Widest aluminum rim brake wheels

Triathlon Forum
1

Looking to build up a new set of training wheels and want something wide to keep caliper adjustments easy to my 27mm carbon race wheels. What wide rims do y’all know of?

HED plus - 25mm
Aforce Al33 - 24.5 ish
FLO 30 - 24 ish

2

Which carbon wheels do you have?

3

Roval 321 disc and Reynolds Aero 65 front
.

4

Most aluminum rims wider than those are targeted at mtb or touring. But they’d work. Off the top of my head, Sun Ryno Lite and Velo Orange Voyager are 27mm wide.

5

Was googling for wide aluminium rims

What did you find?

6

Created a google doc in case anyone was interested

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cKUN69eCTRIDAJCbd8SHWIts3u0GOaBYBzMcofeBzLg/
.

7

Really handy spreadsheet here, thanks for sharing.

One note: FLO 60 A+C is 25mm wide at the brake track, the 26.9 width is the widest point on the fairing.

8

Looking to build up a new set of training wheels and want something wide to keep caliper adjustments easy to my 27mm carbon race wheels. What wide rims do y’all know of?

I’ve always heard that you don’t want to use the same brake pads on both aluminum and carbon rims. If you swap pads regularly, adjusting brakes is something you’ll need to do anyway. 2mm difference in rim width (with the Heds) shouldn’t be an issue.

9

That spreadsheet is awesome.

/Never seen anyone go to some much trouble to answer a question here./

10

No worries, happy to have helped.

No doubt there’s a lot of carbon ones missing but I’m pretty sure I’ve covered the most popular
It’d be hard for me not to go back to Farsports though. I got the Kaze in marble and it’s a work of art.

Also ended up buying some Quill’s for myself for my everyday bike and Flo 60’s on my race* bike

In future I’d love to put together the AlexRims GV30 + DT Swiss 350’s

*it’s only entered one race, so technically true…

11

This (good alloy rims) was discussed about 4 years back on slowtwitch (forum as well as stories). Something like “Are alloy rims still relevant in 2019?”
link: https://forum.slowtwitch.com/...19_P6889350/?page=-1

Anyway, two wheel sets that I have in my arsenal are:

  • Kinlin XR31T rims (in a diy BDOP wheelset). 31 deep x 24 wide. Great all rounders, ~1530 g.
  • Kotavelo R42 wheels. 42 deep x 25 wide measured. Nice but heavy, ~2000g.

The Kotavelos are I believe the same rim as the Pro-lite A42W

BDOP also do some Gousseau rims that are 24 wide but a little shallower. https://bdopcycling.com/gousseau-rims/