Originally Posted by
WhyFi
H+Son sell quite a few hard anodized rims. The last set of rim brake wheels that I built up were Archetypes. Good rims. I mean, the brake track looked a bit ass after the first wet, gritty ride, but they were nice.
The larger issue is that the hard anodizing all but guaranteed that the rims would eventually begin cracking at the spoke holes. I went through quite a few MP4 Mavic rims with that problem back in the day.
Poorer braking than silver anodized rims, too. Campy brakes, a.k.a. "speed modulators," were already enough of a while-knuckle experience in panic stops without the added reduction in braking power from hard anodizing.