Originally Posted by
Jrasero
Whatever you do, I urge you not to fall into the Zipp 303s trap. Yes Zipp 303s are well priced and yes SRAM has an amazing warranty but these are such "mid" wheels that force you onto basically a gravel wheel at 25mm internal width and to go hookless and basically force you to go tubeless. Those are too many caveats to simply overlook that the 303s are well priced and offer a good warranty. I am not against wider internal rims or hookless but I do believe these shouldn't be on "race" bikes but rather gravel and MTB
The Zipp 303s has an internal width of 23mm. However this year's Tour de France showed tubeless and 28c tires are becoming the norm. Hookless and tubeless aren't for everyone but so are disc brakes.
My initial comment about Chinese manufacturing with Western marketing applies to other companies such as Scribe Wheels. I'm talking about "boutique" wheels made overseas in Asia with a headquarters in the UK. The message I was trying to convey is that the wheels aren't bad or inferior but don't offer anything noteworthy aside from cost. However Light Bicycle offers similar spec'd wheels for about a 1/3 less money if you can wait.
Getting back on topic with Hunt wheels, I had ridden them for about a year and thought the Hunt 54's were unremarkable but solid. To be fair, that rim depth didn't fit my riding style. A buddy of mine uses the Hunt 44's on his Aethos and hasn't had any issues after a few thousand miles. He originally was eyeing the Zipp 303s but turned off with being hookless and tubeless. However low and behold, look who's been running road tubeless on the Hunt's now?
I've owned Superteam, Scribe, Hunt and Zipp wheels through the years. I've only kept the Scribe 32's as spares and the Zipp 303s as the daily drivers. The Superteam, Scribe and Hunt wheels were all hooked carbon rims but had their own style hubs.