Latest Custom Builds — Wheel Builds

Roval 142+ rebuild onto Light Bicycle 38mm Carbon Asymmetric 29er rim

29er All Mountain Carbon Enduro Nextie Tubeless Wheel Builds

Roval 142+ rebuild onto Light Bicycle 38mm Carbon Asymmetric 29er rim

If you are running a Specialized MTB dually from a few years ago, you may have a proprietary "142plus" hub. More details in a recent post, but essentially, if you have one of these, it makes sense to keep using it. The idea was a good one (a wider flanged hub), but came along just as the Boost standard emerged, and was thus eclipsed. Only certain Specialized frames can use these hubs, and these hubs cannot be used in normal 142mm spaced frames. Another retailer approached us to help out one of his customers. The customer hadpurchased a Light Bicycle...

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Hernando's Bontrager Nextie 29er Asymmetric Carbon Rebuild

29er All Mountain Bontrager Carbon DT Swiss Enduro Nextie Tubeless Wheel Builds Wheel Repairs

Hernando's Bontrager Nextie 29er Asymmetric Carbon Rebuild

Hernando rides a Trek All Mountain 29er. It's a fine bike, and he's decided that he'll keep it for a good few years yet. Being a 29er, he felt that the standard Bontrager Rhythm Comp alloy wheelset was a little too flexy for his liking. They are also a little narrow at 21mm wide internal. He felt this to be the only issue with the bike. So, after a couple of years abusing the alloy wheelset, he came to us looking for advice on a wide carbon wheelset to breathe a bit of new life (and lateral stiffness ) into...

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Ben's Roval DT Swiss 142+ Rebuild onto Nextie Asymmetrical Carbon 29er

29er All Mountain Carbon DT Swiss Nextie Tubeless Wheel Builds

Ben's Roval DT Swiss 142+ Rebuild onto Nextie Asymmetrical Carbon 29er

We performed a Specialized Roval DTSwiss 240s 142+ hub rebuild for Ben - disassembly, internal and external clean, new bearings, springs, grease(s), and she's back in action and ready for another 5 years of abuse! Then we do what we seem to be doing to a lot of Roval wheels lately - replaced the rim. We replaced the cracked Roval with a Nextie Asymmetrical 25mm internal width rim, to match the width of his surviving front. We used DT Swiss Competition double butted black spokes and black brass nipples on this rebuild, and of course setup the tubeless tape for...

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Dan's new Singlespeed Enduro Wheelset - Custom Project321 on Stan's Flow Mk3

27.5" All Mountain Project321 Sapim Stan's No Tubes Tubeless Wheel Builds

Dan's new Singlespeed Enduro Wheelset - Custom Project321 on Stan's Flow Mk3

Dan has been riding his Zerode Taniwha (Māori pronunciation: "tanifa") on 26" wheels for some time now, and felt the need to move up to 27.5". The bike is quite special, utilising a centralised 12 spd pinion gearbox that offers a very large spread of gears beyond today's 1x systems. A special Singlespeed rear wheel is required (as there is no rear derailleur). Dan wanted a bombproof hub, that is Singlespeed specific, with instant engagement, and silent. It's not easy to find all those things in a hub, but Project321 offered everything he needed, just not in s Singlespeed version. Yet. We contacted Project321...

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Ricky's Misfortune Results In A Great Opportunity - DT Swiss 240s on Kinlin XC279

Aero Carbon Classic DT Swiss Gravel Kinlin Wheel Builds Wheel Repairs

Ricky's Misfortune Results In A Great Opportunity - DT Swiss 240s on Kinlin XC279

Ricky asked what would be a good all alloy round rim to use his DT Swiss 240s hubs on - considering he weighs 95kgs. The hubs were 20h front and 24h rear, so in order to preserve stiffness and reliability, a sturdier deeper section rim is required. The Kinlin XC279 was an obvious choice. It's 23mm wide, 28mm deep, and tough as nails.

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