If I were up-grading, I would begin with tires. Choose lighter & more supple. That rules out cheaper but not necessarily more flat resistant. Next I would look at hubs, unless I had a really substandard rim. If you listen to experienced wheel builders they all rate Mavic and Velocity rims highly. e.g from Peter Whites web site, "Velocity and Mavic make the best rims I've found." Until recently I have ridden exclusively on 700c wheels and primarily on Mavic rims. Never had a bad one. I dented a Velocity rim on a curb, that wasn't the rims fault. For years I rode Campy NR hubs and found them durable and very easy to service. Ultegra hubs do seem to hold up better than the 105s, but for the money I have found the White Ind Hubs to be super. I use them on both my Ram & Bilenkey tandem. I have a lot of bikes to maintain, mine, my wives, my daughters & son-in-laws and have really come to appreciate low maintenance parts. That said, I have never been willing to spring for a PW hub; it just feels like overkill. But I do like PW BBs.
Michael I just bought a fabulous Saluki with a basic wheel set. At some point I will probably upgrade the hubs. Rims, well maybe. On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 6:39:00 PM UTC-4, Leslie wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:42:51 PM UTC-4, Mike Schiller wrote: >> >> maybe from a cross section profile, but the Dyad is a stronger rim than >> the Synergy. It's more like the Atlas in function. > > > > Oh, I agree... I'm running 700c Dyads, and wish the 650b ones were still > available. My first 650b wheelset are Synergy rims, and I've had no > problems w/ them, but, do like the Dyad/A23 cross-section better than the > boxy section rims. That's why my next set of rims I built were the A23 in > 650b. My next set will probably be another A23 650b set, but I may build > another 700c set, which could end up either A23 or Dyads.... > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
