bike wheels stolen, need new ones. sigh.

[hozn]

What is your budget / what are you looking for? If the goal is to get some inexpensive wheels without being overly concerned by weight, the Vuelta wheelsets sold by nashbar.com might be a good option. A friend also bought some Forte Titan wheels from Performance Bike and has been very happy with them. (They are not light, but probably similar in quality to the Vuelta wheels.) With machine-built wheels you should assume you will need to bring them to a shop for adjustment after initial break-in period (a couple/few hundred miles).

Then of course you can also pay much more and get hand-built wheels which may ultimately need less maintenance, but may not be the right choice if theft is a real consideration.

[Rod Smith]

Some hybrids come with 135mm rear hub spacing. Your Fuji is a flat bar road bike so it probably has 130mm spacing. Most replacement 700c wheelsets come with 130mm rear hub. I’m not sure if it even matters. It maybe OK to use 130mm hub if your frame has 135mm spacing perhaps with some adjustment (adding a spacer to the axle) or simply by squeezing the frame a little with the quick release. You might want to measure the space between the inside surfaces of your dropouts just to be sure it is 130mm. If you find you need 135mm rear hub, you might consider these. http://harriscyclery.net/product/velocity-700c-dyad-deore-xt-m770-touring-wheel-set-36-spoke-3246.htm I have them on one of my bikes. They did need some retensioning when some spokes loosened but I’m generally quite pleased with the wheels. Butted spokes, laced four cross.

The same vendor has a similar wheelset with 130mm rear hub http://harriscyclery.net/product/velocity-700c-dyad-tiagra-4600-touring-wheel-set-36-spoke-3247.htm but as I said, this size is much easier to find and you have many options.

[DismalScientist]

I wouldn’t try to shove a 135mm hub into an Aluminum or carbon frame with 130mm spacing. That’s OK with steel framed bikes.

Of course you can put any hub into a 135mm spaced frame; You just need to add adequate spacers to the hub.

If you need 130 spacing, get a Tiagra hub instead. I think I rebuilt my old steel touring bike (originally 126 spacing) with these: http://harriscyclery.net/product/harris-cyclery-700c-mavic-a319-tiagra-touring-wheel-set-36-spoke-2468.htm

I found a cheaper vendor using ebay and google searches.

[Rod Smith]

OK that’s what I thought. Built wheels with 700c rims and 135mm rear hub are somewhat rare. But you probably have 130mm spacing anyway and even if you have 135mm spacing you can add spacers to a standard 130mm road bike hub.

[mstone]

@Rod Smith 69504 wrote:

OK that’s what I thought. Built wheels with 700c rims and 135mm rear hub are somewhat rare. But you probably have 130mm spacing anyway and even if you have 135mm spacing you can add spacers to a standard 130mm road bike hub.

135mm rear hubs are pretty common these days, between disc brakes and high gear counts. Fuji does make a disc version of the absolute, so 135 wouldn’t surprise me. Easiest thing is to just get a ruler.

[DaveK]

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/bik/4180980244.html

Bombproof and better than anything you’ll buy for that price on Nashbar.

/edit – assuming your bike has a 130mm rear spacing.

[Author]

Posts