Rivendell magic?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I think you have to go back closer to 30 years or longer to find many steel rims. And I think they are actually harder to keep true than alloy rims.

Nobody mentioned steel rims.

[SadieKate]

Lisa, Schwinns built like tanks had steel rims. I made the same assumption that Xeney did - you were thinking steel everything on a bike.

[mimitabby]

one of my sons' friends has an old steel rimmed schwinn. It is SOOO heavy
and she works SOOOO hard going up hills. but she "loves" the dumb bike.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

one of my sons' friends has an old steel rimmed schwinn. It is SOOO heavy
and she works SOOOO hard going up hills. but she "loves" the dumb bike.

I remember my old blue girl's Schwinn when I was 12, the only bike that was ever my very own... until now with my blue Rambouillet. I had named it "Heather" (!) That thing was HEAVY, but I have no clue what the rims were actually made of!
Like when you revisit your old school and everything looks minute although you remember it all as being huge....I remember going up incredible mountains on my one-speed coaster brake Schwinn. But when I revisted those roads 35 years later and saw those giant hills....well, they were MICROSCOPIC! It made me feel proud to know the hills I can get up nowadays (though granted I have better gearing!) and that I'm come a long way since then. But I have not lost the MOST important thing- the feeling of childhood joy and freedom when I pedal along on my bike.

[twin]

I have had wheels built by all kinds of shops including Rivendell and I have liked them all. BTW if someone wants to give me a Quickbeam that would be great. I would be glad to add it to my singlespeed collection. As for wheels never needing truing for millions of miles I bet shops hope not everybody is so lucky.