29er six bolt wheelset.

[RiflemanSmith]

I am looking for disc brake wheelset for about £1500 for general purpose use must be clinchers anyone got any good recommendations?
I was looking at these
http://www.evanscycles.com/products...=mkwid__pcrid_17321847296_kword__match__plid_

 

[goody]

I think you need to up the budget a bit to see much of an improvement over your OEM wheelset.

 

[jowwy]

I think you need to up the budget a bit to see much of an improvement over your OEM wheelset.

you telling me that £1500 for a wheelset will make no improvement

 

[RiflemanSmith]

The OEM wheels are Mach 1's with Shimano Deore hubs.

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

I am looking for disc brake wheelset for about £1500 for general purpose use must be clinchers anyone got any good recommendations?
I was looking at these
http://www.evanscycles.com/products...=mkwid__pcrid_17321847296_kword__match__plid_

I am intrigued.

Firstly afaik the vast majority and probably all disc hubbed wheels should be fine with clinchers. In case you specify that because many say tubeless or tubeless ready, they are not the same as tubs/tubular kind of tubeless on road bike wheels, but are designed/built to be able to use tubeless, tubeless ready AND conventional clinchers tubelessly (and indeed with tube if one so choose). I put inner tube on tubeless wheels regularly to avoid the gooey mess.

Secondly I am not sure what general purpose means in this instance, and what bike/application it is for (e.g. road/cx/mtb), but imho mtb/general purpose and carbon, especially carbon rims, are not sensible bed fellows unless money is no object. But hey it is your money!

Then it comes to the money bit. I would be somewhat surprised if a bike that originally comes with Mach1 rims on Deore hubs costs much more if not less than £1500. If so is there any particular reason why you want to spend £1500 on the wheels? Are you after the lightest rims, or the most robust, or the most proven, or what? For reference, of probably 20 different sets of suitable wheels crc is selling currently, I think only one pair is breaking the £1500 barrier.

 

[VamP]

The Roval's are a bit of an overkill (understatement mode) for general purpose use. That's serious race wheel territory.

How about these? Or something from the Mavic Crossmax stable? Or handbuilt with disc hubs on rim of your choice? There are a lot of really good options in the £400-600 range.

 

[RiflemanSmith]

Yeah I know you can stick inners in most tubeless rims, meant Clinchers as not in tubular and yep the bike only cost £1300 but it is a decent frame every thing else I will change.
Yes I know it would have been cheaper just to buy the frame and components but I wouldn't have been able to afford it all in one go.
This way I can ride my bike and change the components one month at a time.
I thought the wheels were one of the best upgrades you could do, that really made a noticeable difference, that was why I was aiming for a very lightweight yet robust wheel.
the bike will get used on and off road.
What about Mavic Crossmax SLR if not the Rovals?

 

[VamP]

What's the frame? What's the intended usage?

 

[MacB]

What's the frame? What's the intended usage?

This....I have 50mm wide Surly Rabbithole rims on one 29er - 2.25" tyres upwards, Velocity P35s on another - 700x40 upwards, and all the rest of the bikes(all 29ers) have Mavic TN719 rims - 700x25 upwards though I've only gone as low as 700x28.

If they are for general use then I would have thought a decent set of handbuilts would be a good call and for a lot less than £1.5k.

 

[RiflemanSmith]

The frame is a Planet X XLS cycle cross bike, use every thing commuting, on and off road riding, sportives and audaxs probably some CX races.

 

[MacB]

Ok so you'll have an upper limit on tyre clearance for the frame, I can't see mention of this on the PX website but it should be at least 700x33 and possibly up to 700x35 knobbly to 700x40 slick...but you'd need to verify that with them.

Personally I'd find out the upper limit and have a think about what I'd want to run upper and lower limit wise. My next choice would be whether I want one wheelset to do everything or whether I want to run two wheelsets. I'd choose as follows:-

One Wheelset - identify my upper/lower tyre sizes and the tyre size I expect to run most often. Then try to buy something best suited to my most frequent tyre choice but able to accommodate my upper and lower limits as well.

Two Wheelsets - get an allround wheelset to handle commuting, offroad and the upper range of my tyre choices. Then get a second wheelset for best and probably towards the lower end of my tyre choices and certainly aiming to make a lighter wheelset. Switch the cassette between wheelsets but try and have wheelset specific disc rotors. This would obviously be easier if the same hubs were used alternatively be prepared to use some rotor spacers to make sure they all line up.

For me the choice would be easy as I don't run anything narrower than 700x28 so I'd go for a rim with an Ertro of 622-17 to 622-19, I think there's better choice at 622-19. The 622 just refers to the diameter and denotes 700c/29er the two digit number is the internal rim width. So I'd just have the one wheelset but then I wouldn't be looking for anything super lightweight.

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

I was aiming for a very lightweight yet robust wheel.
the bike will get used on and off road.
What about Mavic Crossmax SLR if not the Rovals?

Unless you are over 200lb or thereabout and/or into really rough stuff, excellent wheels generally are the various variants of Crossmax imho. Robust and not heavy, I have two pairs, no issue apart from the occasional need to strip and clean the rear bushing. It is probably not too controversial to say that performance-wise Crossmax have often been the standard others are judged.

For light custom built what have been very popular over the last few years are variants of Stan's rims, e.g. Crest built on e.g. Hope hubs, which can end up just as light, cheaper, with off-the-shelf ready availability of components. As Roger Musson said, with Stan's nobody wants DT Swiss or Mavic rims anymore. However Crest is 622x21 (SLR is 622x19) so can be a bit wide for some narrower tyres.

I think MacB made a really good point about having two sets of wheels. Since tyres make such a big difference, if I had only one bike, I would have one for offroad and one for road.

 

[RiflemanSmith]

Thanks for the imput guys.

 

[goody]

Think I'd leave it as it is for the CX and off road stuff and with the £1500 buy a carbon PlanetX or Ribble to use for the sportives and audax's.

 

[MacB]

Think I'd leave it as it is for the CX and off road stuff and with the £1500 buy a carbon PlanetX or Ribble to use for the sportives and audax's.

I'd agree as long as storage space isn't an issue