VELOCITY TUBULAR RIMS:

HATE THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had my Powertap and a front DT Swiss 240 hub laced on to these new rims. The wheel build could not be better as they are incredibly true and just simply work great. However, the rims are one of the worse as I have ever used. The only and biggest problem I have with them is that the surface where the tire contacts the rim is huge. So wide in fact that I have a very very hard time getting the tires to sit properly in them. The first time I went to put tires on them, both Veloflex Carbons and Continental Competitions, I wasted several Tufo tapes because I could not get enough of the tires to adhere to the width of the rim. Just the very middle part would contact well, but the sides of the rim (contact area) would have the tire floating on them. I've never had this problem with several other wheel sets I have. I even got some wider Vittoria Pave tires to see if the wider tire would do better only to get similar results. Gluing the tire works better, but the moment you ride the tire the first time you realize that the sides come undone some. Not very confidence inspiring.