Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

Used to use Swiss stop yellow.

I had to change the bearings within ~eight months on the last two pairs of Fulcrum Racing 5s I owned. No real complaints apart from that though.

Aye. I'm yet to buy any carbon wheels ever, but I'll be buying Bora's if and when I do. Everyone that rides them seems to think they're the shit.

Interesting. Will see how I get on. Though it never rains where I live so they might just be fine.

Anyone tried the Sigma in house carbon wheels a la https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Vel/3850-RL-Carbon-Tubeless-Disc-Wheelset/QS23

Can pick them up for 475 with industry discount and would go on an allez sprint

Well... The Scirocco's rode like absolute pigs. Fine once at 30kph but getting there is miserable. Also pretty miserable climbing as well. I live in too hilly of an area to really need them.

I picked up some 12 year old Campagnolo Neutron's yesterday and they're way, way nicer to ride. In fact, they may be the wheels I've enjoyed riding the most in recent memory. Don't wanna use buzz words but they spin up really fast and were much more pleasant to ride uphill than even Zonda's.

They're not making me any faster, obviously, but they're simply a more enjoyable ride.

They’re easy to do. I don’t even have a tool, I just drift them in with a socket.

This wheel review is straight from The Onion.

With quite a few traffic lights and roundabouts dotted on the main trunk road section, there are plenty of bits where you are mixing it with stop/start traffic, and it can require instant hard accelerations to maintain your primary position.

This is where the Wakes really showed their stiffness levels and how that works with the low weight. Under some very hard efforts there was no feeling of any flex or waste of energy, and they are quick to transfer that energy into forward motion.

Then, once you are up to speed, like I said earlier, you aren't having to work so hard to maintain your speed. It makes it easier to close gaps to get into the slipstream of an HGV as it labours away from the lights as well.

Doing more research. I don’t ride in groups that often, I do like going fast, but most of my time is spent realistically solo on long distance rides over rolling hills (around Bath). Do I need 38/50 carbon wheels or some lightweight aluminium wheels like Mavic Ksyrium? Tubeless tyres and hydraulic discs were the last two upgrades that I could really feel the benefits from, do carbon wheels feel good even if the benefits are small?

Aero wheels are faster. But 38mm isn’t very aero unless you’re running a very narrow tyre. 45-65mm with a 25/28mm tyre is pretty usable/light.

Do I need

It’s essential. Cycling is not possible otherwise. How else will you chase to draft HGVs? :-/

Bath has some very steep descents with abrupt stops/junctions/traffic. Are you on discs? Braking in carbon rims in the wet is not great. I wouldn’t want to do that through winter personally.

or some lightweight aluminium wheels like Mavic Ksyrium?

Nobody has ever needed Ksyriums

Yep, discs.

Veering into 'f!@k it' territory and looking at these: https://www.sigmasports.com/item/Vel/50-RL-Carbon-Tubeless-Disc-Wheelset/QS28

And will pair with 28mm GP5000's tubeless.

Am I going to regret not going for the RSL with DT Swiss hub?

Should add I can get them for £460

Why not? I consider myself fairly up on bikes, but wheels and benefits of increased £ spent are the one thing that still seem a bit of a mystery to me.

I'm also partial to a good amount of no handing on a ride

Why not?

No amount of weight saving can overcome how shit the aeros of Ksyriums are. At any realistic speed, Aksiums are faster.

Got it.

For reference I'd be upgrading a pair of Specialized hubbed DT R470DB wheels and I want the bike to feel nice and lively

I want the bike to feel nice and lively

Get a horse

Already got one of those

According to Mavic USA, the Aksium no longer exists, which is interesting.

Get a horse

here wait a minute... Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / Not quite CX bikes - aka - This thread is absolutely useless >>>>>>>>>>>

Get the 50mm wheels. They do a nice whoosh and look fast.

Sigma are legit and they look totally fine. The 3 yr warranty and crash replacement is actually pretty huge! ... probably justifies the premium over ordering from LightBicycle or similar.

£460

umm, if I wasn’t running a dynamo on my beikwithdiscs I’d get you to add a pair for me :)

Aksium no longer exists

The Mavic retail site may not reflect the full range of products available to OEM customers; if there are still OEM Aksiums, they will be available in retail in the usual way.
If Mavic have pulled out of basic wheels completely, there will be something else that's fine from Shimano or Fulcrum.

Looking at secondhand take offs.
DT Swiss wheels with 240 hubs with XDR freehub, can you swap back to a standard Shimano 11 speed freehub easily enough?

Lots on the other way but can’t find what I’m looking for.

Get these, great value.