Deep V Velocity wheels and general

cornelius blackfoot [quote]pip
Those DT swiss rims are nice, but they're even heavier than Deep Vs which is a little off putting - (580g (DT) vs 520g (Deep V) vs 430g (CXP-33)). I'm a pretty big fan off the Mavic CXP-33 as alternative to Deep-Vs, they're a little lighter and build into decent track/street wheels.

See now I'm getting all squirrely, when people say a wheel is heavy, how heavy is heavy, got some campag scirocco rims on my soma which are 770g front and 955g rear, and they feel light to me, (coming from a very old mountain bike) so the DT's would be half of what I've already got, going to get them built to 32 hole red phils. The Mavic's I haven't even thought about, though I know lots of boys on here swear by them. Decisions, decisions...[/quote]

I've never weighed my wheels but you can work out total weight quite easily. I just look at individual component masses.

= rim + (number of spokes * (spoke weight + nipple weight)) + rim tape + tyre