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Got a spare Novatec A171 if you want it for spares. Bought new from @cycleclinic, black with silver end caps. Built up (28h 2-cross) but changed mind on colour scheme so never actually ridden, £12 posted? PM if interested.

Last rims I ordered from them took 3 weeks to arrive but I am not usually in a rush to build wheels since I have 10+ ready to roll in the attic...

Halo White Line Classic - Specifications
Material: T-10 heat treated alloy
Drillings: 32H or 36H
Eyelets: Stainless Steel
ERD: 607mm
Colour: Silver or Black anodised
Dimensions: 24mm wide
Weight: 540g

KinLin ADHN - Specifications:
Rim Type Low profile clincher rim
Material Aluminium alloy
Rim Size 700c
Width 24mm
Depth 18mm
Drilling 32h/36h
Colour Polished Silver / Black
Weight 510g
ERD 605mm

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I hastily ordered one last night (for $18 and a long wait from China). But many thanks for the offer.

29x2.4" Well for me that is a 30mm internal width
the other 19mm internal width plus.

you can of course use narrower rims and you wont die it just the tyres wont perform at the best.

The ADHN has an ERD closer to 610mm. I have sold a few and built with a few. The ones I have built with have been disppointing. One pair was not that round and a spoke failed (I know I had to sit down) the wheels rebuilt with TB14's (expensive and I dont like that much but i like failures less).
another had a major defect in the bead hook which I noticed only after I had built the wheel. all of them I would describe as fiddley to build with . So I no longer sell them. It maybe there is a bad batch about that would account for the defects but not the fiddley nature of the rims. That is how they are i think.

Thanks. 35mm internals overkill do you think? I have clearance for a plus tyre on the bike, certainly at the fork.

How fiddly are they to build compared to another shonky rim: the DT R460?

I'm beginning to spec up a fixed surly steamroller build and want to lace some 650b tubeless ready rim brake rims to Phil hubs.

Options for rims seem to be a bit limited. Any recommendations?

Just buy those wheels from Vince?

Which ones?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/303696/?offset=25#comment14115926

Think he means these: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14172150/

As they're disk rims they wont do what you need though.

650b rim brake rims are hard to come by. Velocity do the A23 in machined side wall variant.

If you find something cheaper I'd also be interested as I've got a bike I've thought of converting with super long drop brakes, but the cost of the rims has always put me off.

I have actually bought a new frameset just to use those wheels!!!

Volume Cutter in raw + disc forks.

I think this has been asked a couple of times.

Asnswer was, well, not many rims do exist in this size with braking surface.

SJS has one but it is steel so braking won't be sharp:
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/rims-tape/westwood-26-x-1-12-inch-584-rim-chrome-36-hole/

HED does one:
https://www.compasscycle.com/shop/components/rims/hed-belgium-plus-650b-rims/

And so does Velocity:
https://www.modernbike.com/machined-650b---27.5-rims

Sorry, poor reading comprehension!

Also the Pacenti Brevet
https://thecycleclinic.co.uk/collections/rims/products/pacenti-brevet-rim-650b-32h-drilling

Good god, I'm shocked that anyone is still making steel rims

Edit: it's for rod brakes anyway I think?

The Westwood rim style of cycle rim is used on bicycles with rod brakes, usually the roadster cycles found in Britain up to the 1960s and still common in the South and East Asia and Africa. Westwood rims have rounded sides, so they are not suitable for use with caliper brakes. The inside circumference of the rim has a slightly concave profile to aid with seating of the brake pads

Probably came back in production for @amey

His latest DBAD project is with rod brakes.

#trolling

Thanks guys.

The velocity A23s look good but is a 23mm rim with an 18mm internal width too narrow for 42mm compass tyres?

(Edited to read 42mm wide tyres)

Steel? He'll probably want some custom-made crabon rod brake rims with basalt brake track for that

Not too narrow to be unsafe.

Not the first choice of rim for the job perhaps.

Yeah. I could go for the Schwalbe G-One speed tyres in 1.5", which would be about 38mm and be a better fit perhaps. It will lower the BB a bit though.

I think the compass 42mm if they fit, unless someone else thinks it's a bad idea?

These look like an sweet upgrade from my shiney-but-chunky VO Diagonales when the time comes.

The price isn't too crazy either.

Schwalbe G-One speed tyres in 1.5

These will probably come in at 40mm anyway. So the difference (in volume or bb height) isn't significant.

My 38c G-ones measure 40/41mm on a 22.5mm internal width rim if that helps at all...