Best Looking Rims
 

What are your opinion the best looking rims available today? Do not take in to account price or durability just looks...and pics are always fun.

Multicolored, polished deep-Vs

i'm always gonna be fond of open pros. but i'm not exactly one of those dudes who likes flashy stuff.

From Tomity's page:
http://homepage.mac.com/tomity/PhotoAlbum36.html

Sorry, I culdn't figure out how to show this a s an image, but it is a wooden rim.

I like non-machined aero rims with a shallow, rounded, v-section... the Araya semi-aeros come to mind, as do Sun Mistrals and that sick pair of polished Saavedras that Dubteka is looking to unload. I have a pair of Campy Ypsilons that I quite like, and the Lambdas are pretty much the same.

Colours and Deep-Vs leave me cold.

Non-machined Deep Vs.

best looking are the blu velocity deepv rims that i got

Mavic MA2

Classic: Any campy track tubulars.

New-school bling: Non-machined deep vees.

Personally, i'd like to see some good pics. Especially of machined vs. non-machined deep v's.

I really like anything hard anodized... Anyone know of a modern rim that is hard anodized? (That shiny dark grey, almost black, but kind of mirror looking finish...)

campy omega

http://www.nashbar.com/nashbar_photos/medium/YR-OS.gif

I thought that was smoked chrome?

Same here. I have built a couple sets of wheels lately and have bought some NOS Mavic rims that have the hard anodized finished. My favorites are the Open 4 CD which I just finished building to a set of Dura Ace high flange track hubs.

The older Mavic G40 rims are nice looking too with a more box shape. I also have FIR ES 35 rims on my road bike and FIR M121 on my mountain bike in that finish.

sun flipping m-14's. i've also got some wolber super champion alpines in a nice hard ano. i like to stare at them for long periods of time.

seconded

blah. i'm amazed that i found even this much of a wolber sca on the net. holler.

http://www.sjscycles.com/store/wolbe...inerimsbig.jpg

ok. pics:

Freewheel Hayes, SF bling:
bling bling

non machined eggplant deep v's:
http://www.dynagroove.com/users/fabian/bikes/col4.2.jpg
http://www.dynagroove.com/users/fabian/bikes/col1.jpg

:D

http://www.dynagroove.com/users/fabi.../saavedra3.JPG
http://www.dynagroove.com/users/fabi.../saavedra2.JPG

I have the clincher version of those Saavedras. Nice, but I've given up on keeping them trued. Could just be my crappy wheelbuild though. I think they weight about 230 grams...?

I'm looking for some classic silver, low-profile clincher rims for a Record build...

I like semi-aero as well.

Mavic CXP 12:

http://www.radsport-lenzen.de/images/maviccxp12.jpg

Wolber TX Profil "Titane Chrome"

http://image.i-soldit.com/images/001...2019_03_04.jpg

the saavedras in the pics are clinchers as well. super light, but haven't weighed them.

After having messengered for years on deep rims - rigida, velocity, mavic cxp 33's, I am very much over them. sure they're stiff and don't go out of true as much, but they're heavy, accelerate slower and give a really harsh ride. from an aesthetics point of view, i like the look of a somewhat profiled rim, not boxed out, semi-aero, definitely nothing machined, or too deep, or with a step to break the line from spoke to bead.

the best riding and best looking would be older mavic open 4 cd, and fir ea 60. I like dark grey-brownish rims, i find they look the most elegant with a blackwall tire. very classic.

you know i have to rep the eastbay, finally a couple pics outside...