"The rims are those hookless Weinmanns, which have a love/hate reputation. I have zero experience with them." pp

From one who has had way too much experience with the A124/A129 rims the only love is that they are pretty pot hole resistant. (I was once told that they were among the early heat treated rims. I never really believed this and instead feel the huge amount of material in the sidewalls was more the reason). The hates were trueing them (and Raleigh using 15g spokes for their production bikes with these rims only made it worse), under cut seam welds (can you say "thump, thump" when you want to slow down?) and mounting tires in general (with the IRC Racers really hard to do). The lack of bead hooks dictated the need for a taller side wall to better contain the early high pressure tires of that era. Andy