• I'm looking for wheel recommendations for an all road/gravel bike build. I hope to end up with two wheelset for the bike, but the first one will be more for the road/light off road end of the spectrum, to be suitable for 300km+ days for several days in a row.

    Has anyone got experience with Zipp 303 s ? What else would you recommend?

    Cheers.

  • What else would you recommend?

    I'd recommend looking back at all the other times people have thought 2 wheelsets 1 bike was going to be the solution. Mostly they end up with one or other set gathering dust in a cupboard because, even as simple as it is, swapping wheels before going for a ride is too much hassle.

  • I have a set of the 303S wheels (not 303’s!). They’re a nice set of wheels, I’ve hit things fairly hard with them including a pothole that moved the bars and they still have no problems

    My only gripe with them is the hookless rim means that certain tyres aren’t approved (tubeless only & bye GP5000’s), there’s a 73 PSI max rating and the rim profile is flat between the rim wall and channel with no angle to retain a tyre so if you’re riding road tubeless then tyres have an annoying habit of popping back into the channel when they deflate. They’ve worked flawlessly with teravail 35’s but have been a pain with road 28’s

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