Analog Built Rim Brake Touring Wheelset (Bitex Touring Hubs, Velocity Cliffhanger Rims)

Tough, serviceable wheels handbuilt by Mark in the Analog Workshop.  

We're gunna go ahead and put the Bitex touring hubs in the pile for 'world tour approved'.  Huge bearings, beefy forged hub shells, giant axles.  This is a very stiff very tough hubset.  Tight tolerances, steel rear axle, steel freehub body, big flanges.  All good stuff when you're putting together a wheelset for hard use.  Doesn't have to be touring.  Could be commuting over bad pot holes, or getting your ATB on.  Pillar quad butted spokes are our favorite round spokes.  Tough, flexible where they should be, stronger than double butted spokes, barely heavier.  Perfect for high mileage wheels.  

Velocity's Cliffhanger rim is the reference rim brake touring or mountain biking rim.   It's stiff, looks great, easy to convert to tubeless.  

Mark has been building wheels for 39 years, and has built hundreds while working at Analog.  He builds all of our wheels, and (James) checks em over, cause a second set of eyes is never a bad thing.  

Quick note on shipping.  We will ship your wheels using bikeflights with full insurance.  The shopify system will automatically bill you SOMETHING for the shipping.  We will bill you for the difference, or refund you, after we build, box, and weigh the wheels.  Wheels will be shipped in about 2 weeks, after they work through Mark's build queue.  

Hub Specs: 

Bitex Touring front hub.  Beefy, stiff. 

Bitex Touring rear hub. Steel Axle.  Serviceable steel freehub body.  Oversized bearings.

Spokes and Nipples: Pillar Quad Butted spokes 14/15/14/13 gauge.  Pillar brass nipples.  

Rim: Velocity Cliffhanger.  30mm external width, 25mm internal. All sizes feature machined sidewalls.  700c (675 grams) // 650b (625 grams), 26" (600 grams) ideal for tires between 45mm and 65mm (1.75 inches to 2.6 inches) .  Tubeless ready, we will pretape the rim.