cchristanis

I have an 06 Trek Madone and it had the race x lites (anodized) that came with it. I have not seen them for sale anywhere.The front wheel was replaced with another race x lite cause i crashed the bike so it's in great shape (nice and true and stays that way). My rear is the original. I have trued it a few times this year. It keeps going out of true. I am 160 pounds and do mostly canal paths or smooth road riding and no racing. I do 30 mile rides- 1 1/2 - 2 hour rides. Is it "odd" to have 2 different wheels as far as performance/feel/etc. I think it looks funny. I don't mind spending some $ cause I have it. Of course I want to keep the bike light. I don't want to lose any more weight myself. I am 5'10. I was talking to a guys at my LBS and he said it's probably time for a new one. I'm not sure what to do here. Should I just replace the rear or get a set and keep/sell the good front? I would be able to afford up to $1000 set. thanks

motobecane69

get a whole new set and keep the old ones and have someone totally detension and retension the old rear and see if that solves the problem. I built myself a set of velocity fusion 32 hole front and rear with circus monkey hubs and a combination of DT super comp and Rev spokes and they weighed in at about the same as your 18/24 spoke race x lites do and they only cost me about $225 in parts. (built myself, expect to pay $50 a wheel to have someone build for you) You could also buy a new set of neuvation wheels that would weigh in at about what your race x lites are now and probably only cost you about $350. your riding canal paths and say you don't race, I don't think you need to approach anywhere near $1000 for a new set of wheels but if you want to you could consider neuvations carbon tubulars since it sounds like your doing a lot of flatland riding the aeroness of a 50mm tubular would be nice.