Still looking for 650b wheels.

[Willam]

If your bike is stock from factory, list all the numbers from the hubs on here, we can find out what they are. Rim is easy.

Here are the specs but they don’t list the rear hub specific specs.

https://whytebikes.com/pages/wpov3?srsltid=AfmBOooqmU6lFIEDUmfA6FxMFAEKDL5Zgo5AufX2nI-B0te1k92asKIg

Rear Hub	Alloy, Cup & Cone, Double Seal, 32 Hole
Front Hub	Alloy, Double Sealed Cartridge Bearings, 12mm x 100mm Thru Axle, 32 Hole

 

[fossyant]

Front is easier to tell you, rear looks more like a QR hub - photos might help.

 

[Willam]

Front is easier to tell you, rear looks more like a QR hub - photos might help.

Its not quick release,(turns out it is qr)its the old type with a nut….I can remove the wheel and take a pic of the fittings if that helps?

 

[fossyant]

Its not quick release, its the old type with a nut….I can remove the wheel and take a pic of the fittings if that helps?

OK, this is more complicated. If the rear is on by nuts, it will be possibly 130mm or 135mm axels (no mention of 126 these days please), older standard. It's weird it has a through axel too.

You will have an issue getting a 'pair' of matching wheels. Hmmmm......

 

[fossyant]

Can you do photo's of each side of the axels ?

 

[Willam]

Ok, the gap between the dropouts is 135mm, do I need the width? If so which width? Of the actual fitting or the gap where the alxe goes?

Cheers guys, sorry for the idiots guide to wheel buying.

 

[fossyant]

Sounds like a standard QR 135mm rear axel. I suspect you've got some semi security QR end caps on that need an allen key ?

 

[Willam]

Sounds like a standard QR 135mm rear axel. I suspect you've got some semi security QR end caps on that need an allen key ?

Yeah an allen key, so its still a QR just with the actual leveler removed, that makes sense…its the rear I’m in desperate need of, I can just buy a rear for now.

 

[fossyant]

Yeah an allen key, so its still a QR just with the actual level removed, that makes sense…its the rear I’m in desperate need of, I can just buy a rear for now.

Looks like it..

 

[Willam]

Looks like it..

So is that all the info I need, 135mm alxe QR?

 

[fossyant]

So is that all the info I need, 135mm alxe QR?

Given we have no physical photo's of the hub, it looks like that's what you have. Through hubs are very different !

 

[Willam]

Sorry didn’t think you meant the hub, I’ve now measured the width of the dropout fitting its 9mm, so I need to look for a hub that is 9mm-135mm QR? Edit actually the driveside seems to 10mm non drive side 9mm?

 

[T4tomo]

Do you need new wheels or just new rims lacing onto existing hubs, or are the hubs farked, as the former is a pretty easy job for a local wheel builder?

 

[Willam]

Do you need new wheels or just new rims lacing onto existing hubs, or are the hubs farked, as the former is a pretty easy job for a local wheel builder?

New rims…for the price of a rebuild and a new rim I might as well buy a new wheel as the wheel I have now came standard with the bike so doubt its worth rebuilding.

 

[Kingfisher101]

New rims…for the price of a rebuild and a new rim I might as well buy a new wheel as the wheel I have now came standard with the bike so doubt its worth rebuilding.

Just take the bike to the most reputable proper bike shop in your area which actually does things like wheel building etc and ask them what's available and to give you some prices? You don't have to commit to anything. Ask for off the shelf and home built.
I had a two pairs of wheels built and they were both over £200 for the cheapest and that was some years ago.