Haironfire
Warming-Up
- Sep 14, 2010
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Hi everyone,
I'm new to the site and have been grateful for many of your posts. Cheers.
I'm planning on a trip from Tokyo to Fukuoka and need to get some new rims. I have a road bike, but obviously don't want all the fancy schmancy racing rims for the trip - it's about 2000km.
I need 32 holes, hoping for Ultegra hubs, maybe Mavic CXP 22 rims or something similar, and who knows what spokes and nipples.
Anyway, I went to Y's in Shinjuku today and they said it'd be 4000yen/wheel for assembly of custom setups. Not theft, but I'm thinking there must be some shop out there that carries this kind of setup, or will do it for less if I buy everything from them.
My budget is not huge; I can only afford about 45 000yen, including building fees for the rims if I must... maybe a tiny bit more. Sigh.
Every bike shop I go to in Japan only seems to have 16/20 spokes, which just pushes the price up and gets less durable.
Anyone have any suggestions? Seen this kind of setup somewhere?
Thanks,
Haironfire
I'm new to the site and have been grateful for many of your posts. Cheers.
I'm planning on a trip from Tokyo to Fukuoka and need to get some new rims. I have a road bike, but obviously don't want all the fancy schmancy racing rims for the trip - it's about 2000km.
I need 32 holes, hoping for Ultegra hubs, maybe Mavic CXP 22 rims or something similar, and who knows what spokes and nipples.
Anyway, I went to Y's in Shinjuku today and they said it'd be 4000yen/wheel for assembly of custom setups. Not theft, but I'm thinking there must be some shop out there that carries this kind of setup, or will do it for less if I buy everything from them.
My budget is not huge; I can only afford about 45 000yen, including building fees for the rims if I must... maybe a tiny bit more. Sigh.
Every bike shop I go to in Japan only seems to have 16/20 spokes, which just pushes the price up and gets less durable.
Anyone have any suggestions? Seen this kind of setup somewhere?
Thanks,
Haironfire