I bought a job lot of rims to bolster my apparently new interest in wheel building. Among the rims is a gently used pair of tub rims. 45mm-ish carbon, no brake track, a little bit of glue residue left on the rims (no chunks). 20 hole front/24 hole rear. I haven’t measured the width yet.
I have no personal use for a set of tubs. I’m considering a couple of things to do with them, but I’m open to suggestions. The more ridiculous and/or removed from normal use, the better.
Get some track hubs, build them up as track/fixie wheels, glue some CX tubs to them, and enter yourself in the singlespeed cyclocross world champs! It’s the only logical answer
Glue as voluminous a tyre insert to them as you can find, after building them onto track hubs,
Find old school rat trap tracky pedals and then launch yourself off a 10 metre diving board at your local pool, marginal test of buoyancy and research into triaphrodite transition tactics .
Massive dream catchers to hang from your car’s rearview mirror.
Isn’t it obvious? Tubular rims were the first hookless rims!
Sections of carbon rims work great as weight weenie coat hangers.
Also a wall clock from the entire rim is kinda cool.
Tracklocross? Winner right there..!!!
The world’s lightest occasional table: one rim as the surface, cut one in half to make the legs. Lace the spoke holes with Spectra cord or Berd spokes (which are the same material as Spectra) to support the top.
I came here to say coathangers.
Not only are coat hangers made of old rims cool, they’re also a great band (The Coathangers)
kinetic sculpture! a la nine steel rings continuously rotate in cycles for SpY's kinetic sculpture
I guess this discussion means my old Enve (actually “Edge” before the tradename dispute forced a brand change) 45 mm carbon tubular rim brake road wheelset don’t have a great resale value?
Wait a few years and they might!
Go to your office, stick one rim to the wall, and cover the middle with tin foil. Then, go to your garage/bike room/pain cave, and repeat the above. You now have a portal taking you directly to your bikes and away from work!