recommend wheels in £300-400 cat please

sy1975

I currently run a pair of Fulcrum 5's on my wilier, I would like to upgrade - Thinking Fulcrum 3's but would welcome other suggestions in this price bracket?

drlodge

viewtopic.php?f=40042&t=12969615

sy1975

drlodge wrote:

http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=40042&t=12969615

thanks but its not a great post - just a couple of suggestions and the tubeless v tube debate.

I don't mind factory wheels, would run tubes and have campy groupset if that helps

mfin

OP you've got the standard things to consider:

1) Weight, as in, are you heavy?
2) Do you want Factory built or Handbuilt, or do you still need to decide or be persuaded one way or the other?
3) Do you need aero? Or just want Aero for some purely aesthetic preference?
4) Clinchers or Tubs?

...all of these things have been discussed week in week out, there are seemingly endless threads to go looking through for discussions and arguments on all of the above.

drlodge

for £300-£400 I would buy Zondas if forced to get a Factory wheelset, or rather get a set of handbuilts. Plenty of threads out there with Ugo giving good advice.

rickeverett

http://www.cycledivision.co.uk/product- ... id133.html

lostboysaint

Just done exactly what you're going to do. Went to Velocity A23 rims, Sapim Race spokes and Miche hubs - handbuilt. light enough, very strong, extra width fattens out a 25mm tyre beautifully and the components are very nice. Circa £300 depending on who you get to build them for you.

wallace_and_gromit

sy1975 wrote:

I currently run a pair of Fulcrum 5's on my wilier, I would like to upgrade - Thinking Fulcrum 3's but would welcome other suggestions in this price bracket?

I upgraded the Fulcrum 5s on my Wilier to Shimano RS80 CL24s. Light and ideal for hilly sportives. Less flexible and more durable than their reputation (based on threads like this!) suggests. I'm 77kg and have done road races and inadvertent pot-hole excursions on them, and other than one minor buckle they have remained straight and true with no maintenance required in nearly 10,000km of use. The one buckle I did get cost a tenner to get trued at the LBS.