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Thinking about maybe getting new wheels for the ebike.
£280 with the offer at the moment.
What are they like, freehub reliability and spares in long term, build quality?
Worth a punt or save for for better wheels?
Cheers.
No one used them? The magazine review seems good but looking for long-term feedback on reliability etc before I hit the button.
Or other options that aren't silly money.
Thanks.
No experience of them sorry. I may be wrong but did they buy all the wheel building kit and designs off Superstar many years ago?
Some good deals on DT Swiss wheels at Bird. £70 more but generally get good reviews and you know you'll be able to get spares for years to come.
No experience of them sorry. I may be wrong but did they buy all the wheel building kit and designs off Superstar many years ago?
Some good deals on DT Swiss wheels at Bird. £70 more but generally get good reviews and you know you'll be able to get spares for years to come.
I thought the wheel building kit went to Alpkit? (Sonder)
Some good deals on DT Swiss wheels at Bird. £70 more
Bloody hell, I'd buy those EX1700 immediately OP
XM17009 are also excellent but I assume you'll want the tougher rims for an eeb
Those M1900 wheelsets for £300 are quality as well
Thanks for input.
I should have says 27.5 flavour.
Think I'm right saying the 1900s use the 370 hubs, well they used to and they're not as reliable as 350/240s I seem to remember I've have read in the past?
I'll have a look at Sonder.
Cheers.
370s are now a variation of the ratchet design rather than 3 pawl although that will depend on vintage of hub/wheel you buy.
All current DT Wheels and hubs are now various flavours of ratchet, they stopped making pawl versions a few years back and they now do official kits to covert pawl systems to Ratchet LN.
I don’t see on the Uber website how heavy the wheelset is.
True, me neither.
There's nothing particularly great about those M1900s. Even at that price.
They're fairly durable but quite heavy. built with fairly low end rims and straightpull hubs so a PITA to true compared to J bend and shops are way less likely to have replacement spokes in stock if you need some in a pinch.
The 1700s are a far better buy if you can live with all the downsides of straightpull
The ubers are 2.3kg I'm told.