They would indeed! and not just because of the color scheme. I'm thinking of Leah's new riding buddies...eyes agog when she first rocked that racing Platypus😊 Those rims make a statement allright.
They'd look nice on her blue Clem as well....but not sure how long they'd last with rim brakes. Fun rims though On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 12:12:26 PM UTC-5 esoter...@gmail.com wrote: > > Oooh, those eyeball rims would look wicked on Leah's raspberry Platypus! > > ~Mark > Raleigh, NC > > > On Jun 21, 2022, at 12:48, Kevin Reinking <mas...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > I'm guessing you were joking, but those painted rims would probably be a > poor choice for a rim brake bike; intended for disc. really > > > I've often wondered about the possibility of a 32 hole rim with 36 hole > hub; figured it could be done, but I've always been able to adapt or come > up with an alternative to that. I am guessing that it probably depends a > lot on the type or rim used, likely one with minimal offset at the spoke > holes. > > On Monday, June 20, 2022 at 2:59:40 PM UTC-5 lconley wrote: > >> Love this - Thank you. I have a lot of hubs sitting around, all 36 hole >> and Retrogression has some beautiful NOS Australian Velocity Deep-V rims >> (like those on my Trek District) 700C, 32 hole only and I didn't want to >> buy new hubs in order to use them. I want to put the Yellow rims on my >> Flanker Green Rosco Bubbe V1. I don't know what to put the eyeballs on, but >> I have to have them. >> [image: Yellow.JPG][image: Googlyeyes.JPG] >> >> Laing >> >> On Monday, June 20, 2022 at 3:24:49 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: >> >>> Someone posted this in a discussion of lightish, rim-brake 559 rims. It >>> might allow someone to buy 32 rims for 36 hubs, or doubtless v-v, and thus >>> makes this sparsely populated rim field a bit more populous. >>> >>> >>> https://www.instructables.com/Lacing-Bike-Wheel-36-Holes-Hub-to-32-Holes-Rim/ >>> >>> If anyone has any matched pairs of ~ road-weight, ~road-width, rim-brake >>> 559 rims for sale, please let me know. My 2 faves right now are: >>> >>> 1. Sun Ringle EQ 21, 360 gram, 21 mm OW, and: >>> 2. Sun M14A "semi-aero", 19 mm OW (apparently consistency varies, but my >>> digital scale says 360 grams to 390 grams). >>> >>> But happy to look at anything 24 mm OW or narrower, and 450 grams or >>> lighter. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Patrick Moore >>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/26c95d70-81dd-4300-9db6-c2cda10c9915n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/26c95d70-81dd-4300-9db6-c2cda10c9915n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/42aa87f0-0d02-4b84-94b1-a0743d435934n%40googlegroups.com.
