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Title: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: kcmobmx on January 28, 2008, 07:30 PM

I have found a cool survivor! check out this chrome 24" Araya 7X with a TNT Revolver hub. picked this up from a local guy off of Craigslist. also got a few other odds and ends... I would like to find a matching front hub to make this set complete :)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c362/KCMOBMX/DSC03228.jpg)

(http://www.radbmx.co.uk/archive/albums/c362/KCMOBMX/DSC03229.jpg)

I have seen these talked about in the freestyle forum but have never seen a 24". did anyone here have anything like this bitd?

Title: Re: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: rory on January 28, 2008, 07:34 PM

theres a pair of peregrine 24 inch wheels on ebay , ive never seen them before, nice wheel by the way :)

Title: Re: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: harris on January 28, 2008, 07:38 PM

nice find that   :)
only see a few odd lace ups in multi spoke but never that.
dans comp in the 90s sold some mega nice wheel sets but not many about now.

Title: Re: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: kcmobmx on January 28, 2008, 07:40 PM

Quote from: rory on January 28, 2008, 07:34 PM

theres a pair of peregrine 24 inch wheels on ebay , ive never seen them before, nice wheel by the way :)

I saw those. I had a set of those in silver but passed them along a few months back...

Title: Re: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: Dingobmxer on January 28, 2008, 07:42 PM

Didnt someone ride a 24 with 72 spoke wheels at a King of the skatepark event?

Ted Emmer or something like that

 :) DINGO :)

Title: Re: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: Philbert on January 28, 2008, 09:22 PM

peregrine used to make a 95 spoke wheel for 20"

looked fookin ace! meant for the custom cruiser market i think though

Title: Re: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: subversion on January 28, 2008, 10:00 PM

Dave Manly used to build this sort of thing, he built the 95 spokers from Super Pro's (double drilled) & Also he built the 71 (not 72 due to the valve hole) From GT Large Flange hubs & Araya 7x rims (not 100% on that rim though?) I bought a pair of Manly 71's bitd for about £280-£300 as I remember & I ended up smashing the rims up so I double drilled a set of Araya Aero's after getting the gold anodising off with some shot blasting :daumenhoch:

Ray still has those wheels me thinks??

Rayo piccys??? ;)

Title: Re: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: woody allen bars on January 29, 2008, 08:18 AM

Tim Ruck also did a 71 spoke wheel, can't remember who sold them (maybe green machine) but they were branded as 'Truck' wheels.

Mr Leech has probably got one laying hidden in his vast warehouse, er I mean garden shed!  ;D

Title: Re: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: skids on February 01, 2008, 07:57 AM

if

If I remember right, did'nt Green Machine make a jobby called an "Saturn ring" or somthing like that?
so when you laced up a 71 hole rim, you did'nt need a matching holed hub because the "floating" ring also
had 36 holes, so you laced radially from that out to the rim. Kinda odd looking.
     Skids

Title: Re: remember custom high-end 72 spoke wheelsets bitd?
Post by: teamsano on February 01, 2008, 09:01 PM

oh yeah, i remember that. seemed a good idea to give some more radial strength...

i recall scott carroll (rip)had a bashguard yellow haro sport in neon yellow with the manly wheels which had been paid for my mark noble/invert/whatever their trick team was called bitd. vid here-