I just bought a set of Reynolds Assault, Disc/Tubeless... I need a second set of wheels (spares) and I want to differentiate the two sets. The Reynolds will be my pure road wheels, I'm going to slap 25mm rubber on them, and I'm going to slap some 40mm gravel tubeless on my Ardennes+.

The Reynolds & 25mm combo will be overall a bit lighter in weight (versus my 28mm & Ardennes+), and 11mm deeper in profile @ 41mm, than the Ardennes which stand at 29mm.

Another thing that the deeper profile supposedly provides for the heavier among us (I'm 200# @ 5'10") is it's a stiffer wheel.

Nevertheless, I don't anticipate too much of a difference between the two wheelsets.

I bought them because I want to dedicate a wheelset to off-road and basically get a feel for what the carbon/profiled rim brings to the picture. Reynold's does market the Assault as an offroad rim but...Why thrash carbon when you can thrash bombproof aluminium (HED)?

Hopefully next year I'll be holding an average of 190# and enjoying a commensurate increase in energy because of conditioning. Maybe I'll see that number this Fall which will be awesome.

Snazzy!: