new wheels

polarhare

iam thinking of upgrading my shimano wh-r500 ,

now i have loads of questions there 30mm deep and have been looking at 50mm deep, do they make a differnce? 20mm cant be that much? but they look cool! or keep it light and dont bother!

iam guessing that as my wheels are the lowest you can get..... (ish) that any upgrade would make a differnce! my max is bout £600 woop!

been looking at the px 52mm clinchers, Mavic Ksyrium, CSN Superleggera XL50 and the easton ea50s (but not sure if much of an upgrade)

i would like to use them all the time not just for sportives/ odd race..... so are carbon wheels bit to delicate for that?

thanks for the advice

estampida

check hope hoops

to stand out from the flock

maddog 2

I have a mint pair of RS80 C50s which will be going on sale soon. Only used for <100 miles (wife did a half ironman), with custom stickers and upgraded ceramic ball bearings!

Not checked the s/hand prices but they'll be competively priced I'm sure

racingcondor

If you want a wheelset that will do everything then I would get something with an Alu breaking surface and as a result would stick with a low profile (30mm or less) rim.

With £600 to spend though you're really not limited much if you do stay Alu though. There are great options from a lot of manufacturers as well as the option of going hand built.

polarhare

thankyou racingcondor, thats some good advice chers.
i want a good set of wheels, but dont want the agro of swapping wheels for weather ect ect! i wanna spend time on the damm thing not messing about with it!

and if not much differnce between 50mm to 30mm, then i wont bother.

janwal

Try these pro-lite bracciano
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mode ... elID=29086
Lots of excellent reviews about them and half of what you've to spend.Got the silver ones for my new titanium bike and they look really good and so far perform spot on.There's even a youtube vid showing them being built.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcAWqNI0sV8

taimur

If I was you, i would stay away from Eastons.

I have had experience with two sets of Eastons, Vista SL and EA70s. The wheels are plagued by broken spokes and after researching on Internet, user reviews suggest that i wasnt the only one with such issues. Put away the spoke defects the wheels are easily comparable peformance wise to more expensive competing wheels in terms of performance.

I am also in the market and about to make a similar post.

My budget is not as extravagant as yours but if it was i would definitely go for these based on repute and the red hubs would look great on my bike:
http://www.evanscycles.com/products/mav ... t-ec025775

bails1310

maddog 2 wrote:

I have a mint pair of RS80 C50s which will be going on sale soon. Only used for <100 miles (wife did a half ironman), with custom stickers and upgraded ceramic ball bearings!

Not checked the s/hand prices but they'll be competively priced I'm sure

Very interested pending price, please PM if you want to give a bit info more away!