Originally Posted by Bob Dopolina

Consider a wheel purchase not as part of an upgrade to your existing bike but as an upgrade to your equipment.

You can keep the wheels and swap them onto a new bike and keep the wheels that come with the new bike as spares or visa-versa.

You can swap the wheels onto a new bike and sell the new wheels.

You can keep the wheels as spares in case another wheel is damaged.

Any way you slice it having a spare set of wheels is never a bad thing.

FWIW go hand built and you will get a better value in the end as opposed to most boutique wheels.