New wheels 101

Wildly Boaring

This is gonna be my next step.

Gonna get some fancy carbon wheels.

I've a standard rim braked road bike (cube attain) with 11 speed 105.

Help a man out.
What's step 1?
(Bar starting starting to tell the missus how essential a "spare" set of wheels are for eh safety?)

Jimbo789

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

This is gonna be my next step.

Gonna get some fancy carbon wheels.

I've a standard rim braked road bike (cube attain) with 11 speed 105.

Help a man out.
What's step 1?
(Bar starting starting to tell the missus how essential a "spare" set of wheels are for eh safety?)

What’s your budget?

dahat

Calling Unknown Solider to the thread, think he has one set of exalith wheels left.

Wildly Boaring

Jimbo789 wrote: »

What’s your budget?

No idea. I've done no research.
Whatever upper limit I put that will turn into my aim.

I'm only a reasonable cyclist.
So no mad 2 grand wheels

Whats on it at the minute Cube RA wheels?

Wildly Boaring

Came with mavic aksuims

fat bloke

http://www.adverts.ie/23564653

Buy these.
Job done.

Good price, great wheels, will slot straight on to your existing bike and pads, aero whomp whomp, sturdy and reliable. You could dither for months and not find anything else as suitable, just buy them.

fat bloke

dahat wrote: »

Calling Unknown Solider to the thread, think he has one set of exalith wheels left.

I'm led to believe his Cosmic voyage has been terminated.:pac:

Wildly Boaring

fat bloke wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/23564653

Buy these.
Job done.

Good price, great wheels, will slot straight on to your existing bike and pads, aero whomp whomp, sturdy and reliable. You could dither for months and not find anything else as suitable, just buy them.

I dithered. They're gone.
Oops

jethrothe2nd

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

I dithered. They're gone.
Oops

If it's any consolation I was also dithering over the same set and I've missed the boat too.

MojoMaker

lissard from here got himself a nice pair of rims by the looks of things.

lissard

Sorry about that - couldn't resist - I was looking for wheels for racing and those seemed to fit the bill.

secman

I picked up a set of Zipp 302's on Mantel for €1,200 in the last month, much cheaper than their replacement 303's and at my level I wouldn't notice the benefits nor couldn't justify the extra cost of the 303s . The 302's get good reviews as a good all rounder carbon wheel, for the flat and stiff for climbing.

jethrothe2nd

Anyone any experience or thoughts on these?

https://www.adverts.ie/bike-wheels/fulcrum-racing-zero-nite-c17-clincher-wheelset/23549670

Edit - apologies for hi-jacking the thread

fat bloke

jethrothe2nd wrote: »

Anyone any experience or thoughts on these?

https://www.adverts.ie/bike-wheels/fulcrum-racing-zero-nite-c17-clincher-wheelset/23549670

Edit - apologies for hi-jacking the thread

Top of the tree for non carbon wheels really. I've a pair but I've yet to use them.
Ordinarily 800 quid would be dear for a second hand pair but in the current market there's no stock of anything so I think it's fair enough in that context.

wersal gummage

Just clicked the link there....

He's accepting 750?

I just ordered a new ultegra cassette and cheapest I could do was 97 delivered....

So if its a relatively new ultegra cassette you could probably tell yourself you're paying 700 for the wheels?? Which is ok?

secman

jethrothe2nd wrote: »

Anyone any experience or thoughts on these?

https://www.adverts.ie/bike-wheels/fulcrum-racing-zero-nite-c17-clincher-wheelset/23549670

Edit - apologies for hi-jacking the thread

They are a cracking wheelset, a buddy has a set and he loves them, extremely light and very good braking on them. A good price too especially with cassette, which have gone very pricey lately.

letape

I have a set of the same model Fulcrum Racing Zero Nites on a bike that’s not been used. They have max 200km on them, and would pass for new I’d sell them for €750 with a new ultegra or Campagnolo chorus cassette if interested.

jethrothe2nd

letape wrote: »

I have a set of the same model Fulcrum Racing Zero Nites on a bike that’s not been used. They have max 200km on them, and would pass for new I’d sell them for €750 with a new ultegra or Campagnolo chorus cassette if interested.

Brilliant - I'll take them like a shot (depending where you are based)

letape

jethrothe2nd wrote: »

Brilliant - I'll take them like a shot (depending where you are based)

I’ll send you a pm to see what we can arrange. Cheers

secman

Anyone looking for a top notch alu wheelset will find it hard to better those Fulcrums alluded to in the Jethro's adverts link, don't think they will hang around long. Would've been interested only that I recently purchased a new wheelset.

