any advice on what wheels to get for a decade tripster? need to be 700c disc going to be used for light touring, maybe a bit of cyclo cross.

Have been going round in circles trying to make my mind up!

i got some built for my pompetamine with XT hub (on front – got a WTB single speed on back) and Mavic A317 rims. solid all round.

I had the same issue with a disc cx bike i’ve just built, i ended up having them built by Hewitts, Mavic Open Pro on Hope disc hubs.

They did an excellent job, lovely wheels.

I use Open Pros on XTR hubs. I usually go for Hope hubs but really didn’t want the clickiness on a road bike.

Like Flip, I’ve had Mavic Open Pro Disc rims, laced to Hope hubs.

I’m placing these in a resprayed Planet X Uncle John.
I’m also using a Boardman carbon disc fork.

cheers for the responses guys.

seems like the open pros are really popular.

flatboy how do you find the mavic A317? I’ve been looking at the mavic tn317
has anyone else used these rims?

they seem to be basically the same as the XC717s I’ve got on my other bikes apart from the diameter. They’ve been great so far, have been on the pomp for 1.5 years with all sorts of heavy cargo being transported and have had no problems with them.

cheers theflatboy i think thats what im going to go for!

I run Hope Hoops – Pro2 Evo hubs on Stans Crest 29er rims – with Conti GP4Season tyres (28mm).

Crest 29er rims are light – 380g I think, so quite a bit lighter than OPs and Hope hoops are good value for what you get – £108ish for the front £180ish for the rear.

Just a shame there aren’t any tubeless 28mm road tyres.

no probs. post pics. 🙂

I was pondering this a while back, see here:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-29erroad-disc-wheels

I’ve gone for chris king hubs on mavin a719s. I will be able to do a fairly comprehensive review on them in 6 months, but they seem strong. I was going to go for the tn719s but decided on the a719.

What I found out when I was getting some wheels built last year is that 700cc and 29er are the same size so you can use either rims. I went for Hope hubs on Sun rims

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I’m also using a Boardman carbon disc fork.

Can those Boardman forks be bought separately?

cotic stock wheels are pretty good for the price

what do people think of these ?

good buy or is Dave hinde to much of a risk?