If i had hubs sitting around, iâd be buying those rims
I need to track down one of those steel Allez frames in a small
Will you ship me the rims?
I had one, sold it, always regretted it.
@BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS i sent an email, iâll let you know if he gets back to me
the brake tracks on those rims are laughably anemic, at least on the 650b set i had. like they took a disc brake rim and sanded the track on and put the most adorable tiny shallow wear indicator holes
Please explain. Dent easy? Wear quickly? Iâve had nothing but great experiences with hed belgiums.
absolute best rim to build with (except maybe salsa delgado), super easy tubeless with non tubeless tires, but the brake track wasnât a real brake track. instead of extruded and machined flat, they looked like someone hit it with sandpaper until there was enough of a silver track to call it machined sidewall. might have been a fluke of them being 650b rim brake though- dude at hed was confused that they even existed
edit: also worth noting these are belgium plus, not reg belgium
Agreed they are the best aluminum rims to build with. I was gonna make a joke about 650b rim brake hoops, but wanted to hear your experience first. Wouldnât be surprised if what you described was true.
I donât need the brake track so I donât care!
they were shocked to find out they had ~18 in stock (32h), then shortly after i got a below EP price due to them being in stock, about 16 ended up in qbp.
those rims look to have a similar setup- no real âbottomâ to the brake track, just a smooth transition to the rest of the rim, and a pretty short (vertically) brake track
they are slightly heavy but so good that i wouldnât hesitate to get them as a disc rim if wtb shit wasnât way cheaper/if i had more disposable income
if anything, they sanded off as many as several grams of aluminum! makes me wonder about the weight weenie applications
Can confirm the 700c brake track is alarmingly narrow and thin. And honestly the width doesnât do rim brakes any favors. But the ride, children, the ride
But if @BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS doesnât take them, get at me
oh no iâm definitely taking them
probably a scam. emailed anyways.
Alisonâs gonna kill me if we end up with three tandems in this apartment.
Add this one?
$200 set of time atacs, comes with a free bike
also, this is a wtf build:
the tri cross came with track ends?