The GF has a 2017? Giant Anthem. She bought it used 3 years ago, yeah it's dated but she loves it. Due to trickle down it now has M6000 brakes and M7000 drivetrian. Anyway last off season I tore it down completely.... 200hr service on shocks, new bearings for suspension, new dropper, a few other odds and ends. While it was apart I checked the wheels to tweak them true and noticed the previous owner abused the rims. The bead is bent in numerous places, they are holding for now but they make me a bit nervous.

I'm thinking on building her some wheels for Xmas. We're not hard core so I don't need anything highest end. I'd appreciate some recommendations for hubs and rims and not sure what's actually good. I was looking at the Goldix 180 hubs, but are they decent? anything else I should consider? For rims, I used Lightcarbon UAD 935 for my MTB and she likes the undulating pattern but it doesn't seem to exist in 27.5". I'm at a loss for rims really, I'd like to get 30mm ID. I see a lot of Bitranz on Ali... they seem OK, but it's only from pics so unknown if they're not bad. Any help or suggestions would be helpfull!

have you noticed that spcycle has a typo in their BB call-outs (86.5mm) in the images? that's confusing!

Sorry, I think I'm missing something... Looks to like the T47-86.5mm spec is pretty consistent in all their documentation?

Finished my build. I am absolutely loving this machine. I'm still tweaking a bit, but still very happy. Tweaking so far includes going with a different bar, the rear sus was a little too compliant for my taste so added the larger token and I think it's good. I want to make the front a little more compliant so will see what's in there for tokens, planning to remove one. I was expecting this build to be good, but I wasn't expecting to love it so much.

strange bushing 25 and 16mm but after a smal search good to find

Can you share links for the bushings? I'm not having any luck finding them.

That wouldn't be UPS's handy work, would it?

Thanks for the replies! Maybe the A22 fits me the way a bike should fit most people but not me?
lower back discomfort isn't something that never happens for me. If I'm active it doesn't bother me but if I'm standing around doing nothing it will.

I am seeing a 10mm increase to stack and a 15mm reduction in reach with the Elves frame.

I've attached a geometry comparison. So the effective top tube is a bit over 19mm with the Elves. The stack #'s says the Elves is 10mm taller but its headtube is 20mm longer and its bottom bracket is 3mm lower compared to the A22, so only a 10mm difference doesn't seem to add up. Maybe its not ~20mm but 10mm has gotta be wrong.

I've had the bike for 2 seasons now but it might only get riden once a week or so. The lower back discomfort slowly builds as the ride goes on. I find I ride with my finger tips on the top of the bars often to get some relief. Afer 60km or so I'm ready to get off the bike. The bar is an integrated and is 44cm wide with a 110mm stem. The top of the saddle is 10cm taller than the tops of the bars.

I'm not sure how relevant it is, but I also attached a pic of my hybrid. This bike gets the most saddle time and I've done many 100km+ rides on it with no discomfort at all. The drop from the saddle to the bars is ~2cm. FWIW the horizontal distance from the center of the seatpost the the center of the bars is 69cm on both bikes.

Thanks again!!

I need 180mm and 160mm 6-bolt rotors. I was going to go with Shimano RT86 rotors but seems the supply of "made in Japan" rotors has dried up for the 180mm and reports of the "made in China" ones are mediocre and take a very long time to bed in. So I'm looking for suggestions. Thoughts?

Anti-seize is better than grease for bolts ?

Technically probably? but unnecessary unless you have a particular issue. It can be a pain to clean up and seems to get everywhere. I use white lithium because it doesn't make a mess and easy to wipe up (and I happened to have it in the drawer).