wheel building / discussion thread

Boyd, Easton SL90, Pacenti Forza

Anything worth looking at that sits somewhere between a new TS-2 with dials and a P&K?

I highly recommend dials with roller tips. Keeps the finish of the rim perfect especially if disc brake and you have a polished track. If you get the Park dials you still have to get roller tips.

So stalk to me about what options, if any?, I have building up a 130 mm OLD rear disc wheel…?

I think Velocity made them.

White industries has a 130 disc hub

King classics, too

You can re-space a 135mm Shimano cup-and-cone hub to 130.

This is some serious stuff. But faaaarrk seems like they only make 32h versions of all their QR mtb hubs.
Seems like my best bet for 28h is the CX75 hub.

I don’t wanna touch anything Velocity basically, fukka Chris King overpriced stuff…
Could probably splurge on WI but I’d rather stick to trusty Shimano. Good tips nonetheless.

If you know what you’re doing, it’s not too hard. In the shop, I could probably whip one up in 30 minutes. The benefit to this is that there are shitloads of practically worthless high-end XT and XTR hubs out there which could be converted.

But that moves your disc 5mm closer to the dropout.

What frame? almost all 130 disc frames are not worth the effort, what with all the good cheap gravel grinders out now.

See the thread where we shit on old bikes for $600.

That seems like a lot of money to charge for shitting on old bikes.

130mm OLD disc seems like a recipe for frustration, but I’m pretty sure that Specialized did a 130mm disc version of the Tarmac with a bunch of weird proprietary parts kludged in to make it work. Ebay might surface some of that for you?

Cold set the derpouts to 135.

If it were any other frame than my Godspeed (hand built in Sweden, übercüstom, only one ex, know the frame builder type of thing yadayada…) I’d sell it in a heartbeat.
Since I’m gonna have him braze disc mounts on (going 650B) it he could cold set it to 135 as well.

If you’re getting the disc mounts added, absolutely get it respaced. otherwise you’re stuck with a hard to find wheel forever.

if it was a weird awesome calfee 130mm disc frame or something, that might justify a 130mm WI disc hub, but even then, I’m not sure it’s worth the hassle.

Yeah, I figured it was your unicorn bike. If you’re getting work done at the framebuilder on your roadbike you might as well get it respaced to the current “standard” so you can use current parts.

[quote=Blakey]
if it was a weird awesome calfee 130mm disc frame or something, that might justify a 130mm WI disc hub, but even then, I’m not sure it’s worth the hassle.[/quote]
Were we thinking of the same bike?

You sure WI makes one? You can’t just swap endcap as cleared up above. I wouldn’t cold set frame unless access to alignment tools for getting disc mount in right place. There’s not that much room for adjustment of caliper.