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Advice on picking the right rims for my set up
AlexRa:
I’m having some trouble working out which rims I need. I get that I’m looking for something a bit unusual and there are probably more sensible options. But I am where I am…
So I need a rim
- Tubeless ready, so I can run tubeless when I’m ready
- 700c / 622
- 32 spoke
- Tough enough for touring with a few days of stuff on the bike / light gravel
Most of the rims I’ve found don’t have all of these. Most of the rim brake rims seem to prioritise weight rather than being tough enough for touring. Most of the tough rims for loaded touring / gravel don’t have a braking surface for rim brakes. Other options aren’t tubeless ready.
I’m going to build the rim on to my Rohloff hub. And yeah I know - I should probably sell the hub and buy a completely different bike that already has disks and tubeless. But I’m attached to it and if there’s a way of making my set up work I’d like to do it.
I appreciate there may not be a rim that fits the job.
But if you know of one please let me know.
Andyb1:
You don’t actually say what types of brakes you want to use, but assuming you want rim brakes then perhaps the difficulty finding of suitable rims is because what you want is a mix old tech (rim brakes) and new tech (tubeless)?
mickeg:
It might help if we knew the size tires you want to run, wide, narrow, etc.
JohnR:
Several of the Kinlin rims here https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m20b0s116p0/Wheel-Components/Rims are tubeless ready. Most are disc brake rims although the XR-26T is tubeless compatible and rim brakes. Ideally, IMO, the inner rim width wants to be about half of the tyre width you plan to use. That puts you in the middle of the range recommended by Schwalbe https://www.schwalbetires.com/media/16/8f/9b/1654668257/reifen-felgenkombination-etrto-22-en-2.pdf.
RonS:
DT Swiss makes a variant of the R460 that is rim brake and tubeless ready. It has a bead width of 18mm so would work up to 35-622
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