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Oh, I could be mistaken then. I thought the Alfine was about £40 from the likes of Rose and the SP was more like £80-100?

I bought my Alfine built in a wheel from a German ebayer for about £90 I think.

+1 for alfine. 6300km (4000km touring - so loaded & stored outdoors every night) on mine and it's still absolutely fine.

Alfine do a dynamo? I have an Alfine 8-speed on the back of this bike and it's been good. Don't love it though: rear punctures are a nightmare.

Amey, that is a Christmas tree. A live one. Don't ask.

I have a DH-3N31 on my commuter/town bike and its good as gold. They're like 20 quid too.

I really need this rack. Does anyone know if SimWorks ship to the UK? Their stuff with Nitto is great...

Simworks ships globally, ordered the simworks homage tyres a few months ago. Cost me a lot of shipping and import charges though...

Thanks all for dynamo advice. Feels like the way forward, because a new non-dynamo hub is basically going to be the same price...

What's a nice tubeless-ready rim to build them on? Silver.

26 or 29?

If you find a stockist in California I can post it over to you in a couple of weeks...

get me paul racer mediums and name your beers :P

700c

So 29ers.

I have to say, both the term "700c" and "29er" make no sense at all. I'm sticking with 622, although most people don't get it.

But you could go for some velocity rims: http://www.velocityusa.com/product/rims/aileron-622
or just take the Pacenti SL25's, put em in some oven cleaner and polish em..

I have to say, both the term "700c" and "29er" make no sense at all.

The reason why is because the outer diameter of the MTB tyres is close to 29" hence the term.

Plus MTB is in inches, road in mm.

Well that's up for debate, let's say your standard MTB tyre has a 2" diameter. Your bead seat diameter is 24,4" adding up to 28,4" total. That's closer to 28".. But you could say most MTB tyres are getting bigger than 2" so you would end up with something closer to 29".

Then you get to the part, where do you start using inches as tyre sizes? I've got some 43mm tyres. Are they road? Maybe tires bigger than 2" should start using inch sizes, so now 1.85" doesn't count as 29?

And this discussion started with rim sizes.. the rims are 24,4", calling it a 29" just seems kind of wrong.. That's like saying your thru axles are 29"...

Sorry for this horrible monologue

ISO ftw

Agreed

Why have you corrected me when I said 700c, Ed? I run 700c wheels in a frame designed for 700c, and 700x35 tyres.

Although I do have a 29er. With tyres wider than my Vespa.

Think ed means that youre better off looking for 29er rims, rather than 700c rims, because they'll be wider and lighter as theyre more MTB orientated

Gotcha. But I stand by any criticism of Ed I've made, unfounded or otherwise.

;)

Cause 700c and 29ers are basically the same.

29ers are usually disc brakes, which apply in your circumstance.

The crossover between 700c and 29er is theoretically handy, but in practice I've found it a right arseache. I internet window-shopped for some disc rims a while ago and had to wade through dozens of 29er options that were either massively overbuilt enduro rims or lightweight but only rated to like 50psi. I guess if I wasn't such an antisocial bugger I could have just gone to a shop and asked though.

@Sparky silver rims from Velocity

Blunt SS

Aileron

NoBS

Atlas

Cliffhanger

Dyad

Quill

Or if you want to do it cheap:
https://www.cnc-bike.de/product_info.php?products_id=7250

Quite a few options from Ryde/Rigida.