Handbuilt or off shelf?

If the first, what rims and hubs?

If the second what’s good?

Campag or fulcrum or mavic? Or someone else?

Budget it’s max 300 notes, want a nice light set of wheels.

I’ve always used handbuild wheels , better to get spares for and easy to true if the worst happens
It’s just for some people they are not flash enough

Rim hub and spoke choice depends on what you want from the wheels
Light weight above all else or somthing that will last an age

Mavic open pro rims are very good
And maybe either hope or shimano hubs

Superstar are doing road wheels now…

But for £300, I’d always recommend shimano rs80s. Lovely.

Handbuilt for the reasons above.
For that price I would look at second hand, certainly for the hubs, CK Classics if you get lucky, DA should be withing budget. Open Pros, not fancy but do the job just fine. Can you build them yourself? Buildin at a decent shop would be £40/50 of your budget.
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[EDIT] Not mine but a pair of new DA hubs on Open Pros on fleabay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mavic-Open-Pro-Bicycle-Bike-Cycling-Shimano-Dura-Ace-7800-Wheel-Set-Grey-CD-/130822523169?pt=UK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR&hash=item1e75a14921 £270. It’s last year’s DA but who cares?

These look tempting

http://www.merlincycles.com/bike-shop/wheels/road-wheels/factory-road-wheels/mavic-ksyrium-equipe-s-wts-wheelset-2013.html

Both pretty heavy and nearly double the price compared to a set from superstar though.

Yeh, pretty much, Ksyrium equipes arent worth bothering with.

Just Riding Along build decent wheels cheaper than most spots, see what they recommend for your budget.

Depends how heavy you are as to what you should get.

But if you want light weight then probably 28 rear and 24 front? The only light rims I can think of are Stand Alphas or Kinlins, and Velocity Aeroheads (but a touch heavier)

Rev spokes on the front, comps on the back. I’ve got some Stans built with this setup and they’re spot on. I did initially have lighter spokes on the back but I kept knackering my wheels.

I’m big and heavy and found my RS10s broke spokes because the lacing pattern was silly, and the spokes were hard to get and expensive because they were straight bladed ones. So I got rid of them.

So I handbuilt mine with Excellights, 105s and a mix of Revs and Comps, and they suit me fine. At that budget (well, my budget was £200), having 32+ spokes means lighter rims, means nicer wheels.

If you’re on the small side it’s less of an issue, though the bit about rims in low-spoke-count wheels at that price being heavier than need be probably still stands.

Pro lite braccianos. Mine are very good. Would buy again.

I really want to build some of these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/270970667431?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

http://www.winstanleysbikes.co.uk/product/53516/Stans_No_Tubes_ZTR_Alpha_340_2012_Rim

http://www.bike-discount.de/shop/a7910/dt-revolution-spokes-2-0-1-5-black.html?lg=en&cr=GBP&cn=gb

320 quid for a sub 1.3kg wheelset… yes please!

Those Braccianos at sub 1500g for a £300 factory wheelset were what came up top trumps on the last similar road wheel thread.

For the price they do seem rather good.

What are freehub spares like for the Chinese hubs? Tempting at that price as personally I was looking at the same 1300g build but on American Classics, but at £200 more expensive it’s now become a head scratcher!

From what ive read those hubs are from the same factory as the AC’s and use the same internals…

Dunno about replacements v0v

Mavic Open Pro on Hope Pro 3 under budget.

That’s what I’d call a basic but good wheelset.
Standard and available spokes, good spares service from Hope, easy rim swap.
Tough, reasonably good weight.
Won’t send you sideways in a crosswind.

Agree at that budget go for handbuilts for all the reasons already stated. The handbuilts on the hardly used second hand market via ebay and the like go cheap- I once saw a set of tune hubs on DT rims with sapim spokes go for just 311 quid and they had been used once.

If you are patient you will get the baraccainos much cheaper. I picked them up from CRC about 4 months ago when they were £230.

I did a lot of research, couldnt beat £ per gram. Was worried they might be poor quality (my other wheelset are mavic cosmic carbones) but nothing wrong with them.