Game changer - 36er CARBON wheel!

Unicycles and Equipment
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Good to know! So do you mean if I freeze the rim and the tire, it will be easier to install?

380

No, exactly the opposite. If you heat both it will be easier to install.

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381

Leverage is down to how strong you are! They are stronger than any metal ones I’ve had over the years.

There peanut cheap especially compared to price you guys spend on carbon rims so give them a try as I think you’ll be surprised

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382

Oh I see, you need to expand the tire while shrinking the rim. Cool idea!

383

I’ve had a few discussions with regular cyclists when commuting on the train and as they’re seemingly so often expecting the whole unicycle to have been hand built custom for me the fact it’s a carbon rim doesn’t seem all that odd.

To those without a keen eye, it’s just a black rim on an exceptionally strange pedal cycle.

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384

True, if you see a dinosaur in the street, you won’t be particularly surprised that it’s a T-Rex.

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385

Where best to get spokes for a LB 36" + 125mm nimbus hub build? I’m in Colorado, USA. Thx!

386

I got them custom made from a local dealer. Try contact your local bike store to see if they can do custom spokes.

387

Really for a 36" ? Just few spoke companies can supply long enough spokes for a 36"

388

Some bike store has the tool to re-thread spokes. If your LBS happens to have one, you can buy some long spokes from unicycle.com and ask them to cut and re-thread for you.

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389

UDC in the US will make them to custom length, not sure if they say that on their web site. They did it for me. There wasn’t any extra charge.

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390

Thx, there is a shop in town that cuts spokes :+1:

391

Thank you. I suppose UDC probably already cut the spokes listed on their page. I was hoping to get something with known high quality like Sapim or DT but I’ll keep UDC in mind if my locals can’t source the blanks to cut

392

If you ever find Sapim or DT spokes long enough for 36er, please let us know. I have always though they don’t exist.

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393

You won’t find double butted spokes to cut. Blank spokes are necessarily straight spokes. I’m not sure we can call straight spokes of any brand “high quality spokes”.

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394

maybe “high-ish quality spokes”?

quality referring to the material used, in this case, not to the processes involved to shape the end product.

395

Perhaps berd fiber spokes would be economical in low production runs?

Actually upon visiting their site I believe they could build up a 36" wheel if you shipped them your hub and rim. It wouldn’t be very economical for the final customer tho!

396

Not sure about the price, but I would be afraid to lace a Schlumpf hub with such spokes, as they require to make the spoke holes bigger :scream:

397

I don’t think Berd spokes are likely to become much more popular without hooked hubs, which makes me wonder what the difference in process would be for a Schlumpf shell to be manufacturered for such a thing rather than having holes.

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398

I second that. They are my all time favourite tyre levers, but quite hard to find now.