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Ugh open sports are the worst - I went through 4 rims in 6 months. Also have those horrible grooves in the brake surface.
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Your joking right, disc brakes or on the track?
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I went through 4 rims in 6 months.
Interesting. Under what circumstances did this occur?
In contrast to the TB14 I've built with many, many Open Sports and as long as they are built well they perform well. They are basic, sure, and definitely not as good as TB14s or as asthetically pleasing but are functional and a classic box section rim. They also have very similar qualities in terms of how they build up, perhaps largely stemming from their closeness in terms of ERD.
I do think the Open Sport is much maligned.
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I've only built a few TB14s up but I have not seen any of the problems described here. Built one up for a big, heavy guy and he wore the braking surface out due to a combination of loving the brakes too much and heavy commuter mileage, but that took him a year and half.
If you really want to change rims then maybe consider a destickered Open Sport. Though not as wide as TB14 if you want a classic look on a budget it would be fine especially as it's made from 6106 alloy and not the softer Maxtal used in the higher end of the Mavic range. If you're not careful brake pads eat into that Maxtal like it's cheese.
But since you have the TB14s already I'd say just get them built.