I'd ride the setup you have now until the bearings failed or it took a lot of maintenance to true. But I'm notoriously cheap. Iro Cycles (down for maintenance right now) had super cheap track hubs, rims and spokes for a while. Formula/Velocity, I think. The rims build up easily, and have been solid for me. Someone on this list has a freewheel hub they can sell you for $5-$20. Fixie wheelsets are $100-$150 on eBay. You can (probably) just spin a freewheel on there.
Philip biketinker.com On Monday, August 6, 2012 10:19:49 AM UTC-7, rex wrote: > > hi everyone > im looking for a rear hub to be made into a wheel for my quickbeam. i am > currently running it as a 5sp freewheel with clamp on derailer via a cheap > 126mm wheel sourced from my lbs. we "respaced" it to about 122mm with > slimmer nuts and it works quite well. im convinced i want to keep it this > way. so now i want to have a nicer wheel built up to be permanent. the > trouble is the paul or phil hubs that fit my needs are about $190. i was > hoping to get the whole wheel for around that. > any thoughts as to an alternative hub or do any of you out there have a > 120mm 5 speed freewheel hub youd sell? > i have seen a freewheel hub branded quando in 126mm. they have sealed > bearings and sell for around $30. the guy at the lbs said i could change > out the freewheel spacer to a 5sp one from a 6sp one and grind of 3mm on > each side of the axle and id be right there. it would work out ok too since > id have that done before the wheel was built to get the dish right easier. > a wheel with that hub and a sun cr18 rim @36 spokes works out to be about > $150. that dosent sound too bad to me for a hand built wheel. any thoughts > as to the positive/negative ramifications of doing this? > thanks for your time > joe kelly > columbus ohio > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/XAemRzWK-L4J. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
