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Hi,
I’m going to be building some 27.5” wheels up for a new Anthem frame I’ve got. I spotted a good price on some original Stans Crest rims. OK so at 21mm they’re a bit narrow by current standards but at 350 odd grams they’re very light. Did anyone build any wheels with these in the past? Are they hard to get true and evenly tensioned when you build them and do they take a (little) bit of hammer or do you need to be careful on them? I’m fairly light at around 75kg and I’m not riding DH or doing loads of jumps.
Mike
They are fine. I am still using some 355s (the precursor to Crest) on my gravel bike which must be 8 years old now. At 90kgs I found them a bit flexy in 29er guise for mtb. As with all stans rims dont over tension spokes when building.
Had 26 inch versions on my old Ibis Mojo for 4 years and until I started riding light DH on them they were ace, light, stiff and reasonably tough, you’ll be fine
As with all stans rims dont over tension spokes when building.
this they have low tension spec, compared to other rims.
thomthumb - Memberthis they have low tension spec, compared to other rims.
95kgf, hardly low- Mavic recommend 90kgf max for all of their standard rims.
Light bicycle only recommend 120-130 kgf for there carbon rims.
So the crest is lower but not the rest of the stans rims
Thanks for the info folks. No idea how tight I normally get my spokes other than quite tight. Might just back off half a turn or so than I normally would using the patented “how hard is it to turn the spokes key measure”.
I’ve never thought about what force there is in a spoke, but turning a 100kgf into a stress gets up to 400MPa which is pretty high, but I guess they get the yield strength up in the stainless steel well beyond that.
Anyway - I’ll try one for the back wheel where I’ll probably have a slightly narrower tyre and see how it goes.
Can I ask how cheap is cheap, and what rim diameter?
£27 - 27.5” @ Winstanleys
Ta 🙂