Originally Posted by
Trucker Dan
Get the dura-ace. The no name rims might not be the strongest but the hubs will last forever. If you start having problems with the wheels in a couple of years you can rebuild them with new rims. The price of the wheels from bww is about the same as the retail price of the hubs alone.
I like that reasoning. Because you're right about the Dura-Ace hubs. They should be good for life.
Although I will add that I do have a set of Neuvations, and when I started riding on them I was about 230 lbs - down to about 210 today. I've put at least three or four thousand miles on those wheels, and never had any issues until the past few weeks, after I kept hitting a nasty bump at the top of a short climb that I started practicing trying to sprint up after 30 or 40 mile rides - I'd be totally gassed at the top and kept forgetting about the bump. I think I've pinch-flatted my rear tire on that bump about 6 or 7 times in the past month. The rims are still perfect, and the wheels are still true. But, in the past few weeks I've had three drive-side nipples shear off on the rear wheel. Interestingly enough, though, not when I pinch flatted on the bump, but at other random times.
If the OP is under 200 lbs, and doesn't plan on abusing his wheels like that, I think the Neuvations would be perfectly fine.