Wheel advice needed please.

DexDexterBMX

Hello I'm looking for some wheel advice to a relative beginner.

I have a new bike coming and it comes with DT Swiss CSW RA 1.0 wheels. I think.

Basically the ones that come on the Cube Agree bikes.

Decent enough I'm sure but pretty sure they are bottom end for DT swiss.

Ordinarily I'd run them happily until some upgrade time in the future but my dilemma is I have just bought a set of Mavic Aksium S wheels. The £200 jobbers. Quite light (at that price point) if the stats are to be believed.

I have done 2 rides on them and thought they were quite good.

But now the new bike is coming which wheels should I use?

The wife will inherit one set of wheels for her bike. Either will be a sure upgrade for her.

So what should I keep and what should I give away?

gozzy

The answer depends on how much you love your wife.

DexDexterBMX

Not as much as my bike!

DexDexterBMX

Any other advice?

smidsy

Keep the ones you prefer riding - simples!!!

DexDexterBMX

For sure I'll test them both.

No strong opinions on which are the better performing wheels then?

apreading

Even better - buy an even better set of wheels, tell the wife that you are buying them for her and then give her the askiums, putting the new ones on your bike!

smidsy

DexDexterBMX wrote:

For sure I'll test them both.

No strong opinions on which are the better performing wheels then?

My point was rather that YOU are the only one that can tell - its you riding it and you need to be the judge.

Even if we said that 'x wheelset' was better you may not like the way they ride.

DexDexterBMX

True but as a relative beginner I wouldn't have asked if I didn't want opinions.

smidsy

In which case the answer would generally be Mavic.