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I've got a really wacky bike I've just built up, and I want to modify it a bit, but I'm not sure if what I want to do will work. I've got some nice bmx hubs that I'm currently using on this bike, and they're 36 hole. I'd like to build some new wheels, but the only rims available of anything even remotely resembling reasonable quality in this size are 32 hole. My question is this..... Has anyone tried lacing a 36 hole hub into a 32 hole rim using only 24 spokes? I'd be skipping 12 holes on the hub and 8 on the rim, and I THINK it should work, but has anyone done it?
What I've got is a little kids bike with 16x 1.75 rims on it (a 305) and what I want is to build some 16x1 3/8 wheels (349) The rims I have are really crappy steel crap, and the tires are wide and knobby. A 349 would give me a considerably higher top speed and nicer tires to choose from. Problem is, when you get down to 16", it's VERY hard to fit 36 spokes in one rim. So they didn't really make them. Now the 349, which was never a popular size to begin with, is dying out, and rims are VERY hard to come by. Velocity sometimes will send you an undrilled rim if you ask nice (one of my co-workers has put LOTS of miles on his 9 spoke wheel, which was made possible by the kind folks at Velocity sending him an undrilled rim).
When you see this bike, you'll understand. It's a Pacific Hammer with a really tall seatpost, a TTT Mutant Classic road stem and Mountain bars on it. It's pretty fast for what it is, but I'd like it to be faster. It's geared 36x14 thanks to a bmx flip-flop which takes a metric freewheel. I'm going to see what it would be like fixed by threading a lockring on the regular size end and if I like it I'll build up a track hub instead. It's the Lunch Rocket! Also known as the long awaited "fourth Hammer of the Apocolypse". These bikes are extra handy because you can disassemble them and fit them in a suitcase, so they're travel friendly without spending fancy folding bike prices.
What I've got is a little kids bike with 16x 1.75 rims on it (a 305) and what I want is to build some 16x1 3/8 wheels (349) The rims I have are really crappy steel crap, and the tires are wide and knobby. A 349 would give me a considerably higher top speed and nicer tires to choose from. Problem is, when you get down to 16", it's VERY hard to fit 36 spokes in one rim. So they didn't really make them. Now the 349, which was never a popular size to begin with, is dying out, and rims are VERY hard to come by. Velocity sometimes will send you an undrilled rim if you ask nice (one of my co-workers has put LOTS of miles on his 9 spoke wheel, which was made possible by the kind folks at Velocity sending him an undrilled rim).
When you see this bike, you'll understand. It's a Pacific Hammer with a really tall seatpost, a TTT Mutant Classic road stem and Mountain bars on it. It's pretty fast for what it is, but I'd like it to be faster. It's geared 36x14 thanks to a bmx flip-flop which takes a metric freewheel. I'm going to see what it would be like fixed by threading a lockring on the regular size end and if I like it I'll build up a track hub instead. It's the Lunch Rocket! Also known as the long awaited "fourth Hammer of the Apocolypse". These bikes are extra handy because you can disassemble them and fit them in a suitcase, so they're travel friendly without spending fancy folding bike prices.