I know this probably get's asked a lot but what are the best commuter wheels in the under 200 dollars a set range?
my bike came stock with Mavic CXP-21 wheels. These are dinged up and have a bit of a hop to them. i've had them trued twice in about 1.5 years.
I purchased a set of ZeroLite Road Comp Wheels off of amazon. the rear one had a spoke that snapped.
I'm not happy with that purchase. instead of taking the wheel to get fixed I decided to just buy new ones. My bike is a giant OCR-1 and I'm running Shimano 105 5500 set.
I was looking at maybe the CXP-22 wheels with similar shimano hubs (or better ones) because I really liked the CXP-21 that came stock. Mavic Aksium I keep running into as good commuter wheels. I realize the aksium are a bit over 200 but I can spare an extra 50 for a great set of wheels.
I weigh 200 pounds and I usually ride with about 30 extra pounds of stuff in my side bags so maybe I need to go with some heavy duty wheels and leave the racing stuff alone.
Or the alternative could be to take purchase CXP-33 rims and use my Shimano 105 hubs. Thoughts?