The BORG26 wheelset provides guaranteed reliability in all conditions. The wheels are built with high mileage riders in mind and therefore suits everyone else. Those that ride in the foulest of conditions and simply need dependable wheels. Dependable does not have to heavy though. The BORG26 have every detail covered.
There are a few versions with BORG hubs, Miche hubs or entry level option with Shimano tiagra hubs all using a black rim.
24F/28R and 32F/32R with silver BORG wheels hubs and silver spokes
32F/32R with Miche Primato syntesis hubs and black spokes
32F/32R with Shimano Tiagra silver RS400 hubs and silver spokes
The BORG26 is the beefer brother of the BORG22. It has a deeper stiffer rim and a higher spoke count is available.
Highlights:
- A robust all weather wheelset for rim brakes.
- Stiff yet comfortable.
- Triple butted Sapim spokes.
- Shimano 8/9/10/11/12 speed, SRAM AXS 12 speed or Campagnolo 9/10/11/12 speed freehub.
- 24mm wide tubeless tyre ready rims (tubed tyre compatible also).
- 26mm deep rims.
- Life of the rim warranty.
- Hand built in the shop.
- Weight from 1840g -32 spoke
- Black hub, rim and spokes.
The wheels are handbuilt in the shop. I call these BORG26 because they are 26mm deep. They are my all weather training wheelset. The rims are not expensive if they need to be replaced and the hubs, well they love the wet. Bearing life is long in all conditions.
The rim is 24mm wide and 26mm deep. It weighs 475g. The rear rim has offset drilling for increased NDS spoke tension (this is a good thing for spoke life). The internal width of this rim is 19mm and it has a 2mm thick spoke nipple bed. All tyres will sit wider on this rim than they would on a narrower one. This improves rider comfort due to the increased air volume and due to the different tyre shape handling in the bends, particularly over broken road surfaces is improved.
These wheels are robust and the rims are low cost meaning they are perfect training wheels and ideal for wet weather/winter use. They are supplied tubeless ready with tubeless tape, valves and IRC tyre levers. Tubed tyres can of course be fitted and are an easy fit. Even Schwalbe Marathons fit with ease. The levers are supplied because they are best levers I have tried and make fitting of every tyre I have tried so far easy.
Spokes and nipples
24F/28R and 32F/32R set use Sapim Force spokes but we are switching to Pillar TB2018. Both these spokes are triple butted and very similar and inter changable.
Silver hubs get silver spokes black hubs get black spokes
Hubs - all 100/130mm OLD
- Miche Primato hubs are used for most build options. They have proven themselves and give many thousands of miles of trouble free all weather use. The bearings are 2x6001 C3 in both the front and rear hub shells. The rear freehub has 2x 6901 bearings. The axles front and rear are 12mm diameter and made of steel. The front and rear hub are a free axle design making disassembly really simple. Both the front and rear hub have a bearing preload adjuster which should be set once the wheels are installed in the bike.
- Shimano 8/9/10/11/12 speed freehub, SRAM XDR/AXS 12 speed and Campagnolo 9/10/11 speed freehub bodies.
BORG Wheels hubs
- These hubs have a nice silver or black finish to them, utilise NTN bearings from this Japense bearing giant in 6902 size for the rear hub and 6901 size for the hub. The freehub is easy to service with bearing placed in such a way they can be knocked out with the simplest of tools. The freehub contains 4 independantly sprung pawls in a over sized 36T ratchet ring giving 36 points of engagement
- Shimano 8/9/10/11 speed freehub, SRAM XDR/AXS 12 speed and Campagnolo 9/10/11 speed freehub bodies.
Shimano Tiagra RS400
- these entry level hubs use Shimano's "cup and cone" design which works quite well. They are not the lightest hubs but are quite robust and can be serviced anywhere with just cone spanners.
Simply reliable wheels that benefit from The Cycle Clinic life of the rim guarantee against going out of true/spoke failure, rim cracking (but not rim damage) and hub flange cracking.
The Cycle Clinic is a stockist/importer of IRC tubeless and clincher (tubed) tyres. You can opt for any IRC tyres to be fitted to your wheels. Other brands are stocked too. If you buy tubeless tyres of this shop I will fit them and set them up with Maxalami Sealant. Please note if you buy tubed tyres buy tubes also. Below are links to the tubeless tyres and IRC tubed tyres stocked.
