Half price wheels in white or gold

Giraffoto

Get yours here . . .
Superstar clearance

If you can stand your wheels having white or gold rims, £100 gets you a pair of wheels that they usually charge £195 for. I'm still saving my pennies for a handbuilt set, but I thought it would be worth a punt. I've bought a set of white-rimmed Pave 28 wheels. So here are my first impressions:

The quoted weight of 1650g a pair is probably right, going by my (fairly inaccurate) luggage scale.

White rims look huge. The effect is similar to white-walled tyres.

The tyre looks huge as well - the rim is 3mm wider than the stock wheels they replaced.

The Superstar Icon freehub is noisier than the stock (Fulcrum) one, but not as noisy as a Hope.

I'll go out for a ride later and report back!

MisterMuncher

From experience with my own superstar wheels, any extra weight you measure will be down to the rim tape, which is apparently made of lead flashing.

napoleond

I have a pair of red ones on my winter bike.
Pretty good wheels for the price.
I melted the rim tape and burst a tube from overheating going down a long hill that unexpectedly went all '20% and round a corner approaching a junction with a main road' on my sorry @ss in the Wild Wales Challenge last year.

Giraffoto

NapoleonD wrote:

I have a pair of red ones on my winter bike.

Obviously I'd have preferred red for the increased speed, but white was what was cheap!

JoostG

I couldn't resist either: my gold version should arrive today. I'm planning to convert them to tubeless with stans yellow tape.

SuperstarComponents.com

We have added a load more rims in red and silver to the clearance now so you have a bit more choice. Plus if you want a higher spec we have lots of other options in the clearance sale.

Only going cheap as we are slimming down stock for a warehouse move... theres £90 retail of SKF bearings in each pair of hubs!

ive noticed another fashionable brand are selling the the same hubs, same rims, cheap spokes, cheap bearings, for over £300. Its amazing what some logos do peoples perception of price.

yes you are correct our weights are without the optional rimtape, just like everyone else in the industry. If you prefer a different kind feel free to swap it.

Any questions on them please let me know, Superstar

MikeBrew

superstarcomponents.com wrote:

ive noticed another fashionable brand

Bit more of a clue who maybe ?

edit: just checked website and quoted weight is 1555g yet the OP (Giraffoto) says 1650g, which is correct ?

Giraffoto

MikeBrew wrote:

superstarcomponents.com wrote:

ive noticed another fashionable brand

Bit more of a clue who maybe ?

edit: just checked website and quoted weight is 1555g yet the OP (Giraffoto) says 1650g, which is correct ?

Probably not me, I weighed them with the rim tapes attached and the luggage scale isn't the best tool for weighing lighter loads! 1555g is entirely plausible.

On a related note, I'm glad they haven't added red Pave wheels to the sale, I'd have been so put out to have missed out on them!

napoleond

Red FTW!

MikeBrew

Just bought a Silver set of 30mm Elites. See what they look like on the Silver and Red/Orange? CAAD 10 frameset that I ordered from Pauls Cycles last night. So much for saving £350 by not going for the Evo HM . Then again, it was always gonna need wheels.

Giraffoto

NapoleonD wrote:

Red FTW!

Yup, red is definitely the colour to have. I'll get red ones too and call them my Summer wheels.

MikeBrew

Gold or silver with that frame and group set, definitely.

bigmat

Any chance of Campag hubs?

napoleond

Mine are campag
I'd love to have gotten hold of some Gold Campag Shamal Ultras for the Ribble. However it now has a Dura Ace 9000 chainset and is slowly getting pimped...

Moonbiker

I melted the rim tape and burst a tube from overheating going down a long hill that unexpectedly went all '20% and round a corner approaching a junction with a main road' on my sorry @ss in the Wild Wales Challenge last year.

I remember that part. That hill was crazy steep so I was on the brakes nearly all the way down.


Apparently about half a dozen peoples brakes/wheel rims etc failed going down hill earlier on the route the Bwlch-y-Groes (Hellfire pass) hill, from over heating including several people with disc brakes.


What psi were you running im thinking lower psi would mean less chance of inner tubes exploding? I was riding the brakes nearly all the way, just to avoid going crazy speeds.

napoleond

I was only running 90!

londoncommuter

NapoleonD wrote:

Red FTW!

OK, I give up. How is the Ribble upright?

JoostG

I received my gold ones: pure bike porn! I took immediately the scale: front 700 gr, rear 850 gr (both without rim tape). I already converted one to tubeless with just on layer of yellow tape (Schwalbe Pro One tyre). Will try to convert the other tomorrow and take some pics.

napoleond

londoncommuter wrote:

NapoleonD wrote:

Red FTW!

OK, I give up. How is the Ribble upright?

You have to look very closely...
It involves a piece of bamboo...

Moonbiker

Review:

http://road.cc/content/review/140076-su ... 8-wheelset

Giraffoto

First ride impression - 80PSI on a wider rim feels like over 100PSI on the narrower OEM rim, so I have to let a bit of air out. The bike feels just a bit easier to accelerate, more willing to turn and less effort to get up hills with the lighter wheels. The freehub is not obtrusively loud. The wheels are perfectly straight, perfectly round, and the £90 set of bearings spins very smoothly. £99.99 well spent!

The white rims are eyecatching (bordering on garish) and are probably very visible in poor light. If Mr. Superstar is still reading this, how possible would it be to make a set that are painted in retroreflective red?

JoostG

londoncommuter

Very nice. Can't see those working with many bikes but that looks great.

MikeBrew

londoncommuter wrote:

Very nice. Can't see those working with many bikes but that looks great.

I think they'd work well with lots of colour schemes, black especially .

@ JoostG What is the build quality like, have you bought wheels from this source before ? I've got a Silver set coming today but really don't know what to expect, quality-wise, for £99.

Moonbiker

Like the frame paint job did you get in done to match the wheels?


Ordered the gold the pave28 & have they being dispatched, would heve prefered a few more more spokes but for £99... :roll: 20/24 will do. & im 5 9" 79kg so not a complete jabba offically overweight though according to bmi.


Whats the recommended max weight limit for theese kind of wheels approx?

MikeBrew

"Approx" 78.5 KG Honestly ?......... Not a scooby !

JoostG

MikeBrew wrote:

londoncommuter wrote:

Very nice. Can't see those working with many bikes but that looks great.

I think they'd work well with lots of colour schemes, black especially .

@ JoostG What is the build quality like, have you bought wheels from this source before ? I've got a Silver set coming today but really don't know what to expect, quality-wise, for £99.

I have to other sets from Superstar: Pacenti SL23 rim with volta hub, 20/24 and 28/28 version. I only had an issue with the 28/28 version. I use them in my cyclocrosser and treat them extremely rough. Once a spoke turned loose. Mather of minutes to fix that.

I didn't use the Pave's yet, but they 'feel' as quality: solid, totally straight. I checked the spokes by hand, and I know that isn't telling much, but it feels as if tension is the same around. My Schwalbe Pro One 23mm measure 26mm on these rims. Super! Converting them to a tubeless set up was easy: 1 layer of tape and a co2 cylinder. An after 2 days not a significant loss of pressure.

MikeBrew

Thanks, that's reassuring. Bit of an impulsive purchase on my part. I know it's "only" £99, but normally I'd do a fair bit of research before spending even half of that. All sounds good though.

skyblueamateur

Would these be much of an improvement on Campag Khamsins I have on my winter bike?

napoleond

I'm 90kg at the mo and use them on my winter bike, they get a right hammering. Had them over 12 months, still true.

Moonbiker

Mine arrived just need to find some QR's