So a few weeks ago I forced my mom to give me her old 1986 or 87 Peugeot bicycle. I had it tuned up before I started riding it. Well... today I rode it not knowing that it was going to rain! As I was turning a corner my rear wheel slipped and now it is twisted pretty badly. It has the old 27 inch steel wheels and I have a feeling that it cannot be repaired. It's pretty bad.

What kind of wheels can I replace the old 27 inch steel ones with? My tires are 32-630, and the wheels are 27- 1 1/4. I was told when I had it repaired that eventually I'd have to get the steel wheels replaced. Well, I think the time has come. I don't think trueing the wheel would do any good.

Please help.

p.m, Talk to your LBS. They may themselves or know of someone that'll build a 27" wheelset for you.

Brad

https://harriscyclery.net/itemdetails.cfm?ID=701

Replace the horid steel wheels with some 27 inch aluminium rimmed wheels and ride on in happiness. The choice of basic and less expensive simple U section rims vs the more expensive but more durable box section rims will depend on how much the bike is worth to you and how long and aggresively you'll ride it. For basic cruise around enjoying the weather duty the cheaper U section rims will do just fine. If the bike is the sort that encourages more agresive riding shop for a set with box section rims.

There's also the option of switching to 700c wheels and tires. But then you have to check the current brakes to see if they will reach down far enough to catch the slightly smaller 700c rims. If they don't then you need to buy longer reach calipers. Depending on what the bike is set up for currently this may be difficult or impossible. Try the forums Search function with the keywords "700c 27 inch conversion", " 27 inch 700c brakes" or similar combinations for a list of threads. It's one of the most popular topics going and all that is worth seeing on it has been written numerous times already.