Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

Maybe. I don't know anything about rims. I just aim a wheelbuilder at my wallet and say "Go!"

I haz Swisstop now. Got annoyed last night at shitty grinding noises and being covered in brake waste so finally changed the pads... damage already done but that's what you get for forgetting you have brand new brake blocks that were meant to fitted when the new rims went on...

If you don't care about weight, Sputniks are meant to be bomb proof. Plus they are very cheap.

I think archetypes are perfectly fine for the £50 BTW, not unhappy with the way the ride at all. wide rims are def. good.

Hub Jub has some Kinlin ADHN rims for £20 at the moment. ANy good?

Yeah, but I'd like to use the spair 2 cassettes that I've currently got, which are shimano and sram :(

@hippy ... there's wide, then there's Sputniks/Grizzlys. They're touring rim width (25mm) but ridiculously plush and stable with 25mm tyres.

Sputniks are bombproof and very heavy. Grizzlys have the same shape externally, the same thick brack tracks, but don't have the two girders running through them. Grizzlys are just a bit heavy. Both are great for commuting or HTFU training.

I'd have thought that the BHS c472w / Kinlin XC279 would be worth a look. Lots of drillings and 28mm depth, so in a 28h or 32h it should build into a strong wheel.

Otherwise any touring rim like the ones mentions above should be alright I'd have thought(?)

it should build into a strong wheel

Sick burn.

Strong ≠ durable. I've no direct experience of them but are Kinlin rims not a bit soft? Touring rims have way more material on the brake tracks.

I am on Kinlin XR200 rims .. 3k+ miles with swisstop pads still loads of life left

Alright, so that's one set of pads.

It depends loads on where/how you ride and how much in the wet but with Sputniks your looking at 10k miles quite easily.

They're quite a lot lighter by that point too ;-)

I would go for Archetypes, just because they are well made, a bit stiffer than tb14 and readily available for quick/easy rim swap. Only minor downside is mucky worn in brake surface for first 100k - not that aesthetics will bother you much :)

Hippy - why don't you just give it to Scherrit and let him pick the parts?

So, unless you're an 11spd person, my current wheel set- the RS80 C24 is incredible.
21mm, 1.5kgs for the pair, and paired with a 25 gp4000 they've not missed a beat for 3000miles(more likely more, but this is just stats from the caad10, but the wheels have been with me for a fair while longer), including racing, commuting and accidental cyclocrossing...
And they're on sale just about everywhere.

Do not go for A23.

I repeat; do. not. go. for. A23.

It got a standard internal width though (15mm).

It's an Archetype. I'll use it until it fails and then work out what to replace it with.

Meh, the profile with 25s on is pretty good.
Anyways they're pretty solid, is all. I've abused them quite a bit and they're still ok.

I wanted it quick so just bought complete wheel off ebay.
He's fixing the one I the guy that hit me broke now and that will go to Aus or Poland so I have a power meter there.

A23 or Archetype?

Neither. Talking about my c24 RS80...
A23 I was super disappointed in. At the time I was using it I was 66kg, and the rim snapped at the seam at around 1000 miles, would not buy again.

I love my RS80 C24s. I really rate them.

Is it the same rim as the dura ace C24, just with different decals?

^ same rim, yes. Lower weight of the DA wheels is in the hubs.

Which hubs have that strange high pitch buzzing freewheel, as opposed to the normal slower click freewheel?

Vague much, sorry.

Chris King, I think.