Originally Posted by
elTwitcho
Since this thread tends to be a dozen times more useful than the main forum, anyone have suggestions on spoke counts for wheels? On Operator's suggestion in another thread for wheels (fitting the criteria for strong and cheap and not incredibly heavy) he mentioned Alex DA28s which I'm leaning heavily towards. As someone who weighs 185 and occasionally smashes into potholes on Bloor street, any thoughts on spoke counts or alternative wheelset suggestions?
32/32 - 36 if your really, really paranoid. 3x all around should be good. The only advice I can give from experience with rims is: stay the hell away from Velocity. The Open Pro is a champ, and my Alex R450 has been really, really good also (I did P2A on that ~420g rim).
Oh, two good builders I've used are Sean over at Sweet Pete's and Keith, of course. The only poor wheel builds I've had were from La Bicicletta, oddly enough.