Tubeless road/ cross rims for Tyre widths up 700x42

[Christophe]

Evening

Just specc'ing my next build. Please can you recommend me a decent lightish rim which will take tyres up to 42mm and mostly on road with a bit of gravel thrown in.

Recommendations for both rim and disc brakes would be appreciated. Not sure if I am going rim or disc yet. Currently running H Plus Son Archetypes with tubeless Schwalbe Marathon Supremes with rim brakes. Work well tubeless but frightening with rim brakes in the wet, even with a decent set of Paul Canti's. Also rim wear is pretty poor.

Any recommendations greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Chris

[vorsprung]

Archetypes are not tubeless specific rims, they must be used with a rim strip to be safe

[sojournermike]

Kinlin 22T or 31T. Rim and disc versions available. Asymmetric rear drilling. Tubeless set up generally very easy and reliable. Strong too.

[DrMekon]

I'm using Stans Grails.

[Torslanda]

Sounds like some KoolStops should be on your shopping list, too.

[dim]

Hed Belgium Plus .... not cheap though .... I bought a pair from Sigma for £139 each .... these are wide and from what I have read, they are one of the few that are easy to install tubeless .... I'm using Chris King R45 (hubs with the ceramic bearing upgrade

I will use my Specialized Turbo Cotton tyres 24mm (clinchers with thin butyl tubes until they need replacing, then will try the Vittoria Corsa Speed Open TLR tubeless

of note though is that these rims are wide, and people have reported that tyres are a lot wider on these .... you also need to run the tyres at a lower pressure ... here are some of the comments :

Vittoria Diamante Radiale 22mm:
Front   24.6mm   95psi

Panaracer Gravel King 23mm:
Rear 25.6mm 95psi

Specialized Turbo Cotton 24mm:
Front   26.6mm   95psi

Vittoria Corsa CX 23mm:
Front 26.6mm 93psi

Specialized Roubaix Pro 23/25mm:
Front 27.1mm 95psi

Conti GP4000 SII 23mm:
Front 27.2mm 94psi

Vittoria Pave III 25mm:
Front 27.2mm 95psi

Panaracer Gravel King 26mm:
Front 27.7mm 95psi

Conti GP4000 SII 25mm:
Front 28.6mm   95psi

Specialized Roubaix Pro 25/28mm:
Front 29.5mm 95psi

Clement LGG Strada 28mm:
Front 30mm   94psi

Challenge Parigi-Roubaix 27mm:
Front 31mm   93psi

Challenge Strada Bianca 30mm:
Front 32.5mm   94psi

I'm using these wheels on my Giant TCR and by looks of things, I will not be able to buy 25mm or 28mm tyres

and another list showing other rims:

[strathy]

I,m looking for something similar, for touring and roughstuffing, and I,ve found Ryde do the Rival in 700x23, a tubeless ready, single eyelet, disc rim.
Not found them yet at any wheelbuilders though, and can,t find any reviews on them.

[Zed43]

+1  on Kinlin XR31. I built two sets of wheels with these: one for disc (24h asymmetric front/rear) that I run tubeless with 35mm tyres and one more traditional for rim brake 28h for regular tyres. Easy to build, strong wheels, inexpensive. The disc wheels have seen roughly 5000 miles now and have survived the rough roads of L-E-L 

thecycleclinic sells them in the UK (probably others as well), branded as BORG31.

[Cudzoziemiec]

If you fancy sticking with H+Son, I think The Hydro is tubeless compatible for disc brakes (no braking track).

Strange that you find braking so bad on the Archetypes. I find they give better braking than either Chrina or Open Sport. Maybe it's just a case of certain pads working better with particular rims? Though I can't quite see why that would be.

Edit: Braking affected by width? I fancy that's what makes the Archetypes feel better than the Chrinas (I only used the Opens a short time). Perhaps they're simply too wide for the cantis to work at their best? I've never had cantis so don't know if that makes sense at all...

[citoyen]

I'm using Stans Grails.

That's what I would opt for. I've already got one Grail wheel built in anticipation of similar use.

Worth noting they are disc only though.

[tincaman]

I've been running these disc rims for the last year on a wheelset I built up myself
https://www.dtswiss.com/Components/Rims-Road/R-460-db

Since January they have been run tubeless with Schwalbe G-One 40mm without any problems as well.

450 grams and only £35 each