antonioiglesius wrote:NovemberDave wrote:If ~400g 40mm clincher rims ($400 Chinese ones or expensive maybe Chinese maybe not ones) work for you, go with it. For way too many people that's just not going to.
Not to sound rude or anything, but is there an unbiased report/survey that supports this claim?
Not rude at all, thank you, but I have THICK skin anyway so don't sweat it.
We've trashed a bunch of rims, mostly cooking them on a short steep local hill, to be utterly satisfied of the validity of the statement but of course we're biased. Closest I can come is that Tour Mag regularly has all sorts of rims fail their heat tests.
In actual fact I'm not at all fussed about the whole thing anyway. Our inbox is full of people who find riding a 1500 or 1550g (or even - gasp! - 1600g) set of wide, quite aerodynamic and very solid alloy clinchers to be the most fully satisfying riding experience they've had.