2x700 to 700-26"

My Giant Option's rear wheel which was already very wobbly that the rear brake is a feather touch braking, but it got worse with a few too many bad kerb hoppings and not so smooth drops, wobble wheel.

Instead of truing the wheel, which I have limited knowledge for and as well as not being buggered to pay someone else to try to true my weak wheel. I thought I'll just just the 26" rear wheel from my 'suspended' favourite bike (Polygon) before I get a cheap and decent 28" rear wheel then hopefully in the future a wheel built with Sapim spokes and maybe a ENO hub, can't think of a rim or nipples to lace them up to.


So meet my current evolution of transport, My Giant Option with a 26" rear wheel and no rear brakes.

Old picture: new updated build includes 43T front chainring, 18T rear cog and shorter black stem 'stolen' from my Avanti.

The old Wobble Wheel
The 'Spinny' 36T chainring
Crank stripped
Chainring bolts including the hand-filed aluminium washers that replaced the outer chainring.
The Old 46T 'Great on downslopes, not upslopes or headwinds" chainring
The (46T)-14T rear cog, On-One Groove Armada
700x28c Michelin Dynamic front tyre
26x1.5" Maxxis Xenith rear tyre
Sag-galicious
Sag-tastic 46-14T. KMC K710 1/8" chain, nice looking but its design of the outer plates create unneccessary buzz on a roller-type chain tensioners and can 'float' on certain chainrings like my Profile Racing Imperial chainwheel on my Polygon bike.
Rear brake-free living
Here I tried 16T Chris King Kog with an On-One Other Doofer, but when on to it's current build of 43-18T without chain tensioner.

With a 28" wheel and skinny road tyres, this 43-18T gearing would just be at the sweet spot as the 26" MTB tyre feels like it's dragging its 'feet' and the smaller wheel does feel a little spinny at pace.
And riding without a rear brake or fixed gearing is a little weird, especially when riding down flights of stairs when it's difficult to straighten its travel.