Gravel grinding/off road touring rim recommendation?

Posted on Tue 7th, February 2017

• #1

Garbles

Hi.

I'm going to be building a gravel/off road tourer and am after some advice about wheels. I'll probably be using a Brother Kepler frame with mini V brakes. I'd like to be able to run both 42mm and 28mm tyres on the wheelset. Are there any wheel sets that are good for this range of tyre?

Thanks,

Tom.
• #2

Garbles

I'm looking at H plus son Archetype or maybe some of the Mavic touring rims?
• #3

Johnnyw75

650B or 700? Seen a lot of 650Bs going on bikes these days which means you could fit bigger tyres on your bike depending on what frame you're getting... a more comfy ride off road but a bit more of a slog on road... depends on where you're going to use it the most.
• #4

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TK540. No messin.
• #5

Garbles

Thanks for the replies. They'll need to be 700c as I'll be doing road riding too and changing the tyres to 28mm. Just looked at the TK540 and they look good. Anything else?

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