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A wheel build is around £15/20 depending on your local bike shop rates plus the cost of the hubs, spokes and nipples .
If you're buying hubs from the internet and taking them to the bike shop to build then make sure you get the right ones as there's a multitude of different axles types (quick release, 20mm bolt thru, 15mm bolt thru etc etc) axle widths (back wheel mainly), spoke hole number (if you're having new hubs built onto your current rims then this will be dictated by what hole your rims are).
I'd just buy new wheels to be honest as you can also save a lot of weight with a good set of wheels when upgrading from basic spec. ____________________ Now: '00 Kawasaki ZRX1100R - Past: '84 Yamaha DT125, '89 Kawasaki KLR600, '97 Yamaha XJ600N
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I can see myself getting suckered in and this getting expensive
I am doing the London to Brighton soon - would I notice the benefit of upgrading the wheels?
I know literally nothing about bikes - can you recommend a set of wheels? |
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You hardly ride the thing Joe .. and when you do its to pop to the shops to buy 20 B&H.
V brakes are fine .. you dont need disc.
When you are joining us for hard core mofo rides.. then you are allowed disc brakes.
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you would prob be better off just getting some decent brake blocks and getting it all set up I would think..
I'm sure the biggest advantage with disks is they still work when the wheel is covered in crap really as when you look at the leverage differance between the size of the rim and the disks using the rim for braking has much more effect. my mate is doing the london-brighton run too but he has about 3K's worth of fancy carbon bike (with V brakes tho).. you will prob beat him lol ____________________ Hyosung cruise 125(passed test on, sold) Kawasaki el 252 (better than expected but sold on) Kawasaki GPZ500S first "big"bike.(sold) ZZR600 E5..Z750 2007,ER5, currently on a 2008 Enfield bullet electra x and loving it..
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What a lot of people don't realise is that a set of good V's will brake very well when set up correctly!
They offer less maintenance aswell, discs only really tend to be a step up when you spend quite a bit more, (Or if it's wet - but V's can still be very competitive!)
If you do get disks though they have got to be hydralic!
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 13 years, 76 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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