Road wheelset for my Jamis Renegade

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Jseverson218
6 posts
#1Jun 19, 2019, 1:24 PM
Hey all,

I don't know much about wheels and hubs at all... I have a Jamis Renegade Expat and I am looking to get a second wheelset with road slicks on it. A family member might have an extra road 700cc wheelset but it isn't disc, but what would I need to do to make it fit my Renegade? Or do I need to buy a new wheelset? Its a QR rear and a thru axle front. Here is what the website says for wheel/hub

\\WTB i23 STP disc rims with TCS (UST Tubeless
Compliant System), 32H, Formula 12mm front and
QR rear alloy 6-bolt hubs and 14g stainless steel
spokes

Any recommendations on affordable wheelset?
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tdilf
33 posts
#2Jun 19, 2019, 3:50 PM
A rim brake wheel set will not work for your disk brake bike.
What do you consider affordable? Do you care how heavy the new wheels are?
There are plenty of options out there…
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Jseverson218
6 posts
#3Jun 20, 2019, 8:00 AM
I don't care how heavy, its a steel bike. I will be riding gravel mostly, so I want almost as affordable as possible. I have family that are pure road riders and so I will ride with them and need to be able to keep up. I also might do a 70-100 mile pure road ride with them later in the year. But I don't want to spend a lot on a set of wheels that might only get a handful of rides per year.
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abu_pinhus
1 posts
#4Jun 21, 2019, 9:23 AM
The most affordable way is just have different set of tires and switch them as needed. You would need sent of tires anyway, so you could try start this way. It says that original tires are 700×36. I would use nothing less 700×28 for road now. I have Jamis Aurora for many years, and started with 700×37, than switch to 700×25, then for few years used 700×23.
Now I am back to 700×32 and very happy. Just switching for slightly narrower slicks will reduce effort and still keep it a comfortable ride. IMHO
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HollyBoni
333 posts
#5Jun 21, 2019, 10:56 AMedited
If you don't care about weight and you want a wheelset as cheap as possible just use your current wheelset and buy a pair of road tyres. Lots of people will have lots of different opinions about this, but I would run a 28-30mm slick on your current rims, if that 23mm is the inner width. If you bought another wheelset you'd have to swap over the discs and cassette anyways, this way you just swap your tyres.
Unless you are riding tubeless, in that case switching tyres regularly is a bit of a mess.

Oh and ignore the wheelset that your family member might have. To make it work on your bike you'd have to get new hubs, which means most likely new spokes. If they don't even remember if they have it or not then it's most likely not worth much.

If you do get new wheels just get something used for cheap... I'm sure you could find something like an OEM wheelset for a good price that was taken off a new bike or something. Or something like a take off Mavic Aksium disc, Fulcrum Racing 7 DB etc. Just make sure the axles match.
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