Have an urge to spend money on more 26" wheels. 🙄
Currently have Roval Traversee, Controle SL, Easton EA70's and some Hope /DT 4.2s.
The Rovals are light but the bearings aren't great. The Hopes I've found to be a bit lifeless.
A set of King + Alpines + DT Comp would be approx 1600g for 32 spokes, which is probably going to be nice and bomb proof, but quite heavy.
Jumping over the £1K mark and going carbon, I'd lean towards Easton EC90's but they're probably spending money for spendings sake.
Any thoughts?
DT240s, a pair of [url= http://www.light-bicycle.com/26er-mtb-carbon-mtb-rim-clincher.html ]Light Bicycle[/url] carbon rims and Revolutions. £600 or so, should be sub 1400g.
Hmm cheers Nick 🙂
a mate recently got some deep section carbon clincher road wheels. I'll have to ask him if they were from Light Bicyles
32h Stans Podium MMX, DT Revs on DTSwiss 240s, £700 from JRA. Mine came in at 1310 g without QR.
The Hopes I've found to be a bit lifeless.
🙂 What does that mean?
What njee said though.
Syntace W25 - 1000 Euros
Sub 1300g
3 year warranty plus another 7 years 50% warranty
Cheers folks
Crispycross
I don't run tubeless so using Alpines JRA came in at £632. Are you happy with the wheels?
Clubber
I got the Hopes 3+ years ago and they just don't seem to spin as nicely as the Rovals
Neninja
I was confusing Syntace with Syncros, who I see Evans have recently started selling. You have any experience with these wheels?
Syncros are now part of Scott - hence seeing them more in Evans.
Syntace have been quietly producing some decent quality kit in Germany for years! New to wheels though IIRC, so a bit of an unknown, certainly look interesting.
No personal experience of the Syntace wheels but have seen them in the flesh and they look beautifully made. Typical German quality.
Give Bromley Bikes a ring as they are linked to the distributor for them.
Funilly enough I saw the Carbon XR1.0 Syncros wheels at the weekend as a friend of a friend is a Scott rep. They look stunning. No experience of how they ride, only of drooling over them!
Very happy m1kea. I kept them for special occasions; XC races and big rides, so I probably only spent 100-odd hours riding them. I did smack them around pretty hard in that time (hard for XC anyway) and they held up well. Service from JRA was good (build quality, timeliness, communication). My new bike's a 29er so I sold the wheels early last year to a friend and she loves 'em. Still straight as a die.