I recently bought a pair of 29er singlespeed wheels of here (velofrog) Mike Ruxton
His description and email response was fine, purchased the wheels, received them and they looked fine and in the condition as described, so was happy, i started to put the tyres on but could for the life of me get anywhere near with the front tyre, i tried various ones i had in my garage, different makes etc but couldn’t even get one side on, so i email mike asking him what tyres he used? which he replied quickly with he bought them of someone and the tyres were not fitted so he could vouch that they had ever been on so said keep trying, so i took the wheel and my various tyre’s to my LBS and for a couple of our he tried i tried with my tyre’s some he had, but non got anywhere near, although we did manage to get one side of one tyre just on, but no chance of the other side, then took 30 mins to get it of!!!
so i emailed Mike again telling him the issue to which he then replied it had had a 2.35 Nobby nic on, so i quizzed him saying why he said he hadn’t and now changed his mind to say he had, his response was he wasn’t happy with me calling him a lyer, so i emailed him asking for him to send me the tyre to see if it would go on, if it did i said i would drop the matter, anyway that was 2 week ago with no reply, i know its not a major issue but honesty is the key word here, im left with a wheel that i’m going to have to buy a new rim and re-spoke, costing me near £100 and he has just walked away.
So if any one knows him, give him a nudge or beware