I would second everything Garth wrote. I have had great success with Mavic rims over the years. I also have a set of daVinci 26 " rims (see davinci designs) on our tandem. The V shape is very strong and these wheels have held up amazingly well under the 400+ lbs of weight on a touring tandem. White hubs on both the Ram & tandem. Trouble free. I'm sure the PW hubs are great too, but they are $100 more and unless you are headed to Patagonia probably overkill. Some people complain about the noise from the White hub but my experience has been that is entirely an in-shop experience, on the road, with the wind in you ear you wont yea them and even at slow speeds it becomes a hum.
Michael On Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:21:25 PM UTC-4, Garth wrote: > > I use Mavic A719 and an older set of T519 Rims and Phil FW Hubs myself . > I thought about Velocity rims both times before deciding on the Mavic, all > I can say is my intuition told me to get the Mavics both times. I'm not > sure if they even come in silver anymore though. If you don't want a Phil > cassette hub, the White Industry one's are pretty good. I'm all about > minimal service on any bearings, so I'll pay more for cartridge bearing > hubs every time instead of cups and cones. It's not surprising Shimano > still uses them, since they have the legacy tooling around, it's more > profitable for them that way. Nothing inherently wrong, or right about > cups and cones, just a matter of how much one likes cleaning, adjusting and > greasing hubs. Get what you really want, wheels are a long term > investment, not a one time vacation or a dinner ...lol. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
