Please suggest new rear wheel.

LazyD

Hello,

Have a Ridgeback Flight 03 like this (but I think mine was the year before):
http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/category/ ... 38065#null
Mine, like that one, has those Alex Rims DP17. So I've been cycling on it for months with a missing spoke on the back wheel and the wheel has finally buckled pretty badly, so I need a new wheel.

I'm not an expert on bike mechanics so I need some advice. I can't find the same wheel anywhere so I need to buy something like it that will be ok with the disc for the brakes. Can anyone please suggest a wheel that will be as good as the alex rim that it came with? Or a place to buy the same wheel again.

Thank you.

jacknorell

Those are 700C I think, so any 29" MTB rim would work as well as a normal 700C road rim. At least the '13 model is a 135 mm wide rear spacing, so any MTB hub will work.

Can't go wrong with an XT 6 bolt rear hub built up with a disc-specific Mavic or WTB rim. Call up Merlin Cycles or Chain Reaction and see what they can sort you with.

LazyD

Thanks for your advice, I might do that, but otherwise is there a simple off the shelf wheel that I can quickly buy to replace this?

Yes it's a 700c by the way.

Dan007

mavic cosmic.

Poacher

Tough love time!
First off, but rather belated advice, don't carry on riding with a broken spoke. Replace the broken spoke and retrue the wheel - it's not particularly difficult, and a useful skill to learn, but any bike shop will do it for you, at a price which will be far below the cost of a new wheel.
Unless the buckle is really, really bad, your wheel should be salvageable - disc brakes mean little or no rim wear. Even if the rim is a write-off, you probably still have every component except a new rim and a spoke (tip: buy two or three spare spokes).
If you decide to DIY, measure the broken spoke if it ain't too broken(!), else check at least two online spoke calculators for length - you may need to measure your hub and rim, but some have databases of known sizes.
For rear wheels, the gearside spokes tend to be ~2mm shorter than the non-gear side, and should preferably be stronger, e.g. Sapim Strong instead of double-butted. Yours is probably 294mm, but don't take my word for it!

LazyD

Thanks, promise I'll never ride on a broken spoke again.

Rim was unsalvageable apparently. Getting a new wheel built by local bike shop, just waiting for it now.