Trying to get hold of a set of carbon wheels for the Cervelo. But all of the reasonably priced options, (Hunt, Parcours etc.) have gone to a wide rim design, which it just wont cope with - it needs to be old school 25mm outer rim width to work with any kind of safety margin.
Anyone know if anyone is still doing a more narrow rim? Or do I need to be looking at the second hand market?
You can find them on ebay easily enough. They’re direct from China jobbies but I have some from kingbike888 and the wheels are decent.
Zipp 303s are 27mm outer and take a 25mm tyre if that’s doable? £849 at Sigma. £50 off if you sign up to their newsletter.
I have “ lots “ of xentis wheels.
Narrow enough for your needs and braking on Swiss stop salmons is very near to alloy breaking in the dry and better than “ the majority “ of carbon rims in the wet.
They only make disc brake wheels now I think ?
Build quality is German / Austrian if not better.
Great wheels.
Rim or disc brake wheels?
An alternative to off the peg is to speak to a wheel builder and get something made up for your needs.
I’ve used this outfit previously: Road & CX Wheels
Thanks guys, lots of options I hadn’t considered.
It’s a disc frame, so older stuff is out. But the clearance is odd. I have a set of Prime carbon wheels I bought when Wiggle was dying. And the will fit and spin freely.
But they are so tight that the slightest deflection on the wheels cause a rub (30mm wide rim.)
I’ve a mate whose wheel went untrue during a ride and he failed to notice. It wore a gouge right into one of the seat stays. This was an older Cervelo Soloist. He got it repaired by a professional company but it became his permanent turbo trainer bike because he didn’t trust it. The early Cervelos do have tight chain and seat stays. I’ve two of them.
Prime are all open mould products and look very much like the wheels I have albeit they’re a little wider.
After a single front aero wheel
700c
Clincher
Rim brake
Alloy breaking surface
Internal width as wide as possible.
Any one moved to discs that has one they would sell I’m all ears ?
Probably not very aero