Just curious what the consensus is. Personally I like the look of front and rear wheels that don’t match. Makes a bike a little more unique I think. You have so much choice in hub and rim depth that there are endless combinations.
I was swapping the tires between my 3 wheelsets and I realized I don’t own a single pair of tires that are the same model. I always just grab the $25 tire at a LBS when I run over a razor or something.
I mismatch on my beater bike. I like having matchy match on my road bike and such.
[quote=“doofo”]oh
i have a bike with a generator hub
that one has mismatched wheels
please forgive the oversight[/quote]
I FORGIVE NOTHING!
i like to match, unless there is a good (read:functional) reason not to.
I was actually thinking of tossing on my road tire up front and being lazy about my 35 cross tire in back.
unless its a trispoke or some shit up front, as long as the rear wheel is as deep as the front im down
for a while I had one front wheel that went on three or four different bikes, geared and fixed. It was an old campy record low flange to MA40 road wheel. My only fixed wheel was a high flange phil to deepV. I really liked the look of the low profile, light weight front to heavy duty, deep section rear. They were both 36 hole though. I don’t think I could handle having two different spoke counts. But I’m not a fan of low spoke count wheels to begin with (from an aesthetic/durability perspective)
For tires, I generally had a ultra2000/UltraRace on the front and a gatorskin on the back. They were both Conti and didn’t look that dissimilar. But I wasn’t afraid to mix it up. Never did the crazy color thing though.
Now my bike has matching wheels and matching tires. I don’t think the mismatched thing is so hot on road bikes. Unless it’s a zipp wheelset or something.
i can’t take anything you say seriously. what, with that puppy vendetta and all. but i agree.
i like mismatched
i have a shiny silver sunrims to formula in the back with a yellow zaffiro, then like a gunmetal gray matrix rim on a shimano sealed mechanics hob up front with an all-black conti tire. <3
thats not very tarck, but i agree.
I don’t really hate puppies. I just happen to hit them with my bike every once in a while. Now cats are another story. Fuckers always making me sneeze…
i ride a blue michelin erilium up front and usually a gatorskin or whatever non-beat to shit tire i have in the back.
i’m thinking about building up a really beefy rear wheel–formula high flange to a veep in the back or something…
For the most part, things have to match for me.
But like tjayk said, unless there’s a functional reason not to.
All my bikes are matched except my crosscheck. That one’s got a black Open Pro to black surly hub with black DT spokes and silver nipples on the front and an silver velocity aero to silver formula in the back. It’s only that way because the open pro was super cheap and I don’t care at all about how that bike looks.
[quote=“blickblocks”]Just curious what the consensus is. Personally I like the look of front and rear wheels that don’t match. Makes a bike a little more unique I think. You have so much choice in hub and rim depth that there are endless combinations.
I was swapping the tires between my 3 wheelsets and I realized I don’t own a single pair of tires that are the same model. I always just grab the $25 tire at a LBS when I run over a razor or something.[/quote]
This isnt one of your swing joints.
This is a family website… so clean it up lady. 
I swap tires for $8 for any random person walking in off the street, I feel like such a whore now.
Swapping tires is the mechanic equivalent of the traffic light hand job.
it seems like most of the road bikes being sold in my LBS today have different spoke set ups. the front always has the no crossing spoke (radial, maybe) pattern, while the rear has the standard double cross (not sure for another way to call it). i think its alright, not sure why they do it but whatever
[quote=“doofo”]
im not into the whole casual wheel swap lifestyle[/quote]
Me either. I find it immoral. Or at least amoral.
Except on a beater/lockup type bike. Then anything goes.
i agree, and these are the best kinds of bikes.
before i wrecked my old miyata it was in total frankenstien mode and i loved it - beat to fuck maroon/blue rattlecan job, front tire from who the hell knows when (80s i think) with with yellow tread and gum sidewalls, squared off bontrager POS in the rear, mismatched straps/cages, torn up bartape, horn mounted on the stem for the peds that my leg honked when i did skidz…
i miss that bike so hard.