Generic 24" Kid's Bike Rim

These are the 36 hole single wall, rim brake compatible rims that adorn pretty much every cheap 24" kids bike.

Quick facts:

  • weight: 503g;
  • non-eyeletted;
  • internal width: 20mm;
  • external width: 26.5mm;
  • will work well tubeless with ghetto tubeless method.

Taylor Wheels (out of Germany) do some reasonably priced pre-built 24" wheels with cassette hub 8-10spd compatible) using what looks to be this rim.

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Lightweight 24" rims

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24" air forks

There are very few air sprung forks for 24" wheels:

Alex DC 19 rim

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Lightweight 24" tubes

It is quite difficult to find lightweight 24" tubes, but I recently stumbled on a solution that so far has proved acceptable.

Mountain bike books

Here's a few interesting mountain bike books if you're looking to spend some time reading between rides:

Velocity 24" rear wheel

This sweet little 24" wheel was built by Velocity using their Aeroheat 24" rim which is a twin wall rim with shallow V profile and a Velocity sealed bearing disc hub. The spokes are straight guage with brass nipples.

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