Big Bird Carbon Wheelset 29″/32″

Starling Cycles

£1500

A beautiful and hand-built wheelset for the Starling Cycles Big Bird. Made with Hope Pro 5 hubs and Nextie carbon rims. 29 rear, 32 front. 32 wheels are tough to come by, so we ve made our own using one of the only 32 rims available right now. You ll get tough and lightweight Nextie carbon rims in stealth black, laced onto Hope Pro 5 hubs, need no intro. All hand-built by our favourite wheelbuilder here in the UK. We ll contact you to confirm your Hope hub colours once you ve ordered.

Starling Cycles's own words, read from their page.

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Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as STARLING CYCLES LIMITED, number 10001978. Checked 2026-09-06.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Not yet checked.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.