29” wheels recommendations

[Rail5]

Looking to upgrade my standard wheels, any advice or recommendations I currently have 148 boost on the rear and 110 boost up front.

Thanks

 

[Gary]

What do you want to improve on from your current wheelset?

 

[Rail5]

What do you want to improve on from your current wheelset?

Keeping my tyres inflated lol converted to tubeless and my rim has taken quite a nasty hit can’t see it holding much longer tbh ??‍?

 

[Gary]

just replace the rim then, and stop running too tyre pressure in your tyres

 

[Hamina]

My current wheelset on my low budget Trek Rail 5 2020 is Alex MD35. I'm running Cushcores and some Minions at1,2bar (17.404528528psi for the ones not using Système international d'unités).

My poor trying-to-be-fast riding skills and the local trails seems to arrange several hits for the rims. I don't want to ruin them or end up to a repairing loop. I would also like to keep the current wheelset in such a condition, that in the future I could put them back when selling the bike and that gives me good reason to buy new fancy wheelset.

The rear hub (Bontrager of actually Formula) has as already 2mm play in cassette and it's just a question of time when it reaches the end of life. It's unrepairable and you can only replace the old low quality part with new low quality part. Guarantee case or not - doesn't matter. In addition I don't see it reasonable to just change the hub.

So I've narrowed my options to following ones:

Rims

• DT Swiss FR560
• DT Swiss EX511
• Stan's Notubes Baron MK3

Hubs

• DT Swiss 350 (54T)
• Hope Pro 4

Other

• 32 spokes (maybe more is better?)
• Weight doesn't matter
• Budget 400-600 euros
• Material alloy, no carbon (out of budget)

What else I should be looking for? Open for questions, ideas and opinions.

 

[UVRail]

I’ve just ordered Raceface Turbine Rs for my Rail 5, along with Maxxis DHF / DHR 2 tyres... am hoping for a major improvement!

 

[BrentD]

Rims

DT Swiss HX-531. It is basically an EX-511 which spent a few weeks at the gym bulking up. Same excellent profile and shape just a thicker extrusion and more metal where the spoke nipples enter to deal with the extra loads of e-bikes.

 

[jbrown15]

I’ve just ordered Raceface Turbine Rs for my Rail 5, along with Maxxis DHF / DHR 2 tyres... am hoping for a major improvement!

I was considering the RaceFace Turbine prebuilt wheels, but ruled them out when I realized that they were only available with a 28 spoke hud. Plus I’m not a huge fan for straight pull spoke/hubs.

I did still end up using RaceFace Vault hubs though as they are a nice beefy looking hub that’s actually pretty quiet with great hub engagement. Went with Stan’s Flow MK3 rims as I didn’t have the budget at the moment for We Are One carbon rims.....lol

 

[UVRail]

I was considering the RaceFace Turbine prebuilt wheels, but ruled them out when I realized that they were only available with a 28 spoke hud. Plus I’m not a huge fan for straight pull spoke/hubs.

I did still end up using RaceFace Vault hubs though as they are a nice beefy looking hub that’s actually pretty quiet with great hub engagement. Went with Stan’s Flow MK3 rims as I didn’t have the budget at the moment for We Are One carbon rims.....lol

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Very nice. I really struggled ordering anything new - parts seemed to be in short supply all over. So I had to buy separate Turbine R rim and the Vault hub for the front. I've got a wheel builder lined up to put together the front (rear is factory built). I'm slightly unclear on the whole straight pull spokes though.. generally I would expect a straight pull hub to look something like the Shimano hub in the photo. But the Vault doesn't - it looks much more like a regular hub for J-Bend spokes. So I'm a bit confused as to whether the RaceFace are actually straight pull or not... any ideas?

 

[jbrown15]

Very nice. I really struggled ordering anything new - parts seemed to be in short supply all over. So I had to buy separate Turbine R rim and the Vault hub for the front. I've got a wheel builder lined up to put together the front (rear is factory built). I'm slightly unclear on the whole straight pull spokes though.. generally I would expect a straight pull hub to look something like the Shimano hub in the photo. But the Vault doesn't - it looks much more like a regular hub for J-Bend spokes. So I'm a bit confused as to whether the RaceFace are actually straight pull or not... any ideas?

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do you have the part number for the hub? J-bend’s part number will start with a J.

 

[apac]

Looking to upgrade my standard wheels, any advice or recommendations I currently have 148 boost on the rear and 110 boost up front.

Thanks

I've got a pair of these coming up for sale very soon. They will be brand new never ridden. Along with brand new tyres and set up tubeless ready to go.... Specialised Roval Traverse Carbon

 

[UVRail]

do you have the part number for the hub? J-bend’s part number will start with a J.

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hi

yes, the hub is the Race Face Vault J Bend Front Hub 15x110mm BST - 414J - 28H Black

Vault J-Bend Hub - 28H

Cast your eyes upon your new favorite component–the infinitely adaptable, fully tuned-and-dialed hub of choice for your custom wheel build. The Vault has almost instant power transfer for slippery fast speed by way of solid, smart design.

www.raceface.com