CramCycle

Hunt Aeros are lighter and cheaper brand new, not sure if that still the case with Brexit but they were.

Wildly Boaring

CramCycle wrote: »

Hunt Aeros are lighter and cheaper brand new, not sure if that still the case with Brexit but they were.

That's what my brother has recommended.
Had heart set on carbon but that may have been purely for aesthetics

Jimbo789

The Winspace Hyper wheels get good reviews. I ordered a pair for the 50mm rim brake ones this week.

You can get 10% discount codes for them too.

jethrothe2nd

secman wrote: »

Anyone looking for a top notch alu wheelset will find it hard to better those Fulcrums alluded to in the Jethro's adverts link, don't think they will hang around long. Would've been interested only that I recently purchased a new wheelset.

Well, I bought the ones from letape on this forum (thanks letape). Put them on yesterday and went out for a spin today. Couldn't be happier. I've been waving my average speed in front of my completely disinterested wife ever since I got home. Admittedly I had a pretty decent tailwind at points, but I'm still putting it down to the wheels.

And they look savage.

dahat

jethrothe2nd wrote: »

And they look savage.

This is the most important part of any wheel purchase.

CramCycle

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

That's what my brother has recommended.
Had heart set on carbon but that may have been purely for aesthetics

They do carbon as well. I also have a nice set of Rose 5050 wheels, they are rebranded Newman's at a guess so could probably be gotten cheaper than the 1500 retail

CramCycle

dahat wrote: »

This is the most important part of any wheel purchase.

And the freewheel must be loud.

fat bloke

PhillyHayes wrote: »

I have a couple of sets of Hyper wheels in stock. Let me know if I can help with anything

I don't know anything about them. Care to lay out your stall? Tell us what the craic is - specs and prices etc?

fat bloke

@OP. I'd always wondered about Prime wheelsets, liked the pricing and the specs and like the idea of a major brand like Wiggle/CRC putting their name on a wheelset and selling them themselves. It's in their interest to make a good product and then stand over it. I'd never actually seen a pair in real life though.
I recently got a chance to examine (thought not ride) a pair of Prime black edition 28's (https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/prime-blackedition-28-carbon-wheelset/rp-prod166634_) and I was really impressed with the look and the finish, lightness and build quality. Great, great looking hoops. If the deeper ones are as nicely put together then they'd definitely be up toward the top of my list for the next time I go wheel shopping. The owner had nothing but good to say about them and according to him it there was neither blood spilt, sweat bucketed, nor tears shed in the mounting of tyres either

iwillhtfu

Wildly Boaring wrote: »

I dithered. They're gone.
Oops

You didn't really miss out anything there imo they're basically a standard rim with a carbon fairing nothing fancy

Unless you really want carbon rims I'd be taking those racing zero or looking at a set of the mavic exalith wheels. I picked up a set of shamal mille wheels recently and they're very nice indeed.

I've done the whole deep carbon craic and it's overrated imo.

G1032

fat bloke wrote: »

@OP. I'd always wondered about Prime wheelsets, liked the pricing and the specs and like the idea of a major brand like Wiggle/CRC putting their name on a wheelset and selling them themselves. It's in their interest to make a good product and then stand over it. I'd never actually seen a pair in real life though.
I recently got a chance to examine (thought not ride) a pair of Prime black edition 28's (https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/prime-blackedition-28-carbon-wheelset/rp-prod166634_) and I was really impressed with the look and the finish, lightness and build quality. Great, great looking hoops. If the deeper ones are as nicely put together then they'd definitely be up toward the top of my list for the next time I go wheel shopping. The owner had nothing but good to say about them and according to him it there was neither blood spilt, sweat bucketed, nor tears shed in the mounting of tyres either

I did a bit of looking into Prime RR50 a while ago. Hubs on the standard are supposed to be terrible. Better on Black Edition though it seems.

comete

I got a set of hunt 36/50 wheels for a rim brake road bike last Thursday and have clocked up nearly 300km on them since then. They look great, make all the noises, and arrived within two days of ordering them (they were in stock at time of order). Cost me €1149 with the lifetime crash replacement add on. I’d have no issues recommending them and would buy another set tomorrow if anything happened to mine.