Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

I read a lot of the reviews and whilst they are lightweight, apparently they are also very flexy. (This is based on the reviews on wiggle).

So it depends. Are you averaging a lotta watts? Don't get the cosine.

Also, the hunt wheels. They are just novatec hubs. Nothing particularly wrong with them, just making you aware.

I've done a lot of research and in the sub £400 bracket, the dt Swiss r23 or r32 seem to be the best weight/strength/cost option. if you can find them in stock...

Thanks for the input. I'm no sprinter but want to use the bike over winter to get my FTP over 300w so it will be used to quite a bit of hard training.

Will have a look at the DTs.

Definitely don't get the cosine then (my advice is flakey at best though as it's only based on the reviews of others).

Have you got a view on if fulcrum 5 LG's worth looking at vs the R24's?

I saw these and the cost and weight seem pretty good.
I asked @Dick for his opinion and he just told me that fulcrum are campagnolo and therefore not to bother.
So no, I have no idea but I'm sure they're good wheels, unless the spokes require a weird tool? Are they normal nipples?

That statement is actually completely erroneous - the summation that because they're Campagnolo not to bother was never uttered - it was merely an observation the Fulcrum = Campagnolo.
The higher end fulcpagnolo wheel sets are very good, the lower end seem expensive when you compare stats, plus, being someone who generally will only buy lower end wheels second hand, you don't see many fulcpagnolo wheels going second hand, cheap, whereas you can pick up a pair of Ksyriums for £100 which hit the nail on the head for a good spec winter training wheel that will take all the shit you can throw at it until there's no brake track left.

In case anyone is looking for a set of serious tester wheels their is a set of 90mm Flo built to Flo hubs for £800 being sold by BikeFix. I saw them in the window and he built them up as a test but they haven't shifted. Just thought I would post in case someone was looking for deep Flos as this would avoid import charges as well.

OTOH I had 2 consecutive sets of Mavic wheels (Askium then Ksyrium) that gave me nothing but hassle - broken spokes and grinding freehub despite repeated servicing (from different mechanics!)

I've been running Campag Zonda for around 5000km now and they've been utterly solid.

So I may have incorrectly quoted @Dick so I wouldn't start preaching campy > mavic jargon.

Are you asking a question or making a statement? Your rhetoric is invalid......

So auto correct changed incorrectly to I correct it seems. Now edited...

New wheels next year, currently considering grails on hope hubs, also looking at Ritchey wcs zeta disc, just wondering about spoke count (24/24), is this enough (weigh 75 kgs fully kitted)?Tom obviously thinks so.

Zipp 30 Course have been everything I hoped for and more - widest rim currently on offer (that'll hold a high pressure) good weight, nice and stiff, same rim profile as 202 and identical hubs, just £1100 cheaper for the 200g weight addition, which currently on a disc road bike is nothing.
Can't recommend highly enough.

I'm being Road specific there - should have asked whether this is for road disc / CX / MTB etc....!

Edit: this is the road wheel thread...

On a completely unrelated, shameless plug note - I have a pair of 2016 Zipp 303 Firecrest for sale - latest hubs, will come shod in Vittoria Corsa G+ 25mm with Specialized Turbo inner tubes.
Excellent condition

£1050

Nothing too strenuous, mainly road riding, bit of bridleway/towpath every now n then.
So I'm guessing by your recommendation that 24/24 is enough?

I float between 75 and 80kg, depending how much beer ive eaten, and the 24/24 is absolutely fine. Never had any disc rub at all, and compared to the aksiums I had previously, these are a completely different universe, never mind world.
Highly adaptable and completely future proof for all types of axle and tubeless ready if you wanna whack some cross tyres on there and go all gooey!

Cheers for the advice/opinion. Will start doing proper research into my options now, Ritchey and Zipp both look good options.

I am thinking of going for some handbuilt disc wheels. Basically wanted to match the Hunt 4 season discs. I think I have found the hubs but was wondering what rims people would advise!

I'd just buy the HUNT - they seem to be very well reviewed and I'd guess building something similar may be more expensive as the HUNT are very well priced.

The dt Swiss wheels I mentioned earlier are currently back in stock at wiggle. But they only gave a couple it seems so act fast. Dt Swiss r 32 disc. Circa £320 for the pair.

those DT are ok, missus' bike has R23 not as wide as I'd like but not bad value for money. I'd get HUNT instead mainly for the rim width or just build something with velocity aileron or something. Aileron are identical to Zipp rims.

Crabon rimz?

Just to add the the Fulcrum/Campag piece on second hand availability...
I run Fulcrum Racing Quattro (the £200 set not the full carbon jobbies) when it's completely nasty - These won't be going onto the second hand market. I'm gonna run them into the ground and no-one will want a wheelset as shredded as these will be.
I also have the Fulcrum Racing 3 two way fit. I run these for when the weather is not biblical in tubeless mode. It is highly unlikely these will go onto the second hand market, they are great and I'll run these 'till they drop too.
My Fulcrum Racing zero I run tubeless, these are lovely too and see me around on sunny days or those big events. These may appear on the second hand market as I try to shave 10g off my bike weight ready for the next 'once in a lifetime event'.
So on this basis I'll keep my cheap wheels forever but chop and change my Sunday best wheels so they always look Sunday best.

How do you like the quattros? I read somewhere that they are a handful in crosswind, which I find hard to believe given their relatively shallow depth.