Made me check my local-ish LBS and on-line retailer: http://www.jensonusa.com/Bicycle-Rims?pg=100&o=10880&s=b
Seems to be a pretty good supply, although I think they should carry more from Velocity. On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 8:44 PM, George Schick <bhim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Huh! Interesting. Well, actually I was looking at well known national > online retailers like Performance, Nashbar, and Harris Bike; and a popular > regional mail order-only outfit called Lickbike. But your Universal certain > beats their trend. Be interesting to see if their stock continues or > follows the others. > > > On Saturday, November 22, 2014 10:12:37 PM UTC-6, joe b. wrote: >> >> Nah, you must be looking in weird places. The road rim market is booming, >> and even better the wide rim revolution is taking over! Depending on who you >> ask, these new fangled v-shaped profiles may even be an improvement, too >> (stronger for less weight). Here are over 80 at a shop local to me, though >> granted a handful may be 29er or disc- specific: >> http://www.universalcycles.com/shopping/index.php?category=856 >> >> Best, >> joe broach >> portland, or >> >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 6:25 PM, George Schick <bhi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Having begun Winter off-time maintenance on my bikes I noticed enough rim >>> wear on the road bike to encourage me to snoop around on the Web to see >>> what's available nowadays. One online retailer that used to carry several >>> dozen brands/models of road rims is now listing only four. Another has far >>> more limited offerings than it used to. And a well-known national >>> chain/online retailer lists NO rims at all, just a pre-build wheel, and only >>> one selection of those. I'm not sure if this has any significance or not, >>> but it sure looks like something is causing some belt tightening in the >>> retail industry. Any thoughts? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - Seth Vidal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
