Winter wheels

on_the_nickel

Any recommendations for a set of hard-wearing, long-lasting, bulletproof wheels for the winter bike? Not bothered by weight, want a pair I can stick on and forget about for the next few years.

Thinking of Aksiums, can anyone tell me how their rims hold up? Or something in the same ballpark price wise?

ford2600

on_the_nickel wrote: »

Any recommendations for a set of hard-wearing, long-lasting, bulletproof wheels for the winter bike? Not bothered by weight, want a pair I can stick on and forget about for the next few years.

Thinking of Aksiums, can anyone tell me how their rims hold up? Or something in the same ballpark price wise?

I use a 36 spoke rose in house rim with 105 hub on rear. Very solid and serviceable. €80 from memory.
My last set of Aksiums weren't same quality as older ones.
Kashims/fulcrum 7 maybe if you want a factory set

Cee-Jay-Cee

I've a set of 2011 aksiums, they have approx 6k kms on them now. The rear is slightly out of true but not enough to bother me so it'll do for this year at least snd I'll get it sorted after the winter. The front is perfect. There's a good bit of wear on the raking surfaces but still many miles left in them yet. I may replace them next year but will be going for Fulcrum 7's or 5's I think.

Ole Rodrigo

How much weight will they be supporting? I've a set of Aksiums with 16K km on them and, with a recent service of the freehub, are rolling perfectly.

Hmmzis

In my experience the Aksiums are not great as winter wheels. For a rider of my weight (79-80kg) they are a bit soft/flexy so they needed a good bit of tweaking with a spoke wrench. The bearings were decent on the back but not so much on the front. The rims were completely worn after just one season (6k-ish km).
The fulcrum 7s weak spot is the freehub, it disintegrated after 8-9 months. The seal on the outer bearing is rather poor that allows water and dirt to get in and ruin the 'sealed cartridge bearings'. The rest of the wheel bits were a bit better than the aksiums. The rims were still quite fine, the only time a spoke wrench was needed was when the back wheel popped a spoke (takes standard spokes, so cheap enough to fix) and the bearings in the hubs themselves were still decent.
This winter I'll be on Scirocco 35's, will see how they pan out. If they are as poor as the others then I'll go for a custom build next time.

the.red.baron

Hmmzis wrote: »

In my experience the Aksiums are not great as winter wheels. For a rider of my weight (79-80kg) they are a bit soft/flexy so they needed a good bit of tweaking with a spoke wrench. The bearings were decent on the back but not so much on the front. The rims were completely worn after just one season (6k-ish km).
The fulcrum 7s weak spot is the freehub, it disintegrated after 8-9 months. The seal on the outer bearing is rather poor that allows water and dirt to get in and ruin the 'sealed cartridge bearings'. The rest of the wheel bits were a bit better than the aksiums. The rims were still quite fine, the only time a spoke wrench was needed was when the back wheel popped a spoke (takes standard spokes, so cheap enough to fix) and the bearings in the hubs themselves were still decent.
This winter I'll be on Scirocco 35's, will see how they pan out. If they are as poor as the others then I'll go for a custom build next time.

Agree on the freehub costs as much as a new wheel to replace it.

Not sure if they updated the part to fix the seal or not.

on_the_nickel

Thanks all. Weight anywhere from 76-80kg over the winter!

slap/dash

I've been running cxp33s w32h and ultegra 6700 hubs year round since April 13 with no issues. I'm 87kg. Got built by rose. Plenty of life left. Heavy I suppose but I've never had summer wheels so they are fine for me