Originally Posted by
lurch0038
Ok so I know I need to lose weight (currently working on it!) and have customer wheels build but where can I have the wheels built? What can I expect to pay for a custom wheel?
After too many failures with old Fuji Tourer, I built up a DT when I was 285, default pack around 30...
I'm using 48 phill wood tandem hubs, velocity chukkers and marathon 38's (+ rear, 420 front). Made a mistake one commute home and took it airborne a good long ways at 20+ mph w/ about 50lbs in pack. Wheels are still perfectly true. I've done other dumb things like ride off curbs as I was too tired to think properly.
Around 3500 miles on them still like new.
They were pricey and they are heavy.
They are also marvelously smooth and nearly silent.
Frank of Frank's Cyclery built them,
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