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waaaaaat how did you get so many of those hubs?!

Got 6 of themes Vive la France...

In terms of stiffness or safety?
I could go for HF rear, but front LF as I don't like HF and radial.

A bit of both really. For a daily wheel, taking into account poor road surfaces, I'd prefer to have more spokes. I've got 32h Archetypes on Paul high flange hubs both 3x and I've not needed to true them since I got them over a year ago.

The Archetype is a great rim, but 28h is probably the lowest I would go with them unless you are making a complete weight weenie build.

Hey... that's my former track bike!

I knew the guy who bought it was trying to sell it again... Did you buy the frame only?

Yeah I know :) It was tempting when it was up for sale on PF but I didn't really need it, then I was looking for some nice wheels for my Samson and stumbled across it back up for sale again unchanged and cheaper... so I bought the whole thing, really just for these:

In the end I rode it a bit and realised I like it a lot, it's great fun around town and a nice change of pace to the old steel frames I'm normally on. So I figured I'll keep it, sell off my Alain Michel probably or some other thing to make space.

@master

As roboto says... 28front 32rear is sensible for a 70kg rider on Stans. Archetypes are stiffer but probably not enough.

Gaston's p0rn hardware money shots have reached new nights.

LOL

Serious into the porn scene but needs other shifters...

8 speeds Max on 3G...

Serious into the porn scene but needs other shifters...

Zap?

Excuse my French.

In the end I rode it a bit and realised I like it a lot, it's great fun around town and a nice change of pace to the old steel frames I'm normally on. So I figured I'll keep it, sell off my Alain Michel probably or some other thing to make space.

Yes it is quite lively, didn't keep it as a daily because for me it was a wee bit large for that purpose... And take care of the fork, 1' straight carbon drilled with a good steerer length are hard to find these days.

@spoke chat on this thread - pfffffft

16/24 and avoid potholes.

Real men bunny hop potholes.

...then end up in the U've bin Indra'd thread.

Running 16h front and rear in awhile, am heavy, will avoid even pebble.

It's the uneven pebbles that f u up.

#friday

12 front and rear, 70kg, wom'ing all the way to the hospital :)

600 ultegra never looked better

LOL

Some serious ape hangers in the background there

I've been running Stan's Iron Cross on 32h/32h, which are flexy as a wet noodle in comparison to the Archetype's, which don't give at all when flexed by hand, but the Stan's definitely do.

Archetypes are known to be stiff and tough, which is partly why I chose them, and in the process of getting parts for Archetype/DT Swiss 240s disc/CX-Ray wheelset build with 32 3x rear and 28h 2x front (under advice from pro builder), and I'm 105kg.

As long as it's built properly, should be fine.

DCR Wheels says About the Archetype:

I cannot fault this rim. It is excellent by every measure. It can take full tensions. It is strong, light, stiff, durable. It has a larger braking surface than the A23 and a deeper profile. On my scales the weight is nearly identical, within 10g of one another, so natural variation may play a bigger factor. It comes with a welded joint and is made out of H Plus Son’s G609 alloy which is 30% stronger than standard 6061.

It can be used for a variety of applications because of its wide profile. It will take as low as 23c but you could also use this as a cyclocross rim. H Plus Son have said that a 20:24 lacing on this rim will hold a rider of up to*** 200lbs or 91kg***."

What's the widest tyre you can run on an Archetype?

Got 6 of themes Vive la France...

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