Wanted: Zip 303 wheels, 28-spoke

[channlluv]

Please help me find these. I want them for a 15th anniversary gift for DH, who is building his own race bike and wants to get it under 15lbs.

Thanks, all,
Roxy

[MartianDestiny]

I assume you want used? Might want to try the slowtwitch forum classifieds and the serotta forum classifieds. Lots more stuff goes through those (including a reasonable number of Zipps)

http://www.serotta.com/forum/

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/

And then there is this set on RBR: http://classifieds.roadbikereview.co...ct=19479&cat=7

Good luck!

[channlluv]

Super, MartianDestiny. Thank you! I was thinking new, actually, but I don't know how much they cost. Would you use a set of used wheels? The one set you found on the roadbikereviews board, the guy wants over $1000, but he's adding in a bunch of other stuff. I really just want the wheels. DH has the tires.

Still looking...

Roxy

[Veronica]

You may want to do a little research. New Zipp 303s are pretty expensive.http://www.all3sports.com/product_in...=zipp-303-2010

Personally, I would not take a used set. They are race wheels and who knows how hard a used set has been ridden. But then I'm kinda weird and don't really want to buy anything used.

Veronica

[MartianDestiny]

I'm riding a used set of wheels now, no issues.

Wheels are wheels, either they spin true or they don't, rims are intact (braking surface not worn through) or they aren't. Hubs can be serviced and re-greased. I'd be less concerned about race wheels than training wheels, personally (race wheels are babied and have low miles. Either they are crashed and gone or they are near new). But that's just my opinion.

Maybe not as a gift, but then again, I'd be more than thrilled to get a used but nearly new set of wheels, especially when they are that much to begin with!

You might contact the guy on RBR if you are really interested (honestly, I didn't read his ad, just the title). Haggle with him a bit and see what the price is for JUST the wheels. It costs money to list things there, so sometimes people lump a bunch of stuff together that they'd sell separate for the right offer.

[channlluv]

AAaaaaahhh, the old lump-stump-together-and-save-some-money trick.

Just when I was thinking the thought was going to have to count with this one, I mentioned your find to DH and he's checking them out as I type this....oof, they're several years old, babied or not. He's impressed by the price, though. He still wants the latest, lightest version. Naturally.

Ultimate combo: '10 Zipp 303 or '09 or '10 SRAM S40/Flashpoint 40 front wheel, with a ZIP 303 rear rim that he can build up with his power tap, and he'd lace them himself. He's just bought all those tools.

Thanks, friends.

Roxy

[MartianDestiny]

AAaaaaahhh, the old lump-stump-together-and-save-some-money trick.

Just when I was thinking the thought was going to have to count with this one, I mentioned your find to DH and he's checking them out as I type this....oof, they're several years old, babied or not. He's impressed by the price, though. He still wants the latest, lightest version. Naturally.

Ultimate combo: '10 Zipp 303 or '09 or '10 SRAM S40/Flashpoint 40 front wheel, with a ZIP 303 rear rim that he can build up with his power tap, and he'd lace them himself. He's just bought all those tools.

Thanks, friends.

Roxy

Sounds like your hubby and I have a similar disease I like to call it "musthaveshinnynewfancybikepartittis"