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I have a pair of the original A23 rims and they are good quality and still as 'straight' as the day they were built. If you dig in the thread you'll find a post I made at the time I received them from the wheel builder. But .. Velocity made some design changes to make it 'tubeless ready', moved production from Australia to the US and now there are reportably a lot of QC issues with the rims.
Sufficient to say when the wheels need new rims I'll be looking at other sources to replace the A23's with.
Oswald
Anyone with Velocity A23 rims have any thoughts on them?
Considering a pair 24/28OC as Racotec have them at quite a reasonable price right now.
Spend too much time reading up on anything online though and you'll eventually read enough negativity to believe something is nothing but junk - in the case of A23s there's quite a bit out there on QC issues - uneven brake tracks, general lack of fit & finish, spoke holes cracking, easily dinted, soft..
Still, that's often just a small and vocal %. But it does make me wonder if I should just get some R460s that are even cheaper, or something else - the new RR 411 look ace but hard to get hold of.