Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

stop posting here and write my reply again, bitch. I need informationz.

As opposed to having:

• Superlight climbing wheels
  
• Spring classics wheels
  
• Training wheels
  
• Deep aero wheels
  
• "It's raining" wheels
  
  

??

I think you need to re-examine your premise here

This sounds silly. You need....

• Superlight climbing bike
  
• Spring classics bike
  
• Training bike
  
• Deep aero bike
  
• "It's raining" bike
  

Anyway, you're building whole new bikes for half of these categories so back in the Buyer Box with you.

This sounds silly. You need....

• Superlight climbing bike
  
• Spring classics bike
  
• Training bike
  
• Deep aero bike
  
• "It's raining" bike
  

ahem

Dan - fair enough, I wasn't trying to do it that way round - I was saying that if you've spent "proper" money on stuff it's a shame not to use it.

It'd be more of a waste to have a pair of Zipps that sat in a cupboard all year than to take them out every weekend, I reckon.

This has reminded me I have a set of CX disc brake wheels in the workroom.

Wonder how the hubs are.......

^^ agree with that. Bikes are for riding.

Especially expensive ones!

Which reminds me, I need to swap the hub in my Time Machine rear wheel from a 10 speed to an 11 speed.

Is this something I could do without totally FUBARing the wheel, then take it in to be tensioned?

you haven't even built the bike yet and you're already swapping the hubs?

I don't know the answer - I imagine that if the hubs are the same that you could relace it yourself without too much bother. Bit of a waste of a Friday night though.

I thought you were running 10 speed with the TRP brakes?

you haven't even built the bike yet and you're already swapping the hubs?

I don't know the answer - I imagine that if the hubs are the same that you could relace it yourself without too much bother. Bit of a waste of a Friday night though.

They were current tech when I bought them- I never anticipated that they'd be obsolete before the bike was built.

I'll put an 6870 rear mech on there when they are available and an Ultegra 6800 cassette.

Which reminds me, I need to swap the hub in my Time Machine rear wheel from a 10 speed to an 11 speed.

Is this something I could do without totally FUBARing the wheel, then take it in to be tensioned?

Just detension the spokes say 5 turns each moving around the wheel till the hub and spokes fall out.

Last time I did a rim swap. I did it step wise. So that at one point both rims were laced to the same hub. Could'nt be arsed rethinking the lacing. Not sure you can do that with the hubs.

I still need to move 4 spokes on my crabons. But I cant face regluing.

They were current tech when I bought them- I never anticipated that they'd be obsolete before the bike was built.

I'll put an 6870 rear mech on there when they are available and an Ultegra 6800 cassette.

10 speed is hardly obsolete

Which reminds me, I need to swap the hub in my Time Machine rear wheel from a 10 speed to an 11 speed.

Is this something I could do without totally FUBARing the wheel, then take it in to be tensioned?

Are you switching the freehub from 10 to 11 speed (which will mean the wheel needs to be redished, unless you just fit a Campag 11 speed freehub) or changing the whole hub? If it's the former then swapping the freehub and asking your friendly LBS to redish it should be easy enough. If it's the latter then you'll have to strip the whole wheel down anyway, spokes, nipples and all. Then it's just a question of whether you want to re-use the spokes. Either way, building up the wheel with a new hub and new or used spokes would be easy enough, even if you leave the final tensioning and truing the LBS rather than DIYing.

I'd DIY the whole thing, but then again I do have the parts for 9 wheels which I haven't quite got round to building yet.

10 speed is hardly obsolete

This.

Even 7 speed isn't obsolete.

Yes it is Ed.

7 speed just got STI last year.

To be fair, I think they misspelt STD.

stop posting here and write my reply again, bitch. I need informationz.

There you go.

I should really be used to doing things over and over again.

#bittersoftwareindustrywanker

It'd be more of a waste to have a pair of Zipps that sat in a cupboard all year than to take them out every weekend, I reckon.

It's true. Every time I look at my 404s I want to sell them.

But then I'd have no 'good' spare wheels. #firstworldproblems

It's true. Every time I look at my 404s I want to sell them.

But then I'd have no 'good' spare wheels. #nationalchampionproblems

ftfy

You feckin deserve nice wheels fatso!

Powertap 404s would be an easy sell though.

Would be my first chioce wheelset.

^^ agree with that. Bikes are for upgrading.
ftfy

10 speed is totally obsolete and I would cross the road if I saw someone on a 10 speed or less machine. You disgust me.
ftfy

should read (for you): road bikes are for dusting

should read (for you): road bikes are for dusting

It's clean now though - woot

Anyone wanna buy a Tarmac with Powertap 404s? :)