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@JWestland
I'm extremely skeptical Archetypes are super super super good...people make them out to be the Holy Grail Of All Rims Ever Praise Be H + SON Delivery Us From All Other Rims.
But I suppose it's hard to judge for me as I never break my rims and use high spoke counts. Once you go down to 20/24 "the little things" start to come into play, and then an Archetype may score super points over a crappy rim.
Strong is easy anyway, just take a heavy deep rim but yeah...then you slog up a hill with headwind and it's not so fun :p