I've fixing up an old beater department store bike (mtn bike styled) for my kid to ride to school, and I need to get a new 24" 32H alloy rim for the front wheel. I don't need anything fancy or expensive, just a basic rim of the same basic mass-market quality that it came with. (Original rim, btw, was Weinmann TM19.) Shops around here don't stock 24" rims, and are mostly focused on high-end parts ... but if I know of a particular mass-market/low-cost rim to ask for, they might be able to order it for me. I haven't found much of anything online, either. Only thing I've found that's in the ballpark is this
no-name direct from china rim, but that might be a little
too junky. I'd consider buying a pre-built wheel, except that the hubs on the inexpensive ones are total crap, and the ones with decent hubs are much more expensive than this bike justifies. Thanks for any advice