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Old 01-17-13 | 04:43 PM
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if you're gonna build a wheelset with 32 F/R, then you better build it for strength, since it ain;t gonna be light... then maybe sell them to some 220+ lber...
32h dura aces hubs aside, for your weight you should be able to have a nice set of wheels built in 20/24, nicely much lighter (400+ g lighter, which is a lb of weight) than the 32H stuff and still pound on them for lots of years...
and still have the groovy deep rims...
honestly anything you might run over which might seriously damage a decent light wheelset, by nature will do the same to a 32h set.
a well-built wheelset is not gonna cave in just because you knock a pothole, unless there's a major flaw in the rim (which you proly wouldn't detect anyway) or the wheel has already shown a need for wheel builder attention.
come into the modern world with the whole foot, not just a toe...
do something else with the DA hubs... ebay, soapbox derby... sell em to a Clyde

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