merlinextraligh

This was before the UCI defined a bicycle as having to have a diamond frame. For better or worse, without the UCI's ruling a lot of TT bikes today would look something like this.

nova

Those are fairly heavy rims but offer a great ammount of ride comfort. They also dont go out of true. And i see even the seller doesnt know the brand of the rims. Ive been looking for those sence i seen them in a akron bike shop. Their not a heavy rim exactly but there are many newer and modern rims that weigh less. Any weight savings from the carbon spokes and hubs is lost to the extra aluminum on the rims them self. Benifit the ride confort and the fact they dont loose true.

At any rate any one who knows the brand of those rims and where to get them id love it if youd spill and give me a link heh.

same time

Hey, Giant "Wagon Wheels"! I rode a pair of those wheels once.

They were "Giant" brand wheels, no name but nicknamed "Wagon Wheels", and a buddy of mine was selling them. I test-rode them and found out why he didn't want them - the wheels flexed side-to-side an alarming amount. It felt like riding on wet ice. Stand up to sprint and the rims rubbed your brake pads.

Hubs were carbon, the middle part, flanges were aluminum, just like those old Nuke Proof hubs. Spokes were stressed carbon, like Spinergy Rev-X's. Giant only sold them for a couple of years, maybe '98 and '99? They came on a couple of bikes, but were not sold separately.

giantcfr1

Yes I remember that bike back in 1998 / 1999 in Australia and here in Japan. I also saw it in 1999 in Harrods (London) in the Harrods Green colour and I think was priced at 7000 pounds. There is still a female triathlete on the Gold Coast riding one but she has had it repainted.
Steve.

va_cyclist

The Giant is pretty radical-looking. I like the way the FD fits inside the frame.

That Trek is kind of ugly. It looks broken.

DocRay

chick bike...made for riding with a skirt.
My neighbor has a Trek Y-framed carbon...ridiculous then , ridiculous now.

EventServices

That Trek is the ugliest bike ever.
It's the AMC Gremlin of bikes.

jdtschida

Too bad for you Y-Foil haters. I like mine.

glassman

Here is a set of those wheels
https://cgi.ebay.com/GIANT-CARBON-WHE...QQcmdZViewItem

TheKillerPenguin

why so cheap I wonder?

krazyderek

i've seen one guy around here that has those wheels on his regular road bike, i beleive he used them at the crit in june.

oh and these spokes are bigger



and so are these... lol

nova

Only been there 2 days and no bids yet. Cant go by starting bid to get a idea of how much somethign will go for.

Ivewatched bikes (mostly cdales from late 80s as they are similar or exactly like mine) not get a bid till the last 10 hours of bidding. Then they end up going for well over 300 bucks on avarage. If i had 250 or so id have a go at thoose rims. Even if they were a bit flexxy in the corners my bet is my mavic ma 40 and ma 2 front are more flexy and probably heavyer as well. My rims were built up in the late 80s early 90s with components that would have been considered mid end to the low side of the high end back then. I seen a set on a cdale r600 more modern than mine owned by some one who puts a few 1000 hard miles on them every yearsence owning them. Been through 2 bikes he said. He said they are a bit flexxy as well but for the extra confort and the fact hes never needed to true them up he can live with that.

Im sure the flex likly comes from the carbon fiber spokes. So i wonder if a person could find aluminum spokes to replace the carbon ones hmm

EURO

Because it's an auction?

As You Like It

I'm sure it weighs less than a sneeze, but it looks like somebody rigged up a stationary exercise bike to have two wheels.

nova

oooh i like

I mostly want them because they look nice and with a large spoked wheel (like any of those shown) I could also include paint the rims to match my bikes planned american flag paint job. A disk rim would of course allow for this to but first its to expensive to do and secound i dont know how well a disk would do in heavy wind. While ill adventually have at least 2 sets of rims (one for road only and one for road and tow path rides). I dont want to have to swap do to wind. A aero 3 or 4 spoke set would work nicly though. Hmm i bet ebays got them to and probably in a price range ill be able to afford with even a fairly crappy full time job.

operator

At least it doesn't have an adjustable stem.

giantcfr1

Well I've been mislead. I was told by a bike shop back in 99 that those spokes just had carbon cover over "normal" style spokes. Does the guy actually mention carbon spokes, or is he only mentioning the hubs? FWIW I used to own a set of "Rigida" rims and they were sensational. Always stayed true.
Steve.

giantcfr1

You like bike spokes?
You might like these...
Steve

krazyderek

ya, the mavic front is pretty nice too, although i'd rather have the HED 3(specialized)

glassman

Now those wheels I like...