Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

http://velonews.competitor.com/2009/09/news/interbike-2009-the-new-deep-reynolds-carbon-clinchers-deep-valley-double-thick-walls-and-no-hook-can-handle-extreme-pressure_98523 ?

Why do you keep dragging up ancient history (Lew 2007, Reynolds 2009)? Just get the 808FC and stop worrying.

I will. I was just curious about this hook-free thing.

Are you talking to me?

yeah; what you need for your national level time trial competition is clearly a set of handbuilt 40 spoke touring wheels - anything else would be utter madness

Thing is most of my wheels are hand built, including the 808 Powertap that has been hammered for the last couple of years.

All built by a bloke about 500m down the road. Can't get much more local can I?

My disc was hand built

by a factory worker in Taiwan

hang on..

built up by Harry Rowlands

Is he a bit like Cliff Richards?

can someone turn hippy off at the plug, I think he's crashed

^^ imagine if Cliff built wheels... they would be so fabulous

The Cliff that works at Royce is actually the Peter Pan of pop. It's so funny, how we don't torque anymore, etc.

Tandemists and trick cyclists are not taken in by your bullshit, and keep buying 48 hole hubs and rims.

Other applications. Spoked motorcar wheels too aren't built with 36 2.0/1.8mm spokes either.

The domain at hand here is as the title of the thread indicates.

^^ oooh #dadpun

The domain at hand here is as the title of the thread indicates.

So tandemists and street tricksters don't ride on roads? I'm glad you're here, I'm learning something new every day.

So tandemists and street tricksters don't ride on roads? I'm glad you're here, I'm learning something new every day.

Non-spoked road wheels of tricksters, hipsters and merry pranksters...

You should know Paul Lew or Lew Wheels business failed and the last time I read anything about him the man himself now works for Reynolds wheels ..

Lew folded. The fallout of the doping scandals has meant that its wholly impossible to place niche bicycle technology in the peleton--- no matter how advanced or how much the pro-riders want to ride them. Riders are desperate for contracts and teams are drying up. A lot of top riders have found themselves over the past few years unemployed. Because of this nobody want to make waves and if a sponsor says "ride this". they do it.. No more black markers or slapping stickers on things.. no more stealth.. And what the peleton uses that you can't see.. its don't ask, don't tell..

^ I think you should brush up a bit on your facts .. troll or not

Lew folded (or his business failed) had nothing to do with the pro riders ! And your statement "no more black markers" ! Have you looked at a pro bike recently ? Wiggins the man of the hour is riding blacked out O.Symetric rings, wheels with Hed rims, Chris King and Tune hubs to name a few obvious components .. and Sky's sponsor is? Shimano ..

I used to like this thread.

People would get really geeky and excited about the wheels they were building. It was a bit of a placebo for getting new wheels for myself. Like shopping by proxy.

Those were the days.

In other news, I have decided to go for/stay with Mavic TN719's to Hope Evo II's, with 25c Maxxis Refuse.

I used to like this thread.

People would get really geeky and excited about the wheels they were building. It was a bit of a placebo for getting new wheels for myself. Like shopping by proxy.

Those were the days.

How about a new thread.. Instead of "Road Wheel Recommendations" one could have "Road Wheel Lust" resp "Road Wheel Porn". There is, I think, a significant divide between the two.

^ I think you should brush up a bit on your facts .. troll or not

Lew folded (or his business failed) had nothing to do with the pro riders ! And your statement "no more black markers" ! Have you looked at a pro bike recently ? Wiggins the man of the hour is riding blacked out O.Symetric rings, wheels with Hed rims, Chris King and Tune hubs to name a few obvious components .. and Sky's sponsor is? Shimano ..

I am not familiar with Mssr Wiggens contract--- nor with the sponsoring contracts that Sky has entered into. From your comments, however, you are suggesting that Wiggens, beyond any contractual obligations to which I am not privy, may have violated UCI rules on the use of non-standard wheels. A HED deep section rim spoked to King or Tune hubs constitutes a "non-standard" wheel and must be first authorized by crash testing to be used in anything other than time trials. Only "traditional" wheels are exempt from model testing and a " traditional wheel is deemed to be a wheel with at least 16 metal spokes; the spokes may be round, flat or oval, provided that no dimension of their cross sections exceeds 2.4 mm; the section of the rim must not exceed 2.5 cm on each side. (UCI). The HED S3 rim is 33mm deep-- and the others are deeper. There is no such wheel on the UCI list. The HED Stinger 4,5,6,7 and 9 wheels are on the list but these are "as supplied and tested", e.g. a custom wheel built by someone else does not come under the approval. Did Wiggens/Sky again violate UCI equipment rules--- which were also violated at the Olympic games?

The fallout of the doping scandals has meant that its wholly impossible to place niche bicycle technology in the peleton--- no matter how advanced or how much the pro-riders want to ride them. No more black markers or slapping stickers on things.. no more stealth.. And what the peleton uses that you can't see.. its don't ask, don't tell..

Last time I checked Wiggo was riding blacked out Osymmetric chainrings, blacked out HED trispoke, unbranded disc rear wheel, unbranded but probably Berners derailler cage, unbranded but probably that Team GB stem.. the only thing that actually has a brand on it is the Pinarello frameset.

^ I think you should brush up a bit on your facts .. troll or not
Lew folded (or his business failed) had nothing to do with the pro riders ! And your statement "no more black markers" ! Have you looked at a pro bike recently ? Wiggins the man of the hour is riding blacked out O.Symetric rings, wheels with Hed rims, Chris King and Tune hubs to name a few obvious components .. and Sky's sponsor is? Shimano ..

FFS. I'm putting it down to illness. This ^