Carbon rims - Recommendations

[hebron]

Hi,

Going to build my own wheelset during the winter.
From which dealer would you recommend to buy?

My specs will be 45-55 profile, i will ride with 30mm tires and if it´s possible to get wavy profile rims that would be nice.
Budgetwise i dont want the cheapest ones and neither the most expensive since this is more for learning and to be able to build and fix my own wheels.

[Serge_K]

Peter from Xiamen Carbon Speed (XMC), active on this forum, definitely has that spec. You can email him.
I recommend Pillar cx ray or the cheaper Pillar wing 20 (pillar wing 20, not some other pillar model) as spokes, and house hubs, or novatec.
Get full T800 rims, it's worth it (not much of a premium, but definitely worth it.
Get brass nipples instead of alu if you ride in corroding environments (salt, rain, mud, crap, winter, commuting...). They make wheels / spokes more serviceable.

Farsports will cost a bit more, but they're the goat of chinese OEM stuff. Email them, dont use the website. Pretty certain they have that spec as well.

I've bought from both and recommend both.

Lots of other options, ofc.

[dsveddy]

Lightbicycle has great options in your spec. I recently built up a pair of wheels using deerobust rims and they are ultra light and have served me well, although I wasn’t too impressed with the finish quality, despite ordering the premium paintless finish