As above, for years I ran Mavic EN521 rims on a couple of 160mm travel 26″ bikes and I liked them, tough and reliable and didn’t weigh a huge amount – I prefer reliable over super fancy.
They don’t make them in 650b, but I tend to “go with what I know” so been looking at EN421 or EN423 – mostly the same it seems bar the width 21mm v 23mm.
Is it down to personal choice? I know the fashion of late is to go wider, but are the 23mm ones meant for plus bikes or something?
Currently running a 2.3 Minion DHF on the front and a 2.2 Ardent on the rear, bike is a Tracer 275a, goes everywhere from the shops to the Alps with me, and I’m a heavy cack-handed rider so like ’em tough.
EN421 or EN423, they’ll be a Superstar ‘custom’ build as I’m poor, no ENVE carbon jobs or fancy shop built custom jobs for me – the kids rob me blind.