I'm in the market for some replacement wheels, after a combination of yesterday's slop and a shoddy mechanic building my bike back up (possibly, but that's another story) caused the freehub to disintigrate. Being a Fancy Dan niche thing it uses proprietary bits that don't appear to be replaceable. 28 spoke hub/rim combo as well. If I want to re-use the rim, I'm looking at £150 for a 28-hole Evo2 hub, and then spokes and wheel building on top of that. I can get a whole new wheelset for less than that. One that uses off-the-shelf-and-replaceable parts too.
It's for a lightweight XC bike. The original wheelset weighs about 1450g, so I'm trying to avoid sticking some 2kg+ wheels on there if possible. Is the Switch SP XCR Wheelset any good? Are Superstar themselves any good? Any other alternatives about? Or if anyone has a decent, serviceable 28-hole rear hub in the parts bin I could be very interested.
Variable build quality so it's best if you can trim up the wheel yourself on delivery.
I think the Switch hubs seems to be the best as I think they are novatech hubs. The Tesla hubs seem to be problematic.
almost 3 years on a set of XC430 rims on Slick hubs. Zero problems in all that time. Rims have never needed any attention and the hubs have been faultless.
My Crest on Switch evo are spot on and were built well.
Some people will have very different experiences though I would imagine.
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I've seen some that were absolutely spot on, and some that were... not. But the prices still make sense even if you view them as a potential wheel rather than a definite one, the price of a rebuild still leaves them as good value imo.
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