What wheel will work?
 

I have a huffy strider road bike with 26 inch wheels. will 700c wheels work or will they be too big. I found a cheap wheelset on ebay and everything seems to be 700c. Are my wheels weird?

It's hard to say for sure if a 700c wheelset will drop right into your frame. There might be a slight clearance problem, and there will probably be a mismatch as far as brake pads lining up with the larger wheelrims.

Where it comes to dimensions, Sheldon Brown's website has done a lot of the work for you: check out http://www.sheldonbrown.com/26/index.html for info on your 26x1-3/8" (590mm) wheel and tire size, and then look at http://www.sheldonbrown.com/tire-sizing.html for comparison info to the 700c.

I think you are looking at about an inch of increased diameter. If it were me, I'd borrow a 700c wheel from someone and try it out on the bike before committing to buying a wheelset, no matter how affordable. Some conversions are just easier to work out than others.

They might fit but I doubt it.

I can fit 700c wheels into my mountain bike but the brakes won't line up. I guess a solution would be to buy these http://paulcomp.com/motobmx.html but at $120 a pop, its probably more than you want to spend

You bike will take 26 x 1 3/8 (S-6), or 26 x 1 1/4 which both have a bead seat dia of 597 mm. These are the tires that Schwinn used on youth road bikes. These are not the same as mountain bike tires which measure their width in decimal parts of an inch rather than a fraction.