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gbj_tester in reply to @onyerbike

What considerations do I need to take to convert these to track?

Your link goes nowhere. In general, converting road wheels to track goes like this:
Front QR - Allen key skewer or bolt-on conversion and you're good to go.
Front through bolt - if it's 6-bolt disc, you need a lathe and suddenly you have a lovely rear wheel
Rear cassette hub - forget it, it's cheaper and simpler to get a whole new wheel*

*24h rims can be rebuilt onto a Novatec track hub if you want the conversion to be permanent, but buying a track wheel and selling the road wheel is the idler's optimum.

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onyerbike in reply to @gbj_tester

Thanks - thinking about it, given they are both thru axle centre lock then I would want to rebuild with track hubs (and thanks for the heads up on Novatec).

Now with working link: https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Vel/85-RSL2-Carbon-Tubeless-Disc-Wheelset/STIG?s=1

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gbj_tester in reply to @onyerbike

thanks for the heads up on Novatec

Now to find 24H front 🙂 They exist, I even have a couple, but it's a deeply unfashionable drilling for any non-disc front hub these days.

Cycleclinic has Zenith in all the options, twice the price of Novatec for something which is only exactly as good, but it's the easy solution. I'd be bolt-on converting a Brompton front and a 6-bolt MTB front to rear, but that's definitely hard mode.

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