Fishbum wrote:
I'm just curious if any of you guys have either built your own carbon wheels or had someone build you a carbon wheel what Rim you picked. Looking to build a 90 mm deep front wheel. Don't want to go crazy but also want to build something with decent quality where would you guys start looking. Also I tend to race around 155 to 160 pounds at most so probably thinking 20/24 spokes
I built around 60-70 sets. For carbon rims I had pretty good results with folks at Carbon Cycle (they sell through Ebay). They told me the rims they sell are made by FlyBike Sports.
I built 40mm X 27mm wide tubulars ( on Dura Ace 9000 hubs 18/24 spokes), ridden by my daughters for 4 years approx. 10 000 miles, two big crashes in races with no issues, brake tracks are still in good shape, and also 56mm X 25mm tubulars ( 20/24 on DTSwiss 240 rear and Alchemy ELF front, ridden by me for a year at 170 lbs). I had a dozen of the same 40mm rims in clincher version bought by a local store also. I noticed a 3mm hairline crack near one of the spoke holes and sent a picture to Carbon Cycle: They asked for the serial number and a week later I received a new rim ( I honestly can't even retrace the thing now...:-) ) !
I'll order their 80mm X 23mm track rims ( no brake track) this winter to build two track wheelsets.
So yes I'd recommend buying them, yes.
I heard lots of good things from friends who bought LightBicycle wheels, both in XC and road bike. They're approximately the same price and specs.
Oh! I also built some FFWD wheels both F6R and F4R. Amasingly well made rims, underrated IMO. The F6R were very nice to ride even on side winds. So for a front maybe a F9R would do ok. Don't know their aero numbers though...
Louis :-)