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Ah that's awful. Can't imagine having to deal with that.
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Very sad news indeed
On a less sad note, someone has thrown a spanner in the works by telling me that the Ambrosio Excellight's are expensive, narrow and maybe not worth it. What rims are good and comfortable? If I want to go down the custom route. Confusion. Someone here also said that the Mavic Open Pro's were a "bit old now".
open pros and excellights are built to exactly the same concept, narrow, light, high spoke count rims
"new" style custom rims I hear good things about various kinlin models (they also do narrow stuff too), H Plus Son and the DT R460 is a great budget option at £35/rim
I don't think they do anything narrower, even the TB14 which is their "classic" rim is 23mm
Thoughts go with them all, horrible news! Ride safe guys, especially those on foreign roads!
Expensive = compared to what?
Narrow = 15mm internal width, so not 'wide', more of a traditional width.
They're quite light and flexy "not suited to powerful riders" and have a weight limit of 90kg (avoid them if you're commuting with a pack!).
They're not that expensive, DCR stocks them (good info on page).
Quite heavy (1800g+) which makes them slow to pickup speed as most of it is rim weight. Very little info on the hubs though. Although they sound pretty good for that price!
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Just quoting what the guy at Strada Wheels said. He just said expensive. I didn't think £70 for rims was that bad tbh...
Weight limit of 90kg is fine, I'm not commuting with a 23kg pack
With 28 spokes, I would hope nothing is flexy! The internal width goes up to 28mm, I wouldn't want more than that ever on this bike. Max I'd take would be 27s, and I probably would be close on frame clearance.
In other news, I emailed Tate Labs about a Wahoo Elemnt mount, and they said they will have one in a few weeks, and will email me. I'm assuming it's a puck to insert into the SLi mount, as that is removable, and they make inserts for CatEye etc.
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I'm in the doghouse re. buying those wheels. Proper.
Might go on a longer ride home to try and avoid it. 500km be long enough?
Might go on a longer ride home to try and avoid it. 500km be long enough?
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Well, to be fair, you've not spent that much on bikes lately. It's been a few weeks since you bought the entire Canyon warehouse right?
You have to be more clever.
I have a car boot full of boxes with new shiney Fizik stuff. All delivered to work and stashed in there because she is staying over the past few days. All is well!
Learn from your mistakes, up your ninja
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They were in the boot of my car haha she put the recycling in there today though... oops. Ninja fail. I was going to put them in the basement tonight with my old wheels and claim they were them, but she got their first. Doomed.
haha she put the recycling in there today though... oops. Ninja fail. I was going to put them in the basement tonight with my old wheels and claim they were them, but she got their first. Doomed.
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These would be my choice every time if I wanted some nice handbuilts without overly breaking the bank, they are lovely looking rims and everyone seems to rate them.
Kinlin getting rave reviews on the couple of builder websites I've read the past few weeks. Infact the 31t is probably the rim I'm looking at for my handbuilt set... Loads of info on DCR here.
Agreed with 28 spokes they shouldn't flex, but that's a lot of additional weight you don't need on a rim designed to be light just to make it stronger...? Why not just go for the Excellence (stronger & not as light)? Drillings for them both seem strange... 32-36 and 28-32-36, nothing smaller (hinting again at 'classic' builds rather than more modern high tension lighter builds).Just quoting what the guy at Strada Wheels said. He just said expensive. I didn't think £70 for rims was that bad tbh...
Weight limit of 90kg is fine, I'm not commuting with a 23kg pack
With 28 spokes, I would hope nothing is flexy! The internal width goes up to 28mm, I wouldn't want more than that ever on this bike. Max I'd take would be 27s, and I probably would be close on frame clearance.
Ha! Come ride here and give them to me - problem solved!
Failing that - first dibs on them in the event of your 'mysterious disappearance'.
They were in the boot of my car
Damn. The only thing worse than being caught, is when you get caught trying to be sneaky about it all
Yup! But no guard mounts and designed more as a CX ride makes me think its quite heavy...
Pretty good for the money too, but no mount points and alu again. There are cheaper alu frames, with mounts
whats your budget then?
because if you want discs with mounts, carbon frame etc then you're gunna need to stretch it more! plus good alu over cheap carbon
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The Point AR frame is probably what my friend is going with for a self-build. It seems pretty decent tbh. He needs QR for his dynamo hub front wheel so it really limits him (in addition to wanting alu/carbon and mudguard mounts...and ideally rack mounts).
My budget is totally flexible but it will all determine what I have left after our house move... Current place is on the market and the housing market here is mental at the moment so I'm expecting to know in the next 3 months. Ideally I'm keeping ~£8k back for 'emergencies' but I really can't say that's for a bike... Or can I?! lolwhats your budget then?
because if you want discs with mounts, carbon frame etc then you're gunna need to stretch it more! plus good alu over cheap carbon
Do you know how hard it has been to keep away from wiggle with tons of money in my bank?! I've had to avoid even visiting the site as much as possible!
, I'm in 2 minds between a Point AR type self build to replace my Defy 1 which will incorporate parts of my 5800 groupset to keep costs low then flog the Defy frameset. This would then be my 'day to day & winter' bike before a summer bike purchase next year/in the autumn. The other option is a 'do it all' complete bike to totally replace my Defy 1 with discs, kinda why I was looking at the Diverge/Roubaix but if I can get everything I want (for half the money) with a little more work (replace cable discs for hydra) then it might be a more sensible (budget) option than a £2500+ ride I'm going to ride all weathers...
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Care to link me the websites you've been looking at, except for DRC of course.
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The Excellence are even worse for drilling.
I might just park the whole idea and do a tonne more research. The Ambrosio rims just seemed like a good fit, well recommended, comfy and sturdy and good for all round riding, and also light enough to be good for climbing, as well as being capable of handling some cobbles.
I got moaned at enough for buying some Assos shorts! At least you have nice wheels
http://thecycleclinic.co.uk/ - Malcolm loves the kinlin 31t and 22t, so much so he sells them under his own name
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Cool thanks. 19mm internal width if pretty wide! Sheldon suggests 28mm minimum for those
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Glad I spent ages getting my bike sparkling clean for today's ride. It seemed like Surrey was half flooded in places today, I don't know whether it was from the storm the other day or whether there's burst water mains everywhere but nearly all the quiet descents were waterlogged. My road bike now looks like I've been doing a CX race
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