Originally Posted by
ogbigbird
in sizes for mountain bikes, comfort or cruiser bikes, do they make 26" x 1.5 to 2.0 "mag" wheels for bikes?
There is this company on eBay:
http://stores.ebay.com/Taibilllin-Bi...ims-And-Wheels
however these rims are not very wide.
A buyer on Motoredbikes.com says that the rim's outside width is only about an inch, and that probably the widest tire the wheels would take well would be a 1.5".
http://www.motoredbikes.com/showthread.php?t=13721
I would also warn that these wheels are best used for casual riding, and
not hard use. A number of companies in the past have tried to make MTB mag wheels, and all but one have pulled out after durability issues.
im sure they have a very expensive carbon fiber racing wheel in that size, but what about the rest of us? ...
Those would be the
Aerospoke MTB wheels, $600 or so a pair.
http://www.aerospoke.com/order.php?cat_id=003
They're listed as out of stock, but have been for a long time now, so they may be building to order.
The Aerospokes are built strong, for casual riding they'd last forever. And they're not really that expensive, for
upper-end wheels.
I've never owned any but as I've heard and read it,,,, the reason that riders aren't fond of them is that they're rather heavy, compared to wire spokes. For most types of sanctioned racing, they aren't even legal.
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Spinergy and HED are two other mag-wheel companies, but as I recall they don't do MTB wheels at all.
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