Continental GP5000TL 25mm, 28mm or 32mm
IRC Roadlite tubeless 23mm and 25mm
IRC Formula Pro RBCC TL tubeless 25mm, 28mm or 30mm
IRC Formula Pro Fusion X-guard TL tubeless 25mm, 28mm or 30mm
IRC Formula Pro S- Light TLR tubeless ready tyre 25mm or 28mm
IRC Marbella tubeless X Guard 28mm gravel tyre
IRC Serac CX Sand and CX Sand X Guard tyres 32mm width
IRC Serac CX and CX X Guard tyres 32mm width
IRC Serac CX Mud and CX Mud X Guard tyres 32mm width
IRC Aspite RBCC clincher 24mm or 26mm (for use with inner tubes)
IRC Roadlite X guard 25 mm tyres (for use with tubes).
IRC Jetty 23mm, 25mm or 28mm (for use with inner tubes)
Veloflex Corsa EVO TLR Orange seal will be used for cotton casing tubeless tyres
Veloflex Corsa Race TLR Orange seal will be used for cotton casing tubeless tyres
If you buy any tyre (with tubes if applicable) we will fit them for you to your wheels.
Weight (bare wheels)
24F/28R 1725g with BORG hubs
32F/32R 1860g (with miche hubs)
32F/32R ~2kg with Shimano hubs
- Min tyre real width 25mm max pressure 7.5 bar.
What you get
- Wheelset front and rear with Sapim spokes and nipples.
- Tubeless rim tape
- Tubeless valves
- Q/R skewers.
- The best guarantee (for the life of the rim against spoke failure and anything that could be termed a defect) i.e. problems fixed at my cost not yours.
Other thing to buy with this wheelset
COVID 19 update. Overseas shipping is now with a courier only. UPS or Parcel force.
U.K policy
Orders placed in the afternoon normally get sent the next workday where possible. Orders placed before noon are often sent the same day but this is not guaranteed.
Same day disptach is not guaranteed due to volume of mail order. In general we are not operating with big delays in dispatch if any.
- Standard shipping is with DHL. Cost is £6.00 . Fully tracked with hour delivery slots.
- Some U.K addresses excluded from he DPD service Royal Mail is used (1st class tracked). Checkout is not sophisicated enough to know all the excluded postcodes. The areas are Channel Islands, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man Scottlish Highlands and islands (Scottish Highlands - AB31-38, AB40-56, FK17-21, IV1-40, IV52-54, IV63, KW1-14, PA21-38, PH4-41, PH49-50
Scottish Islands - HS IV41-51, IV55-56, KA27-28, KW15-17, PA20, PA41-49, PA60-78, PH42-44, ZE1-3)
- Northen Island - Ropyal mail 1 st class signed for is used.
- Rims are sent by courier only- cost £10. UPS is used. A phone number and email address must be supplied to allow me to book in. This service can also be picked for smaller items that you want delivered by UPS.
- Wheels shipping cost is £20 (cost of courier + cost of the box) next day. To NI, Scottish Islands, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and that is a two day service.
Overseas
Courier services are used only or over seas mail. UPS or parcel force depending on destination.
The website will provide shipping rates at checkout.
The import charges you will face are and these will be levied by the shipping carrier or by your customs authority in advance of delivery. Customs clearance will add to shipping times.
You will be billed for
Import duties which are set by the tarrif code we declare. Tarrif rates are normally published on government websites. "Free trade agreements" affect this and for EU customers there are no duties as tarrifs are set at zero for goods like our wheels that originate in the U.K. Goods that originate in the E.U and are exported back yo the E.U attract tarriffs. Good made outside the e.u and sold into the E.U attract tarrifs. The declared value in GDP will be converted to your countries currency by the monthly rate published by your tax authority.
Customs clearance fees -these vary from country to country and also vary by declared value in some juristictions.
VAT or sales taxes and applied to the total of the declared value of goods, customs clearance charges and import duties.
This shop declares the total paid for the goods for customs value, no exceptions. We will not declare low values as thats fraud and we will not be party to it.
A word of warning once an parcel has been shipped any import charges are your reponsibility. Refusal to pay these charges to the parcel carrier mean you loose the right to an automatic refund. We refund at our discretion minus any charges we are levied by the parcel carrier. These charges cannot be disputed by us. We also reserve the right to apply a 10% restocking fee on top of any charges applied to us for the return of the parcel. Therefore once shipped charges must be paid. We can accept no liability if the parcel is lost after charges have been refused to be paid.