rims and pads

[ash]

I'm going to buy a new rim and some pads soon, if anyone would like to get anything and share the shipping with me let me know. I haven't really looked into where i want to buy from yet, so i'm open to suggestions about what the best sites are...

~ Ash!

[ash]

come on guys? what are the best online shops?

JOEL - you net junkie - where would you buy a rim?

~ Ash!

[Andre]

Wouldnt the cost of shipping a rim outweigh the savings from getting it from OS? Unless you talking online shops here in AUS. Then I only know of biketrialsaustralia.com but I'm really out of the loop these days. I'm still on rhino lites

[tomac]

I would buy it through the Australian distributor, or get onto Adam Kelly, who sells them through his shop in Newcastle. Tragically, he is in New Zealand at the moment representing Oz in the UCI world cup!

I don't break trials stuff Ash :-) So no need to replace it...

Get onto the observedtrials.net Australia forum. There's a thread about Zhi components being available now, and of course there's Echo stuff. Having built, and seen ruined, a new echo rim however, I would recommend against them. It seems the outer wall can't take the spoke tension needed to keep a trials wheel together, and it crumples.

- Joel

[blake]

ash you dont still have that hs33 or equivelent do you?? still interseted in buying!!!!
blake

[ash]

yes i do actually,

sorry i had totally forgotten about that, it just completely slipped my mind. sorry.
give me a hoy at [e-mail] or 0423739250 and we shall discuss it...

~ Ash

[Don]

Well, my stock of Aorta rims should be arriving by this week so that's good news

Though, the only available colours for 'surface rim braking' rims are...
Gold and Green (that's all they had left in the factory!)

and or you can and go buy 'matching' front 'disc specific' rims in..
Gold, Green and red

I'll also and am hoping to be able to get hands on the new Plazmatic Magura CNC'd ones too...so that should be rad

Check out my dodgey website, needs a new host for sure!
www.DonkayTrials.2ya.com

Also on another note...i'll be getting in Badgless (Echo) cranks too! either in 158mm or 170mm for what...stupidly possibly $50 a pair!

[cdfeto]

any pictures of the cranks ?
square or isis ?
cheers

[Don]

These bad boys are Square only but hey, it's still something if you're on a budget!

[cdfeto]

What kind of chain ring/bashring combo would i need to run on them ? Would they screw on ? Do you sell those as well ?($?)

thanks

[JoelO]

they are for Front FreeWheel setups (FFW), you screw a freewheel onto the front and have a fixed cog on the rear, for mods mostly.

[Don]

they are FFW cranks

As Joel mentioned, you can either screw on Freewheels, OR fixed cogs with/without bashring...depending if you're riding a mod or not

on a side of things...no i don't have any Bashrings available...(but there may be a possibitility....but i'd doubt it) you can get them cheap at Biketrialsaustralia.com though so yeah

[cdfeto]

how much would a decent freewheel (front), chainring and bashring cost ? Any pics or links of this kind of setup ? What are the advantages/disadvantages compared to the "usual" : fixed front, back freewheeled set-up ?

How would you expected it to perform on a street/dirt jump bike ?

thanks for the helps, and sorry about all the questions, again

[tomac]

front freewheel for trials only. The freewheel effectively becomes your chainring, and they're limited to 18t in size. Gearing you far too low for anything but trials.

- Joel

[Don]

Yeah pretty much 18t freewheel is the biggest due to bashring size....So as Joel said, it's good for Trials unless you want a low gear ratio on the street bike

Cool thing about FFW setup is, you can change gears without pedalling!