Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - wood rims?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3654157140&category=36144

i have a feeling those would be really really smooth to ride on. and they look ****ing killer.

But then you would not only have to worry about thieves, you would also have to worry about termites!

360 bucks is a lot of money to spend, what if they broke?

track rims. useless (sorta) for anything else.
They come up every once in a while, but nothing
as nice and NOS as this pair.

Marty

wuts the benefit of wood?

wuts the benefit of wood?

EXTREME SLOW BRAKING POWER! WOO!

Almost as good as my steel rims in the rain.

I was out on a pair of wooden rims today. They are really comfortable, taking the vibrations out of a roughly tarred road. They wer'nt all made for the track, old time triallists here (U.K.) used to use either felt or very soft rubber brake blocks, I use the blocks meant for carbon fibre rims. I believe there is a bloke in Italy still making them, or there was until very recently.

There pretty cool but.......there wood!

They're over there with their wooden rims.

They're over there with their wooden rims.
:roflmao:

Marty

My boss built up a mid sixties Raleigh Professional(I think) with new record 10 and laced the hubs to wooden rims. He collects vintage bikes and there is someone in the community that turns out a bunch every now and then. S W R mentioned brake pads for carbon rims and we also found those to work best.

My first bike had wood rims. I was about 6 and that was some 58 years ago. They must have been fairly common then as my folks didn't have much money. I remember losing control once and smashing into a curb at pretty high speed. It was tramatic or I wouldn't remember it now. Didn't phase the wheel. I remember feeling relief that I wouldn't have to tell the folks that I broke the new bike. When I was 10, about 1950, my parents took me to their homeland (France) for a couple of months. They bought me a French bike with 5 rear cogs and a deraileur. It could have been the first in the US for all I know. I was the rage in east Connecticut since no one had ever seen one before and I could outrun everybody, especially on the hills.

Al

I think wooden tubulars were pretty much the classic equivalent of carbon for high performance track racing. Super-light compared to steel. My dad keeps going on and on about how he used to race wooden tubulars in the 60s.

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Pedantic, I mean, pendatic (sic) coasters!
Here we go...the Grammarian strikes

About the ACTUAL post though: why the hell would anyone use brakes on these rims? Kinda defeats the point, don't it?

It wasn't me...it was submitted by proxy.Escapist, or avoidance professionalism

Ok, the garbage has been removed, now keep it civil, ok?