Originally Posted by
MassiveD
For what it is worth at 180 or so pounds (in your case due to gear). Peter white thinks you are too fat for racing tires and gear, and that you should probably be thinking of touring gear anyway. In addition we now have the strange research that narrow tires are slower.
With the wider HED or A23 rims you get more tire contact area than with narrow sections like Open Pros......that's the [strike]hype[/strike] idea anyway. I'm sure Peter White would not recommend a lot of the stuff I do.
Some of the advice, like on alloy nipples is very bad. Rims are heavier than spokes, it's sorta a problem because since they mostly sell deep section rims you can probably get away with fewer spokes, but the wheels might be nicer, if you didn't want the aero, if they had more spokes and less deep section rims. Radial spokes, for sure get some of those.
I'm not sure really deep rims are the best for long distances....they might be a bit too stiff. I think 32 spoke Velocity A23 look like a nice way to go.