http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: 700c off road capable rims (disk only) en Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:29:17 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-232291 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:48:50 +0000 steveo 232291@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Do you use a widget to line up or just eyeball it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-232269 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:04:34 +0000 wingpig 232269@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The dishing is implicitly correct if the rim ends up centred in the forks of where the wheel will be in use, assuming straight forks. The fork crown doesn't care about the different offset at the hub. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-232247 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:51:29 +0000 steveo 232247@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In partially related note, thats the first bike stuff I've bought in 12 months. Yeah for a new bike... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-232244 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:42:48 +0000 steveo 232244@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cheers iwrats. </p> <p>@wingpig does that work for dishing? Thats how I finished my last wheel.</p> <p>@Baldcylist I'm never happy building tools it seems to take me as long as to do the job. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-232240 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:24:28 +0000 Baldcyclist 232240@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I made a dish tool from a stairgate extension. Works quite well, I'll try find a photo which is sharable...</p> <p><a href="https://flic.kr/p/MFsnR4"><img src="https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8546/29982544305_7ee7d1970b_z.jpg"></a><a href="https://flic.kr/p/MFsnR4">Untitled</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/128650888@N07/">Mark Findlay</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>It was dead easy to make, cut it to size, drill a hole, done. :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-232238 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:23:46 +0000 wingpig 232238@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Or, do the tightening/balancing dishing stage with the incipient wheel in the forks it will occupy, where you can observe whether the rim is in the middle or not? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-232228 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:49:48 +0000 I were right about that saddle 232228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@steveo</p> <p>You'll need a wheel dish tool. (Which you could improvise with a straight piece of timber/steel and a micrometer.)</p> <p>Apart from that it's not really any harder. PM me if you need a hand. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-232217 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 10:02:23 +0000 steveo 232217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Right settled on an SP PD-8 with the Mavic XM-119. </p> <p>I've built a normal front wheel but never a disc one, the spoke calculator (<a href="https://leonard.io/edd/" rel="nofollow">https://leonard.io/edd/</a>) gives a 2mm different between left and right, does this matter? </p> <p>Next how much harder is it to build a dished wheel? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230202 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 16:57:25 +0000 Dave 230202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah yeah. If you want to regularly swap tyres I don't think it's worth it... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230173 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 13:23:45 +0000 steveo 230173@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>They're disc only. No rim braking surface.</em></p> <p>must have been looking at the other 119 or something completely different.<br /> <em><br /> Go tubeless!</em></p> <p>I swap between road and off road tyres, from what I've seen of tubless this is more ache than I want on a Sunday night! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230170 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:35:59 +0000 I were right about that saddle 230170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tubeless tyres seem to need some fancy repair kit or liquid sealant or both...? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230166 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:15:27 +0000 Dave 230166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Go tubeless!</p> <p>I have tried a couple of rims from Ryde (too lightweight, I destroyed the one on the rear just commuting with a bit of light gravel) otherwise Stans (maybe a bit pricy?)</p> <p>Seriously, you'll never look back after getting fatter tyres set up tubeless for off road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230165 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 12:05:06 +0000 urchaidh 230165@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Went with Surly Knard 700x41 after a bit of advice on <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15795">this thread</a>.</p> <p>I got some of the folding bead ones in an online sale. They did feel a bit 'flimsy' to me when I was fitting them but have had no issue with them so far. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230157 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 11:03:11 +0000 I were right about that saddle 230157@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@urchaidh</p> <p>Which 40mm knobblies did you fit? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230153 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:52:06 +0000 urchaidh 230153@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My Whyte Caledonian (hybrid/all terrain) came with WTB SX-17 rims. Seems pretty solid to my untrained eye, I put 40mm knobblies on and have used it over some fairly rough trails without incident (so far). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230152 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:42:39 +0000 I were right about that saddle 230152@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They're disc only. No rim braking surface.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mavic.co.uk/rims-mtb-xm-119-disc" rel="nofollow">http://www.mavic.co.uk/rims-mtb-xm-119-disc</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230151 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:31:17 +0000 steveo 230151@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm being conceited I'd really like ones with out a machined braking surface. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230144 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:19:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 230144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@steveo</p> <p>Mavic 119 with DT Swiss Comp Silver spokes. I have abused mine heartily and they are still quite round. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16842#post-230141 Thu, 08 Sep 2016 10:12:16 +0000 steveo 230141@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Any recommendations for a 700c disk only rim that is sturdy enough for a spot of relatively light off roading, think less hard than Glentress but more than the WOL, your average Pentlands trail. </p> <p>The wheels of my CDF are about knackered, well the hub is, so before I just get another rim of the same thats fitted and dynamo hub I thought I'd seek the wisdom of the (small) crowd. </p>