Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

They are not so much spokes - more like aluminum beams.

As long as you never have to true them, they are great :)

@mikec such watts

Sam at LMNH is also highly recommended.

My current back wheel has had a spoke broken for 3 months and I have just left it as is :(

Leaving it like that will make it even more diffcuilt to true your wheel back to normal.

If you been riding with that snapped spokes, a new wheel may be needed.

I have never heard anyone that snapped as many spokes as you, and I had build some wheels for some gnarly blokes (one is 127kg and have 28h F&R!) and they only had a normal amount of snapped spokes (once or twice).

I dropped the parts off at Cloud9 yesterday. Not been in there before, it's a nice shop. Will collect wheels later this week and report back

my first build from @arup - Farsport 25mm x 38mm clinchers on White Industries T11 hubs.

will look good on Instagram.

How much, if you don't mind me asking?

@amey @edscoble Gents, are there any cheap rim brake 650b wheelsets available off the peg? new to this game...
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Pretty sure there was a wheelset in the classifieds within the last week.

really? I've tried searching but all I can find are wanted ads of disc wheels...

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@mikec I'm also a serial wheel trasher - the only ones I've had which are still fine are miche rg2 hubs (decent bracing angles), archetypes and 32 dt Alpine iii spokes built by arup. Recently had a disc set built by @thecycleclinic also which are great so far despite some horrific pothole action - dt 350 hubs, 32 x sapim force spokes and kinlin rims. I think I'll struggle to kill these too, and I'm fairly convinced that it's the beefier triple butted spokes making the difference in both cases ....

Thanks for the advice. I have my wheels built now using Sapim race spokes so I will see how I get on with this latest set.

I'm looking at some carbon wheel options. I want something wide, campag 11 compatible, mid deep aero.

I currently have some record 11 hubs laced to alloy rims so I could buy some of these
https://www.lightbicycle.com/65mm-deep-carbon-700C-25mm-wide-road-rim-clincher-U-shape-tubeless-compatible-with-high-TG-resin-surface.html#all_add_cart

And get them built onto my hubs.

I might have an option on some trade price Zipps.

Or do I just go full Chinese/ Ali express?

How do the Campag wheels fair against the competition? I'm out of my depth with wheels, too many options.

If you don't go tubular Boras then there's not really any point.

Which means there's really no point.

Some Advice please- I need a rear wheel for my Commuter / CX bike. It'll replace a 700c Kinesis CXd wheel. So I'd like: 24mm width, around 22mm height, 135 rear spacing, black rims + spokes. Wheel needs to be 32 spoke min and have a 6 bolt disc hub. Shimano freehub. I would like it to be reasonably light, and hubs must have decent seals and bearings.

My LBS are trying to steer me towards Halo/ WTB rims on hope hub. Nice but fairly pricy. What other options do I have?

Campag's factory wheels are great. Very stiff with good hubs.
Avoid the ones with alu spokes.

Fulcrum quattro

Or splash out on boras they really are lovely.

hope hub. Nice but fairly pricy. What other options do I have?

There's nowt wrong with XT hubs, M756 is still available if you want to stick with 6-bolt

What are the seals like on the XT hubs? LBS didn't seem to think much of them in comparison

What are the seals like on the XT hubs? LBS didn't seem to think much of them

That's because they want to sell you £100 Hope hubs rather than £30 Shimano ones. The labyrinth seals on XT hub main bearings are probably better than the cartridge bearing seals on Hope or any other hub which uses standard industrial cartridge bearings. The weak spot on Shimano hubs from a sealing point of view tends to be the freewheel bearings, but they have to be rode hard and put up wet to be a real problem, and it's cheap to buy a new hub and do a guts transplant when they do fail.