigger guy but 24 spokes is not a lot for a mountain bike wheel build and it will really limit your choice of rims.

With road disks becoming more common you may find there is a market there for the lighter weight hubs.

Actually, as crashtestmonkey/ctk says. If you can get identical rims and the spokes aren't shot then just do a rim swap and rebuild. It's the easiest way into wheel building, not nearly as difficult as you imagine if you have patience and a worthwhile skill

oh, and try the front wheel first

Thanks guys a few nipples are rounded(oh matron) and I was led to believe reusing spokes is recipe for trouble ?

£100 build includes new spokes(dt Swiss db)

I'm only 67kgs so less likely to tango the rims 🙁

The only rims I have found in 24h 26" are stans £67 each or pacenti cl25 £50 each ..

I have re-used spokes, the only real concern I'd have in re-using in a completely new build would be re-lacing them in such a way as the crosses intersect spokes in a different place.

If you can find a rim with the same erd then swap spoke by spoke over with new nipples then I don't see there being any issue re-using spokes.

What stans rims is it that you have found, I have a pair of pacenti cl25 rims on my bike and find them a little narrow for my taste running specialise purgatory 2.3 tyres.

I too have re used spokes,

the only real concern I'd have in re-using in a completely new build would be re-lacing them in such a way as the crosses intersect spokes in a different place.

24h is not a lot of spokes, 67kg or not.

Give it a go if you like

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Thanks guys I'm favoring rebuild at the moment the stans are crests ..

Sent you an email mike likely need to spend too much as I'd need to source 180/160 centrelock rotors and at conversion for front hub 🙁

Am I missing something here. Your hubs and rims are shot and you need some new nipples as well?.... so what you have is 48 spokes.... If I was given free spokes I could not be tempted to try and build a wheel around them (I do most work on my bikes but wheels...not for me, can't do the maths). Cut your losses and save a load of hassle and just get a new set of wheels imo
But if you have more patience than me then give the building a go as you will get that great 'look what I did' feeling.

Maybe I worded my first post wrong ..

Hubs are in lovely condition and run smooth also they are the quite rare team green ones and look the biz 🙂

Cheers

Ah. Just saw that so edit my post above accordingly. 😳

+1 ctk: I've done rim swaps by taping new to old and moving spokes across when I've had a flat spotted/dented rim, and you're only doing the last half of a wheel build.

Nothing wrong with reusing spokes either.