Hulsroy's Hustle

How does the A319 compare to an open pro; are they good?

Open pro = road, 319 slightly touring / all bike use.

Shame the new open pro isn’t just a wider, tubeless, disc too version of the old one.

A119, 319 and 719 are 19mm internally compared to Open Pro which is 14-15mm???

Being a large rider I like running 28c on wide rims. A319 suits my budget and came in silver finish.

They last forever too, so many km on my old touring set

And does an A319 ride nicely?

I think so, but no long term experience yet.

It builds up lovely tho. Both wheels I just build came out pretty true and round before even going into a wheel building stand.

The black wheelset on the picture I posted is A 719 rims which have been amazing, but pretty heavy. I won my first (and only) road race on them :) they have probably given me 20.000km of riding. I have also had A 119 wheelset which have been lovely as well, but felt less nice building them.
I have also had XM 319 rims which is the disc equivalent of A 319 and they have been amazing as well. Probably put 30-40.000km on them before selling them on and they are still riding I believe.

So in other words I have no doubt A 319 will be great. And for the price there is just no contest.

Thanks for the advice on these.

I currently run A719 with 40mm tyres and they suit me well. Am going to buy a wheel set with a319 I think. I think I read that the only difference between the two is the way they are joined once formed into a circle.

Yeah A719 is welded and sanded down.

A319 is 595g
A719 is 565g

They are cheap on cnc-bikes

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I've had a couple of sets of wheels built with A719s, if I hadn't gone tubeless on my bike I'd still be using them, excellent rims.

Apparently you can run a319s tubeless

In that case 719s should be able to run tubeless, all mavics tubeless rims are designated UST, not the A series though, and I like my teeth, so I'll stick with proper tubeless rims rather than ghetto tubeless.

Hot fucking damn

My first red bike

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It's definitely red.

By coincidence I just found this picture in my Dropbox that I saved years ago.
Perfect timing

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looks awesome so far, and we all know red is the fastest colour so...

I was not aware of that one, but basically what I am going for

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hurry up and get it built

It might have to wait for Sunday/Monday.
Tonight I am fixing a roof rack so I can bring my mtb for the weekend at our cabin.

Fanks. IT will be balanced nicely by some Goldy bits and Canis gumwalls

crying out for blue tyres so you can leave big blue 1980's skid lines down the street

Art is knowing when to stop

art is in the eye of the beholder or something

:)

Had a late night, but managed to complete the roof rack so I can bring bikes on family visits

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