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Soon I will need to buy a new road front wheel. I want it to need as little attention as possible in the way of truing, and I want it to hold up to a daily commute that includes some fairly terrible road surfaces: potholes, cobbles etc, whilst loaded up with the weight of me (12 stone) plus two big locks and whatever else I need to carry; sometimes a laptop and some big books. Budget is around £50 max so it's obviously gonna be pretty basic.
Am I better off going for something like a Planet X A57, which has 32 spokes and is designed for cyclocross, or will a Shimano R500 be perfectly durable enough despite having only 20 spokes? Sheldon seems to think low-spoke count wheels are stupid, is he right?