So I went to my first race this weekend. I did alright. I, probably, came in top 10 of 20 or so in the cross country and then was first in the downhill out of three and propbably second in the dual-slalom. I'd never done dowhill or dual-slalom before so I think I did pretty decent (during the race atleast). Before the race, I ran the slalom course a couple times and wrecked about twice as many. Which brings me too my next topic a new wheel. I taco-ed the crap out of my front wheel before any of the races and therefore I need a new one. I have a manitou black on there now and have been thinking of upgrading to a fork with a 20mm thru-axle and maybe swapping the black onto my cross country fork. So I've decided to go with a Mavic 729 rim, since I have one on the back and it's taken everything I've given without one complaint. So now I need a hub. A chris king, or hugi would be nice and all, but I need something a bit cheper. I don't want cheap though, I don't mind spening a little extra if the value's there. Right now I've been looking at the marzocchi, dimension(actually cheap), Onyx, Diatech, Sunrace JuJu, or a wtb laserdisc. I am open to suggestions however.
:edit: the saint hubs looked alright too but I didn't want to have to pay the extra price for a new rotor.
one other question, are cup and cone bearings better or cartridge for urban/slalom/downhill?

(the taco-ed wheel was a xt/sun mammoth, and I beat it until it would roll in the fork and rode it all day, the bearings were quite loose by the end of the day as well)