Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

http://www.superstarcomponents.com/en/elite-24-ultra-11speed-wheelset-2024.htm

Saved you £75 for nice tyres and tubes and beer

£130 for an alloy rim. Really?

Guaranteed pussy though.

Flo30/60 or H+son SL42?

Going fast or posing?

Probably these.

Bit of both? :)

http://youtu.be/3whyot73JRA

Here is some Servais Knaven. 27 at the front and 25 at the back.

Racing on £50-a-piece Ambrosio rims I should think.

27 at the front and 25 at the back.

Width tyres? The larger tyre on the rear surely?

Frame clearance issues?

Perhaps. It's easier to drop in a custom fork than have a new frame built I guess.

IME frames usually (but not always) have more room at the rear as standard.

how heavy?!

Pardon?

Weight 1908 grams a pair

exactly 😵

They weight about the same as flow 60s.

Do you know why they weigh so much @Mechamorgan ?

Alu rim + carbon fairing = weight of 2 single material rims, give or take.

No.

It's the hubs.

Shimano use steel hub bodies. Massive high-load ball bearings and stiff axles.

It's not a fairing. It's a carbon layer laid up over a very thin aluminium rim section. If it was a fairing it wouldn't have the spoke nipples poking out of it.

I read that in the tones of a secondary school science teacher with @Mechamorgan as an excitable pupil.

I am wearing wool and I think my breath might smell of coffee...

For the masterclass in this kind of dismissal, James O'Brien on LBC.

Fair enough though, still a very heavy set.

James O'Brien on LBC.

Ha! If you can apologise to all heavy Shimano wheels that would be great.

#rep