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Old 08-30-13, 10:01 PM
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Lew.
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So, I just typed up a long answer which didn't make sense which summed up to:
Carbon rims look really nice, and those FFWD decals would look so smart on my build... But I can't afford to do it.
I can afford £150 on rims, maybe £200 at a real push. (Seemed reasonable considering that Velocity's Deep V's (30mm) are £45 per rim).
And when the most reasonable (carbon) rims that I can find are FFWD F6R-c's at £260 each, carbon is out of the window.
I hadn't previously thought of carbon, and somehow hadn't thought of the huge rotational mass that deep alloys would have.
Looks like I'm going for shallow alloys - a shame Mavic don't sell rims that are deeper than 23mm, I'd kill to get me some Mavics (huge Mavic fan, running them on all my bikes except the track).
Thanks, obviously the reason I couldn't find cheaper deep rims are because they don't exist.
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