Bontrager rims - where to buy spare?

dazza315

Over the weekend someone stole my rear wheel. On looking at various sites I cant find anyone who sells the following items. Does anyone know where I can get these from? Its for a Trek 4300 2007 Disc bike. Thanks

Wheels: Bontrager Ranger rims built on Shimano M65 disc hubs
Tyres: Bontrager Jones 26 x 2.1 Inch

milkywhite

Upgrade it. Seems like an ideal opportunity to me. There's nothing that says you need to buy the same.

Go to merlin cycles and you can specify what you want. I think a decent mavic rim and xt hub should come to about £60 for a rear wheel.

dazza315

Thanks, wanted find out how much they cost so I can make a claim on my insurance. Ideally would like to get a complete set, rather han having different on the front and back.

milkywhite

I see. Wil it be worth claiming for just the rear wheel? Is there not an excess that's going to apply?

I think you'll have trouble finding these rims anywhere. They're stock Trek items...probably only OEM. I could be wrong though.

I thought the insurance company would just replace things like for like if the original item wasn't available.

If you wanted a whole new set of wheels, Merlin are the way to go.

Justinjured

Are you looking bontrager rangers? if so you probably wont find them as i think they are specifically built for equipping treks and gary fisher bikes in the factory.

I upgraded the rangers on my gf hoo koo e koo to mavic rims and pro2 hubs and they have proved to be a very good upgrade.

If you want to look at bontrager products swinnertoncycles.co.uk is very good.

I think the next product up from the rangers are the selects which are supposed to be superb and are about £140 a set.

batch78

East Street Cycles are a Bontrager supplier, can't see Rangers on their website but might be worth contacting. http://www.eaststcycles.com/index.php

ride_whenever

If it was a shimano M65 hub then i think that is an oldish lx one, a deore is m5-- and xt is m7--

I'd say xt hubs with mavic rims from merlin.