Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

A question:
I have a novatec with a kinlin rim wheel. The rim has a ding in it and the freehub body needs replacing.

Is it economical to rebuild the wheel? I can't see why it would be, as the cost of new spokes, free hub, and rim seems like I may as well buy a new hub as well...

Unless spokes are easily reused...

Unless spokes are easily reused

You can re-use spokes easily if you are just replacing the rim with another of the same kind, head on over to the wheel building thread and somebody will be along any minute to tell you to tape the new rim to the old one and swap the spokes over one by one to avoid mixing up inbound and outbound.

You can re-use spokes easily if you are just replacing the rim with another of the same kind

Its XR200 @Chalfie originally built by Fitzrovia cycles

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I have a pair of Novatec disc hubs, 10 speed, anyone want them for the cost of turning up at my flat to get them? As close to new as makes no difference (the rear was never used).

Wider is better in my books, HED and Archetype is a reasonable bet for decent rims, but you're probably going to get the same weight if you're planning to stick with alloy rims, unless you fancy going for carbon rims to reduce the weight down, and tubs if you really into the super lightweight.

thought I read archetypes were shite now?

Yes it is all @mdcc_tester approved DT460 now.

Who said this?

You don't have enough weight to ask that question.

http://www.stradawheels.co.uk/product/h-plus-son-archetype/

me!
Please?

I really can't stand Archetypes. Don't understand the hype!

What's wrong with them? I've been perfectly happy with mine for the last 7,000km (or whatever I've done on that wheelset this year). Little bit grabby before the brake surface wore in but not had a peep out of them since that.

Good rims, reasonably priced, would bang again.

can you remember the hub type?
I might get new bearings as well as a new freehub body.
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I am about 80% sure that they are F482SB. Check on the hub it has the model number on it.

Strada says – we have built a lot of Archies over the last 2 1/2 years and spent time and effort promoting them. Unfortunately during 2014 we noticed a deterioration in the quality of the rim and we struggled to maintain even spoke tension on each side of the wheel (this means spokes are all working at the same level and less likely to failure). No substandard Archetypes left the workshop but even as a relatively low volume builder (with high standards) the amount of time we spent re-rimming those which were not good enough was financially and time wise too high for us. So it is with regret that we don’t rate the Archetype as a rim we want to build with. We have looked and found great alternatives such as the DT Swiss R460 and Pacenti SL23 for rim braking and the Pacenti SL25 and Grail for disc braking.

Sorry. Wheels have been in shed, came but, gone back in. Reason for laziness...

£400 for last years Pacenti SL23 on Hope RS Mono hubs with DT double butted spokes, good price?

Brand new hanging in LBS looking at me ..

Rims. Strong thumbs.

No.

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I snapped a Park Tools lever getting a 25 Open Corsa SC onto a Campag Omega rim a couple of days ago - genuinely thought it was my Scoble moment come at last, but won in the end.

£400 for last years Pacenti SL23 on Hope RS Mono hubs with DT double butted spokes, good price?

Not really. Mono RS hubs are <£200, so you could have a pair with R460s & DT Comps for under £350 even if you paid somebody £60 to build them.

fair

are hope hubs worth it? over Novatec that I have on all my bikes (except 5800 on MTB lel)