Hovis's dream Burls Ti custom track

HED Belgiums look like a sweet balance of dimensions and weight. My issue with deeper rims, is that they become overbuilt if you use a typical 32 hole fixed hubset. I'd be tempted by a 32 spoke 3x rear (using track hub of chioce), and 24 spoke radial front (using budget lightweight road hub of 70g).

I'd never heard of this rim before. They look lovely and the reviews are positive. Although the 120 dollars a rim + america customs + postage etc. Puts me off. Are they available in the uk?

And yeah, I was thinking 32h rear and lower spoke count on the front too. Although I would like matching track hubs.

Excellent choice, ha. Looking forarwd to hearing your progress. I absolutely love my Burls, for all the reasons you require as well, so I doubt you'll be disappointed.

Forks-wise, I don't mind the Wound Ups, prefer them to the Easton's, but if money were no object I'd get some Enve...and hope to some day.

I'm not a fan of the CXP33, but they are a very strong rim and good for the money. The wider rim of the H+ was more of an incentive for me and, as it happens, both the Archetype and the TB14 are very nicely made and good looking rims.
I do miss the black deeper rimmed wheelset I had, agree with meds in that do suit a Ti frame very well.

As for a Headset, I don't have experience of the integrated, but I feel the Kings are fit and forget, they are a brand for a reason, right? I was pretty lucky to find a cheap and mint Ti over on Retrobike. It's one of the only Headsets I wouldn't think twice about buying secondhand to save some bucks.

How tall are you Hovis? You're welcome to have a spin on mine if it'll help with any decisions.

Thanks for the offer bjam, I'm 5ft10 so i suspect I'm too midget for your bike :( Having said it would be nice to have a look at it if youre not too far?

Don't

Really, don't

Chris King are less shouty in sotto voce, Cane Creek 110 might actually be better than CK. If you really want to go nuts, consider a big head tube and use the Cane Creek 110 with a conventional 1½" bottom cup and zero stack 1⅛" top cup (the blue one in the attached pic), then you can use a tapered fork like 3T Rigida, Easton EC90, Enve etc. You get the pleasing aesthetics of an integrated upper bearing and parallel sided head tube, backwards compatibility with a non-taper fork (by fitting a ZS lower bearing) and none of the imprecise fit associated with drop-in integrated bearings.

I think Burls will only do a standard head tube with 1 1/8 both sides.

One thing that was making me lean towards IS is that I already have a campag record IS headset lying around, which would be nice to put into something. Although from the various people I have spoken to about it including yourself standard cups seems to be the general consesus.

CK headsets arent as expensive as I thought they were. I might have to go back on what I said earlier and go with that option. And the non white logo is a lot more pleasing to the eye.

To be fair, most low end headsets work well if they are fitted properly to start with. I have a 26 year old Tange Levin which still works perfectly.

Yep! I've always said this too