Ok, so I have already committed to this configuration, I'm just curious to see if anyone has anything to say about this. My story starts with a bike mechanic friend generously offering me a set of rolf vectors to put on my raleigh cadent last summer in preparation for a ride up to milwaukee that we were taking together. LOVED these wheels. Did a 160 mile round trip ride with some lightweight camping gear on the back and it rode like a dream.
Flash forward about a month, a bike thief manages to get my rear wheel off while I'm at work, and I am sitting on HALF of a really nice wheelset. In despair I switched to my winter bike (snow was coming soon anyway) and forgot about it till now. A week ago I went to my LBS and brought my remaining vector to see if they could recommend a good match. They convinced me that because I do some touring and tend to bring a little gear that I should get something durable and showed me the velocity fusion 36 hole rim, which incidentally they just finished building for me with a shimano hub. My main concern is that I have a very low spoke count in the front (my cadent has a carbon fork so I can put any weight there anyway) and a rather high spoke count in the back. Will this perform as well as my full Rolf Vector set? I know, probably not, but my thought is that it will probably last longer considering I hope to ride to detroit this summer with gear.
anyone with experience with both wheels or strange spoke count ratios like this?
Flash forward about a month, a bike thief manages to get my rear wheel off while I'm at work, and I am sitting on HALF of a really nice wheelset. In despair I switched to my winter bike (snow was coming soon anyway) and forgot about it till now. A week ago I went to my LBS and brought my remaining vector to see if they could recommend a good match. They convinced me that because I do some touring and tend to bring a little gear that I should get something durable and showed me the velocity fusion 36 hole rim, which incidentally they just finished building for me with a shimano hub. My main concern is that I have a very low spoke count in the front (my cadent has a carbon fork so I can put any weight there anyway) and a rather high spoke count in the back. Will this perform as well as my full Rolf Vector set? I know, probably not, but my thought is that it will probably last longer considering I hope to ride to detroit this summer with gear.
anyone with experience with both wheels or strange spoke count ratios like this?