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Title: I need wheels
Post by: theRuler on August 30, 2005, 02:03 PM

I am in need of set of new wheels for my late ninties/early 21st PK Ripper

Mine are so fooked now, the back wheel sounds like i have spokie dokies fitted

I want to run the tiny cogs too. so do i need a cassette hub, or something like that?
I have some good rims, so i just need hubs. i can build them easy enough.

Anybody point me in the direction of a half decent rear hub that can take a teeny sprocket?

Also the rear drops on the ripper can take a fatter (than 10mm) axel, but it wont slide in as there are tabs at the ends of the dropouts.
Do all good hubs nowadays come with bolts rather than an axel? i'm a little out of touch with modern stuff!

here's the ripper:

(http://30cms.co.uk/temp/ripper.jpg)

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: ORB on August 30, 2005, 02:05 PM

Tuffage is the answer.....

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: theRuler on August 30, 2005, 02:19 PM

yeh tuffage sounds good.
but i need some stiffer wheels
i want some tuffs for an old mongoose i am building though. thats a different story

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: daze on August 30, 2005, 06:33 PM

lower than a 13t you'll need a cassette hub.  think you need a one piece driver for 9, 10 and 11.

and only profile do the 9 [ i think   :-\ ]

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: spinmaster on August 30, 2005, 09:23 PM

fly do a decent rear hub that'll take a 13th odyssey freewheel and it can take either lhd or rhd, any lower than that and you'll need a cassette hub, like daze said

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: ORB on August 30, 2005, 11:59 PM

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yeh tuffage sounds good.
but i need some stiffer wheels

Graphites?

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: Andy on August 31, 2005, 12:10 AM

Tuffs suck on modern bikes as they flex way to much even grahites,

Orb you cant run micro gearing with tuffs

Get a built up oddy hazard from Alans I think he is doing completes for a reasonable price

Andy

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: ORB on August 31, 2005, 12:11 AM

Well, I try....

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: theRuler on August 31, 2005, 02:02 AM

thanks dudes i will have a look at alans now . . .

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: benda666 on September 03, 2005, 09:57 PM

hey dude,

i got a pair of mongoose wheels for my brawler for £70 and the rear hub is a cassette flip flop the guys up the heath like em and it rides nice to

i got them from OT's btw

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: holeshotter on September 05, 2005, 10:26 AM

Blinkin aider!!! This sounds like a foreign language to me. Flip flop, flap jack, cassette hubs. Man I think i need to go BMX school. Have they got a dictionary on here for the Back from the old skool crew?

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: muttley on September 05, 2005, 10:44 AM

Its not just me then, all this gearing malarky is doin me head in as well  :(

Title: Re: I need wheels
Post by: Bob_Acid on September 05, 2005, 12:49 PM

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i need to go BMX school

Yer already there mate  :D