Rigida wheels

Martin Wilson typed:

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Just wondering if anyone has experience of this brand
of wheel?

Generally they're cheap and cheerful, machine built, not top
quality, but servicable for a bike that doesn't get too much
'hammer' .. 😉 If you get the spokes re-tensioned correctly
by hand they can become a decent set of hard-wearing wheels,
though they will always be a little heavy.

--
Paul ...

(8(|) ... Homer Rocks

Martin Wilson said:

Just wondering if anyone has experience of this brand
of wheel?

Wheels or rims?

They've long been making rims of various types and quality.
The (old) ones I've used have been, er, average to fine.

~PB

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Martin Wilson said:

Just wondering if anyone has experience of this brand
of wheel?

Yep

Cheap and cheerful - reasonably well built but do require
tensioning before use. Alloy on the rims seems to be of good
quality but probably slightly heavy for the hi-tech user. I
have had no problems with the hubs or axles used.

I buy them in lots of 20 pairs.

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Just wondering if anyone has experience of this brand of
wheel?

I have a Raleigh R100 road bike that uses Sora hubs and
Rigida rims. I have had no problems with the front wheel but
in 250 - 300 miles the rear wheel has snapped spokes twice
and after a total rebuild with new spokes, promptly unwond
the nipples on around 80% of the spokes. Dificult to
apportion blame to the builder, the spokes or the rims - the
jury is still out.

Vernon in Leeds

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Just wondering if anyone has experience of this brand
of wheel?

They are the favoured wheel of small LBS's and Action bikes
etc. Have had several pairs, they are Ok for a while then a
spoke breaks and no matter how many times you re-true them
they always need new spokes/truing. Mavics are hardly any
more expensive and seem fairly trouble free. You can get
pair of Mavics on Sora for £60-70 if you shop around.

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> Just wondering if anyone has experience of this brand
> of wheel?

They are the favoured wheel of small LBS's and Action bikes
etc. Have had several pairs, they are Ok for a while then a
spoke breaks and no matter how many times you re-true them
they always need new spokes/truing. Mavics are hardly any
more expensive and seem fairly trouble free. You can get
pair of Mavics on Sora for £60-70 if you shop around.

To be honest I've already bought two pairs of these for two
bikes. Here's one of the auctions;

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The first pair have already arrived and I was so pleased
with them I bid on another set. The first pair seems true
and the spokes are tight. Much tighter than the original
set on the bike. So far they seem very strong and
reasonably light. I'm only looking for basic strong wheels
not performance wheels. The main bike I'm currently using
is a basic steel frame model with oversized tubing but I
hope to use a Kona Lanai bike when I've lost a bit more
weight. However the Lanai I have has 32 spoke wheels that
look if anything worse than the wheels that came on the
basic steel bike so I've bought a set of these rigida
wheels for that too.

My original intention was to get a Kona Smoke from my local
dealer but they couldn't get stock. In the end I bought a
half price new Kona Lanai from ebay (new as in not ridden
but bought in Nov 2003) and basic steel bike which is
handling my weight well until I jammed it into the pavement
kerb at about 18mph and knocked the front wheel out of true
slightly. At about 24.25 stone (26 stone 3-4 weeks ago) I
don't trust my weight on the Lanai as its aluminium but its
a beautiful bike that I'm really looking forward to riding.

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the steel bike is this one;

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