Road bike recommendations

Much of the difference compared with other rims comes from cutting the side wall height. You have to ask whether you'd trust the tyre to stay on. Maybe Stan really does know better than the ETRTO, who have only been in the road vehicle pneumatic tyre standards business for 47 years

You also have to ask whether you trust a company which deliberately uses model names a bit less than their own claimed weight, looks like a deliberate effort to make people think they must weigh 340g.

I'm skeptical of various Stans weight weenie products (tin foil brake discs etc.). But I do trust their bead lock system. I'd want to check the width though, I went with velocity rims over stans on the 29er. Because I felt the Stans rims were just too narrow. A few extra mm on a road rim would be worth the extra weight too IMHO.

They've cut corners buy doing stuff like using alu nipples. But feck, I'd do that anyway. In fact if it were me, I'd have revolution spokes NDS and up front, plus veloplugs. To really push the weight down. In fact, I think I've just convinced myself, to look into building my own, based on the stans rims.