Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

Just a note to stay clear of Fulcrum Racing Sport wheels. Got a set on a Planet X bike.

360 miles later the freehub has completely jammed up. Stripped them down last night (what a ball ache) to find I need a 12mm allen key to remove the freehub body (after you have stripped the rest of the hub).

Fortunately they were only going to be on it short term while I got something else built (which now needs to happen asap), what a load of shit. Worst design ever.

Ah yeah - I know this design. Very similar to the one on my twelve year old Cannnondale Omega hubs, where you need to pop a strangely sized allen key in through the NDS then unbolt the freehub.

They are a bit shit

Bollocks.

End of December I split the rim at the spoke on my Mavic Kysriums. Replaced them with a second hand set of RealDesign 60mm wheels. Today, after maybe 400 miles I ripped the spoke through the rim of these too. I'm 70kg on a bad month, this shouldn't be happening so often. :(

Now I have little to no cash for replacements, Anyone suggest a cheap wheelset that aren't gonna perish in a months time? The Dura Ace 24mm ones in the classifieds look good.

relace the realdesign hubs to Kinlin XR22T rims?

Yep exactly that. Spent last night stripping it further and further back to be stopped in my tracks by the Allen key of unknown size. Well annoying!

You need ten speed? I have some nice wheels for sells.

Kinlin on DT Swiss 240s (moderately spendy but in A1 condition)
Mavic CXP33s on Sram X9 (cheap + bombproof)

Pm me for details

I have the allen key if you need to borrow it.

Or just set the whole thing on fire

The Dura Ace 24mm ones in the classifieds look good.

Cheapest Shimano will do, avoid the DA, as the braking surface is quite thin.

stay clear of Fulcrum Racing Sport wheels

How good should they be for £78? That's cheaper than tyres :-) I don't suppose they gave much thought to making them easy to service at home when OEMs asked for a Fulcrum branded wheelset to put on OTP bikes for <$50

Shameless plug but I've got some cheap decent road wheels for sale.
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/282507/#comment12832499

I don't think it's limited to 'cheap' hubs-I just spent a good few hours trying to dismantle and service a Hope Pro 3.

Looks fucking easy in their vid when it's a brand new one being ripped open by a dude built like a rugby player, but try doing it when the guy you bought them off's left them gunked up and unloved for months and every bearing is totally fucked inside out and determined to stay put.

Not impressed-makes Novatecs look like a harmony of simplicity and design.

The exact set is these
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/fulcrum-racing-sport-disc-brake-alloy-clincher-wheelset/

Point is they are fucked after 364 miles to be precise. They shouldn't need striping down after that.

Cheers, realised I had a 12mm, it isn't that either so fire it is!

Only had them a month or so, not sure why I am wasting my time with them, going to contact PX to get a replacement.

They shouldn't need striping down after that

No, they need sending back to the retailer who sold them to you (unless you rode them through a canal a year ago and then left it until now to see how they were). What you have is a warranty issue, but probably not a set of data sufficient to malign the whole design.

Of course, i realise this. I have a 200k ride tomorrow so would have preferred to sort them out and use them rather than bother sending back. It is probably a stuck pawl, but as it is near impossible to remove the freehub we shall never know. I will of course be sending them back under warranty.

as it is near impossible to remove the freehub we shall never know

Even after you get the rotor off, you won't know. The pawls/ratchet are internal to the rotor assembly, like a typical Shimano one.

Oh ffs. Thanks for sharing, glad I have gone no further!

If you get it off you can always flush it out then drip fresh oil through it for a few days. Bought mine back to life, albeit temporarily

still haven't actually pulled the trigger on training wheels for my TT bike, want to start riding it more for training etc but stuck with a disc and 60mm front at the moment, looks like I can pick up a set of 2016 Fulcrum racing 7s for under £100 on PBK, is there any reason not to?

should be wide enough that I don't have to faff with brakes between wheels and I have tyres and a spare cassette knocking about so no issue there, I don't care about aeros or weight as they are training wheels.

any other cheap, shallow and wide wheels out there I should be looking at?

Probably worth splashing out a bit more on R24s

Why?

Betterer

is there any reason not to?

Plain gauge spokes. If you're really short of the extra £60-70 needed for R24 or Fulcrum Racing 5LG, trade in your car for something cheaper to run :-) Then, having convinced yourself that there's nothing worth having under £160, you might as well go the extra £25 and get Racing Quattro LG

What's with the cheap Mavics available from Romania/Latvia/Slovenia etc on ebay? Legit, fakes or scam?