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I had clocked these myself yesterday and was interested, but I wasn’t sure about the price. Is that reasonable?
Been keeping an eye on this thread in recent days as I’m kiiiiind of committed to doing the Dales Divide on the May bank hol weekend (600km c2c from Cumbria). Looking to do it on my Trek Crockett, which currently has the standard/tank spec Bontrager Affinity disc wheels on it with 32mm slicks. Clearly need to change the tyres at the very least, but I’m tempted to switch the wheels out entirely for something lighter/more suitable as the Affinity wheels are SO HEAVY. Also want the option to be able to slap some slick tyres on for road/commuting use outside of all road events like this one.
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It's a pretty full price for second hand wheels. But those rims are expensive new. I don't know much about Hope hubs but they are expensive too, so they're probably good wheels. Might cost £800 to have them built new, without looking anything up.
If I was going to make him an offer I'd start by googling the components and add £xx for building to see what they would cost new as a starting point.
Edit: just did google it:
£250-ish for the hubs
£280 for the rims (if you can get them)
£130 for spokes (£2.40 each x 28 or however many there are x 2)
So £660 for materials
Tyres another £80
Total = £740
Building, £100?
Postage, £20?So £800 wasn't a bad guess, maybe a bit more new. So he's asking 50-60% for one year old. Probably he paid a bit less pre-Covid, but doesn't sound too bad!
frank9755
I'm sure there are good wheels on eBay but I'd always rather buy from a forum. I've bought a couple of sets on YACF and done loads of miles on them with no issues, and good ones come up on here all the time. Main thing is to find out the history and reason for sale.
Do you want disc or rim brake? If that latter, I had a quick look on here and these came up. If I could justify another set of wheels I might go for them myself.
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/361335/#comment15884132
I bought a set of Ultegra wheels off YACF in the Autumn for £100 and am using them as my winter wheels (I needed them as the guy off eBay was fixing my other ones!). They have been great. I'd be happy to use them for a road event. On smooth tarmac they'd most likely be faster than a set of high quality gravel wheels. Something with deeper rims would be faster still though. And you could sell them for not much less after to put towards your gravel wheels.