Your Opinion Needed

Fizzy23 said:

I will be recieving a gift of my choiuce for a 1000 dollars or less and wanted to upgrade my wheels. What would you reccomend?

I am 230 lbs and athletic. I will never get below 210 at best so this will need to be a wheel that can support my weight. I currently have CXP33 and they are great but difficult to get spinning...

Please share your thoughts and recommendations.

Thanks

I've heard there is a guy named mike garcia at oddsandendos.com I live in Aus so I can't order from him, but there is a wheelsmith company in Aus which builds wheels with DT parts. I got a set built with FRONT: 240s hub, 28 radial aerolite spokes, rr1.1rim and hex pro lock nipples. BACK: 340 hub, 32 2cross supercomp spokes, brass nipples and rr1.1 rim. They are a very light but very strong rim, with absolute quality parts. The DT hubs are smooth and spin easily, but also very durable. They also have a good number of spokes, so something similar would be suitable for you. They weight under 1600g, and costed about $1100 AUD which I think is about $850USD. Mike Garcia uses his own hubs though. Good luck.

Fizzy23 said:

I will be recieving a gift of my choiuce for a 1000 dollars or less and wanted to upgrade my wheels. What would you reccomend?

I am 230 lbs and athletic. I will never get below 210 at best so this will need to be a wheel that can support my weight. I currently have CXP33 and they are great but difficult to get spinning...

Please share your thoughts and recommendations.

Thanks

ZIPP Team CSC clinchers.

hd reynolds said:

ZIPP Team CSC clinchers.

Ha, They are basically DT wheels anyway, +1 on them

Fizzy23 said:

I will be recieving a gift of my choiuce for a 1000 dollars or less and wanted to upgrade my wheels. What would you reccomend?

I am 230 lbs and athletic. I will never get below 210 at best so this will need to be a wheel that can support my weight. I currently have CXP33 and they are great but difficult to get spinning...

Please share your thoughts and recommendations.

Thanks

Answer depends on what kind of racing you plan to do on them. If you don't race, saving 3-5 watts of effort at 30 mph, or coming out ahead a few inches in a finish line sprint really doesn't mean a thing. I'd say spend the money on a tour or training camp week for you and your bike.

Besides, at 230 pounds, you need a durable, strong wheelset, not some exotic lightweight racing wheel that's going to break a spoke and taco under you. Saving 200 grams or even a full pound on your wheels won't mean much vs the combined weight of your body and bike. Wheels that will save you a full pound likely aren't rated to carry your weight anyway.

Your CXP-33 wheels aren't really hard to spin up. The vast majority of work you're doing getting up to speed goes into the linear acceleration of your body and bike, not the angular acceleration of the wheels. You can check this out by putting your bike in a workstand and spinning the rear wheel up by one hand on a pedal. It just doesn't take much force compared to what it takes to get you and the bike up to speed.

Thank you all for your help, very valuable information to help me make an educated and reasonable decision!!!

Thanks again!!