Maybe for hubby.... but I think she's looking to use his old hubs.

I've had bad experiences with Velocity rims - I had them on my commuter, and mind you I live in Seattle so they get a great deal of abuse from wet gritty roads in the winter...., but I found them to be very soft and to wear *very* quickly. I didn't have dyads - I had deep V's, but I'm thinking the quality of the metal is probably not much different. I've had pretty good luck with Mavics - not Open Pro's which are lighter racier wheels, but with CXP22's which are a bit more heavy duty.