i've got a set of wheels that i'm not using from an hybrid that have 24 spokes. i'm wondering if it's possible to find a flipflop to rebuild the same wheel. it would be nice because i don't have a lot of bread right now to buy new wheels, but this would work out dandy if i could find a flipflop for 24 spokes.

anyone know?

thanks in advance,

scott

Hi scott, I don't have an answer for your question, but just wanted to compliment you on the site! Love it!

You can easily build your wheels using 36-hole hubs with your 24 spoke rims. I think trying to find a 24 hole flip flop hub is next to impossible.

George!

Only 24 hole flip flop hub I know of is Phil wood, but they are fairly expensive and since you said you are on a tight budget, I had a set of wheels built on a set of high flange 24 hole phil wood hubs from businesscycles. They don't list them as a standard on philwoods web site though.

Try to find a 48 hole flip flop BMX hub. Then spoke it every other hole.

Try www.danscomp.com they have many 48 hole flip flops.

I agree with Joe. That' s great site.

Sounds like you want to reuse the rim to build a new wheel which is generally not a good idea. Plus, you will probably need new spokes because the chances of the existing ones being the right size are very small, so no money save there. Plus, I personally wouldn't build any wheel, much less a fixed rear, with less than 32 spokes.

aebike.com has a Suzue 36 hole flip-flop for 25.99 and you can get an Alex rim for 15.99 - sure it's heavy, but it's triple box construction and it's cheap. Add some spokes and you should only be around $60.

https://aebike.com/site/page.cfm?PageID=30&SKU=HU4019

https://aebike.com/site/page.cfm?PageID=30&SKU=RM7509