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girondin
Hi all, I currently have some Mavic Aksiums with very worn rims on my road bike. As such, I’m weighing up my options for a suitable replacement pair of wheels - budget is probably around £200. Criteria other than that is basically “slightly nicer than the ‘entry level’ Aksiums”.

Questions are:
- Are the Mavic hubs worth getting relaced to some new rims (I.e. are the standard Mavic hubs actually any good? I haven’t had any issues, but I’m after longevity and low hassle.)
- If the answer to the above is no, what would be the recommended hubs?
- Would the most appropriate (cost, durability and performance) rims be Kinlin XR31s? Any other suggestions welcome.
- For the spokes, would regular double butted Sapim be sufficient?
Thanks

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gbj_tester in reply to @girondin

Why not more Aksiums? You won't get anything faster under £200
It's not worth trying to re-rim Aksiums
XR31T is nearly always the right answer in this thread, but you won't get them built to worthwhile hubs for under £200, it's going to be closer to £250 with Shimano R7000 hubs which are about as low as you want to go to get something which is actually an upgrade over Aksiums.
Yes, basic Sapim (or DT or ACI) DB spokes are what you want.

It depends a lot on what you mean by road bike. For racing, just get more Aksiums. If your road bike is what you use for general tooling around on tarmac and you don't care about speed, it might just about be worthwhile to spend an extra £100 on handbuilt wheels which will be more maintainable/repairable.

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