I’ve put together out of ebay scrapings and random spare parts a surprisingly decent XC bike… But at the moment it’s sharing wheels with my commuter and that’s just a pain in the balls,it’s fine for race days or whatever but I know from experience it’ll stop me using it day to day. So I was wondering about building or buying some light, cheap(ish), tubeless wheels for it… (29er btw). But I’ve run into a minor snag- I know ****-all about XC kit.
So any help much appreciated! Right now, the old Stryker XC Races I’m using are about 1550g so that’s kind of the target. And let’s say £350 absolute tops but I really don’t want to spend that much if I can avoid it. (so far I have spent £147 on this bike out of pocket, obviously the £500 worth of parts in the garage don’t count)
I like scrounging stuff together and I can build my own but tbh bikestacja has a 1505g set on Crests for £250, that’s hard to beat on value so I think the only way to beat that, is lighter. But it’s still hard.
So I’m thinking… Spokes, I’d default to lasers, I’ve used them in much heavier use wheels. Sound OK?
Rims… I can’t beat Stans Crest, they’re not cheap but I trust em and I can’t find anything cheaper that’s worth the tradeoff. Any other takers? Got to be “native tubeless” and not stupidly soft, this isn’t a raceday only bike. As much as I like my cheap carbonz it’s out of budget this time.
Hubs I have no clue, usually I default to DT240S but they’re out of budget unless I can find some more cheap used ones. I can do QR only but obviously futureproof is better… I see a fair few recommends for Circus Monkey but that’s all I’ve got and they don’t seem that light… Shimano freehub, for now.
Aaaand that’s it. Chances are you know more than me so, show off!