Any question answered...

I just want something that's solid and going to be happy to be rode in all weathers but doesn't weight a bomb so I can happily do club runs.

23mm rims + 25c tyres = the speed of a skinny road race tyre with the comfort of a touring tyre. Never going back.

It was Hed who started this, mainly looking for aero improvements by blending the tyre sidewall to the rim, but they accidentally happened on the huge improvement in ride and handling and now everybody is following. When you look at car and motorcycle practice, it's a wonder we didn't twig 20 years ago, but cycling has always been held back by conventional wisdom; lighter is always better (wrong - small gains in rolling resistance or aerodynamics easily trump quite large weight penalties), skinny tyres roll faster (wrong - all else equal, bigger tyre cross section has lower rolling resistance)

So that mean my notion that wider = better is correct after all.

*foreverlovingmy32c.

Ha!

It's hard to find a rim which weighs around the same as OP's though but is wider.

That why I wouldn't go for the A719 for an ironically weight weenie audax.

It's hard to find a rim which weighs around the same as OP's though but is wider.

Don't get hung up on the weight, unless you're actually riding the Hill Climb championship. For normal rides, you win more than you lose by fitting your tyres to a wider rim that's 50-80g heavier than an Open Pro. If you must be a weight weenie, get ready to spend - the Scandium version of Hed's 23mm rim is light, but very expensive. If you actually want to go fast, go aero - ProTour racers are often on 60-80mm deep rims for road stages these days, and not all of them are just throwing heavy wheels at a bike which would otherwise fail at the weigh-in.

Velocity A23 has a claimed weight well below current Open Pro

Not a bad price either;

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Handspun-Sport-Series-3-Rear-wheel-Shimano-105-5700-32h-Black-Velocity-A23-700-/280782537350?pt=Cycling_Parts_Accessories&hash=item415ff18286#ht_3464wt_1396

Bear as in Bearing

FYI

Is spitalfields market open today? When does it shut

Those A23s might just be what I'm looking for when building my hill climbing wheels. You can get them in lower spoke counts than OPs too.

TIme to go do some reading!

Just to join in this festive tyre and rim chat- I weigh 76kg, I am running 25C Gatorskins on Mavic TN719 rims.

What is the ideal pressure to run the tyres at, as the current 100 PSI is not working well for my Mortons Neurona'd left foot.

93kg, 700x25 GP4000 on Delgado-X, wouldn't go over 90psi even for occasional time trial duty, 80psi rides and handles nicely. At your weight, have a go with 70psi and see how you get on.

Those A23s might just be what I'm looking for when building my hill climbing wheels. You can get them in lower spoke counts than OPs too.

TIme to go do some reading!

I'm thinking of going for a 32 hubs haven't decided on. They are lighter than open pros!

Very hard to find velocity in the UK though!

iirc correctly smallfurry posted a link to a tyre pressure calculator, does any one have the link?

https://www.lfgss.com/thread46545-46.html#post2551659

Yep was on the road bike recommendations thread. I was asking the same question about tire for my audax ti

Edit mdcc beat me to it!

what is a relatively normal weight distribution - 40/60 front/rear?

That's the base I used. Slightly more if audax though on the back wheels.

Is Richmond park open on xmas day?

The link on the website to "Park opening times" leads to an infinite loop back to the homepage.

http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/richmond_park/about.cfm
http://www.royalparks.org.uk/docs/richmondpark/Richmond%20Park_opening_times.pdf

Is there a way to view by nearest first on mobile ebay?

Mr. Impatient BF says that because it's after midnight it is now Christmas Day and therefore time for his presents. Do I give in or make him wait til the morning? (Or not give them to him at all for being a naughty boy?)

Lump of coal and cold porridge in his rapha socks.