I need to replace my bike‘s stolen front wheel. The last time I went to a bike shop, they charged me $60 for a wheel. So, I would like to shop around for something cheap this time. My bike is old and the wheel will likely be stolen again. I wrote down the numbers from my rear wheel (rim): 26x1 50 MR RX-7 Do these numbers make sense? I searched online and craigslist, but didn‘t find any matches and most of the online shops seem to only sell high-end bicycle wheels or font rear wheel sets. I‘m surprised no one online specializes in cheap bike wheels since it seems it would be a very common problem.
Wheels don't come with tires, tubes, rim tape, or cassette/freewheel. You have to buy all those things as well. 700 x 32 is tire size, wheels will fit a range of tire sizes there is no 700 x 32 wheel. To find out if you can upgrade to a cassette hub, measure the space between your rear dropouts. If it is 130mm you can use a wheel made for cassette. It would cost a bit more than a freewheel hub. All in all, by the time you buy everything you will have spent most of the $250 you paid for your bike in the first place unless you can find some second hand wheel that are in decent shape
The reason is quite simple, a cheap wheel would cost too much to ship to make it worthwhile to sell over the net. A wheel requires quite a large box to ship without damaging the wheel, and of course, cheap wheels weigh much more, adding to shipping costs. any 26 mountain bike wheel will fit your bike, I am sure if you look around local shops, you can find something. If the price for the wheel last time included the tire, you paid a very reasonable price.
