Wheelbuilding / Wheel Building / Wheel build help

Sputnik, as you already identified. Hefty, but you can't be bothered about that if you're using hub brakes.

Nope, weight of the bike components are orders of magnitude smaller than the weight of myself.

^^ Hmm, I think the polishing adds quite a bit of cost. Even the Halo ones are £40 a pop.

Right then looks like i'll have to give up on shinyness. Sputniks it is.