Originally Posted by
lazerzxr
I build my own wheels as I have a couple of powertaps. at #165 I find the 24/28 spoke combo works a charm and wish more rims were available with these counts. Having said that, you can build a 28 hole deep carbon rim (enve and others) or Hed Jet4 come in 28 along with FF, its sometime more difficult to get a 24 hole alloy front (mavic dont make one for example). In my opinion 90% of normal size blokes could ride a 24/28 and be happy whether they go deep carbon or shallow alloy. I have also found if you break one it is still rideable.
the only time I ever got brake rub was using HOPE steel rod skewers - junk skewers!
I mounted up the wheels in question this morning (I have a race tomorrow and I sometimes use the Friday commute as a shakedown) and instead of using the open cam skewers that came with the wheels, I used an ugly, old pair of Shimano Tiagra/RSX/? closed cam skewers. Guess what? No rub.
I am still intrigued by the idea of rebuilding them as 2x. Making a slight trade of radial stiffness for lateral stiffness makes a lot of sense for race wheels, particularly for crits.