which rim is better?? Ribcage or Rollcage, and i need a good drive side hub guard

Hardcore Street with Titanium Spokes?! For Serials do NOT use Titanium Spokes, if you want to save weight get Double Butted Spokes & Alloy Nipples. D.T Swiss ARE the best for Spokes & G-Sport offer the BEST Alloy Nipples. When you see Alloy Nipples a lot of them are just regular Nipples just made of a lighter & most importantly SOFTER material. The Taper Hex Alloy Nipples are just that Tapered & Hexed shaped which will postpone the eventually rounding off. I don't think it will prevent it but they will last a SHIT load longer than a regular Alloy Nipple.

For the Rims i would go with a Ribcage, If you can afford to pay the extra money for them, they are better. The Rollcage is basically a more affordable basic material Ribcage.

As for the Hubs, If you really want super strong street tough Hubs then you need to look into. BSD, G-Sport, Eclat, Odyssey Antigrams, Shadow Raptor & BTR & Tree Straight Pull (You'll need to their Spokes)

Also, If you want the strongest, long lasting Hub Guards you need to get Heat Treated Chromoly Guards. Some of the Hubs i mentioned do not offer them & a couple of them are releasing them in the not to distant future.

Something a long the lines of...

G-Sport Ribcage 36h Rim
Shadow Raptor 36h 3/8ths Front Hub
D.T Swiss Competition Double Butted Spokes x 36
G-Sport Taper Hex Alloy Nipples x 36
Shadow Conspiracy Heat Treated CRMO Hub Guard x 2

G-Sport Ribcage 36h Rim
Shadow BTR 36h 9t Female Cassette Hub
D.T Swiss Competition Double Butted Spokes x 36
G-Sport Taper Hex Alloy Nipples x 36
Shadow Conspiracy Heat Treated CRMO Hub Guard
Shadow Conspiracy Heat Treated Drive Side Guard

Pretty bomb proof street Wheelset right there!

Ribcage.
Screw the Cinema hubs and Ti spokes.
Just get what Topsey said, pretty much bombproof.

Topsey wrote:

Hardcore Street with Titanium Spokes?! For Serials do NOT use Titanium Spokes, if you want to save weight get Double Butted Spokes & Alloy Nipples. D.T Swiss ARE the best for Spokes & G-Sport offer the BEST Alloy Nipples. When you see Alloy Nipples a lot of them are just regular Nipples just made of a lighter & most importantly SOFTER material. The Taper Hex Alloy Nipples are just that Tapered & Hexed shaped which will postpone the eventually rounding off. I don't think it will prevent it but they will last a SHIT load longer than a regular Alloy Nipple.

For the Rims i would go with a Ribcage, If you can afford to pay the extra money for them, they are better. The Rollcage is basically a more affordable basic material Ribcage.

As for the Hubs, If you really want super strong street tough Hubs then you need to look into. BSD, G-Sport, Eclat, Odyssey Antigrams, Shadow Raptor & BTR & Tree Straight Pull (You'll need to their Spokes)

Also, If you want the strongest, long lasting Hub Guards you need to get Heat Treated Chromoly Guards. Some of the Hubs i mentioned do not offer them & a couple of them are releasing them in the not to distant future.

Something a long the lines of...

G-Sport Ribcage 36h Rim
Shadow Raptor 36h 3/8ths Front Hub
D.T Swiss Competition Double Butted Spokes x 36
G-Sport Taper Hex Alloy Nipples x 36
Shadow Conspiracy Heat Treated CRMO Hub Guard x 2

G-Sport Ribcage 36h Rim
Shadow BTR 36h 9t Female Cassette Hub
D.T Swiss Competition Double Butted Spokes x 36
G-Sport Taper Hex Alloy Nipples x 36
Shadow Conspiracy Heat Treated CRMO Hub Guard
Shadow Conspiracy Heat Treated Drive Side Guard

Pretty bomb proof street Wheelset right there!

thanks man, this is helping me a lot, i will prob get the exact same thing u said!

andyferly wrote:

Ribcage.
Screw the Cinema hubs and Ti spokes.
Just get what Topsey said, pretty much bombproof.

and i said titanium cause i though thy would be strong! lol

andyferly wrote:

Ribcage.
Screw the Cinema hubs and Ti spokes.
Just get what Topsey said, pretty much bombproof.

misfitcartel wrote:

and i said titanium cause i though thy would be strong! lol

Well it's debatable.
Personally I wouldn't even think of spending so much money on spokes.
Just get D.T. Swiss or Odysseys aint bad either, I think I got Odyssey rear and some Shadow ones front, I honestly don't know or care haha.

ribcage. shadow dsg

Ti is usually regarded as strong because in the rest of the world titanium products will weigh the same as their Alum./steel counterparts, but have much more material, hence being stronger. Ti spokes would probably be fine, but the weight difference wouldn't be very noticeable, nor would the strength. So I would just go with normal 14G spokes.

Ribcage rims
Tree or daily grind dsg
Gsport marmo and ratchet

andyferly wrote:

Ribcage.
Screw the Cinema hubs and Ti spokes.
Just get what Topsey said, pretty much bombproof.

misfitcartel wrote:

and i said titanium cause i though thy would be strong! lol

They are hard but very brittle, so for a lot of little cases and bad landings will be fine and the wheel shouldn't buckle much because they are harder to bend, but a really hard landing or bad case wheel very easily snap the spokes.

Ti spokes are a shit idea unless your a racer......I got a ribcage I'm loving it all g sports quality though

The shadow dsg is super strong have been running it for a year. Do not get a primo dsg they bend I bent mine in a month.

The Plastic Primo DSG is supposedly REALLY good but the Metal ones are shite haha.