Road Wheels & Road Wheel Recommendations?

Question time! So I had a bit of an accident with my Reynold Attacks, where the chain dropped behind the cassette, and broke one of the spokes. My options are:

1) Send the wheel back to Reynolds and pay about 350 quid for a replacement, and wait God knows how long.

2) Sell the wheelset as is. If so roughly how much? And buy a completely new set of wheels as I've always wanted something a bit deeper. Looking at these:

http://www.superstarcomponents.com/en/carbon-clincher-volta-evo-hubs-2024-hole-lightweight.htm

3) Have somebody rebuild the wheel, maybe around a new hub.

Could do with getting my bike up and running ASAP!

Cheers all, I didn't know the pro4 would come up large. I've got a 25mm durano I can try.. Can't afford a new fork but don't want to give up these nice new wheels!

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Option 4: buy a DT Aero Comp SP (assuming your Attacks are a relatively recent version) and fix it yourself.

Right, 25mm Duranos measure 26mm wide and gives me 2-3mm clearance to the fork. That'll do.

Any other tyre recommendations before I go order a set? 25mm (really!), comfortable, under 300g.

25mm (really!)

700×23 Vittoria Open Corsa or Conti GP4000S are probably going to be closest to 25mm on that rim

As above. Personally, as long as the wheel uses 'normal' otp spokes that aren't £10 each and can be sourced easily (I'm looking at you, Fulcrum), re-build the drive side. Usually most of the spokes on the DS get toasted when you drop the chain over the back.

Is the hub OK?

Ceramic'd the TuneMag 180.Now thewheels weigh 1243g :)

Very many $ per g

But they spin better.

New 25mm Duranos (the plain folding ones - not DD or Plus) measure 25.5mm on these 19mm internal rims. Hands are throbbing from changing 5 sets of tyres since yesterday, but finally we have a fit.

22T on Novatec 24/28 from DCR

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The valve caps make it.

Just for that, I'm changing them.

Though the black chrome alternation is hard to resist.

Thanks, yeah they're 2013's. I fear the hub might have suffered some damage though, which I'm not sure that they sell separately?

I need to add a caveat to my reccomendation for Superstar Arc31s.

Mine are a bit flexy. The rear is fine for me but the front moves about a bit. Hitting lumps/ridges/etc when cornering hard is er... interesting. It's all relative and they're no worse than zipps, but they're not nearly as sure-footed as factory Mavics.

Mine are a bit flexy.

Superstar could cure that by using proper spokes, but then they wouldn't sell so many wheelsets to weight-weenies.

Yep. You are right.

Swap spokes for CX Ray, good thing I work in a bike shop.

Swap spokes for CX Ray

That won't help, they have the same cross sectional area as Lasers.

I was wondering about this. Not that I'm about to take these apart.

I half expected the rear of these wheels to be a bit 'underbuilt', not the front.

I think I'm used to wheels with either; lots of spokes, or proprietary spokes.

You do ride with 32h rims generally, I agree they don't feel that stiff but for the money it's hard to beat.

If only Mavic do their A-series rims in a low spoke count.

Can anyone comment on the stiffness of the Superstars I linked up there? Worth the money or should I just rebuild/replace my Reynolds wheel?

just re-build surely

I'd have thought they'd be fine, they're deep carbon rims afterall, even though they are built with light weight spokes.

Have you had a look at Wheelsmith or Just Riding Along? They might build something similar to the SS wheels; the qaulity will be better though.

Pretty happy with the Kinlin 22T set with 25mm Duranos. I had them at 80psi on the ride yesterday.. could probably lose 10psi for a bit less bounce.

Briefly, yeah but it's all a bit stock on there. A friend of mine in Melbourne is talking about building some Curve rims around White Industry hubs for about £850, which is appealing.

Just means I'll have gone months without my bike unless I can get some stop-gaps for now.

Still tempted to just bite the bullet and have Reynolds replace as I got an insurance payout anyway, but £350 for a single wheel is a bit rich for my blood.

You've broken one spoke, I really don't see what your dilemma is? Just replace it.

Or I'll give you £50 for the wheelset, and replace it myself.

I am so confused by this dilemma. Buy the spoke.