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  • Omnium stock wheel builds, good/bad/ugly? Going to build one up in the next month or so, their wheels are not that expensive and its not going to see courier use, saves me hassle of trying to find a 700/20" rim combo that matchs.

    Also dyno lights, this one has to have dyno lights, number of times I have no lights handy (have 4 sets of good ones at least), any good examples of mounting locations on an omnium?

  • 700/20" rim combo that matchs.

    Try halo?

  • The omnium wheels are really good value for money. Hubs are the trusted novatec, rims are decently wide. All the messengers use them and we only have good feedback.

    For light mounts we often use a rivit gun and mount it to the underside of the rack on the left side. Like the belt drive one on the omnium gram :)

  • Almost every working Omnium in London has 406 rim on the front. Tyres are wider, better quality and more readily available. A lot of the time your view of the front tyre will be obscured and I think a fat tyre is a bit of insurance against smashing into a pothole, drain cover etc. with a load of weight more or less directly on top of the wheel.

    I wanted a completely matching pair of rims and gave up as the only options I found was Sun Rhyno Lite (36h only front),or Velocity Dyad or Cliffhanger, which would have been hideously expensive as BLB are the ‘distributor’ and charge you the shipping on top...

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