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  • So 29er heads, looking at getting some new wheels built up for my Scandal29er. I'm already settled on Hope Pro II hubs of the single speed variety, just a little indecisive on rims. Candidates are Stans Flows, or Velocity Blunt SL, or maybe P35s. Plan on keeping the bike ridgid, and going tubeless, so the Flows are the obvious choice, but the P35s are really wide and could be great, where as the Blunts are similar to the Flows in width without the bead lock lip. Any suggestions? Oh and I'm 6'6" and 115kg so not looking for a weight weenie build.

    I have the blunts, in fact laced to some SS Pro IIs, with revs non brake side, supercomps brake side.

    Its a very light wheelset for the strength and width. I did a fair amount of research and the blunts came out on top in terms of width, strength, and weight. To run them tubeless, you simply need a wide 'freeride' 26" rimstrip (just buy the stans freeride kit). The extra stretch needed to fit them on the 700c rim, narrows them to perfect width. You end up with a nice snug fit.

    I bought my rims just before the P35s came out though. If I had the chioce agian I would have gone for the P35s. The advantages of a wider rim, far outweigh the extra weight. You get a better profile, more volume, and lower PSI. All of which mean more traction for a given tyre.

    With the stans you save the weight of the rimstrip, and will be be less likely to experiance 'burping', because of the better bead lock.

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