MikeWarner Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 I now have a set of new wheels - Hope hubs (32/36 hole) with black spokes, black nipples and Mavic 721 CD rims. They look great and should be really strong. If you have seen any of my previous posts, you may know that I used to do trials in the early '90s when there were no trials specific products around - you just used XC stuff. Well, when I built up my bike, I used my 1995 XC off my old GT Zaskar trials bike. As I wanted to rebuild the Zaskar as a retro bike, I knew a wanted to get new wheels for my new bike, thus freeing up the old wheels for the Zaskar again. Well, when I got the new wheels as described above, I weighed them to compare against my old wheels. Well I was amazed. The new wheels are no heavy weight - in fact quite the opposite, but the old wheels were over 600g lighter!!!! The old wheels consist of a racer lightweight Hope Titanium up front 28 spoke on a Mavic 230 rim, the the rear is a Hope Titanium 32 spoke with a Mavic 217. All spokes are butted. The wheels were very good to me and are still true. I just can't believe how much lighter they were. No quite sure why I wanted to share this story, but someone may be interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Garland Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 The hubs are still good but the rims look rather weak for what is done today. Keep the new wheels and sell your ti-glides as they fetch quite abit today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 chuck ur hope xc or mono and use the ti glide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 chuck ur hope xc or mono and use the ti glide. ← Fact. Lee had a ti glide for going on 4 years. No new ratchet, no new springs, and it only died because of old age when the ratchet twisted out of the shell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 Fact. Lee had a ti glide for going on 4 years. No new ratchet, no new springs, and it only died because of old age when the ratchet twisted out of the shell. ← I had one it never failed me, ive had about 4 xc's (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishayton Posted August 28, 2005 Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 the reason they are lighter is because your old wheels are full lightweight xc hubs, those front ti glide hubs are stupidly light. and from the look of those rims they going to be too. ex 721(d521) rims are designed for heavy duty riding such as DH and therefore arent as light(although not heavy at all) , the two rims and those tiglide hubs arent actually that far out of date compared to modern bike technology so will still be light even compared to modern light xc wheels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeWarner Posted August 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2005 the reason they are lighter is because your old wheels are full lightweight xc hubs, those front ti glide hubs are stupidly light. and from the look of those rims they going to be too. ex 721(d521) rims are designed for heavy duty riding such as DH and therefore arent as light(although not heavy at all) , the two rims and those tiglide hubs arent actually that far out of date compared to modern bike technology so will still be light even compared to modern light xc wheels ← Yeah, but 600g is a massive difference. The wheels did originally have alloy nipples so would have been a bit lighter, but they kept seizing and were a pain to adjust. The hubs where the first MTB hubs Hope did. The old wheels will go on my 1993 Zaskar when I build it back up - along with my Middleburn RS1s. (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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