Hello all,

I'm trying to figure out what to look for and settle on as far as a touring set of wheels. The bike I have will be used for off road too. Both on tours and just riding. It's a CX/lite-touring bike. This will be my second set of wheels. I have a set that is going to be considered road wheels eventually.

I'm thinking I should at a minimum have 32 spokes front and back. But it seems that it's pretty easy to run across sets that are 28/32 and even 24/28. I'm about 270# and I do travel light. Still that puts me a bit over 300# on my best days!

Any suggestions on what would be a good setup? I wish I was rolling in cash, but I do have to watch my expenses. I do troll CL and ebay for deals. So right now I found some Mavic Cosmos, but I'm thinking it's a bit too light. Even tho the reviews aren't really that bad.