OK, do you guys have any advice on rims? There are just so many. Sure, I could read a few reviews and choose something but I'd rather get some advice from people I know. Should I start another thread? Is there already a suitable thread somewhere? Just really looking for a top-middle-bottom guid price-wise, really.
Ta,Nick.
For a rim braked bike, in the likely case that you would be using both non dyno (existing) wheel and a new dyno wheel in the same bike, make sure the rim widths match - it's a real pain resetting the brakes and bedding the pads in otherwise.
After that it's a mix of rim style, colour, material, strength, weight, spoke interface, joint type, brand, cost, wear indicators and availability - priorities vary for each user!
The rim type and spoke count need to be compatible with the chosen hub - for example many dyno hubs are quite narrow, so are best suited to 32 spoke or more set ups.
For a winter commute machine or if you use sustrans style gritty surfaces try and find a rim that is common and will hopefullly be around for years to avoid cost of replacing spokes when the rim wears out, or just go for cheap spokes and rim.
For hubs it's difficult to ignore the SP PV8 which can be obtained at £49 from Spa (QR 32 spoke version only). The bearings don't like being submerged, but neither do my feet, the bikes transmission, the bottom bracket and the rear hub - I have rescued the bearings on one early design PV8 hub whch you can get to the bearing seals on (later ones are different and I haven't had the need to remove the end caps on this version yet). I brought a couple of spare PV8 hubs for my fleet which are built with mavic open pro CD rims and DT Swiss revolution 2X spoke.
Disk brake set ups bring in a different set of stresses and therefore build criteria.