Wheels

[indysteel]

You could go with the custom build that SadieKate and a number of other TEers have gone with (including me): Velocity Aerohead rims, White Industries H1 hubs, and Sapim double butted spokes. They'll put you back about $650 and will weigh in somewhere between 1400 and 1500 grams. Bring some extra spokes and nipples with you and you should be good to go. Mine needed to be trued once after they were "broken in" a bit. Since then, I've put about 10k miles on them over some rough roads, and they've remained true. They're wonderful wheels and the WI hubs have just the right amount of bling!

[Fredwina]

mine are velocity fusions (32 holes) with Ultegra hubs. The fusion is an areo, rim(deeper than the aerohead, but not as big as the Deep-V) you can also get the aerohead o/c (off center Drilling to make the rear stronger), or have them anodized pink

[SadieKate]

Have you looked at Velocity's rim colors lately? Look all the way down to the bottom. Yowza.

http://www.velocityusa.com/default.asp?contentID=550

BTW, both the Bubbster and I have multiple sets of wheels with Velocity rims for different applications and they've been bomb proof.

[indysteel]

Thanks for the link SK. Yowza is right!!!

That gives me some food for thought as to wheels I wanna order for my Moots (my first meeting with my fitter is November 17th). I'd planned to just get silver rims, but since I'm planning to accent the Moots with red, I wonder how the red rims would look. I'm not one for much flash, so they might be too much.

[SadieKate]

Waall, I'm kinda partial to red wheels.

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...light=building

Course I have the pink ones on a mtb bike, too, and they're purty also.

[jobob]

The woodgrain ones are pretty trick.

Oooh, more photos here: http://www.velocityusa.com/default.asp?contentID=512

[dachshund]

The woodgrain ones are pretty trick.

Oooh, more photos here: http://www.velocityusa.com/default.asp?contentID=512

Wow... those are outrageous! I still like basic silver... the Suits pattern is nice. I think I'm glad there weren't so many choices when I ordered mine.

If I had to order wheels again I might reconsider the bladed spokes, which I have. The bike gets blown around in a strong cross wind more than I'd like.

[indysteel]

Waall, I'm kinda partial to red wheels.

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...light=building

Course I have the pink ones on a mtb bike, too, and they're purty also.

Oooh, I like them! I also found a set of red rims on RBR's "Moots Registry" thread that I liked. I see so few colored rims in person, it's hard to picture what they look like on the bike. I'm going to at least give it some thought. My only reservation is that I was planning to sometimes use my current rear wheel on the Moots when I don't need climbing gears and the rims on my current wheelset are silver.

Decisions, decisions!