http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Replacing Rims en Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:21:55 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8826#post-89981 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:36:41 +0000 Uberuce 89981@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This may or may not be evidence in favour of my theory that minimal braking is worse for rims. I reckon letting a thicker layer of gubbins build up before each application of the brakes might be worse than braking a lot. </p> <p>Or it could just be because back wheels get muckier and that's all she wrote. I think I use both handbrakes when I'm using them at all, which on the commute isn't that often. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8826#post-89979 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:19:08 +0000 Nelly 89979@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@uberuce, slightly worrying as you ride that fixed and prob don't use rear brake that much?</p> <p>Same rims on my Day01 obviously, hence my self interest! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8826#post-89976 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:55:17 +0000 recombodna 89976@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm sure they'll be fone for a while yet. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8826#post-89973 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 21:04:22 +0000 Uberuce 89973@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not sure how much I want the same ones, given they're just over a year old. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8826#post-89972 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:57:43 +0000 Dave 89972@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you buy the same rims, it's extremely easy to rebuild with the same spokes. It's like building a wheel from scratch, but you can 'cheat' by replacing the spokes one at a time, with the rims taped together :) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8826#post-89971 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 20:31:56 +0000 Uberuce 89971@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I sent the back wheel from wee blue floofy into my LBS for truing and a spoke replacement, but in the course of putting the studded Marathons back on(which transform the bike into wintersaurus) I noticed that the rim is down past the wear line.</p> <p>I'm not impressed with myself for not noticing this before handing it in, but even less so at the shop for missing it too.</p> <p>So I'll need new rims. What's the craic with that? I imagine I wander over to the Bike Works and see if the existing spokes can be used to lace the hub back onto new rims, and if not, it's hardly a bank-buster. </p>