Road wheel question

[Dexter-morgan]

Hi All please tell me what you would choose and why, Shimano R500 wheels or Bontrager race lite wheels. Front wheels weigh exactly the same.

Thanks in advance - DM

[CAAD4]

The Shimano are probably considered more entry level, but those Race Lites are not the strongest. I weigh 90kg and after being told by Just Fun, the Bontrager agents at the time, that there was no weight restriction, I bought a set a few years ago. After breaking multiple spokes on both brand new wheels, that were two months old, I insisted on a new set, which I sold and bought Ultegras. Someone recently here was also complaining about them. If I remember correctly they changed the spoke count a year or two ago, so they might be better now...

[Speed Racer]

Hi All please tell me what you would choose and why, Shimano R500 wheels or Bontrager race lite wheels. Front wheels weigh exactly the same.

Thanks in advance - DM

 

Go for the Shimanos. Bulletproof. Avoid race lites at all costs. I got a set on a Trek 5000 a few years back. I weigh 95kg. Kept popping spokes. Gave them away to a mate, who ways 80kg. He had a cracked rim shortly after this.

[Dexter-morgan]

Oh my goodness!! and I was considering selling the Shimano's here on the hub, I will wait a while and only do if I am totally happy. Thanks a million.

[droo]

Bontrager rims are rubbish in my experience, and they use aluminium nipples on their wheelsets.

 

Fail.

 

Stick with the Shimanos.

Edited September 10, 2012 by droo